Friday, April 27, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 27/04/2012





Thursday Shortbread
Eight is Enough



  1. EE|Times: Intel exec says fabless model 'collapsing'

  2. VR-Zone: AMD Korea leaks Trinity benchmarks in retail material?

  3. NordicHardware on AMD's A10-4600M APU (in Swedish)

  4. Donanim Haber: AMD Radeon HD 7990 to debut at Computex (in Turkish)

  5. Fudzilla: Nvidia might launch GTX 670 as well

  6. VR-Zone: Tegra 3 AP37 base specs revealed, AP40 in retail before years end

  7. AnandTech and Ars Technica on Intel's first smartphone (Medfield)

  8. Ars Technica: VMware confirms source code


    leak, LulzSec-affiliated hacker claims credit

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Tim Cook not convinced about tablet, notebook convergence
With Windows 8 putting so much emphasis on touch input, it's almost a given that touch screens will start to permeate the PC market after the OS's release later this year. We've already heard a fair amount of buzz about touch-enabled ultrabooks, in fact.
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12.4 Catalysts tweak texture filtering
Looks like AMD has finally eased up on pre-release drivers. This month's Catalyst 12.4 update has arrived alone, without any accompanying "preview" drivers to complicate things. You can download the 12.4 Cats now from AMD's support hub.
This time, AMD's driver team has done some work on antialiasing and texture filtering optimizations. If you own a Radeon HD 7000-series GPU and enable supersampled or adaptive antialiasing through the Catalyst Control Center, AMD says you can look forward to "LOD Image quality enhancements" in DX10 and DX11 games. ...
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Thermaltake covers high-end CPU cooler with 10-year warranty
A decade is an eternity in the PC industry. Ten years ago, the Pentium 4 was trading blows with the Athlon XP, hard drives were still connected with IDE ribbons, and 512MB was an awful lot of RAM. Given the rapid pace of innovation, Thermaltake's new 10-year warranty for its Frio Extreme CPU cooler is perhaps a little excessive. We're not about to complain, though. Thermaltake is applying the warranty retroactively, so anyone who bought the cooler this year is eligible for coverage.
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Tuesday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
  1. VR-Zone: Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs from ultrabooks


    to HPC clusters what stuff goes where?

  2. Nvidia: There's nothing 'ultra' about Ivy Bridge ultrabooks unless you add Kepler

  3. AnandTech, APH Networks, Benchmark Reviews, Björn3D, Bits and Chips,


    CowcotLand, Hardware Canucks, Hardware Heaven, HCW, Hi Tech Legion,


    HotHardware, LanOC Reviews, Legit Reviews, LostCircuits, Neoseeker, OCC,


    Overclockers.com, PC Perspective, TechSpot & TweakTown on Core i7-3770K

  4. AnandTech: Undervolting and overclocking on Ivy Bridge

  5. Something is deeply broken in OS X memory


    management (Lion performance problems part 3)

  6. VR-Zone: Nvidia says Xbox 360 graphics power will hit mobile devices by 2014

  7. Develop: Newell opens up on 'Half-Life 3' dev issues

  8. Max Payne 3 PC system specifications

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