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engadget.com - 12/23/2008

HP Firebird 803 tower with VoodooDNA leaked!

— engadget.com — We always loved us that Voodoo-designed HP Blackbird 002 , but it was certainly a behemoth. Now it looks like the duo are going for a more realistic size -- and hopefully pricepoint -- with the all-new HP Firebird PC 803 that just fell in our lap, ... (more) HP Firebird 803 tower with VoodooDNA leaked!

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Nvidia Geforce

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vr-zone.com - 12/26/2008

Nvidia's Solution To Defective GPUs : Buy Our New Chips

— vr-zone.com — Nvidia apparently has a solution to the problems faced by many in their notebooks powered by GeForce 8M series, that is, to encourage the OEM/ODMs to buy their ... (more) Nvidia's Solution To Defective GPUs : Buy Our New Chips

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Nvidia Geforce

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notebookreview.com - 12/19/2008

NVIDIA Makes Laptop Graphics Drivers Available Online ... Finally

— notebookreview.com — NVIDIA decided to give notebook users an early Christmas present today. It's a present notebook owners have kept on their wish lists since NVIDIA first started making graphics processing units (GPUs) for notebooks ... downloadable drivers on the ... (more) NVIDIA Makes Laptop Graphics Drivers Available Online ...

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Nvidia Geforce

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Intel Discharges the Ion
Mobility Site — ... Intel, in a move which is not really surprising to Atom-watchers, has apparently shot the Atom/Ion pairing down in flames. Digitimes is reporting on an internal message Intel sent to hardware manufacturing partners, stating the following: ...

Intel Wants Netbooks to Keep Sucking [Intel]
Gizmodo — Digitimes reports Intel's pissed that Nvidia's trying to muscle into the totally Intel-dominated netbook niche with their new Ion platform that combines the Atom processor with Nvidia's GeForce 9400m which makes netbooks fully HD capable. So, Intel is reiterating to PC makers that the Atom processor only comes bundled with their own chipsets and is refusing to validate Nvidia's chipset for Atom-based netbooks. Which is obviously a problem for Nvidia, since half of Ion is Intel's Atom. That said, after Nvidia punted Intel's chipset out of the new ...

Accused of bundling Atom processor and chipset, Intel denies
Ubergizmo — Digitimes started the "drame du jour" by basically accusing Intel of forcing PC makers to use its 945G-series chipsets* with its Atom processor. This comes in a context where chipset rival NVIDIA has announced a single-chip solution, called ION (read our take), that is smaller, has more graphics performance, but roughly the same power consumption and thermal envelope than Intel's offering. According to Digitimes: "in an internal statement distributed to hardware makers recently, Intel reiterated that Atom ...

Intel Atom only for Intel chipsets. No luck for NVIDIA Ion.
PCLaunches.com — ... relent then it would be very difficult for NVIDIA to push its Ion processor, which reportedly features GeForce 9400M graphics processor and Intel Atom CPU. Under the existing scheme, Intel will only sell Atom CPUs and corresponding chipsets in a bundle, so it would be very difficult for manufacturer to obtain Atom chip. In that case, NVIDIA Ion platform will become too expensive for most applications. On its side Intel said its in no mood for a partnership with NVIDIA. [Via Digitimes]