NVIDIA has recently been accused of altering benchmarks to show its GeForce GTX 280M has helped Alienware M17x become the world’s “fastest laptop”. The system that M17x challenged was the Asus W90 which is powered by two ATI Radeon HD 4870.
The site eteknix has pointed out that the drivers for Asus machine are more than one year old, instead of the “latest drivers” as NVIDIA claimed. You know, the old drivers have hardly utilized the second GPU at all.
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Asus and Gigabyte are removing the Marvell 88SE9123 SATA 6G chips from their P55 boards due to yield issues over at Marvell, according to Brightsideofnews.
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NVIDIA said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected the eight remaining patent-infrigement claims by Rambus.
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Mushkin today announces the 250GB Europa III SSD which is driven by Samsung S3C29RBB controller.
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According to Intel’s second-quarter financial result released on Tuesday, the company reported revenue of $8.0 billion and a net loss of $398 million – a loss per share of 7 cents.
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July 15th, 2009 by Sue Intel

MSI has now released its R4890 Cyclone series graphics card which features 800 stream processors and 1GB GDDR5 256-bit high-speed memory.
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