NVIDIA has officially released the GeForce 9800 GX2 and they say that this GPU is “fastest graphics card available”. This monster features PCI Express 2.0 Support, HD Technology, Dynamic Contrast Enhancement and Color Stretch, and HDMI Output. The memory of the GPU is 1GB DDR3 on a 512-bit interface and the memory clock is 1000 MHz. The price for the GeForce 9800 GX2 graphic card is available from $599 up to $649.

Intel’s first mobile quad-core CPU is preparing to get released in Q3 this year, but the company isn’t expecting it to become a standard for high-end notebooks until Q3 2009. The 45nm 2.53Ghz Core 2 Extreme Q9300 will support FSB speeds of up to 1066Mhz and feature 12MB L2 cache, with a max TDP of 45W, being priced at $1,038 in bulk. It’s headed to pricy notebooks, designed especially for gaming and other advanced tasks, that need a lot of resources.
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It looks like IBM has magical powers. They used their spells to attract a new partner for the chips which are using 32-nm circuitry. Hitachi is the latest company that signed a two-year deal and they joined the party consisting of AMD, Toshiba, Freescale, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Chartered and Samsung. The only company that doesn’t want to involve in this manufacturing process is , of course, Intel which still uses the 45-nm chips.

After the first quad-SLI support brought by Alienware Aurora ALX about two years ago, now ATI has launched a the new generation of quad graphics support. It’s the CrossFireX tech with twin 1GB Radeon HD 3870 X2 cards available alongside a 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, 4GB RAM, Blu-ray burner all of those in the desktop computer named Area-51 ALX CFX. If you want to test your gaming ability at the highest level possible, then you won’t mind paying the a minimum fee of $5,649.
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Intel has just made official that it will rename it’s chips to Atom and Centrino Atom. It was the case because the names they were using were quite hard to keep in mind and the new ones are definitely more easier and sound better. The Silverthorn and Diamondville chips were renamed Atom, while the Menlow platform is now called Centrino Atom. Intel’s 45nm Atom and Centrino Atom technologies are headed to UMPCs and other small low-voltage devices. We should soon see PCs with Intel Atom and Intel Centrino Atom stickers.

Intel is preparing to add two new Xeon architectures, the Dunnington and Nehalem to the Penryn family. The Dunnington is a six-core 45nm and will replace the Xeon Tigerton, that was using two Core 2 Duo 65nm processors. Dunnington is going to have three 45nm dual-core banks.
The Dunnington features 16MB of L3 cache shared by it’s six processors and 3MB of L2 cache for each dual-core bank. Fortunately, the Dunnington processors will be compatible with Tigerton processors and Clarksboro chipset and are expected to be released in Q3 2008.
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MetaRam has presented a new technology for desktops which is supposed to accelerate DRAM densities by 2 to 4 years. The new technology is called MetaSDRAM and it consists of an increase of the memory. They aim to double or even quadruple the amount of memory with the help of the 8GB or 16Gb chipsets that work at 667MT/s. The DDR2 SDRAMs can be introduced into D-RIMMs without the necessity to change software of hardware configuration. According to MetaRam they will start shipping as of next month but for the …

 
NVIDIA is preparing to update it’s GeForce 9 series lineup with seven budget graphic cards, due to be released from may to July. The graphic cards will be priced at less than $599, some much cheaper and include the GeForce 9800GX2, GeForce 9800GTX, GeForce 9800GT, GeForce 9600GT, GeForce 9600GS, GeForce 9500GT, GeForce 9500GS.
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Intel made an official announcement that they have changed Skulltrail’s name into the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Not a very wide decision I think, but they probably know better. The gaming platform is based on the D5400XS and on the 3.2GHz QX9775 Core 2 Extreme chips, priced at $649 and $1,499 respectively.
The test results show that the 3DMark06 score was of 6481 and the Cinebench 10 score was of 20,160 when combined with the CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 3870 cards. Reports say that they will start shipping the ex-Skulltrail as …

Latest reports suggest that the HP UMPC 2133 will feature VIA Inside, not Intel’s Penryn as previous reports were saying. If this is true, than it’s incredible news for VIA because this is the first time they could succeed with one of the big companies. The good news don’t stop here. It seems like the ultra portable could get an upgrade consisting of Isaiah 2.0Ghz/DX-10 performance. The HP 2133 has been a very popular device but more is expected from the device. We hope to get back to this soon …

Sony is preparing to sell it’s chip production facilities from Japan to Toshiba in order to focus on their core business, as they’ve stated. Toshiba has paid $835 million and is going to make high performance Cell chips and TSX graphic chips, that are both used in Sony Playstation 3.
We already knew since October that Sony is going to sell it’s chip production facilities to Toshiba, but the price wasn’t specified. Now they are only going to focus on image sensor chips for digital cameras and aren’t going to invest …

Rumors say that we might see PCs branded with the Centrino 2 brand if they meet some minimum specifications. And it probably was the time to do it, because it was a bit blurry with all those processors branded as Centrino. Now the Centrino 2 will mean Montevina with 45nm support, Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, DDR3 memory, 1066Mhz FSB and WiMax. View the image above to understand more clearly and for more details.

Rumors that Dell is going to drop AMD doesn’t seem to be true and Dell is preparing to release two desktops featuring triple-core AMD Phenom. This new computers are code-named “Heineken” and officially called OptiPlex 740 and OptiPlex 740 Enhanced. The OptiPlex 740 will feature a single-core or dual-core AMD Athlon 64 with GeForce 6150LE graphics/chipset, while the OptiPlex 740 Enhanced will sport a triple or quad-core AMD Phenom processor, GeForce 6150LE/nForce 430 motherboard.
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Many analysts have said that NVIDIA might buy AMD, because lately they feel threatened by Intel and AMD, after their roadmap of integration of the CPU and GPU and now Doug Friedman, from the American Technology Research also affirms that. Now, if NVIDIA is really going to buy AMD, it’s Intel’s time to feel threatened because they might become a much powerful competitor on the market, than they are alone. Also, Intel and AMD have an agreement to not transfer any of Intel’s technologies to a third party that could …

IBM is preparing 45nm chips that might get into the PS3. The chips will soon get in production, as they said and will be 34% smaller than the 65nm ones, while using up to 40% less power than them. Those are great news for future PS3 buyers, as they will be more reliable and heat less, but not only for them. Also Sony will save some money with those new chips. Of course Microsoft couldn’t stay away and they are also preparing 45nm chips for the Xbox 360, as they …