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Sapphire Launches R9 290 Vapor-X OC

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SAPPHIRE technology, the leading manufacturer and global supplier of AMD-based graphics products, has just announced an exciting new model in the successful R9 series of graphics cards. The SAPPHIRE R9 290 Vapor-X OC features several of the company’s industry-leading technologies and a factory overclock to deliver best in class performance with very low noise.</div>
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Based on the award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture from AMD with 2560 Stream Processors, the SAPPHIRE R9 290 Vapor-X is an Overclocked edition which boasts 4GB of the latest GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz (5.6 GB/s effective) and high speed engine clocks of 1030 MHz. Together these clocks deliver industry leading performance – but to achieve this performance with stability and reliability demands high quality components throughout the design (especially in the power control circuitry) together with a sophisticated cooling solution.</div>
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<b>SAPPHIRE Innovations</b><br />
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The advanced cooling system for the new SAPPHIRE Vapor-X series has been engineered with a combination of SAPPHIRE innovative technologies to provide not just efficient cooling, but also quiet operation. At the core of the cooling system is the SAPPHIRE exclusive Vapor-X technology. SAPPHIRE pioneered the use of vapor chamber technology on graphics cards and has now used it in several generations of highly successful products. The vapor chamber is mounted between the GPU itself and the base of the heatsink and cooler assembly to ensure the maximum transfer of heat away from the GPU into the cooler.</div>
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The new Vapor-X cooler uses SAPPHIRE’s latest and highly acclaimed Tri-X structure comprising five heatpipes and three efficient fans. The core heatpipe is an industry leading 10mm pipe, flanked by two 8mm pipes and two 6mm pipes ensuring even heat distribution across the cooler. The three 90 mm fans use aerofoil section blades for maximum airflow with minimum noise, and are each equipped with two sets of dust repelling ball bearings.</div>
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The stylish fan shroud also contains moulded guides to control the airflow across and through the cooler, including over the Power Control circuitry.  The combination of Vapor-X and Tri-X technologies results in GPU temperatures between 5 and 10 degrees cooler than with Tri-X alone – delivering industry leading cooling for this generation of graphics cards.</div>
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Another new feature of the cooler on this new model is a PCB Component heat spreader. Along the edge of the card the PCB is extended and one of the copper layers left exposed. An additional heatsink mounted directly to this copper layer allows heat absorbed into the PCB from the GPU and other components to be transferred to the heatsink and cooled by the airflow. This feature alone can reduce core temperature by several degrees.</div>
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<b>New VRM Engine</b></div>
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To deliver sufficient power for maximum performance, the Vapor-X series uses Digital Power control and a new Aero6 VRM section delivering 6-phase power with high power Direct-FET technology to the GPU, memory and control circuitry. The power design uses the latest version of SAPPHIRE Black Diamond chokes, so called because they feature a black ferrite cooler for cool running and better efficiency. High reliability solid electrolyte capacitors are used throughout. The Aero6 gets its name because the layout of the 6-phase power circuits, chokes and the dedicated FET cooler resembles the appearance of a high performance engine.</div>
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Recognizing that the R9 series will not always be running at high performance, SAPPHIRE has incorporated another new feature in the Vapor-X models, Intelligent Fan Control (IFC). With IFC engaged, if the system is running simpler applications such as 2D work or watching video, only one of the three fans will operate, resulting in near silent operation. As soon as the GPU temperature rises, when performing more demanding tasks such as gaming or 3D rendering, all three fans will operate, and continue to run with fan speeds regulated by the temperature profile. Extreme users or keen gamers might want to have all three fans running all the time, so the card is equipped with an IFC override switch.</div>
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<b>How Cool is that?</b></div>
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The user has a simple visual indication of the temperature of the card as the color of the LED illuminated SAPPHIRE logo on the side of the card will change from blue when cool, through yellow and on to red when running hot.</div>
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<b>Universal Compatibility</b></div>
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The SAPPHIRE R9 290 Vapor-X is equipped with a Dual BIOS – so at the touch of a button it can be switched between compatibility with the latest UEFI or for use in legacy based systems. For optimum performance this card should be used in a mainboard with PCI Express Gen3.0 expansion slots. Multiple cards can be used in AMD CrossFire in a compatible mainboard.</div>
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The SAPPHIRE R9 290 Vapor-X is equipped with Dual DVI-D, High speed HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2 outputs enabling it to support the latest digital monitors. It is ideal for use with three monitor Eyefinity set-ups, with no active adapter needed, or with the latest high resolution 4K displays.</div>
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The SAPPHIRE R9 290 Vapor-X is shipping now and will be available from the usual SAPPHIRE retailers.</div>
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Source <a href="http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/media/media_index.aspx?psn=0004&articleID=5683&lid=1" target="_blank">Saphirethech</a></div>

