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Do You Want to Build Chips? GlobalFoundries is Hiring
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
We ran across an unexpected booth at the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference among their partners’ displays. We were told that they plan to hire 5,000 new people world wide in the next few years, starting now.
On 9/3/2010 by Darleen Hartley... Comments (2) Read more
Donald Newell: Ex-Intel Guy Hired as a New CTO at AMD
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
When the midnight stroke in New York, NY - AMD released a press release stating that the company employed Donald Newell as the new VP and Chief Technology Officer [CTO].
On 8/23/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (1) Read more

PowerColor Launches 5750-based HTPC Graphics Card
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
PowerColor launched first low-profile graphics card based on AMD's ultra-successful Juniper GPU: Radeon HD5750 Low Profile Edition.
On 8/19/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Intel Bullish on 3Q Sales: Sandy Bridge in 4Q 2010
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Recently, Intel held an investors meeting to update key financial analysts about the trends the company faces until the end of the year. Needless to say, it looks very positive for the chip giant from Santa Clara.
On 8/18/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (4) Read more

Zotac GTX 460 AMP Takes Top Clocks?
HARDWARE NEWS
The Zotac GTX 460 AMP edition has just been launched and it’s a fast one.
On 8/17/2010 by Anshel Sag... Comments (7) Read more
nVidia "Fermi" GeForce Die Sizes Exposed
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE ANALYSIS, RUMORS
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...

On 8/9/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more

AMD's Godfrey Cheng Adamant on Future of Discrete GPUs
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Godfrey Cheng is one of key people that AMD gained with the acquisition of ATI. This GPU enthusiast recently moved to a role closely tied with the upcoming Fusion APUs.
On 8/8/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Sandy Bridge Socket Pictures Leak
HARDWARE RUMORS
In the usual fashion, JC over at XS has once again leaked some sort of an informative picture about a future Intel product.
On 8/7/2010 by Anshel Sag... Comments (2) Read more

New Intel Core i7 990X Extreme coming in September
HARDWARE NEWS
During our forced hiatus, we learned of several very interesting news concerning the future of Intel desktop and notebook line-up. First up is the Core i7 990X.
On 8/6/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more
nVidia Reports mixed 4Q and Annual Results
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Following market closure on Wednesday, nVidia reported its fourth Quarter results as well as last year's total figures.
On 2/18/2010 by Anshel Sag... Comments (6) Read more

AMD Llano "Fusion" taped out, 32nm SOI CPU + GPU
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE ANALYSIS
Recently, we spoke with AMD about the announcements the company is making on this weeks' ISSCC Conference in San Francisco. It looks like K10 family is getting its third manufacturing process...
On 2/9/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (12) Read more
nVidia GF100 Fermi silicon cost analysis
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS, RUMORS
With the architectural previews hitting the wire this week, we took the time to actually look at potential cost of the GF100-based solutions and where the Fermi silicon stands right now.
On 1/21/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (33) Read more

nVidia abandons custom 3D UI, plans to open it as an SDK
GRAPHICS, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
When nVidia first showed Tegra products, most of the attention the company received wasn't for their hardware but rather 3D user interface that made Windows Mobile and Apple's Mac OS look ridiculous.
On 1/14/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (2) Read more
GlobalFoundries absorbs Chartered, the race is on
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS, ANALYSIS
GlobalFoundries officially announced their take over of Chartered Technologies of Singapore. They have combined operations to form a semiconductor contract manufacturing powerhouse with $2.75 billion in annual revenue.
On 1/13/2010 by John Oram... Comments (1) Read more

Shuttle announces laptop independence
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
CES 2010 Today, if your notebook dies, you are faced with the dilemma that no two notebook motherboards are the same. Shuttle announced a solution – an open notebook motherboard standards.
On 1/9/2010 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more
Marvell reacts to nVidia Tegra, announces Quad-Core ARM
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
CES 2010 Marvell announced at CES the first "official" quadruple processor on the ARM instruction set, setting out a neat answer to nVidia's claims of first dual-core ARM Cortex A9 SOC. ARMADA comes with four A9's!
On 1/7/2010 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more

AMD showcases 5870 Eyefinity XGP box on a Ferrari netbook
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
CES 2010 AMD just launched its Broadway family of mobile GPUs. As it turns out, the most interesting take on the Mobility Radeon 5870 is the external GPU box for netbooks and the like.
On 1/7/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (6) Read more
Will 2010 Be a Messy Legal Cesspool for Intel, nVidia?
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Intel-nVidia Spat over chipset licensing arguably has led to a lawsuit from the FTC. Now, researcher Agner Fog raised controversy with his article titled "Will Intel be forced to remove the "cripple AMD" function from their compiler?" 
On 1/2/2010 by Chris Barton... Comments (11) Read more

Steam Hardware Survey November 2009: Over a Million new Win7 users!
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS
After seeing the level of adoption of Windows 7, we are now starting to wonder how long until market share overtakes not just Windows Vista, but Windows XP as well?
On 12/29/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (4) Read more
30 Days With: PowerColor Radeon HD 5870
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE REVIEWS
In this review, we lived and breathe with PowerColor's Radeon HD 5870 1GB for a month. Is the new DirectX 11 hardware all that shiny or there is something to work on?
On 12/28/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (6) Read more

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