During Computex, we sat down with Intel and talked about the future high-end platforms from Intel. One such potential platform is Skulltrail 2, based upon a dual-socket 8-core Nehalem-EX.

AMD's next-gen Opteron platform packs a punch - dual-socket setup will see 24 cores, 96GB of DDR3 memory and anywhere between 68.2 and 85.3GB/s of system bandwidth.

According to the information that is now leaking out from Santa Clara, it looks like G[T]300 boards are weeks before launch, not six months or even more...

We managed to get a confirmation from three independent sources - nVidia's 2.4 billion transistor answers to RV870 and Larrabee is not just taped out, but A1 silicon is in Santa Clara.

As GT300 takes shape, we managed to learn one tidbit more: the die size of this 2.4 billion transistor monster. We are surprised, to say the least.

ATI claimed that 256-bit memory controller is justified with the GDDR5, doubling the bandwidth from GDDR3. But what happens if nVidia launches a 512-bit controller with GDDR5?