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Hardware

Nvidia’s Nforce Chipset Is Dead In The Water

12:29AM Matt Buchanan | I used an Nvidia Nforce-based motherboard in the first computer I ever built, so I’m a little sad to see that Nvidia’s freezing all development on their Nforce chipset because of licensing issues with Intel, primarily over whether or not Nvidia’s licence covers chipsets for Nehalem-based processors. Nvidia’s not developing new chipsets for AMD’s processors, either. Lame-o. [PC Mag]
Hardware

Roadmap For Intel’s First Nehalem-Based Mobile Chips Leaked

11:20AM Dan Nosowitz | Details for Intel’s new quad- and dual-core i7 and i5 chips have leaked in the form of a roadmap, so we’ve got some excellent specifics, including release dates and prices. More »
Hardware

Six-Core Nehalem Processors Might Arrive This Year

6:40AM Sean Fallon | According to bit-tech, , Intel is planning to release a six-core Nehalem processor sometime this year. More »
Computers

Manufacturers Mercilessly Cram Intel i7 Nehalem Processors Into Laptops

9:12PM John Herrman | Remember when ridiculously massive, fully loaded “desktop replacement” laptops from Alienware and the like were all the rage? Well, they never really went away; in fact, they’re reaching new heights of, eh, that thing that they strive for, whatever it is. More »
Hardware

AMD Phenom II Quad Core Reviewed: Great Today, But Tomorrow’s Cloudy

5:00PM Matt Buchanan | Ars reviews AMD’s latest quad-core, the Phenom II, against a barrage of Intel chips and finds that while it “puts AMD back on the map” against today’s chips, AMD’s got a “long-term problem.” [Ars Technica]
Hardware

Notebook Makers Want Intel to Delay Superfast Nehalem Mobile Chips

4:00AM Matt Buchanan | Here’s another severe warping of the spacetime continuum caused by the financiapocalypse: Notebook makers want Intel to delay its crazyfast Nehalem-based mobile CPUs and chipsets. In other words, they want notebooks to be slower, longer. More »
Hardware

Intel’s Core i7 Chips Get Prodded, Poked and Compared: Good, But Expensive

7:37PM Kit Eaton | Intel’s Core i7 chips, otherwise known as Nehalem, are here and over at Bit-Tech they’ve got hold of an i7 965, 940 and 920 and run them through a testing process to check if they’re as crazy fast as we’d heard they were. And the results are that yes, indeed they are. If you’re a power user, doing fast video conversions or otherwise stressing your processor to the max across all its cores and with hyper-threading, then the top-end 965 is a beast of a chip, apparently. But at $US999 it’s steep. Bit-Tech rekons if you’re an enthusiast or a gamer you’re probably better off looking at the low-end 920 chip, which still delivers quite a punch for a mere $US284. Hit the link for the full review, processor fans. [Bit-Tech] More »
Hardware

Intel’s Six-Core Xeon 7400 ‘Dunnington’ Processor Shipping on September 15th

3:36AM Sean Fallon | According to CNET sources, Intel’s six-core “Dunnington”processor will begin rolling out to servers on September 15th under the Xeon 7400 series. The new chip is Intel’s first foray beyond four cores as well as their first to fuse multiple cores on a single die. It also features 16MB of L3 cache to help boost performance. The design is the last of the Penryn-class, and if the rumours hold true, we should see Core i7 (Nehalem) by the end of the year. [CNET via Electronista] More »
Hardware

Intel Spills More Beans on Nehalem Microarchitecture at IDF

9:39PM Kit Eaton | At the Intel Developers Forum Intel itself is turning the spotlight on the upcoming Nehalem chip microarchitecture. The chips will have integrated memory controllers built directly into the processor, as we mentioned before, which will allow three-times faster memory read-write speeds than previous generations. More »
Hardware

Intel Nahalem Chip Moniker Begets ‘Core i7′ Branding

9:30AM Jack Loftus | Those upcoming crazy fast Intel Nahalem chips we’ve profiled a bunch of times this year got an official name today, and in typical Intel fashion the subdued moniker does little to betray the speedy goodness housed within. The chip set will be called Core i7 in its first generation of products, and is also the first of Intel’s processors to sport all four cores on a single piece of silicon. A black label version called the Extreme Edition will arrive alongside the standard i7, and will be geared more toward the high end market. [CNET] More »