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When couple of month ago Intel announced it would delay Larrabee introduction in 2010, many analysts thought it was the first sign for dropping the project. According to an anonymous insider, reported to be an Intel Larrabee engineer, the company has a whole product plan and roadmap still in place. While first "demos" of the [...]

Cindori who was already the author of ATI Flashing Tool, just announced the release of Zeus, a universal GPU flashing tool. This application is a real swiss army knife for our graphic cards, as you can modify the firmware or easily adapt a PC card on your Mac Pro: Compatible with most ATI and NVIDIA graphic cards Able to [...]

It really seems that NVIDIA is experiencing the darkest period of its history. After numerous issues and problems, the latest one being the delay for the production and the availability of Fermi-based graphic cards, a new story will again darken even further the image of the company.The last version of drives released last week for [...]

While ATI/AMD is selling tons of 40-nm engraved GPUs, NVIDIA is still struggling for having TSMC its exclusive founder being able to deliver large batches of 40 nm engraved GPUs. Officially TSMC has invested huge resources (financial and engineers) for improving engraving processes and results obtained at the end of 2009 were encouraging. However, many [...]

Intel is slowly unveiling details of its future mobile architecture, Sandy Bridge, planned to be released next year to take over current Core ix. We already know that the new generation will be 20% faster than the current architecture, and the integrated graphical chipset will delivers up to twice the performance of the current unit [...]

While it remains difficult to get a reliable date for the availability of Fermi-based graphic cards, despite the fact they have been announced for now months, NVIDIA finally unveiled their names: GeForce GTX 480 and 470. So, we can start dreaming about them, even though nobody knows their real performance levels.As branding strategy from NVIDIA [...]

Details of Apple’s custom-built processor inside the newly unveiled iPad are beginning to surface, with a report stating the system-on-a-chip includes an ARM Cortex-A9-based CPU accompanied by a GPU.

While we keep talking about the battle between ATI/AMD and NVIDIA for the graphic card market, we tend to forget that Intel is leading the market with entry-level graphical chipset, a cheap solution with limited 3D performance, but high appreciated by OEM. Jon Peddie Research group analyzed the sales of graphical processor unit for 2009. In [...]

The website Bit-Tech published a long and detailed article, comparing the GMA HD, the integrated graphical chipset found in Arrendale chips, to other chipsets such as the GeForce 9400M.The Good news: the GMA HD delivers  much better performance levels than its predecessor, especially for video. IT handles H.264 even better than the GF 9400M, while requiring less [...]

Reported as a rumor last week, it is now official as Mark Liu, vice-president of TSMC, announced it: TSMC now fully master 40 nm engraving process. The yield of validated chips is now equal to the one recorded for 65 nm engraving process. So, mass production with such thinner process can now start. this will be [...]

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