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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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We received word from our partners at Sapphire Technology that the company is organizing a giveaway with one special prize - the top of the line graphics card.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Sapphire Technology is a well known maker of graphics cards and motherboards, but the company decided to expand its know-how into two new business areas: digital signage and CPU coolers.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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On Tuesday evening AMD reported the quarterly results for the fourth quarter of 2011 as well as the whole calendar year. We dig a little bit deeper to find the numbers and see where AMD sees a guiding light for 2012.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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We learned that GlobalFoundries is planning to hire 400-500 more employees, about 350 of them will work at Fab 8. 50% of these new hires more than likely will come from New York itself.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Recently, we heard rumors that AMD disabled some of Compute Units inside the Tahiti GPU, and that the 4.3 billion transistor monster actually packs 2304 processing cores instead of shipping 2048. We contacted AMD and wanted to get to the bottom of this...
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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Californians think they have the corner on Silicon Valley, but similar congregations exist in France, Germany, India, and Canada. Even Russia is getting into the act.
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SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Scientists are working with a large genetic dataset to establish a timeline for understanding the mammalian family evolutionary history. The DNA matrix represents 99% of the biologic families investigated in the five year project.
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ENTERPRISE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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All Things Digital says that HP will fire at least 525 webOS employees starting this week.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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We spoke with several sources close to the action and learned interested news about the fate of HP PSG. The future of the company is looking better than HP's, we might add.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Patriot has partnered with Sapphire, SandForce, and NFC Systems to do a Facebook giveaway of a custom built NFC Gaming System.
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GRAPHICS, BUSINESS
NEWS
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While there have been numerous rumors about this before and some indication in OEM offerings, AMD and its board partners officially announce their Radeon HD 6750/6770 products today.
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HARDWARE, GRAPHICS
REVIEWS
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The new HD5830 Xtreme is a reintroduction of sorts as the HD5830 has been on the market for some time now with prices hovering around the $160 mark on average depending on the bells and whistles included.
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HARDWARE
REVIEWS
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There is just one truth out there - technology improves and gadgets get smaller. The one area that this axiom has passed over for the most part is the size of desktop PC. Sapphire aims to change just that with their Edge HD.
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ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Musical chairs continue. Mark Hurd left HP and landed in the co-President seat at Oracle. A previous Oracle President and COO just took over Hurd’s seat at HP. Léo Apotheker was named CEO and President of HP.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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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?"
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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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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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May 13, 2009 will be marked as a giant day in history of GPU computing. AMD released world's first stock clocked card with a GPU ticking at 1 GHz. AMD was the first with CPUs [Magnolia], now the company repeats the feat with GPUs.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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It looks like ATI pulled a big coup over Nvidia with its Radeon 4890 - the card now launches weeks ahead of its competitor on paper, GeForce GTX 275. 40.000 cards were dispatched to partners and distributors.
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