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This isn't new, they knifed it a year+ ago. I wrote it up then:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1021993/nvidia-chipsets-history
and no one believed it. Now that NV has no choice but to admit it, they stopped pretending. Yay?

They are doing the same thing about their "not killing" the GTX285/275/260, it is just a temporary shortage or some twaddle. This one won't take a year to admit though.

                      -Charlie

Charlie Demerjian, who was fired from The Inquirer for a number of reasons, including making shit up.

Like what? That's a hell of a big accusation just to take on faith.

I think they cut him out of the information loop because he leaked some info he wasn't supposed to.

Unlikely. Because the Inq never signs NDAs. That's their official policy and has been since Mike Magee founded it.

The one place where nanotubes might be of the most benefit is boosting the storage in ultracapacitors. The technology is making advances towards the point where they might match or surpass batteries.

By the time Diablo 3 comes out, your 8800 GT will be dead.
They're all defective.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1038400/nvidia-g92s-g94-reportedly

I'm with you, though.
As long as my games run acceptably, fuck upgrading.
Eye candy is nice, but fun games are nicer. With more money I can afford more games, or, you know, save it.

With hot new GPUs I play the same old shit with better textures, and then I look around and see 1, maybe 2 games worth buying. Typically, these are the games that play great on older hardware too.

Hind sight is 20/20, and I think I would have done well if I had done the following:

GeForce 2 --> 9800 Pro (ATi) --> 8800 Ultra/GTX

Sorry AMD and Nvidia, unless there's a damned good game I NEED to play immediately, I'll be waiting til you bring out the 6870 (ATi) / 485 (Nvidia). They're coming out in what, another year? I can wait.

Look into ultracapacitors. They're getting insanely more powerful, and they charge nearly instantly. Even if they only run for 3-4 hours, the fast charge would make it much more acceptable to most people. If I use my phone for 6 hours, I have to charge it for 1-2. If that charge time dropped to under 15 minutes, I would be insanely happy and much more likely to have a power-hungry mobile.

forgot the source : http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1024278/linux-petitioners-sony-ps3-graphical-innards/ sry

"I don't particularly like Microsoft, in fact they are still my least favourite company in the world. But do you expect Adobe to keep bringing out patches for 8 year old versions of Photoshop?"

Apples and oranges. Took M$ 5 years to come out with a new OS and that OS was crap, MS even admits Vista is crap. So it comes out with a new OS 3 years later but it's not released yet, no support for it.

So MS is saying "We won't patch XP because it's old, the Vista OS we patched is crap so don't use it, and the new Win7 OS has not been officially released so no support. Good luck!"

IT services arm.

The Inquirer (the IT news website, not the tabloid) has some words about this:

HP, on the other hand, wants Sun's hardware to boost its services business. HP bought outsourcing player EDS. EDS was Sun's best customer. By owning Sun technology, HP will improve its profit margins on many EDS deals.

HP told CNN that the EDS integration process has gone well and the subtext is that the maker of expensive printer ink is fine with writing a big cheque to Ellison.

So, HP bought EDS, and EDS has a historical habit of recommending or BOM'ing Sun hardware. Solution? HP buys and manufactures Sun hardware. That way, EDS is eating HP's own dog food. That's the "x) PROFIT!" stage.

It's possible. In that case, by keeping the deals they make to different developers secret, they will have better negotiating power.

But this could also be more about Apple wanting control of what the media journalists, bloggers, and commenters on internet forums can say about Apple, their policies, and decisions. (E.g. the secrecy requirements may be "defensive" in nature, standard language they could use for all developer tools, possibly)

For example, if Google revealed certain information, it could result in the media publishing critical things about Apple.

Apple is very sensitive and aggressive in controlling their public image, and they are well known for their secrecy.

They are also well known for sending armies of lawyers at web sites or people revealing information they don't want puiblished, or that are excessively critical of them. Their tools include cease and decist letters, DMCA notices, threats to sue, and actual lawsuits....

Examples in recent years:

• Apple Computer ordered to pay more than $750k in attorney fees and court costs in a case that pitted the electronics giant against a group of online journalists who posted information about an unreleased Apple product on the Web.
• Apple Broke the law by lying about Steve Jobs' health
• Apple product failure results in gagging order
• Apple Lawyers set sights on new prey (after sending cease-and-decist letters to "Podcasting" websites over alleged dilution of the "iPod" mark)
• Apple Lawyers bully bloggers over iPhone skins
• Apple Lawyers Tried To Cover-Up Exploding iPod Stories,
• Microsoft Cows To Apple Lawyers, Changes 'Laptop Hunters' Ad
• Apple's lawyers shut down rumor site, 2 (Think Secret)
• Apple lawyers nix box pix
• Apple's lawyers attack everyone over iPhone icons - "Apple's lawyers also sent letters to journalists who simply reported on the fact that the skins were available."
• Apple's lawyers threaten fake Steve jobs (Parody site)
• Apple sued for threatening fan wiki - 2
• Apple sues Victoria School - over the use of a logo that is shaped like an Apple. [...] students are now afraid to give their teachers apples now because of the fruitâ(TM)s striking resemblance to the company logo.
• Apple Lawyers shutting down Iowa Bar's iPod Mondays
• Apple Cease-and-Decists Stupidity Leak
• A

Beckton, the 8 core / 16 threads Nehalem CPU will be out in Q1 2010.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1050976/intel-bunch-fun-cpus-moves-2010

It is not because of poor engineers suicide, Foxconn drove their partners mad by diminishing quality and their "me too" laptops based on the following The Inquirer article.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1433657/apple-sony-dump-foxconn-quanta

Or use an Apple notebook. Their products are constantly bursting into flames and exploding.