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Graphics Card Leaked

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<br /><b>See the full official details and pictures <a href="http://techware-bliss.blogspot.com/2014/04/amd-radeon-r9-295x2.html" target="_blank">here</a></b></div>
Leaked Pictures of the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Graphics Card have been leaked on the Chiphell forums.<br />
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From the pictures it looks like the card will be dual cooled by both air and liquid.<br />
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source <a href="http://www.chiphell.com/" target="_blank">Chiphell</a><br />
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Intel's upcoming Haswell CPUs are expected next month.<br />
This will include 6 new Core CPUs along with 2 Celeron CPUs and 3 Pentium CPUs.<br />
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The Core CPUs are Core i7-4790, Core i5-4690, Core i5-4490, Core i3-4360/4350/4150.<br />
The Pentium CPUs are G3450, G3440, G3240.<br />
The Celeron CPUs are G1850 and G1840.<br />
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Source :- <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20140324PD213.html" target="_blank">Digitimes</a>.

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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nvidia has released a retail version of the OEM only GT 440. However the new card is not identical to the OEM version. That OEM card featured 144 CUDA cores clocked at 594/1,189MHz and 1.5GB or 3GB of DDR3 running over a 192-bit bus. The new GT 440 cuts the GF108 core down to 96 CUDA cores clocked at a frequency of 810/1,620MHz with 512MB GDDR5 or 1GB DDR3 running over a 128-bit bus and clocked at either 1,600MHz or 900MHz, respectively. Partners are also free to double the memory to 1GB GDDR5 or 2GB DDR3 if they want to. Another change from the OEM variant is that the single SLI slot is now missing.</span><br />
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AMD reduces the prices of Radeon HD 6800 and HD 6900 Cards

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Nvidia Tegra 3 - Quad core ARM coming Fall 2011

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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Acquired slides show Tegra 3 in two configurations, one for tablets and one for smartphones.</span><br />
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Keyboard disguised smartphone used to hack PC

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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">We've seen hackers use</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">keyboards to deliver malicious code to computers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">, and we've seen smartphones used as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">remote controls for cars</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">TV</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">-- but we've never seen a smartphone disguised as a keyboard used to control a computer, until now. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">A couple folks at this year's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Black Hat</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">DC conference have devised a clever bit of code that allows a rooted smartphone connected to a PC through USB to pose as a keyboard or mouse in order to attack and control the computer. The hack takes advantage of USB's inability to authenticate connected devices coupled with operating systems' inability to filter USB packets, which would enable users to thwart such an attack. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">While utilizing a digital costume to hack a computer is a nifty idea, it doesn't pose much additional risk to users because the method still requires physical access to a USB port to work -- and most of us would probably notice someone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><i>plugging a smartphone into our laptop while we're using it</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">.</span></span><br />
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Double-floating-gate FET, could revolutionize computer memory

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhfvzQDxbL39AyOOe-Rs8T2sNIPfMN4aZG1ezzDfNoFJyX5HFUpxMlpZeiwbS6l4K_aC37RD3Q9nejmGKQSLnQ6422qcJ-rAw-0wTMQ-uWAZeOmiQVFn6qpT70tPq-aQNeaBgIqxVf6ylx/s1600/1-22-11-double-floating-gate-fet-220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhfvzQDxbL39AyOOe-Rs8T2sNIPfMN4aZG1ezzDfNoFJyX5HFUpxMlpZeiwbS6l4K_aC37RD3Q9nejmGKQSLnQ6422qcJ-rAw-0wTMQ-uWAZeOmiQVFn6qpT70tPq-aQNeaBgIqxVf6ylx/s1600/1-22-11-double-floating-gate-fet-220.jpg" /></a></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Look, we get it, you want DRAM that behaves like flash, flash that behaves like DRAM, and everything in between; speedy computer memory that doesn't lose its data when the power goes off, and lasts for years on end. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;">Well, it looks there's a new challenger about to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;">enter that ring;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"> double floating-gate field effect transistors, currently in prototype form at North Carolina State University. Whereas the single floating-gate variety is currently responsible for the flash memory in your USB keys and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;">SSDs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;">, the second floating gate lets bits of data stay in an active, ready state, but the computer can also apply a higher voltage to "freeze" them in place. Since the memory can switch between static and dynamic modes in a single cycle and the data never disappears in between, researchers imagine the new tech could lead to instant-on computers and power-saving techniques that shut down idle memory banks.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In operation, computers using the double floating-gate FETs for their main memory can operate normally until they become idle, at which time their data values can be transferred to the second gate in order to power down the memory chip. Then when the stored values need to be accessed again by the computer, the second gate quickly transfers their stored charge back to the first gate and normal operations can resume.</span><br style="height: 5px;" /><br style="height: 5px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"We believe our new memory device will enable power-proportional computing, by allowing memory to be turned off during periods of low use without affecting performance,"</i><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">said Franzon.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 16px;"><br style="height: 5px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the test devices pass cycle testing, then the researchers' next step will be to fabricate real semiconductor memories out of them—a task the researchers hope to perform by next year. Also working on the project was Neil Spigna, a research assistant professor at NC State and doctoral candidates Daniel Schinke and Mihir Shiveshwarkar. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation.</span></span></span><br />
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Sony PSP2 rumored to have OLED touchcreen and 3G

