Archive for May, 2009
MSI N275GTX Lightning Card & Cooler Exposed
We first gave you a sneak peak of the upcoming N275GTX Lightning card from MSI and now heres the card and cooler in its full glory before Computex.
How would you change Samsung’s Instinct s30?
Ah, Samsung’s Instinct s30. One step forward, three steps back — or something like that. Of course,
Radeon 4730 is 55nm RV770LE
PowerColor was the first to inform the world that Radeon 4730 is coming and as the name implies, many expected a 40nm RV740 rather than RV770LE 55nm.
ATI used Nvidia renaming strategy (shame on you) as this is nothing more than Radeon 4830 renamed to justifiy its lower price. This is not a simple SKU rename […]
Open Kernel Labs joins Symbian Foundation
Symbian Foundation has recently scored a new member. It’s Open Kernel Labs, which is provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband internet devices. The idea behind their move is to “support the growing demand for mobile devices that are virtualized with OKL4, and rely on the Symbian operating system (OS).”
Job listing suggests Microsoft working on 300K-player game
A job listing found on both Gamasutra and Microsoft’s careers website is seeking out an engineer to work on a “game” that will support up to “300,000 players in real-time.” The job ad states that Microsoft is working on “building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new ways” […]
Microsofts Zune HD gets quick photo shoot at D7
Officially announced a few days ago, Microsofts iPod touch-targeting Zune HD portable media player has made an appearance at the D7 conference and took the time to smile for the cameras present. Set to arrive this fall, the Zune HD packs a 3.3-inch OLED touchscreen which, as you can see below, seems pretty sharp, with […]
G4 Cube given wheels, automation, the will to race Woz’s Segway
Not wanting the Allspark to beat them to the punch, the gang at thinkingbricks has given life to an Apple G4 Cube,
Ericsson’s fashion-forward W30 series 3G routers get detailed
It’s not every day that we use “Ericsson,” “sexy,” and “3G router” all in the same sentence,
RV740 won´t be discontinued
We´ve heard a rumour saying that ATI plans to discontinue 40nm RV740 chip due to its very bad yields and before this escalates any further, let us simply say that this is not true.
We checked with multiple sources and people in the know said “this is absolutely not true” and we don´t have any reason […]
AMD to launch a lot of Q3 45nm stuff in Q2
It looks like AMD has managed to surprise us all, and launch Regor dual core, Propus L3 cachless Quad and Rana, yet another L3 cachless but this time Triple core in late Q2.
This was the plan all along, and although AMD has informed many of its partners that it won´t make it until Q3, many […]
