Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Goes Gold; GM Released To Developers
In a bit of a double-whammy of operating system news today, word comes that Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has gone gold. Apple released the Golden Master (GM...
12 by on 7/9/2012Windows 8 To RTM In August, Retail In October
On the heels of last week’s announcement of Microsoft’s promotional Windows 8 upgrade pricing, Microsoft has announced a tentative delivery schedule for Windows 8 today at their Worldwide Partner...
19 by on 7/9/2012NVIDIA Posts GeForce 304.79 Beta Drivers, Unifies Windows 8 & Win7/Vista Drivers
NVIDIA has posted a new beta driver from their 304 family of drivers, version number 304.79. The biggest change with 304.79 is that NVIDIA has officially unified their Windows 8...
9 by on 7/3/2012Micron To Acquire Elpida For $2.5 Billion
And then there were 5. For the better part of a year now the DRAM industry has been in a lurch due to low prices. As a result of soft...
7 by on 7/3/2012AMD Posts Catalyst 12.6 WHQL, 12.7 Beta
Closing out the month of June, AMD has posted two new Catalyst driver builds. The first is Catalyst 12.6, the WHQL’d final version of the 12.6 beta at the start...
13 by on 6/30/2012NVIDIA's Windows 8 WHQL Display Driver Now Available
With the launch of the Windows 8 Release Preview at the very start of this month, NVIDIA initially promised that they would have Windows 8 WHQL’d display drivers available...
8 by on 6/27/2012AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown
The GeForce GTX 680 launch marked both the closest and the farthest AMD has ever been from outright beating NVIDIA in modern times. On the one hand NVIDIA beat...
110 by on 6/22/2012Zotac GeForce GT 640 DDR3 Review: Glacial Gaming & Heavenly HTPC
Two weeks ago NVIDIA formally launched the retail GeForce GT 640, catching up to their OEM and laptop offerings with their first GK107 based video card for the retail...
60 by on 6/20/2012Intel Announces Xeon Phi Family of Co-Processors – MIC Goes Retail
As conference season is in full swing, this week’s big technical conference is the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) taking place over in Hamburg, Germany. ISC is one of...
54 by on 6/19/2012AMD 2013 APUs To Include ARM Cortex-A5 Processor For TrustZone Capabilities
At AMD’s 2012 Financial Analyst Day, as part of their presentation on their future strategy AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster announced that AMD would be looking into integrating 3rd party...
36 by on 6/13/2012AMD Announces FirePro W600, Sets Their Sights On Digital Wall Market
For AMD’s FirePro customers, they know that with GCN coming up on 6 months old now that this is the time to keep an eye on product announcements. It...
10 by on 6/13/2012Update: CERT/CC Takes AMD To Task On Driver Security, AMD Responds
In a bit of an odd move, the Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT/CC) has posted a vulnerability report and a blog post taking AMD to task over...
51 by on 6/8/2012NVIDIA Announces Retail GeForce GT 640 DDR3
Though NVIDIA primarily likes to announce products on their own schedule and own time they have also been known to announce more budget oriented parts at trade shows, and...
21 by on 6/4/2012Microsoft Announces Xbox SmartGlass Service For Windows 8, Windows Phone
While we’ll leave most of the E3 gaming announcements today to the gaming press, there is one bit of news that has come out of E3 that’s going to...
1 by on 6/4/2012AMD Announces A New 900MHz Radeon HD 7750
For our final bit of AMD news today, in a bit of an unusual move AMD has informally announced a new Radeon HD 7750. The new 7750, which will not...
31 by on 6/1/2012AMD Discontinues Monthly Driver Updates, Releases Catalyst 12.6 Beta
The last month or so has been one of transition for AMD’s Catalyst driver crew. Alongside the launch of AMD’s Trinity APU – complete with what’s only AMD’s 2nd...
77 by on 6/1/2012Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Release Preview; NVIDIA & AMD Prep New Win8 Drivers
Closing out the month of May, Microsoft gave everyone an early present by putting up the final preview version of Windows 8, the Windows 8 Release Preview. Originally expected...
23 by on 6/1/2012NVIDIA Launches Fermi Based GeForce GT 610, GT 620, GT 630 Into Retail
While we were off at NVIDIA’s GTC 2012 conference seeing NVIDIA’s latest professional products, NVIDIA’s GeForce group was busy with some launches of their own. The company has quietly...
44 by on 5/19/2012GTC 2012 Part 1: NVIDIA Announces GK104 Based Tesla K10, GK110 Based Tesla K20
We’re here at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2012, where NVIDIA is holding their semi-annual professional developers conference. There’s been a great deal announced that will take a few...
51 by on 5/17/2012NVIDIA Q1 FY2013 Earnings Report: $924M Revenue, $60M Net Income
As earning season wraps up NVIDIA has released their earnings report for Q1 Fiscal Year 2013 (Feb-April 2012). For the first quarter of FY2013 NVIDIA booked $924M in revenue, with...
19 by on 5/11/2012