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HEXUS.beans :: NVIDIA again considering acquisition of AMD?

2nd Jun 09 03:29 | tech | Computex '09

HEXUS.beans :: NVIDIA again considering acquisition of AMD?

The HEXUS.beanvine has started to twitch in ye olde Taipei, with rumours that Jensen is here on a shopping spree...

Corsair jumps into SSD (solid-state drive) market with a splash

20th Jan 09 11:28 | tech

Corsair jumps into SSD (solid-state drive) market with a splash

It's official: memory-specialist Corsair is bringing its expertise to the SSD market.

Ice cold Corsair RAM in the works

4th Nov 08 20:51 | tech

Ice cold Corsair RAM in the works

Corsair's created a new way to get the lowest latencies and highest clocks out of your RAM. We've got the world's first pics...

World exclusive: ATI RV730 XT, ATI RV730 Pro and ATI RV710 pictured

21st Aug 08 12:01 | tech

World exclusive: ATI RV730 XT, ATI RV730 Pro and ATI RV710 pictured

Having the fastest consumer graphics card in the world is all well and good, but this mainstream AMD trio is likely to have mass appeal - and we've got the first pictures.

AMD makes pre-emptive price cuts against NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT

20th Feb 08 18:39 | tech

AMD makes pre-emptive price cuts against NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT

In an effort to stifle rival NVIDIA's impending GeForce 9 series launch, AMD moves to aggressively cut prices across its HD 3000 series...

Overclock.co.uk throws in the towel

7th Sep 07 11:04 | tech

Visitors to Overclock.co.uk - parts supplier to hardware enthusiasts - were met this morning with a message stating that the company had ceased trading.

The future of Evesham? Will we find out today?

18th Jul 07 11:23 | tech

The future of Evesham? Will we find out today?

The rumour mill has been grinding for some time now, with suggestions that UK PC manufacturer Evesham was in financial trouble. HEXUS has learned that we 're likely to find out ...

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: GeCUBE Dual 2600 GEMINI2

3rd Jun 07 02:58 | tech

First shot of the GECUBE twin-GPU Radeon HD 2600

HEXUS Lassos ATI

4th Mar 07 13:34 | tech

Portable computers can compete quite well against desktops in terms of performance, even at the high end, if you like your laptop heavy, but one area where they slip behind is g...

Inno3D to launch i-Chill series - designed for the enthusiast

15th Jan 07 09:59 | tech

Inno3D to launch i-Chill series - designed for the enthusiast

Hundreds of ATI SKUs ahoy (potentially...)

14th Dec 06 19:40 | tech

We've learned that ATI's got a new method for shutting down knackered bits of chips, paving the way for better yields and potentially a slew of SKUs.

ATi targets CeBIT for R600 launch - Willy Deeplung exclusive!

12th Dec 06 22:40 | tech

Courtesy of William F Deeplung IV, we can report - exclusively and definitively (or, should that really be somewhat speculatively?) that V-day is going to be R-day for us P-people

ATi keeps on spinning to try to get R600 right

12th Dec 06 17:29 | tech

ATi has attempted to create good working versions of the R600 a number of times but, for various reasons, has needed to re-spin the GPU. The company is now up to spin A13

Proventure Freezes up

19th Oct 06 13:48 | tech

UK Distributor Proventure closes it's doors.

HEXUS.beans :: Liquid-cooled SAPPHIRE TOXIC X1950 XTX

30th Sep 06 12:58 | tech

August 2006 saw the air-cooled ATI RADEON X1950 XTX attain the highly coveted HEXUS.eXtreme Editors Choice Award, but HEXUS has just - exclusively - been dropped the the liquid-...

HEXUS.beans :: ATI hammer out new GT - but is less more ?

6th Sep 06 17:42 | tech

It maybe about something being smaller - but this bean is huge :)

X1950 loses the fans

2nd Aug 06 08:46 | tech

We've learned that ATI's latest upcoming GPU not only fancies itself as a green beater, but as a quiet little purrer too.

Has Rod Savlon exposed Matrox spurning soft-core?

18th Jul 06 14:11 | tech

Rod Savlon has unearthed a HEXUS.bean indicating that Canadian video card maker Matrox may have cut most PCs out of the picture with its latest real-time video editing product...

World's first pics of Vista D3D10 hardware?

11th Jul 06 09:11 | tech

The things you find when you sort out an old-ish images directory....

ECS lists GeForce 7950GX2!

31st May 06 08:32 | tech

Now we wonder if someone is jumping the NVIDIA gun. N7950GX2-1G sounds awfully like a new SKU, doesn't it?

