THIS WEEK’S hardware roundup has suffered a bit of a delay, so we’ll try and make up for lost time by putting some extra ‘oomph’ into it.
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AMD RELEASED THE last member of the Istanbul family this morning, the 40W EE version. For a six core, 1.8GHz chip, this is a pretty low power draw.
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NVIDIA IS DOING what it knows how to do best once again – not making chips, but renaming old parts into the new ‘GT300’ series. Yes, it is funny, but there is a good reason for the renaming.
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SUPER TALENT just announced a line of DIMMs it is calling ‘green’ because they use less raw materials and packaging. It’s a good idea with an attractive marketing spin for the company, but the truly important ramifications are more subtle.
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FROM THE GUYS who brought us the iPhone nudie pics and who made the unremovable MacBook battery removable, now comes the PS3 Slim tear-down.
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INTEL HAS TALKED about Becton, now called Nehalem EX, without going into many technical details. At Hot Chips 21, it is starting to talk about the guts of the chip, and it is very different from the EX-free Nehalems.
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AMD FINALLY STARTED to publicly talk about Magny-Cours and socket G34 during the Hot Chips 21 conference. The socket has a lot of complexities, so for now, we will only take a look at the interconnects, both on chip and off.
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FAR IN THE EAST, HKEPC got something we’ve all been waiting for: a full review of Clarkdale and a head-to-head against Nvidia’s 9400m IGP. Pay attention to page 6, lots of interesting figures there including power consumption and 3Dmark and gaming scores. The GPU core – as powerful as it might be – doesn’t come close to Nvidia’s… But Charlie will definitely have something interesting to add to this further on…
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HAVING HAD more than my fair share of conversations with Nvidia personnel, one thing became painfully clear – they just didn’t get the concepts of reliability and testing. This became painfully clear with their flailing over the bumpgate fiasco.
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HOW DO YOU SAY irony in corporate-speak? How about AT&T selling a service that it can’t show, demonstrate or debug properly in its stores because its IT department only lets its staff use Internet Explorer.
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ONE OF THE best open secrets in the industry is about Larrabee and it’s eventual integration into Intel’s core Core CPU line. It is going to happen, just a bit later than many expect.
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NVIDIA KEEPS HOWLING that it will have GT300 out this year, so we did a little digging on the topic. All you can say is that it seems willing to fritter away large swaths of its and TSMC’s cash to meet a PR goal.
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WHAT DO YOU do when a large company you are doing business with flatly refuses to obey the law? T-Mobile did that to us the other day, and now they have taken customer service to a low that is hard to put into words. Yes Virginia, it can get worse.
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SemiAccurate hereby breaks in something that we intend to be your first choice in online hardware review coverage. At SemiAccurate you’ll find a one-stop selection of red-hot hardware reviews, starting right now. We’ll be gathering together here the best of what we’ve found online around the web and giving it to you straight up.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the first GT300 chip out the door is not only big, but it will be expensive too. GT300 is going to have an NVIO chip like some of it’s predecessors.
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