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Nvidia's licensing situation with AMD is just as bad as with Intel
By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews During yesterday's unveiling of its accelerated roadmap for 12- and even 16-core processors, an AMD executive said he did not believe the licensing situation between his company and Nvidia would enable Nvidia to produce chipsets that support future AMD ...
NEWS: Nvidia ION netbooks confirmed for June
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pocket-lint.com — Massive graphics power increase inbound The netbook is about to get a graphics boost as early as... June Pocket-lint has learnt, with a number of companies preparing to announce Nvidia ION powered models. ... Read Nvidia ION netbooks ... (more) NEWS: Nvidia ION netbooks confirmed for June
AMD's 40th Anniversary
AMD's 40th Anniversary
sites.amd.com — May 1, 2009, marks AMD’s 40th anniversary. Formed by Jerry Sanders and seven co-founders in 1969, AMD... is a company with a rich and colorful history. In the past 40 years, AMD has transformed from a second-source supplier that worked within the ... (more) AMD's 40th Anniversary
ASRock ION 330 and Pegatron Cape 7 NVIDIA Ion nettops
ASRock ION 330 and Pegatron Cape 7 NVIDIA Ion nettops
slashgear.com — Two new NVIDIA Ion nettops have been unveiled in Taipei, from ASRock and Pegatron. The ASRock ION... 330 eschews the single-core Atom CPU as found in the Acer AspireRevo and instead pairs the NVIDIA GPU with a dual-core Atom 330. There’s also an integrated DVD optical drive, where the ... (more) ASRock ION 330 and Pegatron Cape 7 NVIDIA Ion nettops
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AMD Does Not Expect Broadcom, Nvidia in Next-Gen Servers
X-bit labs — ... its next generation Opteron processors, it will not allow any third-party chipsets to emerge and will rely solely on own chips. For 2010 moving forward, the solutions coming out from AMD will be AMD and on AMD at this time. We don't expect to see new chipsets from Nvidia or Broadcom for server implementations in 2010. But they will continue to support all existing platforms moving forward through 2010, said AMD s server business unit vice president Pat Patla on an interview with Betanews web-site. Nvidia s chipset business is facing tough problems these days: both AMD and ...

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