AMD Vision 2012 Lineup Will Include A10-Series APUs – Report

In 2012, AMD will continue to increase its portfolio of accelerated processing units (APUs) based on the company's Fusion design with a series of new chips, including a new processor series that will go by the name of A10. The existence of this new APU range was uncovered by SemiAccurate who entered into the possession of an image showcasing AMD’s 2012 Vision processor lineup. Besides the FX-Series and all the other familiar sights, the most interesting appearance is the A10 APU range, which according to the source of this information most probably will be the designation used by AMD for a series of chips based on the Trinity design. As many of you know, Trinity is built around AMD's second generation of the Bulldozer core which is said...

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New AMD Radeon HD 7970 Pictures Arrive

A new series of pictures showcasing AMD's next-generation Radeon HD 7970 graphics card were just published online presenting it in much more detail than before. The images were posted on the Chinese Chiphell forum and present both the front as well as the back of the graphics card, including the rear of its printed circuit board (PCB). As those of you familiar with the Radeon HD 7970 will be quick to point out, the pictures provided seem to be consistent with the card depicted in the AMD presentations slides leaked to the web in these last few days. What is strange however, is that unlike what we were told so far, the card seems to pack two 8-pin PCIe power connectors and not an 8-pin and a 6-pin as previously thought, but this could be...

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Samsung Confirms Android 4.0 ICS Update for Galaxy Tab Series

Samsung has just confirmed that its popular Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 tablets, as well as some other more compact models, will get updated to Android 4.0. Also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, this latest version of Google’s mobile operating system brings a huge number of improvements to the tablet including enhanced speed and performance. As Netbook News reports, Samsung hasn’t revealed exactly when the updates will arrive, but we would say that H1 2012 is a pretty safe bet. For those of you that are familiar with Android’s internals however, this could happen even sooner since traditionally Samsung has the habit of leaking its firmware before the official release date arrives. More info about the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update should...

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AMD Confirms A8-3870K and A6-3670K Unlocked Multiplier APUs

We already talked about AMD’s upcoming A8-3870K and A6-3670K Llano APUs in several articles published earlier this month, but now AMD has made the existence, as well as the specifications of these unlocked chips, official. Both of these APUs were recently added by the Sunnyvale-based company to its product database, where the processors were spotted by the CPU-World publication. As we pretty much know by now, the two AMD APUs greatly resemble their predecessors , the A8-3870K coming as a 100MHz higher clocked version of the current A8-3850, which means that it now runs at 3GHz. The second unlocked APU to be released by AMD is called the A6-3670K and this also is an almost exact copy of the A6-3650 it is meant to replace apart from the 2.7GHz...

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Alleged Nokia Lumia 900 Render Emerges

Nokia is gearing up for the launch of new Windows Phone devices, and it might unveil them as soon as January 2012, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  One of these handsets is expected to be the long rumored Nokia Lumia 900, which is said to have just popped up in a leaked press shot. The photo, available courtesy of WMPoweruser, shows a device that bears a very close resemblance with the currently available Nokia Lumia 800. They are so alike that one might even say that this is, in fact, the Lumia 800, and not the yet unofficial Windows Phone device. The photo attached to this article shows different lower-set capacitive keys, though no front camera is visible on it, which makes us doubt the authenticity of the...

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Could Deliver Staggering Compute Performance

The leaked slides detailing AMD’s next-generation Radeon HD 7970 graphics card don’t seem to ever come to an end as recently the ones available so far have been joined by a series of new documents detailing the card’s performance in compute applications as well as some other details. These new slides from AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 presentation deck were published by a user on the XtremeSystems forum which goes by the name of Vipeax. One of the most interesting pieces of information uncovered by these new documents were found in a presentation slide entitled “Utilization and Efficiency,” which details the Radeon HD 7970 compute performance per square mm when compared to the HD 6970. As one can clearly see from the pictures included bellow, in...

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Sabily 11.10: Ubuntu 11.10 for Muslims, With Unity

The Sabily developers proudly announced on December 19th the immediate availability for download of the Sabily 11.10 operating system, based on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).  Dubbed Uhud, Sabily 11.10 is based on the recently released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and features the Unity desktop interface. The release includes lots of new features and artwork, as well as various system improvements. "The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.10, codename "Uhud"." - was stated in the official release announcement by the Sabily developers. Highlights of Sabily 11.10: Based on Ubuntu 11.10; New artwork and wallpapers; New login manager theme; New boot screen theme; Added GNOME Shell; Improved...

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