The largest chipmaker Intel has been found guilty as charged by the EU for abusing its dominant market position, with the chipmaker being fined a record €1.06 billion ($1.45 billion), according to BBC.
The commission has found that between 2002 and 2007, Intel had paid manufacturers and a retailer to favour its chips over those of AMD. The personal computer makers Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and NEC had all been given hidden rebates if they only used Intel chips. The commission also found that Media Saturn, which owns Europe’s biggest consumer electronics retailer Media Market, had been given money so that it would only sell computers containing Intel chips.
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NVIDIA GT300 was said to consist of 512 shader processors, and features a 512-bit memory controller connecting to GDDR5 memory, which makes people curious about its die size.
According to a recent post at Brightsideofnews, GT300′s 2.4 billion transistors are packed in just 495mm2, much smaller than GT200 with 1.4 billion transistors which measures up to 576mm2. Compared with Intel’s Larrabee manufactured in 45nm which takes around 600mm2, GT300 also appears to be much smaller.
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PowerColor has quietly released ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics card for outdated Accelerated Graphics Port bus, and you can find this card being listed at the etailer Amazon.
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NVIDIA’s faulty graphics processors made many headlines last year, and millions of laptops were affected. Recently, five users of Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard laptops have filed an amended complaint in a San Francisco federal court, accusing NVIDIA of violating consumer protection laws, according to Computerworld.
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Intel is investing $12 million to build up Intel Visual Computing Institute (VCI) in Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany. The investment plan will last 5 years, and represents Intel’s largest European university collaboration.
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May 13th, 2009 by Sue Intel
NVIDIA’s scheme of single-PCB reference GTX295 was unveiled in March, and we’ve managed to get the first pictures of single-PCB GTX295.
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Last weekend we said that Sapphire was planning the Atomic HD 4890 with 1000MHz Core clock paired up with Vapor-X cooler, and Fudzilla has now posted another picture of it.
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Rumors had it that NVIDIA won’t launch GT300 until Q1 next year, and ATI RV870 was delayed to Q4 or even later. But the source of brightsideofnews implies that NVIDIA will hopefully release their DirectX 11 GPU ahead of ATI’s RV870.
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Windows 7 is said to hit retail this holiday reason, and the Polish website centrumxp.pl has managed to score early pictures of the package of Windows 7, along with the Anytime Upgrade packs that enable users to update their Windows 7 variant to a higher one.
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Galaxy has recently released a new GTS 250 with refreshing new features.
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Fujitsu Limited has recently announced that it has terminated the strategic business cooperation with TDK in regard to hard disk drive heads.
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NVIDIA has released the WHQL-certified nForce Drivers for Windows 7. NVIDIA uses a unified driver for its nForce series motherboard chipsets, which are of two main classes: for chipsets with integrated GeForce graphics, and for chipsets without integrated graphics.
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Following the announcement of Arctic Cooling’s Alpine Series cooler for Core i5, CoolerMaster has also presented the Hyper TX3 which is compatible with Intel’s LGA 1156.
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Last week NVIDIA released GeForce/ION Driver 185.85 WHQL, and one of our readers has found that the new driver has a compatibility problem with RivaTuner Version 2.24: if you’re a Windows Vista 64-bit user, when you install ForceWare 185.85, the RivaTuner v2.24 can not detect the correct information (shown as above).
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Intel planned to offer its new Pentium Dual-core E6000 Series processor at the end of May, but E6300 has been already found selling in Japan.
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