HEXUS.beans :: ATi and Nokia set to announce massive deal

4th May 06 09:40 | tech

ATi and Nokia set to announce massive deal

AMD and NVIDIA in Batman Arkham Asylum AA fiasco - who's telling the truth?

3rd Nov 09 19:56 | tech

AMD and NVIDIA in Batman Arkham Asylum AA fiasco - who's telling the truth?

Another twist in the public spat between AMD and NVIDIA representatives in the HEXUS.community forums.

GeForce GTS 240: does NVIDIA have another unreleased GPU at CeBIT '09?

3rd Mar 09 04:00 | tech | CeBIT '09

GeForce GTS 240: does NVIDIA have another unreleased GPU at CeBIT '09?

NVIDIA partners letting slip the green team's plans?

XFX to sell ATI (AMD) graphics cards in the new year

12th Dec 08 13:43 | tech

XFX to sell ATI (AMD) graphics cards in the new year

No longer an NVIDIA-only house, it seems.

AMD's Kuma to pack a dual-core wallop?

25th Sep 08 09:26 | tech

AMD's Kuma to pack a dual-core wallop?

AMD's oft-delayed dual-core "Kuma" processor is nearly here, and early reports indicate speedy performance.

Intel employee slates AMD's upcoming mobile Griffin CPU

1st Apr 08 08:23 | tech | IDF 2008 - Shanghai

Intel employee slates AMD's upcoming mobile Griffin CPU

'It's easy to hide behind graphics when their (AMD's) mobile processors are rubbish'

AMD promotes 'unknown' Phenom CPU on its own site

14th Nov 07 21:05 | tech

AMD promotes 'unknown' Phenom CPU on its own site

Journalists are bound by law not to talk about it. AMD promotes it on amd.com.

Yet another AMD Vice President resigns

31st Aug 07 20:27 | tech

Shockingly, this is the third leaving of a very senior AMD player in less than two months...

Major UK IT businesses suffering at the hands of the rumour mill

20th Jun 07 16:24 | tech

Earlier this afternoon HEXUS started receiving an escalating number of suggestions, from multiple sources, that another one of the few home-grown, major PC manufacturers left st...

Intel Penryn (45nm) dual- and quad-core benchmarks - Conroe and Kentsfield flayed and sent packing

18th Apr 07 11:57 | tech

HEXUS was invited to compare the performance of both the dual-core (Wolfdale) and quad-core (Yorkfield) Penryn-based processors, albeit in Intel-controlled conditions.

Ruby puts on her lipgloss for R600

23rd Jan 07 20:03 | tech

Mascot of the ATI Radeon range of graphics cards, Ruby, was discovered by us wearing her new "R600" look, when we did a bit of digging around at CES.

Commando breaches the HEXUS.labs

9th Jan 07 18:17 | tech

Today the HEXUS.labs was infiltrated by a Commando... the ASUS Commando.

GPU codenames, anyone?

13th Dec 06 17:47 | tech

Find out what AMD's upcoming ATI GPUs are codenamed. There are some weird'uns.

Will R600's performance be enough to put ATi back in the lead?

12th Dec 06 19:20 | tech

The little birds over in Taipei have been twittering about the performance of ATi's much-delayed R600 graphic processor. But Willy Deeplung wonders whether it will be good enoug...

NVIDIA recalls all 8800 GTX partner boards prior to launch

6th Nov 06 10:24 | tech

Some NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX boards that were built through our contract manufacturer had a simple BOM error...

Evesham smash Gates' embargo by 2 weeks with Vista Express Upgrade

13th Oct 06 21:46 | tech

Executives at HP and Dell must be hopping mad as Evesham big-wigs appear to have smashed the official embargo date by over 2 weeks.

VoodooPC bought by HP

29th Sep 06 06:48 | tech

Saltwater fish and keen Snatch enthusiast Rahul Sood flogs Voodoo PC to Hewlett-Packard...

HEXUS.beans :: DELL assaults the little guys

14th Aug 06 11:04 | tech

HEXUS.beans :: DELL assaults the little guys

Intel Conroe Launch - Spyshot...ATI Crossfire?

27th Jul 06 17:16 | tech

I can see CrossFire :mrgreen:

HEXUS.beans :: ATI RV560 and 570 Crossfire plans

13th Jul 06 08:18 | tech

After spending many a night out in Asia we heard some very filling little beans....When speaking to one of the many AIB partners, we learnt some information about ATI's upcoming...

AMD's new Hammers to bludgeon Conroe?

21st Jun 06 16:24 | tech

Is this enough to hammer Intel Core 2 Duo?

Balding sinister scientist promoted to ATI’s Global Head of Developer Relations

15th May 06 12:49 | tech

It seems that hearty congratulations are in order to ATi Technologies’ Richard "7 of 5" Huddy who has just been promoted to ATi’s Global Head of Developer Relations...

