WHILE LOOKING FOR something related, we bumped into a set of Atom D510 and D410 benchmarks by chance on a website that we weren’t familiar with. German website CarTFT.com has kindly provided a small glimpse into the performance of Intel’s upcoming single and dual core desktop Atom processors and the numbers aren’t exactly what we’d call impressive.
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DON’T YOU JUST LOVE IT when technology companies leak their upcoming products unintentionally? Well, Acer has come through and given us a better insight into Intel’s upcoming Atom N450 processor as well as its own netbook based on the new platform. There are a couple of surprises such as a 10.1-inch 720p display and of course Intel’s new GMA3150 integrated graphics processor (IGP).
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IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia has put the A3 stepping of Fermi in the oven, it happened some time last week. That means that you may see cards as early as February, depending on two or three other factors.
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IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING, but VIA has finally gotten around to releasing a new chipset with a serious boost to the feature set. This might be just the shove VIA’s Nano processor has been waiting for to make it a serious Intel Atom competitor. In saying that, we’re less than a month away from Intel’s new Atom processors with integrated graphics, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
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NOKIA HAS CLOSED the doors to its flagship store on Regent Street in London and its stores in Chicago and New York in the US are the next on the list to be shuttered according to several sources. Nokia has issued a statement to Engadget that goes into detail explaining why Nokia has decided to terminate its flagship stores.
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WITH THE ACER Liquid just out the door and yet to prove its worth in the quickly growing Android smartphone market space, we can’t but wonder how many Windows Mobile partners Microsoft has left, especially as Acer is planning another six Android devices for the first half of next year.
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ACER’S CHAIRMAN, JT Wang has come up with a simple reason as to why Acer’s sales of CULV thin and light notebooks have been so poor – it’s all the fault of Dell and HP, because they’re selling mainstream notebooks far too cheaply in the US market. Talk about playing the blame game.
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SEVERAL CANADIAN ARTISTS have formed a group to sue the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) and the four major music labels EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner for copyright infringment.
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WE’VE COME ACROSS an interesting bit of information that we’re fairly certain that no SSD maker would want you to know about. With the current push of SSD drives into every sector of the computer market, no-one seems to have stopped to take a closer look at the drives themselves, but instead everyone’s raving about the performance.
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HP SEEMS TO BE a big fan of putting Nvidia’s rebadged GeForce 300 series cards in its systems, as a second card has come to light, namely the GeForce 315. The GeForce 315 is based on Nvidia’s GT216 graphics chip, which is better known as the GT220 in retail.
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ATI IS GETTING on board the Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D train before it even exists. Lets hear it for an expensive and mostly useless standard that adds on to a expensive and mostly useless standard known for customer abuse.
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IT APPEARS THAT Nvidia has found a way to make its Ion 2 chipset work with Intel’s upcoming Pineview Atom processors. Reportedly, Acer is the first Nvidia partner to have placed orders for Ion 2, although it’s not yet clear what devices the new chipset will go into.
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ALTHOUGH THE UNWASHED MASSES might not be aware of Intel’s upcoming refresh of its now nearly two year old Atom N270 and somewhat faster N280, those in the know have been waiting for the Atom N450 for a good few months already. However, it seems like we won’t see any netbooks powered by the new processor until early next year, as Intel has decided to make sure that none of its partners will launch products before the 10th of January 2010, according to Digitimes.
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INTEL HAS FINALLY done what we had all expected it to do, and pulled the plug on the consumer version of Larrabee. In a statement today, Intel said that the chip will be a development platform and an HPC part, but there will be no retail version, at least not any time soon.
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SISOFT SANDRA 2010 was just released, and the big news is that it now has OpenCL based GPGPU benchmarks. They look to be a fairly well rounded and test both compute capabilities and I/O.
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