ARM Creates New GPUs and CPUs at New Factory

ARM has been doing a lot of things lately, but the latest act on its part, or one of them, was the setting up of a new production facility.  ARM is said to have announced the opening of a new factory in Taiwan. One thing the new design center will do is tighten the relationship with ARNM's Taiwan-based partners. TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the oldest, main collaborator in the region. Some time ago, the two made a deal which implied that TSMC would be developing physical IP, like memory products and standard cell libraries, on the 28nm and 20nm process technologies. Now, ARM has entered an agreement with UMC as well (United Microelectronics Corporation), which will also offer access to physical IP on the 28nm...

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Galaxy Works on Quad-Display GTX 580 Graphics Card

Multi-monitor enabled GeForce graphics cards seems to gain ground among Nvidia's partners as Galaxy has just unveiled that it is now working on a new quad-display solution based on the high-performance GTX 580 core. Little is known about the card at this point in time other than what we can make out from a series of pictures provided by HardOCP, but this solution will most probably be released into the company's MDT series. Outside of the outrageous cooling system that packs no less than three large diameter fans and a massive heatsink, one can easily see that the card comes equipped with no less than four display outputs. Three of these are mini-HDMI and are able to support full 1080p resolution on up to three displays in order to form...

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Next Xbox Coming in 2012, Sony Studio Already Working on PlayStation 4, Report Says

A brand new report has surfaced focusing on the next generation of consoles, with Microsoft rumored to prepare the debut of its new Xbox, the so-called Xbox 720, in late 2012, while Sony has already tasked one of its internal studios to work solely on a game for the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have been around for quite some time and, even if the two companies behind them, Sony and Microsoft, respectively, have said time and time again that they'll still be around for a few more years, some serious rumors about their successors have begun floating around the web. After quite a lot of speculation concerning the next Xbox console, the oft-rumored Xbox 720, Edge arrives with another report about the Microsoft device, which...

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LSI Demos 12 Gbps SAS Expansion Card, Reaches 3106.84MB/s Transfer Speeds

With the performance delivered by today's SSD, there comes the need for newer and faster transfer interfaces to be implemented, so LSI has just showcased the industry’s first 12Gbps SAS expander IC during a recent company event. The SAS expander uses a series of chips to distribute that bandwidth among current-generation storage devices, in the case of the solution demoed these drives being 32 Seagate Savvio 15.3K RPM hard drives. The SAS expander gets connected to the system through an x8 PCI-Express 3.0 add-on card that can support up to 44 SAS or SATA devices and up to 2048 SAS addresses. During the event, LSI was showcasing this solution running IOMeter, where the 32 hard drives achieved a transfer speed of 3106.84 MB/s and over 1.01...

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