Yorktown Heights (NY) - IBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM and its chip development partners, including AMD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices , made a stunning announcement today, apparently beating Intel in the successful production of the first functional 22 nm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_nanometer SRAM cell. 22 nm processors are still three years out in the future,

NVIDIA's really pushing the GPU-as-CPU angle at SIGGRAPH this year -- we've already seen the PhysX and CUDA-powered GeForce Power Pack for consumers, and the company is also updating the Quadro Plex series of visual co-processors for workstation customers. The new Quadro Plex 2200 D2, designed for large datasets and models, crunches data through two Quadro FX 5800 GPUs (totalling 480 CUDA cores)

As if the whole defective NVIDIA GPU situation couldn't get any more confusing, The Inquirer is now reporting that the previous batch of bad GPUs may be far from the end of NVIDIA's problems. Apparently, four unspecified board partners are now saying that they're seeing G92 and G94 chips going bad at "high rates" as well, and in both desktop and laptop cards no less. That includes 8800GT,

It's a not a direct response to AMD unveiling the HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2 yesterday, but NVIDIA also came to play at SIGGRAPH, and it's got new lots of new GPU-as-CPU toys for us this morning -- and what's more, they're free. Like we'd been hearing, GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series cards are all getting PhysX support as of today via a free GeForce Power Pack that contains a free full copy of

Sure, times might be tough at AMD, but that's not stopping the crew at ATI from gunning for NVIDIA's newest gear -- the company just announced the new HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. Aimed at the "super high-end" of the market, the $399 4850 X2 and $599 4870 X2 feature two GPU chips on a 625 or 750MHz bus, respectively, with up to 2GB of 900MHz GDDR5 RAM. ATI says that there's a 20 percent

I have a HP Pavilion desktop that runs on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2.50 GHz, and has 2GB of RAM. I'm planning on getting either the eVGA 9800 GX2 or the PNY 9800GX2. Not sure which yet. I don't have SLI, so I can only use one card. Now what I've been wondering is, can either of those cards (with my system specs) easily run Crysis on the Very High setting?? Without crappy

Just an FYI to the CPU geeks in the house: if you've been following Nehalem, you can officially start calling it Core i7 (which means that it's not getting the code name we all thought it'd carry: Core 3 Trio Quad Duo Pro Extreme Edition). Everyone else can feel free to continue scratching their head.

Video: Viva Las Surface, from Engadget.com

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Guys, I was thinking a long time ago, about posting this video. Most of you haven't heard of Microsoft Surface yet, but, just so you know it, this is the latest biggest project from M, and its an OS. Its based on

My preference is a single GPU. What are yours and why?

We already had a glance at NVIDIA's newest low-ender, the GeForce 9500 GT, but the outfit clearly wasn't done. In case the previously mentioned card was just a tad too weak for your needs, you can also check out the GeForce 9800 GT and / or 9800 GTX+, which feature 112 / 128 stream processors and support for HybridPower and PhysX. Both cards can be found just about everywhere right now for