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Nehalem to be announced as the Core i7 cpu

By Mathieu • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: News

“Intel have decided to brand Nehalem with a new name “Core i7″. That means no matter Bloomfield, Lynnfield, or Havendale will officially get their name.
There will be 3 Bloomfield to enter PC market later this year, and the $999 top-of-the-line Bloomfield is the only Core i7 Extreme Edition processor currently revealed.
All i7 processors and i7 […]



16GB RAM Stick, by Elpida

By Mathieu • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: News

Elpida launched memory sticks with an incredible capacity of 16GB. Using the FB-DIMM format, which mean that they are exclusive to servers, thoses sticks of DDR2 667MHz or DDR2 800MHz are made up of 64 chips of DDR2, using the stacked FBGA technology to reduce their size. Samplings will be ready this month, with a […]



Micron Unveils the fastest SSD ever - 250MB/s!

By Mathieu • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: News

Micron’s RealSSD P200 offerings range in density from 16GBs to 128GBs and are available in a standard 2.5″ form factor. The company’s RealSSD P200 - which are based on single-level cell (SLC) flash memory - offer unprecedented read and write speeds of up to 250MB/s.
The P200 consumes about 10% the power of a typical data […]



AMD Fusion Details Leaked

By Mathieu • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: News

The first Fusion processor is code-named Shrike, which will, if our sources are right, consist of a dual-core Phenom CPU and an ATI RV800 GPU core. While Shrike will debut as a 40 nm chip, the processor is scheduled to transition to 32 nm at the beginning of 2010 - not much later than Intel […]



AMD SB750: The new overclocking must have?

By Mathieu • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: News

The new AMD southbridge, the SB750, which will be officially launched next week and will go along the 790FX and the 790GX is supposed, according to AMD, to improve overclocking with Phenom CPUs, by 200 MHz and more, with a technology called “Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC).
Some websites reviewed the technology, such as AnandTech, to see […]