Hounded by international antitrust allegations, Intel fired an initial $1.25 billion salvo’s worth of settlement last year, but now Chipzilla’s biggest distributor of silicon is feeling the heat as well. Dell publicly announced it has set aside a $100 million reserve fund to head off investigations at the pass with a potential settlement of its own. While the company doesn’t admit wrongdoing, it recognizes “alleged violations of negligence-based fraud provisions,” also known as accepting Intel’s controversial chip rebates without reporting them to the government. Dell’s actually been under SEC investigation since 2005 for accounting-related transgressions and the company now hopes to tie up all loose ends at once — here’s hoping we see cheaper Core i7-infused laptops whether or not execs pull it off.
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AMD has officially announced the successor to its
790GX chipset, and the kids at
Hot Hardware have not only put it through its paces but have been kind enough to let us in on their results. Apparently the two 890GX they tested should at least perform “on par” with previous
AMD platforms, although the integrated Radeon HD 4290 graphics (performing at a none-too-shabby 700MHz, according to the company) were found to be “superior to any other
AMD IGP,” even surpassing the performance of
Intel’s HD Graphics solution in a number of tests. If that ain’t enough for you, the Radeon HD 4290 natively supports DirectX 10.1 — but not DirectX 11. That’s what we call “tough love.” But that ain’t the whole sordid tale, not by a longshot: check out the plethora of links below if you dare, or simply peep the PR after the break.
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Thecus announced the N4200 network attached storage solution (NAS) that includes the so-called 6D Technology. In fact, the 6D is not really a new technology, but six technologies with names started with leter D used in the N4200.
The first D is the Dual Core Intel Atom D510 processor running at 1.66GHz. The N4200 features the Dual Disk On Module (DOM) technology and support for Dual RAID, allowing you to configure two RAID modes simultaneously. This new NAS has four drive bays for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch (Dual profile support) SATA hard drives offering up to 8TB capacity.
Thecus’ new NAS has Dual display, a LCD for system information and a 2.8-inch OLED display for settings. There is also Dual Power as the device comes equipped with its own Battery Backup Module (BBM) – a lithium-ion battery pack.
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AMD’s ATI introduces the new Radeon HD 5830 graphics card, “bringing gamers the cutting-edge features and performance of the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series at a lower price”. The new 5830 comes with full DiretX 11 support and the ATI Eyefinity multi-display capabilities.
The Radeon HD 5830 has an engine clock speed of 800MHz and 1GHz memory clock speed. It offers 1.792 TeraFLOPS processing power, 179.2 billion fetches/sec data fetch rate and 800M polygons/sec Polygon throughput. It includes the Avivo HD Video & Display technology, Stream acceleration technology and OpenGL 3.2 support.
The ATI Radeon HD 5830 has dual-link DVI output with 2560×1600 max resolution, a DisplayPort output, HDMI1 1.3 and VGA output. It has integrated HD audio controller as well.
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