AMD Radeon HD 7900 Tahiti GPUs to Arrive in January 2012 – Report

Awaited with great interest by gamers and enthusiasts alike, AMD's Tahiti graphics cores, which will most probably arrive in the company's Radeon HD 7900 product line, are expected to get released in January of 2012, according to a recent report. Graphics cards based on the Tahiti GPU will come as a replacement for the company's current Radeon HD 6900 range and AMD plans to build two different SKUs of this chip, dubbed Tahiti Pro and Tahiti XT. A dual-GPU version will also be released later in 2012, possibly until the end of Q1 2012, which will most probably be known as the Radeon HD 7990. All three of these graphics cards will be significantly more powerful than their current counterparts, reports Fudzilla, since the move to the 28nm fabrication...

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Gmail App for Blackberry Gets Discontinued on November 22nd

Google is set to discontinue the support for their Gmail application for BlackBerry devices, and announced that it will make the move on November 22nd.  The announcement refers to the installed native Gmail App for Blackberry, but do not involve the Gmail service accessible from the browser on mobile devices. Even more, Google says that they have been enhancing the experience that BlackBerry users benefit from when accessing Gmail via the mobile browser, and that they will continue to invest in the area. As for the native application, it will still be there for users to take advantage of, but there will be no official support for it available: Users may continue to use the app, if installed, however it will not be supported by Google,...

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Intel 2013 Haswell CPUs Get Detailed in Series of Leaked Slides

Now that Ivy Bridge has entered volume manufacturing, Intel has turned its attention towards its next-generation architecture code named Haswell, which was just detailed in a couple of leaked slides together with the Lynx Point chipset. Haswell will be a “Tock” on the chip maker's roadmap meaning that it uses an entirely new architecture built using the 22nm production node. The first chips using this new core are expected to land in 2013 and according to the slides published by Chiphell, Intel plans to split its product range into two distinct groups. The first group includes the company's desktop and notebook processors, while the latter is specially designed for Ultrabooks and drops the usual 2-chip platform approach that Intel has been...

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HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung to Launch Quad-Core Smartphones in 2012

Nvidia has just taken the wraps off its Tegra 3 quad-core application processor, which promises impressive performance capabilities for mobile devices that would range from tablet PCs to high-end smartphones.  Actually sporting five cores, since Nvidia also counts the GPU as an additional core for the chip, Kal-El is expected to make it inside smartphones no later than next year, after being packed inside tablet PCs before the end of 2011. The first device to include the application processor was already made official, the ASUS Transformer Prime, and should be followed by many other similar products, it seems. Among them, we should see smartphones coming from handset vendors such as HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung, some of the latest...

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Noctua Creates the NF-F12 120mm Focused Flow Fan

Noctua's NF-F12 120mm Focused Flow fan is not the first, nor the last of the company's fans, but it is the newest and, apparently, the one that produces one of, if not the strongest static air pressure.  Aerodynamically optimized, it has both a high airflow and a low noise generation. Also, it is made in such a way as to “spread the noise emission over a broader frequency spectrum,” via stator guide vanes, that are set out in Varying Angular Distance, and by means of Vortex-Control Notches. This makes its sound pattern easier on the ear, while the Stepped Inlet Design increases suction capacity while smoothening flow transition, among other things. Get EUR 19.90 / USD 24.90 if you want to buy it, or drop by the product page here to...

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PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Modular PSU Series Launched

PC Power and Cooling was pretty quiet in the last year or so, but now the company has returned in order to announce the introduction of a new series of power supplies that were developed to offer both high efficiency and quiet operation while also using a modular design. The initial PSU lineup will be comprised of three models which are rated at 400W, 500W, and 600W, but all of these feature similar specifications. Just as its predecessor, the Mk III series features a single high-power +12V rail and premium components, including 100% Japanese 105°C capacitors. These are designed to provide continuous power output at a demanding 50°C ambient temperature and are backed by a series of heavy-duty protection circuitries. The rest of the PSU specifications...

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VIA Intros 'World's First' Pico-ITX Motherboard with a Dual-Core CPU

VIA keeps on releasing new mainboards using the company's processors and their latest creation, the VIA EPIA-P900 Pico-ITX, is touted as being the world's first Pico-ITX solution to feature a dual-core CPU. The ultra compact Pico-ITX form factor measures only 10cm x 7.2cm, but despite this compact size VIA has manged to fit in the EPIA-P900 an 1.0GHz EdenTM X2 processor and the VIA VX900H chipset. This media system hub, as VIA likes calling it, sports hardware acceleration support for various HD video formats, including MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1, WMV9 and HDCP for Blu-ray content. The EPIA-P900 mainboard also sports support for up to 4GB of system memory via a single SO-DIMM socket and also features a pair of SATA 3Gps ports. Throughout the board...

