DailyTech had the opportunity to sit down with NVIDIA insiders and discuss upcoming chipset technology. NVIDIA's nForce 590 Intel chipset might not have grabbed as many headlines as the company would have liked in 2006, but that will not deter the company from giving it another shot in 2007.
MCP73 is NVIDIA's headline integrated graphics chipset for Intel in 2007. It will come in no less than three flavors. The main chipset, dubbed MCP73P, is a 1333MHz front-side bus chipset. A cut down version of the same chipset, dubbed MCP73PV, will only feature a 1066MHz FSB. Our sources would not reveal the third chipset, although is it likely a derivative that does not feature integrated graphics.......

AMD is preparing the rollout of its first quad-core processor, an Opteron processor based on the Barcelona core. Meanwhile, Intel is developing an answer to Barcelona: The company is lining up 45 nm server and desktop processors and will revive Hyperthreading in 2008 with the Nehalem core.
Sources indicated that Intel acknowledges AMD's claim that the company has developed a "true" quad-core processor, while Intel is relying on a dual-die package with two dual-core processors at this time as well as 45 nm Penryn quad-core CPUs. However, the company also believes that AMD's decision to integrate the memory controller into the CPU has a downside and forces the manufacturer to compromise cache size and stick to only two memory channels..........

VIA?s latest chipset roadmap unveils two new chipsets for Intel processors ? the PT960 and PM960. These new chipsets are designed with Intel?s Core 2 architecture in mind, supporting front-side-bus speeds up to 1333 MHz. Intel expects to launch its 1333 MHz front-side-bus Core 2 Duo E6x50-series processors later this year. DailyTech

Here are the specifications of the upcoming DX10 chipsets: Source: SiliconInvestor

Inq reports:NVIDIAN Geforce 8800 GTS cards with 320MB of memory are already in the hands of some lucky reviewers.
The card is set to cost ?299 and make DirectX 10 a bit more affordable at least before the G86 comes to try to take over the word.
A Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB should not end up much slower than its 640MB brother but the reviews will see the light of day in the next few days. Nvidia just needs to wave the flag and say that the NDAs are lifted off.

Intel may claim its 45nm processors will be in production in H2, but it appears desktop chips may not actually launch until Q1 2008, if the latest roadmap to leak out of the chip giant is to be believed.
Intel has two 45nm CPUs in the pipeline: 'Yorkfield', the sucessor to today's four-core Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Quad, and 'Wolfdale', the future Core 2 Duo. According to a roadmap published by Japanese-language site PCWatch, all both chips do not appear until Q1 2008. Read more at RegHardware

TechReport reports: Last week, rumors predicted that Sapphire and Palit would both release Radeon X1950 GT graphics cards early next month. Palit announced its card earlier this month, and Sapphire has now introduced its flavor of the new Radeon X1950 GT. The Sapphire card features 36 pixel shader processors, a 500MHz core clock speed, and 256MB of GDDR3 memory running at 600MHz. Those specs aren't a whole lot worse than those of the Radeon X1950 Pro, which runs at 575MHz with 690MHz memory. Both the Radeon X1950 GT and the Radeon X1950 Pro reportedly use the same 80nm RV570 graphics processor, as well.

Intel announced the next revolution in Microprocessor fabrication by replacing Silicon Dioxide gates with High-K dielectric metal gates. Microprocessor industry analyst David Kanter who contributed a lot of the information in this piece had this in-depth analysis on what this means for Intel and AMD. I spoke with David Kanter or Real World Technologies and came up with the following roadmap of the two chip giants for the next two years: Read on at ZdNet

This week Intel presented the first working 45nm Penryn processors to the press. These processors will become available in the second half of this year. ?Being first to high volume with 65nm process technology and the first with a working 45nm chip highlights Intel?s leadership position in chip technology and manufacturing,? said Bill Holt, vice president, general manger, Intel Technology and Manufacturing Group. Head over to DV Hardware for more info and photos.

[H]ardOCP reports that ASUS has four new motherboard models specifically designed for use with Windows Vista. The motherboards include features like the AI Remote, AP Trigger, ScreenDUO and the ASUS Accelerated Propeller (ASAP).
Official Asus announcement infos

Leap ahead, these two words drive focus at Intel. Their job is to find and drive the next leap ahead around technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and more to continuously encourage their customers, partners, consumers, and businesses to join them as they continue to take exciting leaps forward. After the incredible launch of Intel's Conroe series it's not too easy to follow that up. But make no mistake as at the end of last year, Intel has launched the world's first quad core desktop processor. The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is based on the new Kentsfield core, and actually features two Core 2 Duo processors packed together in one single chip featuring a total of 8MB of L2 cache.

The main feature of this keyboard is the customizable illumination. Although it won't really help you when doing your daily work, it does help when gaming in a dark environment such as at a LAN gaming event. The lighting does help surprisingly well in those situations and you won't be hunting for keys you cannot see anymore. TweakNews

Last week Intel showed off its eight-core V8 PC. This computer featured two quad-core Xeon processors. Here's a short snip: "When it comes to scaling performance, the name says it all: multicore. It can mean two, four or more cores. The path to more performance used to be deeper pipelines with cranked up clock rates, but the model now is to go wider with more cores. Each of these cores has better per-clock efficiency (instructions per clock, or IPC), so lower clock rates actually can yield better performance.."

The Asus W5Fe series are the first notebooks with a 2.8" SideShow external auxiliary display. The W5Fe notebook features a 12" widescreen LCD display and is powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo processors. Here's some more information about the possibilities of the SideShow..

Intel just announced the power consumption specification for those processors upcoming in 2007. Noted that the next-generation value Conroe-L is all at 35W TDP only, 30W lesser than the previous Cedar Mill deviated from Netburst architecture.

a very warm welcome to the second part of our ATI R600 test. As already mentioned in the first part of this article, we tested the R600 on Ultra-HD 2560×1600 against its rivals, the nVidia GeForce 8800GTX, nVidias 7950GX2 and ATI?s in-house competiton, a pair of X1950 XTX CrossFire boards.

Some EVGA customers using the EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard have reported experiencing disconnect or write error issues with SATA disk drives. To address this, we have worked with NVIDIA to release a BIOS update for this motherboard that eliminates this bug.

It's a new year and time to start it off with a bang! We are proud to present you with a new USB flash disk review, the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium U3. Like its name suggests it's shell is strong, but it has a surprise!

The same guy was reporting that he?s experiencing some choppy gameplay/performance issues with his BFG 7800 GS OC AGP card; and his card is running at temperatures of 112-117F (45-47C) consistently. So, he contacted BFG Tech support and someone there told him that if his card is running below 40C that this is the source of these issues, and that the graphics card is running too cold!

Back in May, we published an article and report about many issues reported on the latest Creative Labs product ? The Sound Blaster X-Fi. A few weeks later Creative released information and blamed DDR Dual Channel for these related issues. And, after a few months, they changed their version and blamed Nvidia?s nForce4 for these issues, instead. Nvidia never responded to us about their side in the story, but they denied it on a chat.