Nvidia threatens cutting off MSI in TweakTown tiff
Hardware enthusiast site TweakTown has revealed that Nvidia threatened MSI with cutting its GPU allocation if it continued to provide samples to the publication.TweakTown's editor, Cameron Wilmot,...
View ArticleAMD plans GPU price cuts
The beleaguered graphics market might get a kick out of a price war between AMD and Nvidia. According to Anandtech, AMD will announce another round of price cuts across the board later this week. The...
View ArticleIntel launches budget desktop CPUs
Intel has finally released a range of cheap and cheerful chips based around the 22nm Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, According to Sina.com, while all Core i5 and i7 desktop products were transitioned to...
View ArticleBristol uni makes quantum chip breakthrough
Silicon-based quantum chips could soon be available for mass-production using the strange properties of the quantum world to ensure absolute security in mobile communications. Scientists at the...
View ArticleGloFo speeds up move to 14nm process
GlobalFoundries will be one of the first foundries to offer 14nm processors with customer tape outs in 2013. GloFo has announced that it will start producing processors using 3D FinFET transistors with...
View ArticleEU to put the screws on graphics cards
EU attempts to save polar bears could result in disaster for discrete and integrated graphics cards as we know them. According to NordicHardware, which has seen information about a new energy law that...
View ArticleOak Ridge's supercomputer, Jaguar, turns Titanic
The US Department of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has launched its latest flagship supercomputer, dubbed Titan, which is capable of running over 20 petaflops per second using a...
View ArticleNvidia will stick ARM chips in Tesla
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has told InfoWorld that it will be mixing its GPGPUs with ARM 64-bit processors in future Tesla products. The company's chief technology officer for Tesla, Steve Scott, said...
View ArticleNvidia pushes Linux to the limit
Nvidia has released its latest Nvidia GeForce drivers which it claims has double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those playing games with Linux. The move is part of...
View ArticleCray releases new supercomputer
Cray announced a XC30 supercomputer capable of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads of more than 100 petaflops which is pretty floppy considering it relies on Intel Xeon processors and Aries...
View ArticleRadeon HD 8000 roadmap leaked
Hacks working at the Spanish website BitDreams.se have got their paws on the roadmap of AMD's next generation Radeon HD 8000 Series GPUs. It looks like AMD will be launching a dual-GPU card sometime in...
View ArticleBitcoin miners build their own chips
The virtual currency Bitcoin has lost traction recently but now those who are mining the coins have turned to custom built chips to do it. Bitcoin mostly appeared last year and promised the world that...
View ArticleDARPA contracts Nvidia to make drones smarter
Nvidia has landed a $20 million contract with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to get to work on the development of embedded chips that are 75 times more powerful than current...
View ArticleApple could be planning to dump Nvidia for iMacs
The writing appears to be on the wall for Apple's relationship with Nvidia. Apple began using Nvidia for its latest all-in-one, which started shipping late last month, but there are signs that all is...
View ArticleAMD all at sea and in a vacuum
AMD has been announcing scant details about its Radeon HD 8000 GPUs to the jaded hacks at CES, and apparently the headline news is what their codenames will be. According to WCCF Tech, which tried to...
View ArticleAMD shifts Kabini and Temash to TSMC
Last year AMD confirmed that it was cancelling chunks of its orders with its old chum GlobalFoundries and was paying the outfit large sums of money for the right to go elsewhere. Although it was...
View ArticleAMD delays next-gen graphics chips
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn which claims that AMD cannot be bothered releasing its next-generation graphics chip this year. So far, AMD has not made an official...
View ArticleBlackberry Z10 is a Samsung S3 in drag
The Blackberry Z10 looks surprisingly like a Samsung S3 when you take the back off. According to a teardown, carried out by UBM TechInsights, the main components look remarkably Samsungish. There is a...
View ArticleAMD denies graphics card rumours
AMD has denied fairly credible rumours that it will not be releasing a next generation graphics card family this year. The rumours that new Radeon 8000s will not hit the shops this year as planned have...
View ArticleSony's PS4 vision raises privacy, DRM questions
Sony's New York PlayStation 4 event simultaneously disappointed and intrigued. Many were hoping for more details on the next-gen machine, or at least a glimpse of it - what the world got instead was...
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