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HIS Outs 2GB Radeon HD 6450 for HTPC Systems

HIS has been particularly busy lately releasing all sort of graphics cards covering the whole GPU market, and today has introduced yet another model that targets entry-level systems and uses the Radeon HD 6450 design paired together with 2GB of video buffer. The new graphics card is known as the HIS 6450 Silence 2GB and it features a low-profile PCB as well as passive heatsink, making it a great solution for HTPC users. Its home theater PC role is also accentuated by the bundled low-profile expansion bracket, which is a great addition if the card must be fitted in a half-height computer case. The rest of the card's specs include a Caicos GPU with 160 stream processors, 8 texture units and 4 ROP units that are linked to the installed video...

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Patch Critical Windows 7 SP1 TCP/IP Vulnerability

Microsoft security patches for November 2011 are live and customers need to prioritize plugging a hole in the Windows TCP/IP stack which affects all releases of the operating system, including Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), but with the exception of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.  Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-083, rated Critical, is the one dealing with CVE-2011-2013, the Reference Counter Overflow vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack. But there are an additional three security bulletins from the software giant, patching just as many vulnerabilities, although none as severe as CVE-2011-2013. “We are releasing four security updates, which will increase protection by addressing four privately reported CVEs in Microsoft Windows. As always, customers should plan to install...

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NVIDIA Launches Tegra 3 Kal-El 'Five-Core' Mobile Chip

The NVIDIA Kal-El SoC was a long time coming but, at long last, it has been officially introduced by the Santa Clara, California-based company.  Indeed, after previous reports had already disclosed the capabilities of the platform, NVIDIA not only confirmed them, but demonstrated those assets on video. Multiple videos, it turns out, as there is one that shows how much better flash, HTML and webGL applications run, games included. Speaking of games, NVIDIA really didn't cut any corners this time and made a special  video of the Tegra3 running the underwater level of Glowball on Android Honeycomb OS. We actually already put up the Glowball video, since having a game with nearly two million rendered triangles run so smoothly on a...

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Asus Details the Transformer Prime, Will Arrive in December for $499 (€361)

After waiting impatiently for the last three weeks, Android fans can now finally relax as Asus has officially announced the upcoming Transformer Prime tablet powered by Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El SoC, which will go on sale worldwide in December for $499 (361 EUR). The official announcement of the Transformer Prime comes to fill in all the blanks left after Asus chairman Jonney Shih teased the tablet at last month's AsiaD conference. As many of you already know, Asus' latest creation is built around an Nvidia Kal-El chip and 10.1-inch screen and is housed inside a sleek chassis measuring only 8.3mm (0.33 inches) in thickness. This was designed to mimic the aspect of the company's Zenbooks as it uses the same spun aluminum finish and it will...

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Apple Offers iOS 5.0.1 to Some Customers

Cupertino has chosen a bunch of customers to test out iOS 5.0.1, the upcoming software update tasked with alleviating battery life woes, as well as other problems. A program where customers are invited to test pre-release software, AppleSeed Software Customer Seeding aims to provide the company’s Software Engineering team with real-world quality and usability feedback. Specifically, customers who complained about battery drainage have received a memo which says, “Apple invites you to participate in a software seeding project. We have selected you, based on a referral from AppleCare for participation in our program, to assist us in testing an upcoming iOS 5 Software Update.” Users are offered a few instructions based on which they will download...

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Comprehensive List of HTC Codenames Leaks

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation should soon bring to shelves a new range of devices, at least this is what a recently leaked list with codenames from the company shows.  Available courtesy of the guys over at Pocketnow, the list includes both already launched devices, as well as yet unannounced ones, such as the recently spotted HTC Edge. What these devices are all about is unknown for the time being, especially since we can see there both Android and Windows Phone handsets, but it's clear that the phone maker has already made its plans for the coming months. When looking at the said list, names such as Bliss, Edge, Eternity, Holiday, Omega, Pico, Pop, Prime, Ruby, Runnymede, and Vigor, which refer to devices that have...

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