ATI Radeon HD 5890 in the works?

21st Sep 09 09:10 | tech

ATI Radeon HD 5890 in the works?

Slotting in between the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5870 X2?

Corsair raids the chassis market: competitors beware?

2nd Mar 09 09:15 | tech | CeBIT '09

Corsair raids the chassis market: competitors beware?

Corsair is shaking things up, but should the likes of SilverStone, Lian Li and Antec be worried?

AMD's dual-core Athlon 64 X2 to hit 3.6GHz?

10th Dec 08 14:22 | tech

AMD's dual-core Athlon 64 X2 to hit 3.6GHz?

Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer ECS seems to think that AMD has a 3.6GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core on the way.

Intel's first Core i7 processors to be the 920, 940 and 965

17th Sep 08 13:10 | tech

Intel's first Core i7 processors to be the 920, 940 and 965

Intel's next-generation Nehalem processors are rumoured to be arriving in November, and we've now got model numbers and pricing...

PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?

29th Feb 08 16:23 | tech

PALIT plunders GALAXY Technology - one less partner to worry about?

Palit boxes up GALAXY good an' proper.

HEXUS - CeBIT 2007 :: ATi 'Whiteout' - Powered by ATI R600

9th Sep 07 10:14 | tv

HEXUS - CeBIT 2007 :: ATi 'Whiteout' - Powered by ATI R600

ATi Whiteout... a video of the fantastic new 'Ruby' technology demo which AMD is showcasing the power and technology of its much anticipated next-gen flagship graphics accelerat...

AMD VP Henri Richard resigns

22nd Aug 07 13:34 | tech

AMD VP Henri Richard resigns

We have it on good authority that AMD's chief sales and marketing officer Henri Richard has resigned effective of September 8. The company has made no announcement - though it h...

The meeting of two Phenoms…

7th Jun 07 20:53 | tech

The meeting of two Phenoms…

Physics simulation gets sophisticated - R600 at work

19th Mar 07 17:22 | tech

Take a massively parallel architecture like a GPU... say R600, and get it to do advanced physics simulation. This is what you get...

HEXUS.beans - No DirectSound 3D surround output in Vista?

22nd Jan 07 13:34 | tech

So you have all your old games, and you're hungry for Vista, well, if its sound is done through Direct Sound 3D then you're out of luck, or are you.....

Sapphire working on dual-GPU X1950 board

21st Dec 06 11:11 | tech

Since the rebirth of multi-GPU technology, we've seen but a handful of graphics boards with two GPUs on them.

ATI risks drowning in a sea of green notebooks

13th Dec 06 10:35 | tech

With Vista and DX10 now just around the corner, notebooks need hardware that's up to the task. Right now, a green scene is being painted.

All the might of the AMD/ATi combine can't deliver R600 on time

12th Dec 06 17:33 | tech

While trawling the night markets in Old Taipei, ol' Willy Deeplung heard word about ATi's promised R600 part - not only how late it now is but also some of the issues

MESH Computers to supply high-end PCs to high-street retailer

2nd Nov 06 13:38 | tech

UK PC manufacturer MESH Computers has struck a deal with high street chain Comet. MESH will be the suppliers of Comet's new range of high-end systems.

AMD-based Dell PC examined

4th Oct 06 10:31 | tech

HEXUS.community member and PC modder extraordinaire Gordon Handley recently received one of Dell's new AMD-powered SKUs. He's given it a bit of a poke and run some benchmarks to...

HEXUS.beans :: Intel shuffles BTX in to its deep dark closest.

10th Sep 06 18:00 | tech

BTX to be buried in the Intel closet as a retail proposition

ASUS/Gigabyte merger confirmed?

8th Aug 06 13:08 | tech

They may not be merging in the strictest sense of the word but we can tell you that a new company is going to be formed by the two Taiwanese giants.

AMD bans Intel notebooks!

25th Jul 06 15:19 | tech

Thou shalt NOT talk about Intel.... what about NVIDIA?

ATI and Microsoft set to announce ATI Avivo technology in Xbox 360

12th Jul 06 09:35 | tech

We've just got wind of news that today will see the announcement by Microsoft and ATI that portions of ATI's Avivo video processing and display technologies have made it as part...

HIS and ATI tag team to deliver cool'n'quiet GT Crossfire

21st Jun 06 08:10 | tech

HEXUS can exclusively report that the new ATI driver which is soon to be unleashed will now enable software crossfire up to X1900GT.

HEXUS.beans :: The demise of Reuben

9th May 06 23:12 | tech

Reuben, HEXUS' hidden 'man' is no more...

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