HATS OFF TO Intel for pulling one of the most devious PR spin and coverups of the year with their chipset problems explanation. While it may be a desperate and masterful obfuscation job, if you poke a little under the surface, you can see how badly they screwed up, and how little of the truth actually came out.
Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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IF THERE WAS any doubt that AMD’s Brazos platform was going to become popular with the board partners or not, then the news that AMD has at least eight retail motherboard partners with a current total of 18 board designs on the way, should put that doubt to rest. The interesting thing here is that we’re just talking motherboard design wins here, it doesn’t include various small form factor barebone and system design wins.
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JETWAY MIGHT NOT be the most popular motherboard brand out there, but the company does have some rather unusual solutions from time to time and now the company has unveiled a pair of Intel H61 chipset motherboards ahead of the chipset launch. It’s possible that the H61 chipset will launch earlier than anticipated, although it’s not something we’ve heard so far.
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INTEL HAS ISSUED a product recall today of all its Sandy Bridge chipsets, which is a huge deal for the company as the product recall is set to have a fairly significant if not huge impact on Intel’s profits this quarter. However, as the Chinese New Year is already in full swing in most of Asia, it’s unlikely that we’ll see any product recalls from Intel’s partners for at least another couple of weeks.
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THE MOTHERBOARD MARKET has changed in a pretty dramatic way, as Asus’once budget only brand ASRock, now a part of the Pegatron group has overtaken not only ECS, but also MSI in terms of motherboard shipments in 2010. This makes ASRock the third largest branded motherboard maker in the world which is no mean feat.
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AFTER THE KEYNOTES of the three Common Platform partners, Samsung, Global Foundries, and IBM, three customers took turns at the podium. The first one up was ARM, and the talk centered around familiar themes, power and integration.
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SONY ERICSSON’S PLAYSTATION phone is hardly a secret or a surprise at this stage after multiple leaks over the past few months; however, it has now been put through its paces in an early preview of close to final sample. The handset is likely to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in the middle of next month and it’s likely to quickly become one of the most popular Android phones.
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AND HERE WE thought the CompuLab fit-PC range consisted of tiny computers and boy were we ever wrong, as CompuLab has announced an even smaller system with the introduction of its Trim Slice. It’s not exactly a PC though, as the tiny device is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC, but it’s still an interesting little machine.
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TODAY NVIDIA UNVEILED its latest addition to the GeForce 500 series of GPUs with the introduction of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. What we’re looking at is a $250 graphics card with performance figures that should make it a very appealing upper mid-range card, well, at least until AMD’s price cut takes effect in the retail market.
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IT’S HARD TO be spot on when it comes to rumours about new technology coming from the various companies in the business, but nearly a year ago we wrote about Intel working on a USB 3.0 solution of its own, well, it seems like it didn’t quite work out the way we were told by our source back then, but Intel is finally getting ready to add native USB 3.0 support. That said, it won’t arrive until early 2012 alongside Intel’s next generation platform (didn’t that just launch?)
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EARLIER TODAY WE were invited to the grand opening of Thermaltake’s new offices in Taipei, Taiwan and to say that they’re something out of the ordinary in Taiwan would be to put it mildly. It’s much more open space than we’re used to seeing in Taiwan and the offices have plenty of unusual features, most of which you wouldn’t find in any office anywhere in the world.
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IBM SHOWED OFF a 20nm test wafer at the Common Platform conference last week. It is a Common Platform test chip, but exactly which one is not clear.
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IF YOU’RE LOOKING to get yourself a new system in the near future, then you might want to consider investing in a motherboard sooner rather than later as the price of motherboards are expected to rise by somewhere between five and 10 percent, or maybe even more in the next few months. The reason for the price hike is the rise in raw material costs, least not copper (no, not that Copper).
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THE FINAL KEYNOTE of the Common Platform conference was given by IBM’s Garry Patton, and he talked collaboration and tech. The list of new things thrown out was pretty dizzying, but what do you expect from someone who is in charge of semiconductor R&D?
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IT’S VERY POSSIBLE that tablets are finally getting to the stage where they’ll deliver what have been promised for so long and HP looks set to be close to front of the pack if details of its new tablets prove to hold true. Full specs of its 9.7-inch webOS tablet currently codenamed Topaz has leaked and it has just about everything a good tablet should have.
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