New iPhone Specs revealed...Maybe

Sean Kalinich | Mobile Devices, Tablets & Phones | May 19, 2009 1:48 PM CDT

It has been a little while since we have heard new iPhone rumors so I was not shocked when a couple popped up today.

The one that caught my attention was this little bit over at Wired. It seems that the rumor mill went into overtime churning out this one.

The rumor says that the next Gen iPhone will hit the streets on July 17th. But there is more than that, if the "source" is correct the new iPhone will have an OLED,a 3.2 MP camera (and can capture video), 1.5 times the battery life, and will have a 32GB version.

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3D Realms, not dead

Sean Kalinich | | May 19, 2009 1:13 PM CDT

It looks like the reports of the closing of 3D Realms might have been exaggerated. According to the company itself (which just laid off the majority of its development staff) it will continue as a much smaller company.

The issue here is that just about everyone that was working on Duke Nukem Forever is gone now (they were part of the group that got let go). So what is to become of Duke? If the rumors are right then 3D Realms will try to find a partner to help them complete it. If not then Take Two's lawsuit might grab hold and Duke might get a new owner.

In the end since this new title has been in the works for as long as anyone can remember I have to wonder if it will ever see the light of day, much less your system.

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nVidia In Insurance Trouble

Sean Kalinich | | May 19, 2009 11:58 AM CDT

nVidia is having a little bit of trouble with their insurance. It seems that after they had that little spot of trouble with the defective GPUs and MCPs in Dell, HP and Toshiba Laptops they made a claim on their insurance.

The problem is that they did not give any details of the issue. They simply sent a bill over and expected the money in return. To National Union Fire Insurance Company (NUFI) this was simply not good enough.

They asked for some more information so they could determine if this payout was proper and all was well. nVidia did not give them the requested information, and in some cases flat out refused to give it.

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nVidia Accuses Intel of Anti-Competitive Prices

Sean Kalinich | | May 19, 2009 9:55 AM CDT

nVidia is jumping on the AMD bandwagon, well sort of. As of right now nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is saying that Intel is using anti-competitive pricing to prevent ION from entering the market.

Speaking at the Reuters Technology Summit Huang said that nVidia was not planning any legal action yet but that they "have to do whatever we have to do when the time comes". It seems pretty clear that this is a direct threat and not a simple statement.

Make no mistake the timing of this is not a coincidence either, this coming on the heels of the $1.45 Billion fine that Intel just receive shows that Huang feels this threat will motivate Intel to act differently towards ION.

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T-RAM and GlobalFoundries enter joint agreement

Sean Kalinich | RAM | May 19, 2009 9:18 AM CDT

GlobalFoundreis and T-RAM Semiconductor have entered into an agreement. The Agreement is a joint development agreement that centers around T-RAM's Thyristor-RAM embedded memory.

GlobalFoundries is excited (as is to be expected) about this as Gregg Bartlett, Senior Vice President of Technology and R&D at GLOBALFOUNDRIES stated "We are pleased to be jointly developing T-RAM memory for 32nm and 22nm technologies. T-RAM's embedded memory technology shows a great deal of potential for use in low-power, high-performance dense cache applications for advanced technology nodes."

The question now is what and whose advanced technology nodes will this new memory go into. There are still rumors that TSMC cannot get the 40nm process working right. So this could mean more business for GF if the persistent rumors are true. The Deal with T-RAM only makes things more attractive.

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Dell launches 10.1-inch Latitude netbook

Sean Kalinich | Laptops | May 19, 2009 8:28 AM CDT

Dell has pushed a new 10.1-inch netbook out on the market under the Latitude name no less.

The new netbook will be called the Dell Latitude 2100 (to avoid confusion) and will be aimed at education, not gaming or entertainment.

The book will have some decent specifications if you are looking for something light-duty. There are options for an, antimicrobial keyboard ( to prevent the spread of disease I guess), A 10.1-inch LCD screen with a touch screen option, an Intel Atom N270 CPU and a choice of three operating systems - Microsoft Windows XP Home, Vista Home Basic or Linux Ubuntu. Pricing should start at around $369.

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NVIDIA G300 Specifications Leaked

Zac O'Vadka | | May 18, 2009 11:46 PM CDT

Yesterday we told you NVIDIA already had working silicon for the G300 GPUs, albeit very early A1 engineering samples. Now it looks like someone has spilled the beans and let us all know the clock speeds for the card.

NVIDIA G300 Specifications Leaked

As of now, the core is clocked at 700MHz, the shaders at 1600MHz, and the memory at 1100MHz. This gives the card a theoretical capacity of 2,457 GFLOPS and 281.6GB/s memory bandwith, which is quite impressive.

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New Acer Aspire One 571 does 720p

Sean Kalinich | | May 15, 2009 10:49 AM CDT

With ION raging about the ability to play 1080p video on a 10-inch screen we see what may be a much more attractive option coming out of a rumored Acer box.

The netbook in question could be called the Acer Aspire On 571 (not to be confused with 751). It features a Atom N280 (1.66GHz) and a Quantics Q1721 Multimedia Processor, this will take the burden of encoding and decoding the H.264 media content off of the CPU. The 10.1-inch display is a full 720p (which is more than enough on a 10-inch screen)

no word on pricing or when this will hit the streets but it looks promising.

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