Radeon HD 5830, which was postponed to February 5th (i.e. today) due to circuit issues, is said to be further delayed.
With the approaching of Chinese Spring Festival (Feb 13th – 28th), the factories here in China are closed. Therefore, Radeon HD 5830 should be start shipping after February 20th and you can expect to see them widely available in March.

EVGA has just updated its SLI Enhancement Patch to version 23 which is based on NVIDIA 196.21 driver.
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AMD has just released the entry-level Radeon HD 5450 to bring DirectX 11 functionality to more budget users, aiming to replacing Radeon HD 4350 which currently retails for $35-$50.
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According to the details recently leaked around the web, Intel’s Core i7-930 processors should be arriving later in this quarter. The 2.8GHz quad-core CPU is believed to deliver the best performance among Intel’s mainstream processors.
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NVIDIA talked up the Optimus technology last month, and Xbitlabs has learnt that the graphics technology for mobile platform will be revealed on February 9th. However, Optimus is not a particularly new technoloy, but just an improved version of Hybrid SLI and Hybrid Graphics.
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Gigabyte has just unveiled a USB 3.0 expansion card, GA-USB3.0, which provides two USB 3.0 ports via the NEC USB 3.0 controller.
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