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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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The wheels ARE coming off RIM's aspirations in smartphones. In 4Q of 2009 the Canadian Blackberry maker reached its peak in market share at 21%, and the drop was gradual. Until now.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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With the introduction of the new top of the line quad-core Phenom II X4 980 CPU from AMD, the microprocessor supplier also slashed prices across the board for its Athlon and Phenom desktop CPUs.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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With the release of the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition AMD released their fastest clocked processor to date. It is clocked at 3.7GHz, slightly shy of the highest clocks Intel officially reached on the Pentium 4 years ago.
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HARDWARE
RUMORS
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Intel is already readying not one, but two replacements for Core i7 900 Series, based on the Sandy Bridge EN and EP core. While the mainstream core featured an integrated GPU, the high end / server parts scraps that.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
ANALYSIS, RUMORS
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One of nVidia's secretive policies that changed from time to time is the die size of their chips. We expose die sizes for all current and upcoming Fermi-based parts: GF100, GF104, GF106, GF108...
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Lack of competition hurts the market - AMD's continuous delays of their next-gen architecture combined with Intel's ill-fated Larrabee effort resulted in slowdown of Intel's Tick-Tock cadence, starting with 32nm Westmere.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS
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We received news from ASUS that the company has launched a 120Hz display… in a gaming laptop! You've read it correctly, a gaming laptop packs 15.6" 120Hz LCD and 3D Vision glasses.
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HARDWARE, GRAPHICS
NEWS
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We got contacted by a friend of the site that inform us that Chinese xDev site managed to reverse engineer the SLI verification procedure and now SLI works everywhere.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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"You will never be routed to India as our full support staff is located in the United States." - harsh words coming from Misha Troshin, CMO and co-owner of AVADirect.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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AVADirect has begun to sell the much awaited and controversial gaming notebook that features two GTX 280M [nVidia's re-branded 9800GTX] graphics cards in SLI among other things.
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GRAPHICS, BUSINESS
NEWS
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The long running Class Action dispute between ATI Technologies Inc. and people who purchased allegeldy HDCP-ready graphics card is drawing to a close.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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The time of owning a mobile workstation that is more powerful that most desktops is here: SmoothCreations launched a computer with a quad-core Xeon processor, 12GB of DDR3 and a GTX280M [9800GTX] card.
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