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AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2: R700 First-LookAug 11, 2008 - in Reviews
Earlier this year, AMD launched the Radeon HD 3870 X2, which was fast, but not fast enough. Now R700 is upon us and AMD shows its new RV770 architecture has what it takes to power the fastest graphics card on earth.
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Intel Set To Introduce Mobile Quad-core ProcessorsAug 11, 2008 - in News
San Francisco (CA) - Lots of new processors will be announced next week at the Intel Developer Forum.
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Intel's 'Nehalem' Now Officially Core i7Aug 11, 2008 - in News
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today unveiled the brand of its upcoming processor: Nehalem, the successor of the Core 2 Duo CPU series, will be introduced as "Core i7" later this year and the company hopes that the new brand will be easily recognized and remembered by customers when they walk into a store to buy a new PC.
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Weakening LCD Panel Industry Spreads To BackendAug 11, 2008 - in News
As most upstream LCD panel and LCD driver IC vendors are guiding for a conservative second half of 2008, major LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses’ expect to feel the effect. Chipbond Technology observed that bookings declined in July on a month
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Kingston Takes 10% Stake At NAND Flash Controller Designer 3SAug 11, 2008 - in News
NAND flash controller design house Solid State System (3S) announced that Kingston Technology has taken a 10% stake in the company via a private placement as expected.
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Seven Of The Ten Largest DRAM Manufacturers Saw Revenue Declines In Q2Aug 11, 2008 - in News
El Segundo (CA) - DRAM companies have been battling a difficult market environment for some time now and iSuppli's second quarter revenue estimates give an indication just how rough the situation is. Only two top 10 manufacturers were...
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Convenience Storage By Buffalo And ToshibaAug 11, 2008 - in Reviews
The latest external 2.5” drives by Buffalo and Toshiba come with easy-to-use backup software, but they lack features. More interesting is their capacities of 500 GB and 320 GB.
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Intel Nehalem's Market Named Leaked to be Core i7Aug 10, 2008 - in News
If the rumors are to be correct, the Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processors will officially be announced August 11 with an expected launch date of Q4 2008.
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Graphics Wars: The Big Summer BattleAug 8, 2008 - in News
Part of what makes this year somewhat different in graphics is that Intel has indicated that is now serious about graphics.
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CERN Ready To Test Fire Its Time Machine On September 10Aug 8, 2008 - in News
Geneva (Switzerland) - Scientists are gearing up to launch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a 17-mile long particle accelerator that debuts with the promise to enable science to look deep into the origins of the universe, providing new insights in matter, space and time.
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Dell Claims Carbon NeutralityAug 8, 2008 - in News
Round Rock (TX) - This morning Dell announced the company has achieved its goal of carbon neutrality in less than a year's time and five months ahead of their schedule.
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AMD Launches 2 New Pro Graphics CardsAug 8, 2008 - in News
AMD announces new midrange and entry level professional graphics accelerators under new branding, the “ATI FirePro V5700” and “ATI FirePro V3700”
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Microsoft Revises Memory Placement in Latest Xbox 360 HardwareAug 8, 2008 - in News
While Sony’s hardware revisions for its PlayStation 3 console appear to almost always be in the interest of cutting costs, Microsoft’s changes to the Xbox 360 seem to be aimed at both cost and reliability
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Intel graphics update: Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers?Aug 8, 2008 - in News
{Interview} – Lots of graphics tech tradeshows are on the calendar for the coming weeks - Siggraph 2008 in Anaheim, IDF Fall in San Francisco, Games Convention in Leipzig and Nvision 08 in San Jose.
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Quick Look: Gigabyte 790GX MotherboardAug 8, 2008 - in Picture Story
A picture story of Gigabyte's 790GX offering.
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Graphics wars: The big summer battleAug 8, 2008 - in News
Analyst Opinion - Part of what makes this year somewhat different in graphics is that Intel has indicated that is now serious about graphics. There is a technology called Larrabee on the horizon that is promised...
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CherryPal's $250 PC delayedAug 8, 2008 - in News
Chicago (IL) – You will have to wait for that Cherrypal cloud computing PC a bit longer. The device was originally planned to begin shipping on August 4, but has been hit with a few hiccups.
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AMD's 790GX served with secret sauce for overclockingAug 8, 2008 - in News
Reykjavik (Iceland) – AMD introduced its 790GX chipset and refreshed the 790FX today. Reviews of 790GX motherboards have been published by the usual suspects but there is one trend that especially has caught our interest: AMD goes after extreme...
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Nvidia licenses Transmeta power management techAug 8, 2008 - in News
Sunnyvale (CA) – It appears that Transmeta has found a successful business model: The company has added Nvidia to its group of Longrun and Longrun 2 licensees suggesting that it is not going to disappear anytime soon.
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Alienware m15x: True Gaming Portability?Aug 8, 2008 - in Reviews
Last year we tested a pair of gaming notebooks from Dell and its subsidiary, Alienware. Since then Dell has updated its part, while Alienware introduced a new, more portable model. Now it’s time to find out: does the new middleweight unit have game?
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Carmack: PCs Not Important As ConsolesAug 7, 2008 - in News
Tom’s Games had the chance to sit down with Carmack for a brief chat regarding Rage, id Software’s upcoming game slated for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Sadly for PC gamers, it seems that the consoles are slowly taking over.
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AMD Ditches Close-To-Metal, Focuses On DX11 And OpenCLAug 7, 2008 - in News
Reykjavik (Iceland) - Considering the big news coming out of Intel this week (Larrabee) and the expected big News from Nvidia within the next two weeks (x86 CUDA), AMD is under pressure to match its rivals: AMD is making substantial changes to its GPGPU..
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MSI Overclocking Challenge: French FinalAug 7, 2008 - in Reviews
When pushed to extreme limits, overclocking can become a sport in its own right, and the team that set the world overclocking record last February is particularly adept at it. We went along with them to the MSI European Overclocking Challenge.
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Editor's Corner: 790GX On The WebAug 7, 2008 - in Reviews
It's always interesting to read what others have to say about hardware, so we've gone through some of the other 790GX launch stories for a better idea of what the community thinks about an enthusiast platform with built-in graphics.
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Study Finds Macs Cost 2X Windows PCsAug 6, 2008 - in News
A new study released by NPD Group today says that the average price for Macs are twice as expensive as those for the "average PC." According to NPD’s study the average price for a Windows laptop has dropped from $877 to just $700 today. Although at this
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Playboy Online Loses To Porn StreamingAug 6, 2008 - in News
Internet pundits like to suggest that the Web is built on porn: If it weren’t for the popularity of smut and its associated advertising and subscription revenue back in the late 1990s, other media business may never have figured out how to profit from on
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Sony To Expand Monthly Lithium Ion Battery Production Capacity From 41 Million Cells To 74 Million CAug 6, 2008 - in News
Sony has announced that it will invest approximately $371 million toward strengthening its lithium ion battery production operations.
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Elpida Ready To Launch 16 GB FB-DIMMAug 6, 2008 - in News
Elpida Memory announced today that it is ready to launch a 16GB Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) that is composed by 2Gb of DDR2 components.
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Memory Module Makers See Strong July SalesAug 6, 2008 - in News
Memory module maker A-Data Technology has announced that its net sales for July rose 7.
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