Archive for the ‘Chipset’ Category

VIA Quits Motherboard Chipset Business

Monday, August 11th, 2008

In a rather surprising for me move VIA, the company that has always been third in the motherboard and processor battle for supremacy, announced today it's stepping down from the motherboard business. Production of future chipsets for third party AMD and Intel processors will be halted. Instead, VIA will migrate ...

AMD 790GX Now Official

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

AMD today announced the availability of the industry's preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD Phenom processors, plus ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics - the world's fastest motherboard graphics processor (mGPU) - to take media aficionados ...

NVIDIA Slates nForce 730i MCP for August

Friday, July 18th, 2008

This August, NVIDIA plans to release its latest desktop core-logic (chipset) for the current Intel platform processors, the nForce 730i MCP, also known as MCP7A. The MCP7A features a GeForce 9-series mGPU dubbed IGP. Two variants, the MCP7A-U with a GeForce 9400 graphics core and the MCP7A-S with GeForce 9300 ...

AMD Chipset Roadmap for 2009 Uncovered

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

As of today, AMD is close to over a year and a half behind Intel with the implementation of the DDR3 system memory standard, and it doesn't look like we are going to see a DDR3 AMD platform only until late this year or early next year. Chilian website CHW.net ...

AMD Rumored to be Developing Intel Atom Competitor

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

AMD is possibly developing a low-power processor to compete with Intel’s “Atom” in the emerging Mobile Internet Device (MID) market. The new processor to counter the Atom will be a low-power AMD64-based design according to leaked slides obtained by Hexus. The processor will feature an integrated memory controller, 16-lane 800MHz ...

AMD Receives Next-Generation OpenGL ES 2.0 Graphics Technology Certification

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

AMD today announced that it has reached a new milestone in the mobile graphics industry as the first 3D graphics technology provider to achieve OpenGL ES 2.0 conformance certification. AMD OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile graphics technology, which will be included in AMD processors, is based on the same AMD Unified ...

NVIDIA Launches GeForce 9M Series of Mobile Graphics Cards and Hybrid SLI Technology

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Graphics giant NVIDIA has just announced their latest generation of notebook GPUs, GeForce 9M Series, and NVIDIA Hybrid SLI technology will become available in over a hundred notebook models beginning this summer. "Beginning this summer, GeForce 9M GPUs and Hybrid SLI, paired with AMD and Intel CPUs, will enable a ...

Intel X58 Chipset Details Leaked

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Leaked slides from Intel are floating around the Internet saying that Intel X58 paired with ICH10/R southbridge will be the first chipset combo to support Intel Bloomfield desktop processors, part of Intel's 45nm Nehalem architecture. The following list shows only a few of the new features that will be presented ...

Intel to Delay P45 Chipset to mid-June

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Intel is delaying the launch schedule of its P45 chipset from originally in May to mid-June, DigiTimes is reporting. The delay of the chipset is due to problems over compatibility between the chipset's PCI Express x16 port and graphics cards. Intel has notified its board partners that the problem should ...

Zotac Announces New NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Motherboard for AMD

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Zotac has jumped the gun on this one a little bit, pre-announcing its new motherboard based on NVIDIA’s upcoming nForce 750a chipset. This will be the first AMD chipset from NVIDIA since the nForce 590 was released back in May 2006, and will offer features such as Hybrid SLI, Hybrid ...