QUANTENNA WAS SHOWING off their latest silicon pre-CES, a 4×4 MIMO 802.11n chip. If you are into high bandwidth, interference resistance, and beamforming, you might want to take a look at their silicon.
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AMD PUT OUT the new 6000M line of mobile GPUs today, half of which are all new Northern Islands based parts. The other half are 5000M/Evergreen chips with a shiny new name badge.
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DISPLAYLINK IS AN interesting company and although we’re still waiting on its USB 3.0 enabled adapters, the company has in co-operation with Mobile Monitor Technologies or MMT for short, come up with what it calls a portable monitor. Now any old monitor is portable, but the Monitor2Go from MMT looks more like a notebook than a monitor.
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AMD’S FUSION HAS finally landed and despite some suggestions that AMD wouldn’t score any design wins with the big boys, it turns out that both HP and Lenovo are the first ones to announce products based on the new platform. We’re expecting many others to follow suit this week, least not Acer and Toshiba, as Brazos based products have already leaked from both companies.
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IT’S EASY TO forget that there are three x86 CPU makers in the market and alongside AMD’s Fusion launch today, VIA has announced its first dual core processor, the VIA Nano X2. We should hopefully get more details about the new CPU at CES, as VIA has been very shy when it comes to sharing any actual specifications of the new processor family.
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AMD’S BRAZOS PLATFORM has finally arrived, well, ok so AMD has already showed off what it has to offer, but the first retail products are launching today and one of the first out of the gate with a mini-ITX motherboard based on the new platform is Gigabyte. We headed over to Gigabyte’s HQ for a quick hands on with the board and to snap a few candid shots of it.
Updated: January 4, 2011 12pm, Added pricing information.
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YESTERDAY WE TOOK a look at Intel’s Core i5 2500K and today we’re going to take a closer look at the Core i7 2600K which is currently Intel’s flagship processor based on Sandy Bridge. The big feature difference is Hyper Threading support, although the Core i7’s also feature an additional 2MB L3 cache, slightly higher clock speed and a higher turbo frequency for the integrated graphics to set them apart from the Core i5 models.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux, Disappointment
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DUE TO A LAST minute change by Intel, the expiration of the Sandy Bridge NDA has now, well, expired and as such we’re going to start off our coverage with a quick introduction of the various processors, chipsets and what not before we start digging into the tech and benchmarks. Much of what will be covered here contains information that leaked out ahead of the launch, but Intel still managed to hold on to plenty of details available now for your reading pleasure.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Benchmarks, Disappointment, Linux
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IN RECENT TIMES Intel’s biggest jump in performance was when the company moved from the Netburst architecture to the Core 2 architecture, a move that wasn’t repeated when the company moved to Nehalem. Today we’ll take a closer look at Sandy Bridge and without giving away too much; we can tell that it offers an impressive performance boost, although not in every single category.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Disappointment, Linux
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SANDY BRIDGE WAS shaping up to be the killer CPU of the year, a huge step forward in the ‘uncore’, decent graphics and big gains in the core as well. Instead, we got broken graphics, non-working feature sets, and a showstopper bug. What a shattering disappointment.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux
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