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Intel brings DirectX 10 to integrated graphics, NVIDIA says not so fast {Engadget}
May 6th 2008 7:45PM Nvidia is just preemptively striking against Intel.
They know once the Nehelem and Larrabee(Wiki it!) projects come out they will be struggling to keep up.
I love Nvidia and all, hell i have only owned their graphics cards my entire life.
But i think if what Intel is promising with the Larrabee project, with performance gains as large as the difference between P4's and C2D's but instead being above and beyond what Nvidia/ATI benchmarks can supply then the entire gaming community is about to be flipped upside down.
More on Larrabee
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17898
Zune survey points to video downloads {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2008 7:12PM 202 as of last friday.
Zune survey points to video downloads {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2008 7:10PM Part of the reason people are buying Zunes because it got better reviews than the iPod Classic 80gb.
Wired recommended the Zune, CNET found them dead even.
The only negatives listed for the Zune were things i dont care about. Being able to run on a Mac for instance, because i dont have one and dont ever plan too(I am a gamer).
The fact that Microsoft announced that Zunes will be able to play XNA games soon just sealed the deal.
Zune survey points to video downloads {Engadget}
Feb 25th 2008 6:34PM You guys need to stop making shit up that nobody owns a Zune...just because we dont have horribly gawdy low quality ear buds hanging from our ears doesnt mean we dont have an MP3 player.
Oh and by the way, every Best Buy in Oregon and Washington is sold out of Zune 80's as of last Friday when i went to buy one..
I had to goto Circuit city and they only had 1 left.
Good thing nobodies buying them. Idiots.
AMD delaying quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 once again? UPDATE: AMD says everything's on track {Engadget}
Feb 8th 2008 5:26PM AMD is doing nothing but going downhill lately.
The sad part is that the failures of AMD are in large part to the decisions of their CEO, who i might add they have not fired yet after dropping the ball time and time again. I dont know what fairy dust Ruiz is sprinkling on those Board members to make them forget but its working.
And you guys saying Intel will get investigated for a monopoly need to read up on the laws. You cant get investigated because you release a better product and your competition goes belly up. You get investigated for doing morally wrong or illegal things to force competition to fail. Like if tommorrow Intel cut the price on all their procs by 50% and started selling them at a loss just to force AMD out that is something you get in trouble for.
Overall the Phenom is exactly what the photo shows. Epic Fail. Not only is it not even comparable to current Intel products, its been pushed back, i think this is the 3rd or 4th time now. Intel has its 45nm processors ready to roll with 32nm coming next year and they will just continue to dominate AMD.
With Intel's Larrabee project having so much potential they could potentially give AMD/ATI the final knock out punch when they release their new codename Larrabee(wiki it) graphics card in 2009.
NVIDIA to acquire Ageia {Engadget}
Feb 5th 2008 3:40PM You guys do realize why Nvidia bought AGEIA right?
Because Intel bought Havok and is making a run at the graphics card business with the Larrabee project.
Their idea is to take 24 or more of their Pentium MMX chips which can do all of the math functions at lightning speed, slam them all together onto one board and have it do graphics. From all the info i have heard from people @ Intel it is supposed to crush an 8800GTX in terms of performance, in theory atleast i dont know if they have a working sample in the lab yet or not, although i am sure they do.
Intel hired away many of Nvidia's senior engineers for the project so it shows that they are really serious about making this thing big...with the purchase of Havok the implications of doing physics entirely on the GPU become obvious, they have the code, they have the technology, and they now have the people...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_%28GPU%29
So keep an eye out for Intel, as you may be putting one of their graphics cards in your next system upgrade in a few years...
Intel, friend of memory, doubles phase-change capacity {Engadget}
Feb 5th 2008 12:23PM And this IMHO is why Intel will always dominate AMD?
What was the last technological breakthrough that AMD came out with? 64 bit processors?
Intel delaying, jacking the price of quad-core QX9770 CPU? {Engadget}
Jan 16th 2008 12:57PM I agree..
But what is so bad about Intel "flooding" the market?
Its not like Intel made AMD Phenoms suck..
If your doing a 100M dash and the guy next to you falls your not going to slow down and wait for him...your going to keep sprinting to the end.
Nick Neg says Intel "undermined" the OLPC, likens company to alcoholic {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 6:25PM Its funny that so many people here just accept what this man with hugely obvious Bi-polar ism has to say as fact without doing any research.
Is Intel perfect? No.
But this OLPC project is doomed to fail. Why?
Because its run like a boy scout fundraiser not a business. Non Profit or not they have to run it as a business if they ever intend on actually selling these things. They were expecting last year to have so many orders that they could start mass production and get it down closer to the $100 limit. Here we are in 08 and they still arent even anywhere near their target. They had to turn to selling them to the public in the buy one send one or both to a child just to even get sales.
Honestly OLPC lost all respect in the last week or two with this guys giant rants/bitch fests. People who resort to calling competitors equivilent to child haters and alcoholic's do not need to be running an organization. Feeling that way personally is fine, but releasing press releases with such jibberish is just unprofessional.
You can quote me now. OLPC will be done by the end of 08.
Negroponte says he'd welcome Intel back to OLPC {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 6:10PM This guy is a damn loser..
I think he realizes how much his little crybaby antics from earlier in the week make his organization look unprofessional.
Intel and other companies just part ways with a minimal press release. The OLPC organization makes giant headlines about how Intel hates children and is a big evil corporation.
