We have already written here that GF104 has eight clusters and 384 shaders in total, but this time we have confirmed some further details.
Nvidia plans to launch a GF104 card with all eight cluster and 384 shaders enabled as long as it sells what’s left of the Geforce GTX 470 cards. The 470 cards are not selling that great but they are still selling, and as soon as they run out, Nvidia will simply announce the new card, let’s calling Geforce GTX 475 for now.
We are quite sure that the card will end up faster than the Geforce GTX 470 based on the GF100 Fermi chip, but at this time we don’t know any exact details.
The first Fusion will most likely appear in the first half of 2011 and it will be based on the 32nm version of AMDs Bobcat core. This is an Atom competitor and it’s not a high performance core, but with the push of quite fast graphics, it should have what it needs to give Intel at least some competition.
We have heard that this core got taped out quite some time ago and AMD has even shown it to some press at Computex back in June. However, it probably won’t start shipping in volume until the first half of 2011.
The MUX-120 Black measures 133 (L) x 58 (W) x 160 (H) mm, weights 670 grams and features a convex copper base, four heatpipes, and a 120mm fan that can operate at 600 to 1300 RPM (rotations per minute) and has a sound output of 17 to 25 dBA.
Thermalrights cooler supports LGA 775/1156/1366 processors and should cost around (a bit under) €50.
Intel has slashed the prices of several processor and it is killing off a few low end parts in July as well. In addition, the company has recently started shipping several new parts, such as the six-core i7-970, priced at $885, the $205 Core i5 760 and the low-voltage Core i7 870S, priced at $351.
Intel has cut some prices as well. The Core i7 870 has dropped 48 percent, from $562 to $294. If you have recently bought one, please accept our deepest sympathies. The Core i3 540 has slipped 12 percent to $117, while the venerable E6600 and E5500 Pentiums have dropped 11 and 15 percent respectively, to $75 and $64.
The E7400, E6300 and E3200 have been discontinued and they are in a better place now.
The Droid 2s been leaking out all over the place in the past few weeks, but it looks like itll be another month before it officially hits shelves -- we just got these shots from a packaging facility thats handling the phone, which puts it right on schedule for that rumored August 23rd launch. Were also told that the phone will definitely ship with an 8GB microSD card, and that pricing appears to be $199 on contract and $599 standalone, although those numbers could change. Just a few short weeks left, we suppose -- although give the rate at which this thing is leaking, were thinking Motorola and Verizon might do well to push that date up a couple weeks. Well see.
Source:engadget
ATI’s next generation Southern Islands cores are not promising anything spectacular. It looks like these cores are going to be just a tweak of ATIs existing Radeon HD 5000 series architecture.
This is mainly due the fact that this generation remains developed for 40nm and ATI still doesn’t have any new amazing architecture until 28nm and we have already reported that 28nm cores are coming sometime in 2011.
The release of the first cores based on the new improved generation is planned for October time, but ATI might introduce them in last days of September just to pull wool over investors’ eyes, as if it launches in late September it can still claim that launch took place in Q3 2010. They have already played this trump card with the Radeon HD 5000 series.
NVIDIA released the WHQL-signed GeForce 258.96 driver suite. This particular version of the driver were earlier released in its beta form last week. The drivers provide official support for the GeForce GTX 460, GeForce GTX 480M, GeForce 315/310 series graphics accelerators, apart from supporting every GeForce GPU since 6-series, and ION chipsets. Along with updates to the graphics driver, it also brings along updated PhysX system software, and updated HDMI audio drivers. The release notes documents (for Windows 7/Vista and Windows XP) reveals numerous game-specific performance updates, and bug fixes.
DOWNLOAD: NVIDIA GeForce 258.96 WHQL.
A list of changes follows.
Exciting things are afoot in wireless networking. Based on the work of the WiGig Alliance (which weve already told you all about), Atheros and Wilocity plan to make devices that use 60GHz wireless technology not just for ultra-high-speed networking, but also for wireless PCI Express connectivity.
These devices should start sampling next year, and based what Wilocity told us, theyll allow notebooks to connect to displays, storage devices, and even auxiliary graphics processors, all wirelessly. The same 60GHz wireless adapters will support 2.5GHz and 5GHz bands, as well, so theyll let you connect to existing Wi-Fi networks.
Here, the key to wireless peripheral connectivity is wireless PCI Express (wPCIe), a technology Wilocity developed (and subsequently trademarked). The companys whitepaper has all the nitty-gritty details, but the diagram below does a pretty good job of summing it up:
