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One of the more subtle trends at this year's Computex was that the majority of high-end motherboards now come equipped with a 5GbE network controller. At present, this might be considered a limited benefit as 5GbE and 10GbE switches and routers are still pretty expensive. But Realtek is planning on tackling the issue from both ends, as the company is preparing a hardware platform for sub-$100 5GbE switches. Realtek’s quad-port 5GbE switch platform consists of five key chips: one RTL9303 switch system-on-chip, and four RTL8251B 5GbE physical interfaces (PHYs). The chips are accompanied by various other components, such as power management ICs, but in general it relies solely on in-house developed components, which is why it can be made so cheap. RealTek's platform is...
IDF 2009 - World's First Larrabee Demo, More Clarkdale, Gulftown
Intel finally demonstrated Larrabee, although not in a major way. Intel's first discrete GPU is still going through birthing pains as it inches towards its release in Q2...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/22/2009
Nintendo's Development Secrets, Cloud Gaming & new Killer NIC - GDC '09
Our first day of coverage from the Game Developer's Conference includes a rare insight into how Nintendo develops games, a new service that offloads GPU/CPU computation for games and...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 3/26/2009
CES 2009 - Cases, Coolers, and Power Supplies
We sent Christoph around the Vegas Strip to meet with the various power supply, cooling, and case companies and find out what's new and interesting.
40 by Christoph Katzer on 1/14/2009
CES 2009 - TV Trends, WirelessHD, 240Hz and Netbook Pricing
We report on trends in the LCD TV industry for 2009 and beyond. Don't be fooled by the name, 240Hz doesn't necessarily mean what you think. WirelessHD...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/12/2009
CES 2009 - Day 1: Netbooks, "Talking" Cars and more
If the past two CESes were mostly display shows, this year's was about netbooks and mobile devices. We're done hearing about convergence, it's now the age of devices.
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/9/2009
CES 2009 - ASUS Expands the Eee Family
Touch enabled Eee PCs, an Eee Keyboard with built in computer, glass touchpad and wireless HDMI, and a new Atom based notebook with a 512GB SSD - standard. ...
20 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2009
Hell Freezes Over: NVIDIA Announces Native SLI Support for the Intel X58 Chipset
Yep, there's finally native SLI support on an Intel chipset without the use of any funny nForce switches. Nehalem owners with certain X58 based motherboards will get both...
44 by Anand Shimpi & Laura Johnston on 8/28/2008
NVISION 08 - Jen-Hsun Talks Larrabee, Mobility, VIA and More
We were unimpressed with the keynote but it's not because of the speaker. NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang sat down with us and answered some tough questions about Intel...
20 by Anand Shimpi & Larry Barber on 8/26/2008
NVISION 08 - Live! Day 2 Keynote Coverage
The second day of NVIDIA's first visual computing convention is upon us. Join us to experience the opening keynote.
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Howard Johnston on 8/26/2008
NVISION 08 - Live! Jen-Hsun Keynote Coverage
It's NVIDIA's first NVISION and we've got live coverage of Jen-Hsun's keynote. Find out what NVIDIA's CEO has to say about the future of the company and GPUs.
10 by Anand Shimpi & Virginia Lee on 8/25/2008
Intel Developer Forum 2008 - Live! Day 3 Keynote Coverage & The Woz
Woz and Ratner are speaking today, and we should get some good R&D info later in the keynote. This should last from 11am EST to 12:45pm EST, so not...
1 by Derek Wilson on 8/21/2008
Integrated Graphics - G45 at IDF
Intel opened up about the G45 in their Enhancing the Media Experience presentation today.
13 by Gary Key on 8/21/2008
Intel Developer Forum 2008 - Live! Day 2 Keynote Coverage
Today's IDF keynotes, covered in real time, dealing with everything from mobility and digital home to software.
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2008
Lucid Hydra 100 - Enabling SLI/CrossFire on Any Platform
In one of the more surprising demos of IDF a small company called Lucid demonstrated its hardware which allows multiple GPUs to be used in tandem without silly driver/platform...
34 by Derek Wilson on 8/20/2008
Intel Developer Forum 2008 - Live! First Day Keynote Coverage
Live coverage from the first keynote of IDF.
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/19/2008
Intel Reveals SSD Details at IDF 2008
Intel unveiled its plans for SSDs in 2008 at IDF. It also made some pretty lofty performance claims for how its SSDs will stack up against the competition...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/19/2008
Intel Developer Forum 2008 - Live! Nehalem, Gelsinger Keynote Coverage
Pat Gelsinger and Dadi Perlmutter are on stage and are going to be talking about everything from Nehalem to Larrabee and Atom.
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/19/2008
E3 Aftermath
A look back at some highlights from this year's Electronics Entertainment Expo
27 by Eddie Turner on 7/25/2008
Computex 2008 - ASUS HDAV 1.3 Update
ASUS continues to bring joy to our ears as we have additional images and information about the upcoming HDAV 1.3 card.
28 by Gary Key on 6/6/2008
Computex 2008 - The Intel G45 Update
We provide a quick glimpse at several G45 boards on display at Computex 2008.
13 by Gary Key on 6/5/2008
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