GF100 Official Benchmarks Unearthed |
NVIDIA’s GF100 has been sighted for a couple of times in a pretty mysterious way, but it remains to be seen how fast it can be. Fortunately, our fellow site HardOCP has recently been given an in-depth look at the architecture and performance.
NVIDIA CEO: The Computer Has Lost Its Magic |
Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA Crop., believes that personal computers of today have lost their “magic”, and need some kind of more advanced control.
EVGA SLI Enhancement Version 20 Ready for Grabs |
EVGA has just unleashed the SLI Enhancement Patch version 20 which is based on NVIDIA 195.81 driver, and the new version:
MSI’s Big Bang Fuzion Motherboard Hits Stores in Japan |
Officially unveiled earlier this month, MSI’s highly-anticipated Big Bang Fuzion motherboard has actually reached stores in Japan.
AMD’s Upcoming Entry-level DirectX 11 Graphics Cards Detailed |
Apparently not satisfied with its latest achievement by introducing the highly-praised Radeon HD 5670, AMD is planning to reveal the entry-level DX11 GPUs in February – Radeon HD 5500 and HD 5450.
Inno3D Releases GT240 Silent Edition |
NVIDIA launched GeForce GT240 last year, its parameters are very flexible, so the manufacturer bring many different GeForce GT240 cards into market. Today Inno3D releases the GT240 Silent Edition with a passive cooling.
Scythe Reveals Grand Kama Cross CPU Cooler |
First shown in CeBIT 2009, Scythe’s Grand Kama Cross CPU cooler has just made its official debut. Based on an X structure layout, the cooler measures 177x140x137mm, weighs 750g, and features four 8mm copper heatpipes. Top mounted is a 140mm Slip Stream fan which operates at 500-1300RPM and has a maximum sound output of 24.7dBA.
NVIDIA May See Drop in Discrete Graphics Chip Market Share in Q1 |
Due to the strong competition from AMD, NVIDIA’s discrete graphics market share is expected to shrink later in this quarter, Digitimes reports. Read the rest of this entry »
EVGA Precision Version 1.9.0 Available for Download |
EVGA has lately updated its Precision utility to version 1.9.0 with some new features and bug fixes.
Intel Profit up Sharply Despite AMD Charges |
Intel has just reported fourth-quarter revenue of $10.569 billion, up 2.3 billion and 28% over the same period of last year. The chip giant reported net income of $2.82 billion and EPS of 40 cents, showing an impressive surge of 875% over year.
Hynix Develops First 2Gb Low Power DDR2 DRAM |
Hynix has lately announced that it has developed the world’s first 2Gb Low Power DDR2 DRAM for mobile applications using the company’s 40nm class process technology.
GlobalFoundries Absorbs Chartered, Creates Global Chip Manufacturing Giant |
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GlobalFoundries has announced that it has officially integrated operations with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and has started functioning as the first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global manufacturing and technology footprint across Asia, Europe and the United States.
Modern Warfare 2 Sales Pass $1 Billion Mark |
The largest game company Activision Blizzard has just announced that Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has surpassed $1 billion in retail sales worldwide since its launch in November.
Intel Claims AMD’s Ex-executives Admitted Inability to Compete |
AMD’s ex executive vice president of marketing – Henri Richard
In response to FTC’s accusations, Intel has recently claimed that AMD was unable to compete at all, and more surprisingly, according to the world’s largest maker of chips, AMD’s former high-ranking executives had admitted for several times their own weakness.
XFX is Still a Close Partner to NVIDIA |
XFX GeForce GTX 275
Rumors have recently started to spread that NVIDIA had decided to cease the XFX’s European operations as an NVIDIA Approved Partner, but according to what NordicHardware has just learned from “a very reliable source”, the European graphics card maker is still a close partner to NVIDIA.
