Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Diamond Multimedia has made a big impact on the graphics card market with their lineup of Radeon video cards a while back and it was the first to announce the launch of Radeon HD2900XT 1GB just recently. Diamond now has plans on a new platform called xDNA. xDNA enables users ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
AMD Says It Is on Track with 45nm Process Technology. Advanced Micro Devices said in its most recent call with financial analysts that despite of relatively slow ramp of its quad-core microprocessors the chipmaker does not expect any issues to occur with the ramp up of its 45nm production technology.
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
The title says it all. ATI Radeon HD 3870, the one on the second picture will feature 825MHz core and 2400MHz memory clocks, DirectX 10.1 support, and PCI-e 2.0 technology. ATI Radeon HD 2850 on the third picture will be clocked at 700MHz/1800MHz core/memory with DirectX 10.1 support and PCI-e ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Hitachi Touts New Generation Giant Magnetoresistive Heads. Hitachi and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes on a desktop hard drive and one TB on ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Intel’s First Microprocessors with Built-In Graphics Cores, Octa-Core Chips Slip Into 2009. Intel’s code-named Nehalem processors first emerged in long-term Intel’s roadmap back in 2002 and, as it turns out now,
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
AMD Readies “Spider” High-Performance Platform. ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology was announced in mid-2005, but has not really gained widespread popularity since then, partly because ATI’s flagship graphics products faced delays and partly because Nvidia put tremendous efforts into popularization of its SLI multi-GPU technology. But ATI, graphics product group of ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Intel’s Skulltrail Heads to Extremes: Two 3.20GHz Quad-Core Chips, 150W, $1500 per Chip
The dual-processor enthusiast-class code-named Skulltrail platform from Intel, which the company demonstrated at Intel Developer Forum, will be available in Q1 2008. But while the new extreme gaming machines will offer outstanding performance, they will come at a ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
New information has been obtained by Daily Tech about AMD's upcoming RV670 GPU. As most readers know by now, the RV670 is essentially a 55 nm die-shrink of the 80 nm R600. It will have support for PCI-Express 2.0 and Shader Model 4.1. Crossfire will also be supported as detailed ...
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