Archive for July, 2008:
Intel’s Havendale
Intel announces its new hybrid platform codenamed Havendale, a cpu with an integrated gpu and an Ibex peak chipset, all in a single chip solution. The CPU part of the Havendale is a dual core, Nehalem derived 45nm model and it comes with integrated memory controller on the CPU side of the chip. The chip supports only DDR3 and it interconnects with Ibex peak directly through a memory interface (DMI). The Ibex peak Southbridge is More »
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Liquid Metal Based CPU Cooler
Danamics, a Denmark based company, has developed the LM10, the first liquid metal based CPU cooler that combines liquid metal with an electromagnetic pump. If you are really into extreme overclocking and you don’t really want to waste money on liquid nitrogen, there’s some new kind of cooler that runs on liquid metal. The special thermodynamic properties of liquid metal improve temperature uniformity and allow for lower temperatures when compared to other More »
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Microsoft Sidewinder X6
Microsoft will release its latest Sidewinder X6 Keyboard this fall. The Sidewinder X6 features a detachable numpad that can be connected at either side of the keyboard, making it suited to left and right handed users. In addition, there's a row of keys dedicated to binding game macros and a cruise control feature that'll repeat keystrokes without the need for holding down a key. More »
AMD socket g34
In its latest roadmaps AMD revealed the upcoming G34, the socket of choice for AMD's DDR3 Opterons which will arrive in 2010 and after. With a larger number of pins, 1974, the new socket will make its debut in motherboards equipped with AMD RD890S and RD870S chipsets. Featuring four HyperTransport 3 interconnections, 12MB of L3 cache and 512KB L2 cache per core, the G34 socket More »
DirectX 11
By the end of July, Microsoft is going to announce the DirectX 11 specifications. The new API will be available only for Windows Vista and for the upcoming Windows 7. DirectX 11 will include support for Tessellation, Compute Shaders, Multithreaded Rendering and the improved Shader model 5.0. Unfortunately, we won’t see any ray tracing support. DirectX 11 can be released by the end of 2009, this means More »
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FireStream 9250
AMD has announced its new FireStream 9250 application accelerator, a stream processor mounted on a pci express card. With a power consumption of less than 150 watts and no additional pcie slot required for a cooling system, the AMD FireStream 9250 delivers an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to 8 GFLOPS per watt. Based on RV770 GPU, the FireStream 9250 can More »
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