Another day, another high-profile outside hire for . Phoronix that Australian native Matthew Tippett, engineering manager for Linux Core Engineering at AMD/ATI, will be joining Palm as their new head of Linux kernel development. Matt's previous work on ATI's Linux

AMD's Catalyst Linux driver has improved substantially over the past few years. Years ago the Catalyst Linux driver was in shambles with its performance being utterly poor, it lacked enthusiast-oriented features like CrossFire and OverDrive, and ATI customers had to

For those that do not know me, my name is Deanzo. I am an extreme overclocker from New Zealand who competes in online and live global competitions hosted by the likes of GIGABYTE and MSI. What that means is, I

Chinese tech site has published three shots that are reportedly rendered by NVIDIA's upcoming Fermi GPU. The first two pictures show very life-like faces, while the third screenshot shows an impressive ray-tracing scene of a room with multiple light sources.

Kingmax has introduced the Hercules DDR3 2200 dual-channel memory kit for the Intel Lynnfield processor. This kit features 4GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 2200MHz with CAS 10 latency. KINGMAX Hercules DDR3 2200 Dual-Channel:- 240-pin DDR3 2200MHz- CAS Latency: 10-

Bit Tech of a sample of Intel's upcoming six-core Core i7 "Gulftown" processor. This chip is expected to be released in Q1 2010.Here's the Gulftown CPU (left) shot next to a LGA1366 Core i7-920 (right) - both CPUs fit in

Expreview of the upcoming dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card. This new part is 13.5" long, making it one of the longest consumer graphics cards ever, and the cooling solution is reportedly quite noisy.Radeon HD 5970 features a very

AMD's Terry Makedon a clarification about the driver support for DX9 hardware in Windows 7: WDDM1.1 (Windows Display Driver Model) is the driver architecture required to run Windows7. To meet the Microsoft dictated requirements, GPU’s must be DirectX10 and later

Engadget of owners of the new 27-inch iMac systems from Apple are complaining about performance issues. The most common symptom seems to be incredibly slow Flash video playback, but people are also claiming that there's a bug forcing the hard

LG announced it will release a 15" OLED display in South-Korea in December, and predicted that OLED panels will cost less than LCD panels in 2016."Forty-inch and larger OLED panels will be fairly expensive in 2012, but they will be

Slashgear can enable DirectX 10 support on the NVIDIA ION LE chipset:NVIDIA’s Ion LE promises to deliver the same 1080p HD playback as its regular Ion sibling, but at a cheaper price; to do that, it drops DirectX 10 support

FUD Zilla is planning to release the GeForce GT240 graphics card on November 17th. This is a new mainstream card with DX10.1 support, it should fall in the GeForce 9600 GSO/GT price range.The card is targeting mainstream market and it

Network World has given the green light for non-Latin domain names. Starting on November 16th, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language.The move comes after years of technical testing and policy

FUD Zilla dual-core chips with a 25W TDP has been delayed to late Q1 2010:AMD plans to launch two Regor-based 45nm dual core 25W CPUs and originally it planned to launch two CPUs clocked at 1.8GHz and 1.6GHz together. This

DigiTimes is suffering again from poor yields on its 40nm process. Chairman and CEO Morris Chang promises the issue will be solved within this quarter.TSMC said it has seen yield rates for its 40nm node drop to 40% due chamber

ASRock introduced the ION 330HT, a new nettop designed for HTPC use. These systems are powered by a 65W adapter, they measure 195mm x 70mm x 186mm (W x H x L) and weigh 1.7kg. The ION 330HT features the

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