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Hardware
Nvidia Confirms Intel’s Senseless USB 3.0 Delay Until 2011
3:19AM Mark Wilson | Bad news: Nvidia has confirmed Intel’s stance on USB 3.0 — no Intel chipsets will support the new standard until 2011. Short of Intel stating something different, USB 3.0 probably won’t hit mass consumption until then. Is there any hope? More »
Computers
Maingear Shift’s Spartan Case Belies High Performance PC Line
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Maingear, the custom PC maker and purveyor of tramp-stamp laptops, has let loose a duo of simplistic-looking desktop towers this morning designed to “shed the bling” and focus instead on what’s going down inside the case. More »
Gadgets
MSI’s eReader Will Have Nvidia Tegra Graphics in 2010
10:09PM Danny Allen | That rumour about an MSI eReader looks good-to-go: their chairman acknowledges a reader with Tegra graphics is coming, but they’re ironing out some problems at the moment. Meanwhile, Asus also has some cool-sounding readers in the works. [DigiTimes]
Games
Rumour: ATI Locked In For Next-Gen Xbox Graphics?
11:19PM Danny Allen | Nothing is official, but Fudzilla’s sources suggest Microsoft liked the Xbox 360’s Xenos graphics enough to stay with ATI for its next console, possibly slated for 2012. Given the lead time, it may even be a 28-nanometre chip. [Fudzilla via CrunchGear]
Games
Next Nintendo DS Might Get A Huge Speed Boost From Tegra
11:24AM Chris Jacob | The Nintendo DS is great, but seriously underpowered. That could change in the next version though, thanks to a little help from the same processor that drives the Zune HD. More »
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]
Computers
Sony CW Starts At $US770, Available With Blu-ray
9:23AM Joanna Stern | Starting at $US770, the 14-inch Sony CW series will be available in five colours (red, pink, white, black and purple) when Windows 7 launches. It will have Blu-Ray and Nvidia dedicated graphic options. More »
Software
Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids
3:01PM Matt Buchanan | A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »
Hardware
Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores
7:07AM Matt Buchanan | Fermi is Nvidia’s new GPU architecture that’s going to be the basis for all of its new graphics cards. With 512 cores and 3 billion transistors, it will nuke Crysis. More »
Software