HP Gives Option of 24 Hours Battery Life with EliteBook 6939p

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

With laptops, if mobility is what you seek for, and the convenience of working on the battery for longer, you would usually buy several spare batteries and keep one or two of them charged inside the laptop messenger bag. Imagine not having to hit the mains for 24 hours on ...

Radeon HD 4600 Series Slated for September, Two Models in the Making

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Based on the new RV730 graphics processor from AMD, the Radeon HD 4600 series is set for a September release. There are two models to start with in this series: Radeon HD 4650 and Radeon HD 4670. The HD 4650 is positioned to compete with the GeForce 9500 GT while ...

Diamond Multimedia Releases Radeon HD 4870 X2 - XOC³ H2O

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, launched today, the Diamond Radeon HD 4870 X2 - XOC³ H2O edition graphics card. This card offers exquisite gaming capabilities combined with state of the art efficiency.

AMD and Blizzard Entertainment Join Forces in Strategic Global Agreement

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

AMD today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Blizzard Entertainment that will allow AMD to bundle Blizzard's best games across all ATI Radeon graphics products, to deliver a superior gaming experience. As the exclusive graphics sponsor for BlizzCon 2008 in Anaheim, Oct. 10-11, AMD will treat gamers ...

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 ...

R700 Initial Listings Reveal Low Price

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 (R700), the flagship graphics card by AMD is observed to have a lower than expected price-point that seems to justify its performance lead (through pre-release performance evaluations). Going by several reports in the past few months, the R700 was expected to have a US $549.99 ...

AMD Launches ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V3700 Professional Video Cards

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

AMD today raised the bar for Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Digital Content Creation (DCC) application performance with the announcement of two new professional graphics accelerators - ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V3700. As a part of that announcement, AMD also introduced a new brand for the company's professional ...

PCI Express 3.0 by 2010, Supports Heavier, Gluttonous Cards

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

System component expansion interface PCI-Express could get its next major face-lift in 2009, following which products compatible with the interface could be out by 2010. The PCI Express Special Interest Group (SIG) is in the process of devising the new interface that provides devices with twice the amount of bandwidth ...

960 SP-laden RV870 in the Works, and more

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Sources at TSMC told Hardspell that the next graphics processor (GPU) by ATI/AMD, the RV870 in the works have specifications such as: 40nm or 45nm fab process 140 sq. mm die size 192 ALUs, 960 stream processors 256-bit GDDR5 memory controller It is believed that this GPU could perform 1.2 times ...

Diamond Multimedia First to Launch All-in-wonder HD Series Cards

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Being a niché product is never easy unless you pack what the public likes into a product. A graphics card, a sound card (HDMI output), a HD-DVR TV tuner, all rolled into one: ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder HD. This graphics card features ATI Theater 600 chip, a graphics core based on ...