Tuesday, April 22, 2014

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 23/04/2014

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If AMD is hosting its next APU conference in China in May, it won’t be HSA-focused
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Key players in the HSA foundation have yet to be informed of a May APU conference. A recent report from Digitimes and later followed by China’s My Drivers both claim that AMD will be hosting APU14 in Beijing in May, but a key player at AMD’s #APU13 conference says such an event is “unlikely”. AMD’s [...]
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Microsoft to rename Nokia Oyj to Microsoft Mobile Oy post Nokia acquisition
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A letter sent out to suppliers has revealed Microsoft’s intentions to rename Nokia’s mobile devices division. Microsoft plans to rename Nokia Oyj to Microsoft Mobile Oy after it completes the acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business, according to a letter sent to suppliers and leaked by Nokiapoweruser. Microsoft Mobile Oy will be a fully-owned Microsoft [...]
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Big trouble in the Republic of China? Another report corroborates rumor of 20nm Maxwell delay
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Nvidia might be forced to re-engineer Maxwell for 28nm, if a new report holds true. Relations between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Nvidia are likely at an all time low, as a new report says that TSMC isn’t able to deliver the next two Maxwell-based followups for its GPU line, the GM204 and GM206, at [...]
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AMD launches new ‘Never Settle Forever’ bundle for Radeon 200 video cards
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AMD has added new games and eligible video cards to its Never Settle Forever game bundle. AMD has announced that it will be refreshing the Never Settle Forever game bundle to include the Radeon 200 series of video cards it launched over the last six months. All series 200 cards excluding the R5 230 are covered [...]
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Internal Intel chart confirms May 11 release date for Haswell refresh
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44 refreshed Haswell chips will be released in May, but this list lacks new details on Devil’s Canyon. It’s now all but confirmed that Intel will be having a big processor launch prior to Comptuex. According to documents obtained by Chinese VR-Zone, the refreshed versions of Haswell will be released on May 11 along with Intel’s [...]
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Asus’ Z97 motherboard series revealed on Weibo
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Asus is set to continue its motherboard momentum with the introduction of the Z97 boards. Asus is all set to launch six new motherboards in the Z97 line. The Z97 boards will likely make their debut as soon as Intel launches the Broadwell line of processors. Broadwell CPUs will be pin compatible with Haswell, which sees [...]
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ARM’s 64-bit ‘Seattle’ server SoCs on track for a fourth quarter launch
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AMD’s CEO Rory Read confirms chips are shipping in Q4 during a recent earnings call. Less than a week after AMD passed the technological milestone of demonstrating its APU-based Opteron chip “Berlin” running HSA-code, AMD announced that its ARM-based Opteron chips, codenamed “Seattle”,  will be launching in the fourth quarter of 2014. “We’ve reached a [...]
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G. Skill launches 32GB kit of DDR3L SO-DIMM RAM clocked at 2133MHz
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G.Skill clears the last hurdle of DDR3 by launching the industry’s first DDR3L stick. G.Skill has established itself as the brand of choice amongst gamers and serious overclockers. It once again cemented this leadership today with the release of its new 32GB DDR3L SO-DIMM memory kit that is clocked at 2133MHz. The kit is made [...]
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Would you opt-in to ads for a free mobile plan?
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A mobile-oriented startup rewards users with prepaid credits for opting-in to advertisements, exploring several access points, like web, mobile apps and SMS. Advertising in exchange for free services is not exactly a new business model. This is actually the lifeblood of big companies that provide free products and services, such as Facebook and Google. But what’s [...]
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