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HP Mini 311 to get Ion

13th Oct 2009 HP's Mini 311 netbook looks set to get a major spec boost, with 3GB of RAM, the full Nvidia Ion chipset, and an 80GB high-speed SSD along with Windows 7. [7]

Kingston leaks Clarksdale demo ran DDR3 at 1.35V

13th Oct 2009 Oops! Kingston leaks that a recent demo at IDF ran the Clarksdale CPU with DDR3 at just 1.35V to achieve its low wattage. [5]

Mitsubishi demos 155" OLED display

9th Oct 2009 Mitsubishi has demonstrated a prototype 155" OLED display for commercial use, which is made up of 1.5" square building blocks - and can be made bigger or smaller at will. [14]

Getac launches glove-friendly multi-touch

8th Oct 2009 Getac has annouced a range of touch screens which offer multi-touch support which can be operated even whilst wearing gloves. [14]

Swiftech releases Apogee XT waterblock

7th Oct 2009 The sucessor to the Swiftech GTZ is here promissing improved cooling and higher flow rates. [14]

Nvidia dismisses AMD's Batman accusations

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: The two figureheads behind Nvidia's TWIMTBP program have dismissed AMD's Batman accusations. [56]

High-end Fermi will ship this year

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: A senior official at Nvidia has said that they're confident GeForce products based on Fermi will ship this year. [14]

Fermi card on stage wasn't real

3rd Oct 2009 GTC 2009: Nvidia has confirmed that the Fermi card held up by Jen-Hsun on stage wasn't real, but was adamant that the demos were. [22]

Chrome netbooks due in weeks

2nd Oct 2009 Rumours claim un-named Chinese manufacturers are set to launch netbooks based on the MIPS architecture and running Google's Chrome OS by the end of the month. [18]

Six-core Intel CPU will be called Core i9

1st Oct 2009 Gigabyte confirms everyone's suspicion that the forthcoming six-core Gulftown CPU will be branded as Core i9. [27]

Win Gigabyte graphics cards by Overclocking!

1st Oct 2009 Test your overclocking skills againt Gigabyte and bag yourself a top-end graphics card or gaming mouse. [52]

First Fermi card pictured

30th Sep 2009 GTC 2009: Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang showed off the first Fermi card - it's a Tesla card, but expect the GeForce card to look pretty similar. [37]

Nvidia CEO reveals Fermi architecture

30th Sep 2009 GTC 2009: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the company's next generation GPU architecture, codenamed Fermi. [29]

TV Update will brick 20,000 set-top boxes

30th Sep 2009 Up to 18 million homes will need to retune their set-top boxes and 20,000 may stop working today as the service is upgraded to allow future HD broadcasting. [37]

Panasonic demos 50" plasma 3D TV

29th Sep 2009 Panasonic has unveiled its latest 3D TV, which features a 1080p panel and uses active shutter glasses to offer a 3D image in full HD. [12]

Mix ATI & Nvidia? Lose PhysX

28th Sep 2009 Nvidia has confirmed that its drivers deliberately disable on-GPU PhysX physics acceleration if you attempt to use one of its cards alongside an ATI GPU for graphics rendering. [85]

Core i7 notebooks hit the market

24th Sep 2009 Notebooks from Dell's Alienware brand and rival MSI using the new Clarksfield-based mobile i7 processors have finally been unveiled. [17]

ATI Radeon HD 5850 launch date confirmed?

24th Sep 2009 With the HD 5870 now released, we turn our attention to its little brother and when we might see the HD 5850 hit the shops [25]

Apple Tablet: unannounced but selling well

24th Sep 2009 Apple's still-unconfirmed tablet appears to be selling well despite absolutely no information leaving the company. [22]

Toshiba unveils ultra-slim SSDs

23rd Sep 2009 Toshiba has taken the wraps of a pair of new, ultra-small SSDs for slim notebooks and netbooks - including one unit that uses the new mini-SATA connection standard. [14]

Win a Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X card!

23rd Sep 2009 Win Sapphire's new ATI Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X card, which has DX11 support and a brilliant Vapor-X cooler! [860]

Win more goodies from Enermax

22nd Sep 2009 Enter this easy competition to win some cool stuff, including PSUs, cases and some super-funky fans! [143]

AMD announces Thuban six-core CPUs

22nd Sep 2009 AMD has announced the desktop equivalent to its recently released six-core Opteron server processors, due next year and dubbed Thuban. [20]

First USB 3.0 HD webcam at IDF

21st Sep 2009 Industrial camera specialist Point Grey Research is due to show off a USB 3.0-equipped webcam capable of streaming uncompressed 1080p video to the host at IDF. [15]

Get Windows 7 for £30

17th Sep 2009 Microsoft has announced a special offer for Windows 7 to entice students in UK universities and colleges to upgrade to the latest OS. [66]

AMD launches £80 quad core processor

16th Sep 2009 The cheapest quad core CPU to hit the market means potentially good sales for AMD, but is it selling itself short? [24]

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