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Nvidia To Bring WHQL-certified PhysX Drivers On August 5th
Santa Clara (CA) - After demonstrating beta drivers featuring GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament III (GeForce GTX and 9800 boards), Nvidia is getting ready to release the official Windows driver.

Taiwan DRAM Makers To Completely Phase Out Production At 8" Fabs By 2009
Most Taiwan DRAM makers are expected to completely phase out commodity DRAM production at 8" fabs by 2009.

NAND Flash Controller Makers See Demand Warming Up
fter suffering from plummeting prices in June, NAND flash memory controller IC design houses are seeing an improved market demand status

Intel Fine Tunes Processor Pricing, Increases Pressure On AMD
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel's latest round of processor price represents a very subtle adjustment of prices the market widely seems to have accepted.

New AMD/ATI Catalyst Drivers Promise Higher Benchmark Scores, Smoother Gameplay
Los Angeles - AMD has released its newest Catalyst Windows and Linux drivers for the ATI Radeon graphics cards.

Nvidia to Launch Intel-based MCP7A IGP Chipset in August
Nvidia is planning to start mass producing its latest Intel platform IGP chipset, the GeForce 9-Series mGPU - nForce 730i MCP (MCP7A), in the middle of August with motherboards likely to appear in the market by early September, according to sources at motherboard makers.

Intel 'Bloomfield' CPU Pricing Reveals Pleasant Surprise
In order to speed up adoption of quad-core CPUs, Intel is planning to offer its upcoming 3.

Intel Phases Out Most Clovertown And Woodcrest Processors
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel told its partners that has begun phasing out the majority of its 65 nm Xeon DP processor generation to make room for 45 nm CPUs.

Centrino 2 Launch To Boost Shipments Of 802.11 Devices
Taiwan network-equipment makers are expected to see their shipments of 802.11n devices increase significantly in the second half of this year following Intel's launch of its Centrino 2 platform early this week, according to the makers.

Intel To Ship 100 Millionth 45 Nm CPU Before Year End
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel continues to speed down the 45 nm path, shipping dozens of millions of processors before AMD will get its first 45 nm CPU into customer hands.

Strong Mobile Processor Demand Improves Intel Profit By 25%
Intel delivered a solid second quarter thanks to record mobile processor and chipset sales.

Is GPU Stacking The Answer To All Your Performance Concerns?
Kfar Netter (Israel) - Sure, you may have heard about SLI and Crossfire and you may run up to four graphics chips in your PC.

Nvidia Reportedly Scores QPI License While Intel Gets SLI For X58 Motherboards
Nvidia has recently reached an agreement with Intel and received a Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) license enabling the company to design chipsets for Intel's next-generation platforms, according to sources at motherboard makers.

Intel Announces Centrino 2
San Francisco (CA) - Intel today announced its latest Centrino platform - which oddly named Centrino 2, not just because it really is the fifth generation (and should be called Centrino 5), but also because its brains, the Core 2 Duo processor is just a refresh and may not have justified the new name by itself.

AMD Takes $880 Million Charge Related To ATI Acquisition
Preceding its Q2 earnings release due this Thursday, AMD today said there will be another big ATI write-down. The company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges wi

Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Prices Crashing
Pricewatch - There is trouble in Nvidialand.

Rambus Is Back In Court, Sues Nvidia
More bad news for Nvidia. The company is now being sued by Rambus for the alleged infringement of 17 patents.

Albatron Unveils GeForce 8-series Graphics Cards For PCI Slots
Albatron Technology has unveiled three new Nvidia GeForce 8-series graphics cards that use the practically outdated PCI slot.

'Nehalem' 2.93 GHz Benches Revealed
Today we reveal some very interesting performance figures on 'Nehalem' -- something Intel (and AMD) doesn't want you to know -- yet.

Acer To Sell Off Memory Module Subsidiary Apacer
Acer has decided to sell off all of its 34.4% holding in memory module subsidiary Apacer Technology, with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), A-Data Technology, and Apacer's current management team set to take up the released shares....

The Return of Intel's Pentium MMX
Intel to base its upcoming vector graphics chip 'Larrabee' on the P5 architecture from days gone by.

DreamWorks To Creates 3D Movies With Intel's 'Larrabee'
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel is partnering with another big name to create credibility for its upcoming visual computing technology consisting of Nehalem processors and Larrabee accelerator units.

Nvidia Supports ATI Radeon PhysX Efforts
Nvidia says it's please that people want to run PhysX on ATI cards, and even invited developers to do so.

OCZ Releases Memory For Montevina Notebooks
Intel's next generation Centrino 2 notebook platform is still not ready, but at least we have received word that OCZ has put the finishing touches on enthusiast DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the new platform.

DRAM Module Makers Expect Demand To Recover
Major DRAM module makers A-Data Technology and Transcend Information, though seeing their June sales dampened by weak memory pricing, both anticipate improving demand in the second half of 2008.

DRAM Bit Growth Limited In Q3
The bit growth of the global DRAM industry will be limited in the third quarter of this year as most DRAM makers around the globe have postponed either construction of new plants or other capacity expansion projects, according to sources at Taiwan DRAM makers.

Exclusive: 'Nehalem' at 2.9GHz and X58
We take a quick preview at Intel's upcoming X58 chipset along with 'Nehalem' running at 2.9GHz.

AMD Shows Ray-tracing Tech on YouTube
San Francisco (CA) - AMD has published two YouTube videos that show off its voxel-based rendering technology.

Nvidia Expected To Offer DirectX 10.1 GPU In Q'1, 2009
Chicago (IL) - Nvidia so far declined to provide any information if and when the company will consider support the DirectX 10.

Radeon Forces Nvidia GTX2XX Price Cuts
It appears that AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 GPU has turned out to be a much better chip than initially expected and AMD's aggressive pricing puts enough pressure on Nvidia to prompt the company to react.

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