AMD Not Competing with Intel Anymore, Goes Mobile

In a move than could very well be interpreted as exchanging one problem for another, Advanced Micro Devices has decided to stop focusing so much on the PC business and get its act closer together on the mobile front.  The Bulldozer disaster, as it is known in some circles, must have persuaded AMD's leadership that the PC side of their business wasn't flying very well and far anymore. Though everyone was expecting much from 8-core processors, the performance was, in the end, well lower than some of AMD's own previous-generation chips. Whether because of this or something else, it was reported that Advanced Micro Devices has chosen to distance itself from its competition with Intel. That is to say, it will focus less on processors for...

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Nvidia’s 2012 Wayne SoC Could Pack Kepler GPU Cores Says Report

The next-generation of Nvidia Tegra system-on-a-chip (SoC) device, code named Wayne, could integrate a graphics core based on the company’s upcoming Kepler GPU architecture according to a recent report that has just hit the Web. The report, which was published by Hardcore Hardware, cites the company’s commitment for bringing CUDA to the mobile space and the architecture’s support for the upcoming DirectX 11.1 API as the main reasons behind this decision. Other info was not provided, but we do know that DirectX 11.1 is an important feature of Windows 8, so there may be some truth behind these claims. According to some previous reports, the Wayne SoC will arrive in two different versions in order to address the needs of a wide range of devices...

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Galaxy Nexus Delivered with Extra 2000 mAh Battery and Cover in South Korea

Samsung takes great care of its customers living in South Korea. It appears that the handset manufacturer offers a special bundle with the purchase of a Galaxy Nexus device. The folks over at Reddit discovered that the South Korean version of Galaxy Nexus comes with an extra 2,000 mAh battery, as well as an additional cover that matches the former. The bundle comes as a bonus, so Galaxy Nexus owners will be able to choose to carry a slightly thicker device or a thinner one. The package will probably be offered in other regions as well, but it’s less likely to be offered for free. However, even at an additional cost, the bundle is quite interesting, but that will also depend on its price tag. No clue on when this package is introduced in...

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Acer's H9500BD 3D Projector for Home Theaters Debuts

Acer may have launched a special, new 3D monitor, but that is definitely not the only 3D item that the company made public.  In fact, the company devoted an entirely different press release just to make it known that the H9500BD projector was locked and loaded as well. It should already be up for sale too, in North America anyway, for the price of $1,999.99. That would be about 1,499 Euro, according to exchange rates, but it is quite possible that the price across the ocean will be a bit higher whenever the item reaches those shores. Fortunately, Acer made a valiant effort to justify that price, and that means more than the ability to project clear images in sizes of up to 300 inches diagonally. For one, it supports 3D, in full HD quality...

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Intel Broadwell CPUs to Make Appearance in 2014

In 2014, Intel is expected to launch the successor of the yet unveiled Haswell CPU architecture, which will go by the name of Broadwell and will reportedly become the chip maker’s first true system-on-a-chip (SoC) design. The Broadwell CPU comes as a "tick" on Intel’s roadmap, meaning that this is actually a 14nm die shrink of the Haswell architecture which is expected to arrive sometime in 2013. Compared to its predecessor, Broadwell will however feature a more integrated design and according to the Bright Side of News website will become Intel’s first true SoC design as it includes features such as Ethernet, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 right on the chip’s die. Right now, there is little else known about Broadwell, but since it will come as...

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ARM-Powered Windows 8 Notebooks and Tablets to Debut in Mid-2013

Despite all the hype that has surrounded Windows 8 and ARM lately, the first notebooks and tablets running Microsoft’s upcoming operating system to be powered by system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices using ARM’s processing cores aren’t expected to come out until mid-2013. The platform itself is supposed to be announced at the end of 2012, but DigiTimes’ sources report that the first hardware isn’t expected to arrive sooner than mid-2013, June to be more exact. If these sources turn out to be right, this would mean that broad adoptions isn’t expected to happen until 2014 at the earliest. Furthermore, the WoA (Windows-on-ARM) platform won’t actually manage to grab any share from Wintel until 2015 arrives, when this is expected to become the second...

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Intel’s Official Ivy Bridge Benchmark Slides Leaked

As most of you know, in 2012 Intel will update its processor range with some new chips based on the Ivy Bridge architecture, and in case you are wondering how will these perform when compared to their Sandy Bridge counterparts a series of leaked Intel slides have come to detail their performance in various benchmarks. You can take a look at the slides provided by SweClockers in the gallery enclosed bellow this post, which details the CPU’s performance in a range of tests, from Excel to 3DMark Vantage and CineBench 11.5. As expected, the Ivy Bridge processors manage to come out on top in all the scenarios tested, which was to be expected considering these bring some new architecture improvements and higher Turbo Boost speeds. Of course that...

