SLI support finally lands in Intel's DX58SO mobo
When Intel launched its Core i7 processors and X58 chipset last year, almost all X58-based motherboards featured SLI support from Nvidiaآ—except, strangely, for Intel's own DX58SO "Smackover" mobo. Now, three months later, Nvidia says it's finally struck a licensing agreement with Intel, bringing support for multi-GPU GeForce...
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Nvidia posts losses for last fiscal quarter, fiscal year
Ion platform or not, Nvidia's last fiscal quarter didn't turn out too well. The graphics company has posted a net loss of $147.7 million on revenue of $481.1 million for the fiscal quarter that ended on January 25, 2009. Those results don't compare very favorably to the record $1.2...
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Nvidia's Ion platform gets Vista certification
Netbooks and nettops typically run Windows XP or Linux, but you may soon see some of them toting Windows Vista Home Premium. Nvidia has announced that its Ion platform for Intel Atom processors has earned Microsoft's Certified for Windows Vista badge of approval. To certify Ion, Nvidia claims Microsoft tested the...
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Western Digital's Caviar Green 2TB hard drive
Western Digital's latest Caviar Green is the world's first 2TB hard drive. But does it live up to the GreenPower standard of silent operation, low power consumption, and solid performance? We've run one through its paces to find out.
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32nm Intel Westmere to hit production in late 2009
Sometimes, just sometimes, unsourced rumors from small Asian tech sites turn out to be spot on. During a briefing earlier today, Intel confirmed plans to start producing 32nm dual-core Westmere processors in the fourth quarter of this yearآ—and the company says it may never introduce 45nm dual-core Nehalem derivatives. To understand...
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Firefox 3.2 to integrate natural-language commands
Remember Ubiquity, that experimental Firefox extension that lets users input natural-language commands like "map this" and "share-on-facebook?" In an interview with Firefox architect Mike Connor, the folks at PC Pro learned that Mozilla will integrate Ubiquity's functionality into the next major release of its web browserآ—not Firefox 3.1,...
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Intel to spend $7 billion on U.S. fabs
Even though Intel may face the possibility of its first loss in over 20 years this quarter, the chipmaker doesn't seem too worried about tightening its purse strings. Intel CEO Paul Otellini has announced that his company will spend $7 billion to build "advanced manufacturing facilities" in the...
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Intel might not cut notebook CPU prices until June
Don't expect notebooks to start toting faster processors for the money anytime soon. According to DigiTimes, which quotes anonymous "market sources," Intel has told partners not to look forward to notebook CPU price cuts before the end of May. Why the announcement? DigiTimes says "some market players" believed Intel would...
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iSuppli: Memory market slumped big-time last quarter
Memory makers have been stuck in a rut for some time, and the economic downturn certainly didn't help them last quarter. iSuppli reports that global DRAM revenue only added up to $4.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, falling "well short" of the research firm's $5.8 billion forecast....
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Dead Rising 2 coming to the PC
Sick of Left 4 Dead? Don't care about the upcoming downloadable content? Don't worry: there's more zombie killing on the way. As Shacknews reports, Capcom has announced a sequel to the Xbox 360-exclusive sandbox zombie classic, Dead Risingآ—and this one will hit the PC and PlayStation 3. Here's...
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Judge gives nod to new Psystar countersuit against Apple
Apple's legal battle against Psystar has always looked hopeless for the unlicensed Mac clone maker, and things only looked grimmer after a judge threw out Psystar's countersuit last November. However, the winds may be changing. Computerworld reports that the same judge will let Psystar go forward with an...
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Nvidia working to cut GeForce GTX 260 production costs
Right now, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 260 Reloaded and AMD's Radeon HD 4870 1GB are basically neck-and-neck in terms of pricing. However, the AMD card has a smaller GPU and a narrower memory interface, which almost certainly makes it cheaper to produce. According to Expreview, Nvidia is hard at work
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