Chartered Begins Next Phase of Equipment Move-In at Fab 7 |
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. has recently announced it has begun the next phase of expansion, equipment move-in, and installation for its most advanced manufacturing facility, Fab 7 – a 300mm wafer fab. The equipment will support the planned ramp of capacity for the company’s leading-edge process offerings of 65nm and 45/40nm technology.
MSI Preps Cheaper GeForce GT240 |
MSI has developed a new GeForce GT240 with a short PCB – VN240GT-MD1G, which features 1+1 phase power design instead of the 2+1 phase on reference model.
Intel Plans Price Cut for Several Processors in January |
According to what we see from Intel’s latest roadmap, the official launch of Clarkdale will lead to price drop of some Intel low-end and mid-segment processors.
There will be five Clarkdale processors coming early in January, including Core i5-670/661/660/650 and Pentium G6950. They’re going to cost $284/$196/$196/$176/$87, respectively. A few days later, the pricing of Pentium E6500 will drop from $84 to $74, E5400 dropping from $74 to $64, and E3300 from $53 to $43.
NVIDIA: We’re Very Happy to See Internal Test Results of Fermi |
The Turkish website Donanimhaber has recently published a new video interview with Luciano Alibrandi, the Director of PR at NVIDIA.
Merry Christmas Everyone! |
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On behalf of the Expreview team, we wish you all a Merry Christmas as well as health and happiness in the year to come.
Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 VGA Cooler Reviewed |
Specs and Features
Xigmatek has gained a high reputation with their performance heatsinks, though they’re a relatively young brand in this field. In this article we’re reviewing their new creation – Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 VGA cooler.
Foxconn Builds Two Pine Trail ITX Motherboards |
Foxconn D41S
Foxconn is offering two Mini-ITX motherboards based on Intel’s new Atom platform, namely the D41S and D51S. Built with the single-core D410 and dual-core D510 respectively, the D41S and D51S make use of passive and active cooling.
MSI GTX275 Lightning Achieves New NVIDIA GPU World Record |
The Belgium overclocking expert Massman has recently achieved a new NVIDIA GPU world record with the MSI GTX275 Lightning, a particularly overclocking-friendly graphics card released earlier this year.
Thermaltake’s New Flagship CPU Cooler Revealed |
The Taiwan-based cooling solution provider Thermaltake has recently revealed its new flagship CPU cooler and plans to show it at the upcoming CES 2010.
Gigabyte Creates Microsite to Promote USB 3.0 |
Gigabyte has built up a new sub-website to promote the USB 3.0 standard. Accessible here, the microsite offers information about USB 3.0, explains the performance boost enabled by its use, lists the USB 3.0 ready products offered by Gigabyte, and helps you find hardware that supports SuperSpeed USB.
Sapphire HD 5770 BIOS Botchup Leaves Users with Just 720 Stream Processors |
Several users of the recently released Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X graphics cards have found that GPU-Z showed the shader (stream processor) count of their cards to be 720, instead of the advertised 800.
DFI Says It’s Not Quitting Consumer Motherboard Market |
Regarding the recent rumors of DFI quitting consumer motherboard market, Expreview has contacted DFI to confirm if it’s true.
AMD Admits Limited OpenCL Performance on Radeon HD 4000 Series |
Even though ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards have been quite popular on the mainstream market, the family may have limited OpenCL perfromance, the company recently admits.
Sparkle GeForce GT 220 and GT 240 Coming in Low Profile Design |
Sparkle has today introduced the world’s first low profile GeForce GT 220 and GT 240 graphics card, with a PCB height of only 6cm, making itself to be an ideal option for HTPC users.
Kingston Working on Liquid-Cooled HyperX DDR3 Memory Modules |
Kingston has lately posted a couple of pictures showing its upcoming memory modules that support liquid cooling. Being a variation of Kingston’s award-winning HyperX memory family, the DRAM looks quite mysterious as the manufacturer has not made public any kind of specific details.
