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Report: Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro Cases Leaked, Will Use NVIDIA MCP79

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Apple is moving ahead with NVIDIA chipsets for its new MacBooks
There have been a number of rumors swirling around Apple’s upcoming notebook refresh scheduled for October 14. The most recent rumor was that the cases for the MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks would be carved from a single brick of aluminum.
This weekend, however, a fresh [...]

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NVIDIA will Enable SLI on Intel X58

August 28th, 2008 · No Comments

X58 SLI won’t require nForce 200 chip
PC gamers who are fans of NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI mode have been unable to take advantage of Intel motherboards for the most part thanks to the lack of support for SLI. Getting multiple GPUs on an Intel chipset historically meant going with ATI.
For a long time NVIDIA [...]

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NVIDIA’s NVISION 2008 Jen-Hsun Huang Keynote

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Jen-Hsun delivers keynote and talks up big green
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivered his keynote speech at NVISION 2008 today. The keynote was all about the GPU. Pointed out in the keynote was exactly how far the GPU has come since the first one hit market in 1987.
In the beginning, the GPU was a fixed-function device [...]

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AMD targets Nvidia with dual-GPU graphics card

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Advanced Micro Devices has thrown down the gauntlet to graphics rival Nvidia, unveiling a graphics card that runs two graphics chips.
AMD Tuesday unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, which uses two smaller chips - the 4870 graphics processing units (GPUs) — rather than one big chip. The dual GPU technology, said AMD spokesman Matt [...]

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NVIDIA Denies Reports That It Will Leave Chipset Business

August 4th, 2008 · No Comments

NVIDIA brushes aside the latest reports of its chipset demise
NVIDIA has been making the news quite a bit in the past few days. Earlier this week, there was speculation that NVIDIA could be in a prime position to provide chipsets for Apple’s next generation MacBook notebooks.

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Nvidia reports problem with laptop chips

July 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in “significant quantities” of laptop PCs, the company said Wednesday.
Nvidia hasn’t determined the exact cause of the problem but said it relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops. Modern processors [...]

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Intel Responds to AMD, NVIDIA USB 3.0 Allegations

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Mockup USB 3.0 cable(Source: Tech On)Intel says open host controller specifications have cost gazillions of dollars to develop

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Next-gen NVIDIA GeForce Specifications Unveiled

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

NVIDIA’s upcoming Summer 2008 lineup gets some additional details
Later this week NVIDIA will enact an embargo on its upcoming next-generation graphics core, codenamed D10U. The launch schedule of this processor, verified by DailyTech, claims the GPU will make its debut as two separate graphics cards, currently named GeForce GTX 280 (D10U-30) and GeForce GTX 260 [...]

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5/6/2008 Daily Hardware Reviews — NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI Edition

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI @ Hot HardwareDailyTech’s roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday

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NVIDIA Prepares Single-chip Mobile Platform for Intel Processors

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

NVIDIA is ready to deliver on last week’s promise
When we think of notebook computers which use Intel Pentium Dual Core, Core 2 Solo, or Core 2 Duo processors, the systems are usually paired with an Intel Northbridge and Southbridge. Intel hopes to carry on this tradition with its Centrino 2 platform which [...]

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