Rumor: ATIC Interested in Taking Over Charted Semiconductor |
Still remember Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) who created the GlobalFoundry Company with AMD? According to the EETimes, ATIC has launched a $2.45 billion bid on Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. to buy Temasek Holding’s near-60 percent stake.
If the bid really goes through, ATIC will own two foundry vendors, which means GlobalFoundry would be more competitive when confronting with TSMC.
Microsoft Removes 3 Application Limit From Windows 7 Starter |
Microsoft has officially shared more details about Windows 7 Starter Edition, and the most refreshing news would be the company has decided to remove the 3 application limit from the Starter.
Asus to Introduce New Media Player at ComputeX |
Asus is going to show its new media player O!Play at ComputeX according to Hardware.info.
PhotoFast G-Monster-Promise SSDs Hit Retail |
AMD Athlon II X2 And Phenom II X2 Get Priced |
AMD is planning to launch two new dual-core processors during ComputeX 2009, Athlon II X2 250 and Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition.
Athlon II X2 250 based on Regor core works at 3.0GHz, and features 1MB L2 cache per core. With built-in DDR2/DDR3 memory controller, the TDP is 65W. The best of all is it will sell at $87, which is really affordable.
CPU-Z V1.52 Coming in June With New Tab “Graphics” |
CPUID has lately claimed that they’re working on the next version of CPU-Z: CPU-Z V1.52, and shared the first screenshot of the program. As we can see, the new version has added Intel’s new logo and new tab “Graphics” which reports some basic information about the graphic devices.
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Aopen Debuts HD 4670 With Shortened PCB |
Aopen has pushed out a new version of HD 4670 with the PCB shortened according to AKIBA.
HDMI 1.4 Specification Highlights Announced |
HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) specification, has announced the features that will be incorporated in the upcoming HDMI 1.4 specification which will be available for download no later than June 30, 2009.
SATA Revision 3.0 Made Official Now |
Serial ATA International Organization has lately released the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 Specification which enables 6Gb/s link speeds between storage units, disk drives, optical and tape drives and protocol host bus adapters (HBAs).
The First Preview & Benchmark of Core i5 Surfaces |
Though there will be a few months before Core i5 (Lynnfield) is officially launched, Anandtech has leaked out the preview and benchmark of Core i5 engineering sample.
Core i7 (left) and Core i5 (right)
MSI N275GTX Lightning Card Pictured |
MSI has added a new member to Lightning Series: N275GTX Lightning, and our fellow site VR-Zone has managed to get a sneak peak of it.
PowerColor Announces The PCS HD 4730 |
PowerColor has recently announced the new PCS HD 4730 with 640 stream processors and core/memory clock of 700/900MHz (3600MHz DDR) which is a bit higher than HD 4770 features.
Galaxy to Showcase Single PCB GTX 295 at ComputeX |
We unveiled the first single-PCB GeForce GTX 295 earlier this month, and now we’re informed that Galaxy’s going to showcase their single PCB GTX 295 at ComputeX.
Three AMD DX11 Graphics Cards Expected Late 2009 |
AMD is planning three models of DX11 graphics cards according to the Hardware-infos, targeting NVIDIA’s upcoming G300. Besides RV870, there will be R800, and RV840 for mid-segment market and RV810 for low-end market. The source indicates that R800 consists of two 40nm RV870 chips.
RV870 will probably be named as Radeon HD 5870 according to AMD’s naming scheme, and RV840 is called as Radeon HD 5850, and R800 is known as Radeon HD 5870X2.
Zalman’s Core i5 Ready Cooler Preview |
Zalman, a well-known Korean cooling solution provider, has unveiled the new Core i5 ready cooler, CNPS10X Extreme.
