Rumor Mill: PlayStation Vita Launches in Asia on November 12

A new rumor suggests that the Asian launch date for the all new Sony made PlayStation Vita handheld is set for November 12, with the Western markets set to get access to it during the month of March 2012. The rumors come from a French site called GamaLive, which says that it has a source inside the headquarters of Sony. The source says that Japan and Hong Kong will be getting the new device on November 12 or close to that date and it seems that various media outlets all over the world will also get their handhelds during that month. Sony is also said to be keen on getting the Vita out in the West during March, before the end of the current fiscal year, so that it can incorporate good launch sales into its financial results. The information...

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AMD's Upcoming Radeon HD 7900 GPUs May Use XDR2 Rambus Memory

In the last quarter of 2011, AMD is expected to launch its first 28nm graphics cards from the Radeon HD 7000 product series, and the latest leaks to reach the Web suggest that the top parts from this range may use AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture and high-speed XDR2 memory from Rambus. According to Expreview, the launch of the Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards family will resemble that of the current Radeon HD 6000 solutions, as AMD will first introduce a couple of mainstream solutions into the market. These will be the first graphics cores developed by the company to be built using the 28nm fabrication process and will use the Thames and Lombok cores. Just like the Radeon HD 6900 series, these two cores are based on a VLIW4 (very long instruction...

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