Jon Peddie Research recently announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for Q3’11. Shipments during the third quarter of 2011 did (finally) behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, and washigher Continue reading “Q3 Graphics Chip Shipments up 16.7% Over Last Quarter”.
Seagate is streamlining its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and Continue reading “Seagate Streamlines Barracuda Product Family & Launches 1TB Platter Hard Drives”.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Ajit Manocha as the company’s Chief Executive Officer on a permanent basis, effective immediately. He had served as interim CEO since June. Manocha is a Continue reading “GLOBALFOUNDRIES Board of Directors Appoints Ajit Manocha Chi”.
SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced a new model in its successful HD 6900 series of graphics cards – the HD 6970 2GB with a new super efficient Dual fan cooler and Dual BIOS giving users Continue reading “Sapphire Announces Radeon HD 6970 2GB Video Card With Dual GPU Fans”.
AMD today launched the AMD FirePro V4900, which delivers unequalled performance for Digital Content Creation (DCC) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) professionals at an entry-level price point. By leveraging AMDs most advanced graphics technology, including Continue reading “AMD Announces FirePro V4900 Professional Graphics Card At $189”.
Corsair today announced sponsorship of the DreamHack Corsair Vengeance Dota 2 Championship at DreamHack Winter 2011. The tournament for one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the year, Valve’s Dota 2, is presented in Continue reading “Corsair Announces Sponsorship of DreamHack Dota 2 Tournament”.
AMD released Catalyst 11.10 WHQL certified graphics drivers yesterday! They came close to not getting October drivers released, but luckily AMD got a monthly driver out the door on the final day of the month! Continue reading “AMD Catalyst 11.10 WHQL Drivers Released”.
Electronic Arts today announced that based on internal estimates, Battlefield 3 has sold through five million units in the first week globally, making it the fastest-selling game in EA’s history. The outstanding retail performance is Continue reading “Battlefield 3 Sells 5 Million Copies in First Week”.
We ordered in some parts last week from Newegg.com and when we got the box todage we noticed that there was a plastic egg inside with a $5 off coupon our next purchase. We didn’t Continue reading “Getting A Package From Newegg Today? Check For A Mystery Egg!”.
Swiftech recently announced the release of their new flagship CPU waterblock, the Apogee HD. Close to 18 months in the making, the Apogee HD was designed to surpass its predecessor the Award Winning Apogee XT Continue reading “Swiftech Launches Apogee HD CPU Waterblock”.
ASRock sent over pictures of the companies upcoming Intel X79 motherboard lineup for Intel LGA2011 processors this morning. The board that managed to catch our attention is the ASRock X79 Extreme4-M as it is the Continue reading “ASRock Intel X79 Series Motherboards Announced – First Micro-ATX LGA2011 Board!”.
Earlier this year, a team of overclockers that was supported by AMD set a new Guinness Record for processor clock speed by a silicon processor, by running an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer processor at 8429.38 MHz. Continue reading “AMD FX-8150 CPU Overclocked to 8461.51 MHz – New World Record!”.
EVGA this morning announced the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked Special Edition Batman Arkham City Themed Graphics Card! This special edition card is obviously being released for Batman: Arkham City fan base, which is rather Continue reading “EVGA Announces Batman Arkham City Themed EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Video Card”.
Samsung overtook Apple in the last quarter to become the worlds largest smartphone vendor amid a widening technology and legal battle between the two companies. Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter, taking Continue reading “Samsung Overtakes Apple as Biggest Smartphone Seller”.
ARM has disclosed technical details of its new ARMv8 architecture, the first ARM architecture to include a 64-bit instruction set. ARMv8 broadens the ARM architecture to embrace 64-bit processing and extends virtual addressing, building on Continue reading “ARM Discloses Details On New ARMv8 Processor Architecture”.
