Intel Core i7 Reviews
In the past days a lot of reviews and benchmarks about the new Intel Core i7/X58 platform surfaced on the net. Here are a few interesting links: Techgage, Legion Hardware, TweakTown, Guru3D, PC Perspective, TechSpot, Neoseeker, t-break, OCAU, ExtremeTech, Benchmark Reviews, HotHardware, HardOCP, Lost Circuits. More »
AMD’s 45nm CPU Line Up Revealed
While the 45nm Shanghai quad core Opteron (Opteron 83xx series and Opteron 23xx series) has just made its debut at resellers, AMD is planning to launch six high end 45nm quad core CPUs (codename Deneb) and four entry-level (codename Propus) in the first quarter of next year. The Phenom X4 20550 and 20350 for socket AM2+ systems with core frequencies of 3GHz and 2.8GHz will be launche this month. AMD will also launch six 45nm triple core CPUs (codename Heka and Regor) including 14x00, 12x00 and 1xx00e series. More »
Nvidia GT206, GT212, GT216 and GT300
GT2xx generation cards' life cycle is not over yet, the GT206 will be released in Q4 2008, presumably to cash in on the christmas shopping season. GT206, the last 55 nm cards, seems to be having problems with its shader domain, which has pushed its launch for that late. Following GT206, GT212 and GT216 would be Nvidia's entries to the 40nm silicon fabrication process, both will support GDDR5 memory on a broad memory bus. GT212 will be released in Q1 2009, GT216 in Q2 2009. More »
Nvidia MCP85 chipset
Expreview have revealed that samples of MCP85 have been sent to NV mainboard partners. MCP85 is NVIDIA’s next mainstream chipset for AMD AM3. The new chipset, based around the GeForce 8100/8200/8300, is basically the same as the MCP78 which it is superseding, with the exception of the added AM3 support. There are two version of MCP85, MCP85-S and MCP85-V, the only difference will be their clock and PureVideo versions. The new chipset will hit the market in Q1 2009. More »
Intel Moorestown Platform
In his keynote yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, Intel's senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, discussed how technology innovation and strong industry collaboration have driven the digital economy over the past 40 years, and the universal impact that the Internet and mobile Web has had in people's lives. Chandrasekher cited the Intel Atom processor, the upcoming Nehalem processor, and the Intel Moorestown platform as prime examples of innovation and technology leadership. More »
Asus touch screen Eee PC
As reported by DigiTimes Asustek is working on a touch screen equipped Eee PC. The netbook will take advantage of the upcoming Windows 7 multi-touch capabilities. It seems that the touch panels will be supplied by AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO). The new netbook will start appearing during the first or the second quarter of the next year. More »
Nehalem Lynnfield pictures
A photo comparison of the yet to come Nehalem cpus, known as Lynnfield, have been posted in the asian forum XFastest. Lynnfield is scheduled to launch in Q4 2009, this version of Nehalem uses Socket LGA1160 instead of Bloomfield socket LG1366. It uses DMI link which only supports dual channel DDR3 instead of the QPI link that the Bloomfield uses for triple channel DDR3. More »
