NVIDIA to Showcase Fermi-based Tesla GPUs Next week |
NVIDIA has just announced that they’re showcasing the Fermi GPUs at SC09, which is much earlier than we expected.
NVIDIA Denies Involvement in the Fuzion’s Delay |
Lucid’s Hydra 200 chip
Some rumors claimed that NVIDIA forced MSI to postpone their Big Bang Fuzion motherboard which would take advantage of Lucid Hydra 200 chip, and people guess the green giant will break support for the chip at the driver part. After all, NVIDIA’s SLI fee would be threatened if Hydra does succeed.
PowerColor Preps Custom-cooled Radeon HD 5770 |
PowerColor has just revealed the PLAY! HD 5770 graphics card which employs Arctic Cooling solution for enhanced cooling performance.
Arctic Cooling Intros Universal Chargers for USB-powered Devices |
Arctic Cooling has just announced two charges for USB-equipped devices, Arctic C1 and C2, which has one and four USB ports respectively.
Asus Formula Series HD 5750 Goes up for Pre-order |
Following the step of PowerColor and HIS, Asus has also developed a custom Radeon HD 5750 – EAH5750 FORMULA/2DI/1GD5.
Intel and AMD Reach Settlement on Legal Disputes |
Intel and AMD has just announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
Under terms of the agreement, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion and agree to abide by a set of business practice provisions. As a result, AMD will drop all pending litigation including the case in U.S. District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan, and also withdraw all of its regulatory complaints worldwide.
G.Skill Unveils Falcon II SSD Family |
More than half a year after announcing its first Falcon series Solid state drives, G.Skill has just rolled out the Falcon II family.
China Selects Infineon’s Security Chips for Electronic Passports |
Infineon today announced that it has won the contract of delivering to the Chinese electronic passport project, which is one of the world’s two biggest electronic passport projects.
NVIDIA CEO: We Love All APIs Capable of GPU Computing |
As we know, Microsoft has DirectCompute in Windows 7 and Apple has OpenCL in Snow Leopard, but NVIDIA believes both of them are inspired by CUDA, and consider itself to be the most enthusiastic co-developer of those two APIs.
Intel’s P55 Chipset Moving to B3 Stepping |
We’ve been just told that Intel is planning to update its P55 chipset to B3 stepping next month. Since the B3 chips are pin compatible with B2 parts, no physical motherboard modifications are needed, but firmware and minor BIOS updates are required.
According to Intel, the first P55 B3 chips will start shipping from December 7th, but customers will receive a combination of both B2 and B3 stepping chipset by February 5th, 2010.
HIS HD 5750 iCooler IV Graphics Card Almost Ready for Purchase |
HIS has just unveiled an iCooler IV version of the DirectX 11-supporting Radeon HD 5750 graphics card - HD 5750 iCooler IV.
TSMC Refutes 40nm Yield Drop Rumors |
TSMC’s 40nm fabrication process was said to have come across a technical problem, with the yield rate dropping from 60% to 40%, but the company has just denied that.
Radeon HD 5950 Caught on Camera |
Several days after the sneak peek of ATI Radeon HD 5970, another dual-GPU card has been leaked to our fellow site Alienbabeltech, again. According to someone who wishes to be known as DJ, the card is powered by 1440*2 stream processors.
NVIDIA CEO: I am All Apple |
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave a speech at American University of Dubai on Monday, and then sat down with representatives from media to talk about his company and their products.
NVIDIA CEO Says “No” to Globalfoundries and x86 Chips |
Reports about NVIDIA making x86 chips have recently resurfaced, but the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just denied the rumors during the interview with Cnet.