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Tegra 2 3D Processor for Mobile Devices (Spring 2011)

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Mobile 3D computing for everyone!</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Trends seem to indicate our portables will boast 3D in all sorts of ways in the near future, the Nintendo 3DS chief amongst them, so this little leak isn't exactly a surprise.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">As Tech Eye reports however, this is not quite the same deal as Nintendo is deploying in the 3DS</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It can be reasoned coming mobile handsets will offer a Master Image TN-LCD display using cell parallax, a technology using the individuals cells to create a 3D effect instead of a parallax barrier, as Nintendo will be using in its 3DS console."</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is came so soon after Nvidia was talking up the standard Tegra 2 "super phone" processor at CES is somewhat of a surprise, but what are you going to do. 3D is what's in at the moment. Bring on the 3D mobile devices and inevitably expensive 3D kid's toys by the 2011 holiday season! </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source <a href="http://www.techeye.net/chips/tegra-2-3d-unveiled">here</a>.</span></span></div>

A leaked slide from Nvidia's Mobile World Congress presentation has revealed that the 1.2Ghz Tegra 2 3D processor, meant for mobiles ...

Nvidia Kepler 28nm Geforce coming in Q4 2011 (GTX 680 ??)

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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The chips are made by Nvidia's long term partner, TSMC, so there are no surprises there. TSMC is already taping out some 28nm network chips but graphics chips are far more complex and have billions of transistors these days. It might take them a bit more to get ready for billion(s) transistors graphics cards.</span><br />
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The real fight is scheduled for Q4 2011, asuming that both companies can execute flawlessly.</span>

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OCZ to quit the DRAM market and Focus on the SSD market.

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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">“The board has determined that it is in the best interests of the stockholders to accelerate plans to discontinue its remaining DRAM module products by the end of its current fiscal year of February 28, 2011. Accordingly, our DRAM products are now expected to have minimal, if any, sales in the next fiscal year and beyond.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><br class="spacer_" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">“Revenue generated from our Solid State Drive products for the third fiscal quarter more than doubled on a sequential basis,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. “SSD revenue accounted for 78-percent of our revenue and just by itself exceeds our historical quarterly revenue totals across all categories, thus reinforcing our decision to discontinue our remaining DRAM products.”</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br class="spacer_" /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASbnGLDvNhPLX-c_Q6H38k94Nyl-pURit1AmLGc6ZwcwqIP-mhU9UqjWC9Iyc2rhr8t5h8w3M-hkHFb11yFBaBlGpUuakmzXYOAaWd4Q4vqRUeWtZZRy3MJ6e_GZ6UVYegygwstbQ9BFD/s1600/ocz-ssd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASbnGLDvNhPLX-c_Q6H38k94Nyl-pURit1AmLGc6ZwcwqIP-mhU9UqjWC9Iyc2rhr8t5h8w3M-hkHFb11yFBaBlGpUuakmzXYOAaWd4Q4vqRUeWtZZRy3MJ6e_GZ6UVYegygwstbQ9BFD/s1600/ocz-ssd.jpg" /></a></div>OCZ Technology was founded in 2002 as a memory company, as was a key player in the rapid development and launch of SSDs</div><br />
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Intel to Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion in Licensing Fees

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 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The Intel / NVIDIA licensing dispute has finally come to an end with Intel agreeing to a new 6-year cross-license agreement worth $1.5 Billion.</span><br />
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<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br class="spacer_" /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For the future use of NVIDIA’s technology, Intel will pay NVIDIA an aggregate of $1.5 billion in licensing fees payable in five annual installments, beginning Jan. 18, 2011. NVIDIA and Intel have also agreed to drop all outstanding legal disputes between them. “This agreement signals a new era for NVIDIA,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA’s president and chief executive officer.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br class="spacer_" /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Our cross license with Intel reflects the substantial value of our visual and parallel computing technologies. It also underscores the importance of our inventions to the future of personal computing, as well as the expanding markets for mobile and cloud computing.”</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br class="spacer_" /></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Under the new agreement, Intel will have continued access to NVIDIA’s full range of patents.  In return, NVIDIA will receive an aggregate of $1.5 billion in licensing fees, to be paid in annual installments, and retain use of Intel’s patents, consistent with its existing six-year agreement with Intel. This excludes Intel’s proprietary processors, flash memory and certain chipsets for the Intel platform.  The existing agreement is to expire March 31, 2011.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">source <a href="http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/cpu/intel-nvidia-officially-bury-hatchet-intel-pay-15-billion-licensing-fees/">here</a>.</div>

The Intel / NVIDIA licensing dispute has finally come to an end with Intel agreeing to a new 6-year cross-license agreement wo...

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