Intel Sets A Shipment Goal of One Million Lynnfield CPUs in 2009

 

Intel has reportedly set a shipment goal of one million Lynnfield (Core i5 and i7) CPUs for desktops by the end of 2009.

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NVIDIA: DirectX 11 Will Not Stimulate Sales of Graphics Cards

 

NVIDIA said during a conference for financial analysts that the emergence of next-generation DirectX 11 application programming interface will not drive sales of graphics cards. Instead, the general purpose computing on graphics processing units as well as its proprietary tools and emergence of software taking advantage of these technologies will be a better driver for sales of graphics boards.

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ARM Announces 2GHz Capable Cortex-A9 Dual Core Chips

 

British chip design firm ARM today announced the development of two Cortex-A9 MPCore hard macro implementations based on TSMC’s 40nm processing – speed-optimized and power-optimized variants.

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