Nvidia announces x86 chip

We told you so…

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This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 7:58 AM.
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Nvidia is trying to make an x86 chip

With no licence, this is going to be fun to watch

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This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Friday, February 06, 2009 at 6:21 PM.
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Nvidia to announce x86 chip next week

Not IDF San Francicsco: So say the whispers

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Nvidia has balls and may circumvent X86 licences

Part 2: The game is open

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This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 12:52 AM.
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Nvidia Stexar move turns gun turrets on AMD, Intel

Part 1: The firm Intel, AMD let slip

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This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 2:42PM.
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Asus mulls its future

Apple is killing netbook sales

LAST FRIDAY, ASUS held an investors conference at its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan and the CEO Jerry Shen shared some details of what Asus is working on. It’s clear that Asus considers Apple to be one of its major competitors, especially with regards to the iPad, a device that has caused no end of headaches for Asus, especially as it’s stealing netbook sales from Asus.
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DDR4 not expected until 2015

Should start in excess of 2.1GHz

DDR3 MEMORY ALREADY has three years on its neck and it’s finally starting to replace DDR2 as the mainstream memory technology. JEDEC and the memory manufacturers are already planning the next generation of memory technology set to succeed DDR3 with the obvious name of DDR4 which was set to make its first appearance in 2012, but it seems like things have been pushed back until 2015 now.
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Nvidia’s Q2 Financial Phone-a-thon

Pretty much what you expected… and more

With the bowl of punch nearly gone, miscellaneous party favors littering the floor, and S|A writers stumbling about in various states of sobriety, it is time to settle down and discuss the results of Nvidia’s recently concluded Q2, FY 2011 earnings conference call.  Much of the information we already knew or surmised after the lowered revenue guidance bombshell they dropped on us in late July, but half the fun of these kinds of calls are the molehills-turned-mountain that companies create to keep investor’s wallets open.  Let’s start hiking.
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Intel’s Patsburg chipset comes with a few unexpected surprises

Many not set in stone yet

TODAY WE FOUND out some details about changes to Intel’s upcoming Patsburg chipset for Sandy Bridge LGA-2011 processors and we were slightly surprised at what we heard. What struck as very unusual is the fact that Intel is developing a single chipset that is intended for at least both the high-end desktop Sandy Bridge B2 processors and the Xeon destined Sandy Bridge EN processors. Traditionally Intel has developed these types of chipsets separately, but apparently this is no longer the case.
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Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPU roadmap leaks

A lot of new number and letter combinations to learn

INTEL’S ROADMAPS NEVER tend to stay secret for long and this time around details of its entire upcoming Sandy Bridge desktop CPU line-up have turned up online, alongside some details of some of the mobile Sandy Bridge processors. This is not quite the entire desktop CPU range for next year from Intel though, as there’s no word on what processors we’ll see for socket 2011.
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Asus launches new range of business notebooks with Sonata batteries

Three year battery warranty thanks to Boston-Power

ASUS HAS TEAMED up with Boston-Power to deliver a new range of business notebooks that comes with Boston-Power’s Sonata Lithium-ion batteries standard. Unlike most laptop batteries, the Sonata power cells come with a three year manufacturer’s warranty. The new B-series of notebooks doesn’t just have extended life batteries though, as there are a few other features that should make them appealing to business users.
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