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2.5Gbps DDR3 from Elpida
Alongside Micron, Elpida is the most important memory chipmaker on the market. While Micron has already presented some breakthroughs in the SSD sector, Elpida continues to stick to DDR3 chips and now announces that it had developed the world’s first 2.5Gbps 1-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM.
Elpida introduces an optimized design based on a copper interconnect process and [...]
Intel Core i7
The Core 2 CPU lineup has been around for two years now and it really brought Intel back on track, providing better overall performance when compared to AMDs solutions. Now Intel is ready to launch the Nehalem CPUs and the Core architecture will be entering a new stage. To better emphasize this fact, Intel decided [...]
ATI Will Only Use Havok
Not so long ago, NVIDIA was rumored to be helping ATI in order to integrate the PhysX technology in their GPUs, although AMD would only allow for Havok to be present in their chips. I don’t really know what happened with NIVIDA and ATI, but it turns out that AMD’s Physics department have recently stated [...]
OCZ Preps 16GB Memory Kits
A few days ago, I was a bit surprised to find out that even entry-level PC system s come equipped with 4 GB RAM. Admittedly, there’s no immediate need for 4 GB, lest you work with rendering and video encoding software or play Crysis. But memory integrators are practically ahead of time, providing 8 GB [...]
4870X2 Is Upon Us
The Radeon 4870X2 is almost here! ATI scheduled the fastest card on the market to be launched next week.
There are several websites that were allowed to preview the 4870X2 and all of them came to the conclusion that It beats Geforce GTX 280 in most of the tests. Most analysts are tempted to believe that [...]