Intel G41 shortage turned motherboard manufacturers towards AMD?

By Dilleshwar Rao on Dec 20, 2009 in Chipsets

Intel has failed to produce G41 chipsets as asked by motherboard manufacturers and the deal is said to be moved to Intel’s rival AMD, according to a DigiTimes report, with a spate of unexpected orders overwhelming the 8-inch fab plant responsible for their production. As per motherboard manufacturers, they approached Intel and the attempts to [...]

VIA VN1000 northbridge offers frugal Blu-ray 1080p performance

By Dilleshwar Rao on Dec 12, 2009 in Chipsets

The new VIA VN1000 northbridge is specifically designed for entry-level all-in-ones, SFF machines and budget desktops integrated with DirectX 10.1 support and it has the ability to play back 1080p Blu-ray content. The VIA VN1000 runs on Chrome 520 graphics processor, has a OpenGL 3.0 and OpenCL 1.0 compatibility. It also supports DDR3 memory, 4 [...]

Qualcomm Unveils New MSM7×30 Smartphone Chipsets

By Dilleshwar Rao on Nov 16, 2009 in Chipsets

Qualcomm is gearing up for the Smartphone challenge. It plans to release the commercial chipsets for the Smartphone’s by flag end of 2010. Smartphone’s have really caught up the lime light and are revolutionizing the way phones are functioning. It indirectly requires high processing capability and Qualcomm believes this will the answer.

Nvidia Tegra based Notebook and mobile phone coming soon

By Safi Baig on Jun 26, 2009 in Cell Phones, Chipsets, Laptops

Nvidia Tegra chipset is currently being used in yet to be released Zune HD players focusing on HD videos. Now for the first time a notebook manufactured by Nvidia themselves will feature their Tegra processor. Though Nvidia is manufacturing the notebook it will not be released under its own brand name instead the operators will [...]

AMD unveils ATI Radeon E4690 Embedded GPU, Gives Triple the Performance of its Predecessors

By Safi Baig on Jun 2, 2009 in Chipsets, Gaming, Graphics Cards

AMD has just announced their new embedded Graphical Processing Unit(GPU), ATI Radeon E4690. E4690 is not a standalone graphics card but will be embedded on the motherboards to reduce space, power consumption and price. According to AMD, the new GPU has the capability to give triple the performance of their previous GPUs and has been [...]