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Posted by Hanners
on Thu 2nd Jul 2009
After a slightly slow start and plenty of tit-for-tat arguing between Intel and NVIDIA, the latter's ION platform appears to have been something of a success for the company. Now, Fudzilla brings news that we might be seeing an improved "ION 2" platform for Intel's Atom CPUs before the year is out.
Our industry sources have told us that the new, shrunk version of ION, probably branded as ION 2, should have much faster graphics and much more shaders. We don't believe that the thermals will change that much, but we've heard that ION 2 will have more than double the number of shaders of the original Geforce 9400M /MCP79 /ION chip.
Since ION has 16 shaders , or processors as Nvidia calls them these days, you should expect that the new one has more than 32. This will get much better gaming to netbooks and nettops based on ION 2 which is definitely something you cannot say no to and at the same time Cuda applications might run faster, in case you found one that matter to you. |
You can find the story here.
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Posted by Hanners
on Thu 2nd Jul 2009
Despite hopes that it would all be resolved by now, it appears that TSMC's 40 nanometre yield issues are still rumbling on, with reports suggesting that yields are as low as 20%.
''In fact, not only do our checks suggest 40-nm yields but, to our surprise, these have remained below 30 percent, affecting shipments in 2H09,'' he said in the report. ''We believe yields are as low as 20 percent to 30 percent, which may explain the recent management change. We think some key customers who are increasing 40-nm tape-outs have already started to evaluate other foundries (UMC) in case yields do not improve soon.''
TSMC recently acknowledged that it had 40-nm yield issues, but claimed those problems were largely fixed. The ''management change'' involved a recent shake-up at silicon foundry giant TSMC. |
EE Times.
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Posted by Hanners
on Tue 30th Jun 2009
Despite Sapphire's Radeon HD 4730 being announced a while back, we haven't seen any sign of review samples of this board thus far (possibly due to continuing 40 nanometre yield issues) - However, techPowerUp have gone out and bought a board of their own to see how it stacks up. Is it as good a bargain as it sounds?
The card looks very similar to Sapphire's HD 4850 and HD 4830 even though a different PCB seems to be used. With the cooler the card requires two slots in your system.
The card has one analog port, one DVI port and one HDMI port. Having an analog port is important for a lot of low-end and midrange cards because users don't want (or know how) to use DVI adapters. If you want to connect the card to your big TV screen you can use the native HDMI output which supports HDMI Audio as well.
You may combine up to four HD 4730 cards in CrossFire for increased performance or higher image quality settings. There is no official statement whether you can mix the HD 4830 with other RV770 based cards. I tried with the HD 4830, HD 4850, HD 4870 and HD 4890 using Catalyst 9.6 under Windows Vista and could not get a CrossFire setup established. |
Read the full review here.
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Posted by Hanners
on Tue 30th Jun 2009
Need I say more? A brand new version of Mozilla Firefox launches today, bringing the ever-popular browser up to version 3.5 with a host of enhancements.
You can grab Firefox 3.5 for yourself from the usual place at Mozilla's web site, while Slate and c|Net are amongst the web sites covering what's new this time around.
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Posted by Hanners
on Tue 30th Jun 2009
I'm really not sure whether or not to be surpised at anyone's willingness to buy the site, but this is certainly an interesting move for the infamous BitTorrent tracker nonetheless...
The Pirate Bay is now owned by Global Gaming Factory and will start to introduce new, legitimate services.
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most well known file-sharing websites, has been sold to a Swedish firm called the Global Gaming Factory for just 60 million Swedish Krona (roughly $7.8 million USD or £4.6 million GBP).
According to a post on The Pirate Bay blog the current team behind the site recognise that the figure was a lot less than the site was actually worth, but claimed it was more important to find the right buyer than the right price.
According to a comment in the official press release Global Gaming Factory intends to make The Pirate Bay as legitimate as possible and "intends to launch new business models that allow compensation to the content providers and copyright owners." |
bit-tech carry the full story, while you can also find more on The Pirate Bay's 'Blog.
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Posted by Hanners
on Mon 29th Jun 2009
It wasn't originally anticipated that we'd be seeing any CPUs manufactured on a 32 nanometre process until 2010 from Intel, but the latest speculation suggests that the production of the company's "Clarkdale" codenamed parts has now been shifted forward to the final quarter of this year...
Intel has brought forward the mass-production schedule of its new 32nm processor codenamed Clarkdale to the fourth quarter of 2009 from the originally planned first quarter of 2010, according to sources from motherboard makers.
The company's 32nm Clarkdale CPUs will account for 10% of Intel's total OEM desktop CPU shipments in the fourth quarter, while 45nm Core i7 processors will account for 1%, Lynnfield-based processor 2%, Core 2 Quad processors 9%, Core 2 Duo E8000/E7000 series processors 35%, Pentium E5000/E6000 series 31%, Celeron E3000 and Atom series together 8%, and 65nm-based Pentium E2000 and Celeron 400 together 4%. |
DigiTimes has the story.
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Posted by Hanners
on Mon 29th Jun 2009
Fancy a faster Phenom II? Then wishes may come true very soon...
Sampling is set to start on AMD's fast new Phenom II X4 965 next week and we're being told the new offering is 200MHz faster than the 955 at around 3.4GHz - straight out of the box.
The move will continue to put pressure on Intel which has already slashed prices of its Core 2 chips by about $33.
The chips are apparently being aimed squarely at 'O'clockers on a budget', especially if one considers this chip coupled with the new 785 chipset DDR3 mainboard, a pretty winning combination. |
Tweak Town has the full story.
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