Solid GPU execution
By Sylvie Barak, 2 July 2009
WITH THE ADVENT of Windows 7 and just before delivering its first DX11 GPU to the world, AMD is also preparing a brand new integrated GPU, according to certain mainboard partner roadmaps. Designated the RS880, the device will sport AMD's new Radeon HD 4200 graphics core, which is almost 15 per cent faster than anything comparable that's currently available. Support for AMD's ever evolving Stream technology will purportedly also be included, for all that's worth, considering the paltry number of Stream partners at present. With all of the chest thumping between DAAMIT and the Green Goblin over discrete graphics, it's sometimes easy to forget that the global market for integrated graphics parts is actually much larger. So large, in fact, that the sheer volume of those hardworking integrated graphics chips is enough to put Intel, rather than either Nvidia or AMD/ATI, at the top of the global graphics pyramid.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Apple to NVIDIA: I’m so breaking up with you
by Devin Coldewey on July 1, 2009
Just when we thought the two companies had found true love, it turns out there’s some turmoil beneath the surface. After NVIDIA’s acknowledgment of mobile GPU breakdown (and denial that the faulty GPUs were in Apple products), Apple determined that many video failures in MacBooks were in fact NVIDIA’s fault. Okay, they worked through that. But it seems NVIDIA has been taking Apple for granted, and displaying “arrogance” in its proposals for continuing a partnership. NVIDIA arrogant? Well blow me down! So what happens next? After the end of this current product cycle (so probably next year), Apple may be dropping NVIDIA like a rock. But wait a second, it would take a lot of convincing to get AMD to put their GPUs in an Intel system, considering their growing interest in whole-system advantages. It’s all so confusing! Fortunately, it’s also all speculation, so we can wait it out and see what happens.
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Just when we thought the two companies had found true love, it turns out there’s some turmoil beneath the surface. After NVIDIA’s acknowledgment of mobile GPU breakdown (and denial that the faulty GPUs were in Apple products), Apple determined that many video failures in MacBooks were in fact NVIDIA’s fault. Okay, they worked through that. But it seems NVIDIA has been taking Apple for granted, and displaying “arrogance” in its proposals for continuing a partnership. NVIDIA arrogant? Well blow me down! So what happens next? After the end of this current product cycle (so probably next year), Apple may be dropping NVIDIA like a rock. But wait a second, it would take a lot of convincing to get AMD to put their GPUs in an Intel system, considering their growing interest in whole-system advantages. It’s all so confusing! Fortunately, it’s also all speculation, so we can wait it out and see what happens.
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Intel fast tracks 32nm process
by Nick Farrell, 02 July 2009
Intel has fast tracked its transition to 32nm process technology considerably earlier than originally scheduled. According to the dark satanic rumour mill the outfit wants to start very aggressive promotion of its code-named Clarkdale processors in the Q4 2009 by shipping them in mass quantities about a quarter ahead of its original cunning plan. Intel will start shipping 32nm dual-core microprocessors with 4MB of cache, Hyper-Threading, dual-channel DDR3 memory controllers and integrated graphics cores codenamed Clarkdale for mainstream desktop computers. Clarkdale, with its merged CPU , memory controller, graphics core as well as PCI Express interconnection inside means that there will be no need for North Bridge on the mainboard.
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Intel has fast tracked its transition to 32nm process technology considerably earlier than originally scheduled. According to the dark satanic rumour mill the outfit wants to start very aggressive promotion of its code-named Clarkdale processors in the Q4 2009 by shipping them in mass quantities about a quarter ahead of its original cunning plan. Intel will start shipping 32nm dual-core microprocessors with 4MB of cache, Hyper-Threading, dual-channel DDR3 memory controllers and integrated graphics cores codenamed Clarkdale for mainstream desktop computers. Clarkdale, with its merged CPU , memory controller, graphics core as well as PCI Express interconnection inside means that there will be no need for North Bridge on the mainboard.
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Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates
By Miguel Helft July 1, 2009
Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created, primarily by Twitter,” wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s search technology center in Silicon Valley, in a blog post about the feature. “We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.”
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Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created, primarily by Twitter,” wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s search technology center in Silicon Valley, in a blog post about the feature. “We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.”
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