Monday, April 30, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Rage3D) 30/04/2012

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NVIDIA Blogs about how TSMC's 28nm Process Engineering made Kepler the perf/w monster
A public pat on the back for TSMC from NVIDIA, after rumors (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120416PD214.html) they are looking for 28nm capacity at other foundries and publicly stated 28nm yields (http://semiaccurate.com/2012/04/06/will-28nm-rain-on-nvidias-financial-parade/) were to blame for...

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AMD's FX and A-series Processor Price Drops; 20% and more
Those eagle-eyed fellows over a The TechReport have noticed that AMD's processor pricing has adjusted itself recently:

You might not know it from looking at the date stamps on AMD's processor pricing pages, because they're still a few months old. A quick comparison of the existing pages versus...

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Seagate to buy back $2.5Bn shares
Seagate today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the Company to repurchase up to $2.5 billion of its outstanding ordinary shares (the “April 2012 Authorization”). Seagate, as a result of the April 2012 Authorization and other current repurchase authorizations, currently has a...

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Mercury Research: AMD gains CPU marketshare from Intel
PCWorld reported on the latest Mercury Research report:

Advanced Micro Devices gained market share on Intel in worldwide x86 processor shipments during the first quarter on the strength of mobile and desktop shipment growth, Mercury Research said Wednesday.

Intel's market share in the first...

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Excited about Intel's Ivy Bridge baked in PCI-E 3.0 Support? Check your stepping
A forum post at Anandtech has shed some light on the apparent issues Intel's new Ivy Sandy Bridge E processors have with running multi-GPU configurations with the built in PCI-Express 3.0 controller:

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Update from ASUS: Just...

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