Dec 3, 2010

ASRock teams up with Fatal1ty

Creates a motherboard for gamers by a gamer

ALTHOUGH IT’S NOT the first time a motherboard manufacturer – or computer accessory manufacturer for that matter – has teamed up with a professional PC gamer to flog its wares, we have to wonder what ASRock was thinking when they teamed up with Fatal1ty, aka Johnathan Wendel. As much as he was one of the best professional gamers out there in first person shooter games, he’s become more of a brand than a gamer these days and in all honesty, we can’t say that we think he’s a great brand.
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Dec 3, 2010

First GeForce 570 pricing leaks

Sub $400 price point confirmed

THE GEFORCE 570 isn’t expected to launch until next week Tuesday, but pricing of the new cards are already starting to leak out around the world. The price spread seems to be quite wide depending on the model and how much the card in question has been overclocked, although considering the price premium; it might make more sense to overclock the card on your own.
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Dec 2, 2010

Rambus lawyers bored… decide to sue the world

Vein in JHH’s head sets new protrusion record

In the spirit of the season, Rambus Inc. is giving out another round of subpoenas to all of its friends in the tech industry.  Most interesting among the defendants perhaps is nVidia, who only months ago signed a licensing agreement with Rambus to end an ITC blockade of its products, (virtually their whole portfolio), which infringed on Rambus’s patents.  Round 2, or 3, or 400ish… Ding!
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Dec 2, 2010

Asus unveils three new U-series notebooks

The U31, U36 and U41

EARLIER TODAY WE attended the launch of three new U-series notebooks from Asus and with the U-series being Asus’ “super mobility” series of notebooks, our expectations were set fairly high, especially after yesterday’s leak of the U36. To be fair, the U36 didn’t disappoint in the flesh, but the other two models, the U31 and U41 are fairly run-of-the-mill models considering the category Asus has placed them in.
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Dec 2, 2010

IBM says “FU” to electrons, “Shalom!” to photons in chip design

Multi-core chips to see the light

If IBM has its way, QPI and HyperTransport are about to look about as fast as your mom’s 56K modem.  It seems that copper interconnects are simply not good enough anymore, and IBM researchers have developed a way to incorporate nano-scale CMOS optical devices onto the same slab of silicon your old-and-busted electron based transistors are fabbed on.  This allows chips to use pulses of light to communicate with each other rather than electrical signals to achieve some mind boggling bandwidth numbers.
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Dec 1, 2010

Intel’s 1H 2011 desktop motherboard roadmap

Still not a lot of details of what’s to come

FOR THOSE OF you that are fans of Intel’s own brand motherboards and that are waiting to upgrade their system until Sandy Bridge launches, we can today unveil some of Intel’s upcoming consumer level motherboards. But before that takes place, Intel should also have a pair of new X58 boards in the market, although to live up to its roadmap, Intel only has 30 days to get these two models out.
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