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Zotac Unleashes GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Limited Edition Graphics Card

Now that Nvidia has made official its GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores GPU based on the GF110 graphics chip, hardware makers have started to announce their solutions built around this design and one of the first such video cards to be released comes courtesy of Zotac. The card in question is none other than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Limited Edition we had a glimpse of at the end of last week, before Nvidia made official its new core. Back then however, we didn’t had any other information about Zotac’s creation other than what was printed on the box and some rumors stating that the card will arrive factory overclocked, which turned out to be true. The factory overclock however isn’t as surprising as some of you may believe as the GPU is clocked...

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MSI Outs Factory Overclocked GTX 560 448 Cores with Twin Frozr III Cooler

With the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores officially launched, MSI has now introduced its own solution based on this core that uses the company’s proprietary Twin Frozr III cooling system in order to detach itself from the rest of the graphics cards built using this latest Nvidia GPU. MSI has designed the Twin Frozr III cooler with overclockers in mind and it can offer much better performance than other similar solutions while also producing significantly less noise. The overall better performance is possible thanks to the use of no less than five copper heapipes (two are 8mm SuperPipes) that drive the GPU heat into a large aluminum heatsink. On top of the heatsink, MSI has installed two specially designed 80mm PWN fans, which allow for a 20% higher...

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First Nvidia GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Reviews Arrive

While Nvidia’s NDA for the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores still hasn’t expired, some hardware websites have already published their reviews of the card, which managed to gather some pretty positive reactions. Links to the reviews published so far can be found on the XtremeSystems Forum, with more expected to arrive in a short while, when the embargo for the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores will expire. For those of you in need of a quick refresher, the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores is based on the same GPU as that found in the more powerful GTX 570 and GTX 580 to offer performance similar to the former while coming in significantly cheaper. If you want to learn more about this new Nvidia core you can check out our previous articles on the matter as well as some pictures...

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EVGA GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Arrives in Retail Ahead of Official Launch

After yesterday we brought you the first pictures of EVGA’s upcoming GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Classified, it’s now time to take a look at another EVGA graphics card based on Nvidia’s yet unreleased performance GPU. The card was pictured on the Overclock.net forum inside a thread started by a user who bought it from the local Fry’s store in Fountain Valley, California. As you can clearly make out from the images provided, the box as well as the EVGA card are clearly marked as being the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores, a GPU that according to the leaks available until now isn’t supposed to make its official debut until later today. On the outside, the card doesn’t seem to differ too much from other EVGA GTX 560 Ti creations as it sports a similar cooling...

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Acer's Tegra 3-Powered Iconia Tab A700 Makes Appearance in AnTuTu Benchmark

In 2012, Acer is expected to expand its Android tablet business with a couple of new models based on Nvidia’s Tegra 3 SoC and one of these devices, the high-end Iconia Tab A700, was just spotted in the AnTuTu benchmark. The application itself provides just a few details about Acer’s upcoming tablet such as the fact that is powered a 1.4GHz system-on-a-chip (SoC) device and that is running the Android 3.2.1, also known as Honeycomb, operating system. However, a leak that made its appearance a little less than two weeks ago has revealed that the SoC installed in the A700 is actually Nvidia’s Tegra 3 that features quad Cortex A9 processing cores and a GeForce GPU. This will be used to drive a 1920x1200 resolution display that will most probably...

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Intel Celeron 807UE CPU with 10W TDP to Arrive in Q4 2011

In the fourth quarter of 2011, Intel will update its Celeron processor lineup with yet another chip based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, the 807UE, which thanks to its 10W TDP will become Intel’s most power frugal CPU to be built using the SNB core. As CPU-World has revealed, the new Intel chip was designed in order to target the embedded market, which means that it will be produced in the BGA package. In order to achieve this low power consumption of the Celeron 807UE, Intel was forced to cut back on its specs and the final result is a single core chip that comes clocked at 1GHz and sports only 1MB of Level 3 cache. The operating frequency of the built-in GPU was also reduced so the 807UE has a base graphics core clock of 350MHz which...

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iOS 5 Code Confirms Next-Gen iPad 3

Registered Apple developers who have downloaded the initial iOS 5.1 beta were eager to sift through the code and see whether there were any new device designations, as found on numerous occasions in the past. As expected, there were traces of unreleased iPad models. Four to be exact - iPad 3,1 3,2 (discovered months ago), iPad 2.4 and iPad 3,3. At least one of the designated devices is believed to be WiMAX or LTE capable and they all have a rumored March launch date. Should Apple launch the updated tablets next spring, it would mark the third consecutive year to see an iPad refresh once every 12 months - in accordance with most iDevice refresh cycles. (The iPhone, however, ‘skipped a beat’ this year with the October launch of the 4S model...

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