It really depends on who you ask. Or maybe whom. Here is a link to a British newspaper discussing how a British dictionary chooses to define Xerox:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1024683/xerox-forbids-use-of-word-xeroxing

Now, I'm pretty sure we could impugn The Inquirer all the day long, but the Oxford English Dictionary presents somewhat of an edifice.

Here's a Forbes Magazine interview with the CEO of Nvidia: Nvidia's Plan For Beating Moore's Law: Chief Jen-Hsun Huang on how GPUs could get ahead of CPUs. But read the comments. Readers are not impressed.

There is a general impression now, apparently correct, that Nvidia is not honest and cannot be trusted. HP bought Nvidia graphics chips, and when they were found defective, neither company was completely honest about fixing the defects, articles say.

An Inquirer article, Nvidia cuts out reviewers for the GTS250, says "IT IS ALWAYS funny when an unethical company turns on its own supporters as Nvidia did with the latest 'all new' GT250 cards. This time however, their PR stunts cross the line from unethical to purposely false, and hilarity ensues."

Another quote from the Inquirer story: "This time however, they crossed the line from plausible deniability to flat out deception. In the middle of last week we heard what Nvidia was up to this time around, but just couldn't believe they would be THAT sleazy."

Now that Intel is integrating faster GPUs into its chipsets, there is a perception that eventually there will be little room for Nvidia.

The Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIfx does look interesting, but does anyone know when it is actually supposed to be released?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1044970/china-gives-electric-shocks-to-net-game-addicts Electroconvulsive therapy were proved very effective for MMO Addiction, in my homeland.

> It depends on what they did to "compete unfairly". For example, it is not illegal for a vendor to have a contract with an OEM that the OEM could not buy a competitor's products if the vendor is not in a market monopoly position.

IIRC, they broke contracts, screwed over partners, and out-and-out stole other people's code and products. They lost several lawsuits over this, but the fines were small enough that they came out ahead. Wikipedia doesn't have as many details as I remember, but some of how they bent over Stac Electronics should give you an idea of the kind of games they played. There are also more recent things like this and this.

They've never been a nice company. They screw over their 'partners' more than anyone.

Hell, most of the time they won't even except US citizens unless they already have a clearance. It's a very closed system.

I spend a few years doing IT/Security for the DOD.

The worst job ever, for what it's worth. So bad that I now happily work for 50% less pay, elsewhere.

In other news, it was announced that the US Army will be upgrading from XP to Vista because "It's easier to upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista than it is from XP." (not an exact quote) This is the type of mentality you have to deal with in DOD IT.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137451/us-army-finally-moves-vista

IIRC back when the Athlon 64 was blowing away Intel, AMD had chip shortages.

http://www.crn.com/white-box/193500828

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1014180/unprecedented-demand-for--athlon-64-x2s-prompts-shortage-fear

Hard to make more money when you are out of stock.

In theory AMD could have charged higher, but they had already committed to certain prices, and even if they could at a certain point people would buy Intel. If you have orders for 10000 PCs, and AMD only provides you 5000 CPUs, you have a problem. Worse if they are orders specifically for AMD PCs.

1: They do not disable the SPEs to increase yield. History: Yields are horrible, Yields can be improved by disabling processing elements, yields have improved. If you can suggest another reason why yields improved, I'd like to see it.
As someone else in this thread mentioned, a Cell with a single SPE, like I suggested be used in a mobile device, would use only about 15W, not the full 60-80W. Probably false, without a process shrink, which would again threaten yields and raise costs. One PPE plus one SPE would almost certainly draw more than that. But there's no good way to know because no hard TDP numbers have ever been published. Also, what the hell are you trying to accomplish with a single SPE? That's just plain retarded. Are you not aware that MMX/SSE/etc functions are provided by a coprocessor? Congratulations, you've just reinvented the Pentium MMX. The only advantage of using a cell processor (which has been largely panned by game developers as being a major PITA) in the handheld goes away if you don't have all the SPEs, because you don't have PS3 compatibility. The Cell is a serious boondoggle in gaming. I can't help but continue to believe that it was designed for other purposes (perhaps military) and they decided to build a game console around it to try to recoup some of the cost.
BTW, it's the dissipated power that burns your hand, not the power consumed. If a chip consumed 80W but ran 100% efficient, it wouldn't heat up at all. Uh, and exactly how do you think that energy is dissipated? Free hint: The electrons don't just fly out into the aether.
The SPEs are DSPs Depends on how you define DSP, but we could argue about definitions all day; I hereby announce that I have no intention of doing so.
It's pretty evident that you don't really know anything about the Cell Snicker snort. It's pretty obvious that you got all defensive, but it doesn't make you right.

1: They do not disable the SPEs to increase yield. History: Yields are horrible, Yields can be improved by disabling processing elements, yields have improved. If you can suggest another reason why yields improved, I'd like to see it.
As someone else in this thread mentioned, a Cell with a single SPE, like I suggested be used in a mobile device, would use only about 15W, not the full 60-80W. Probably false, without a process shrink, which would again threaten yields and raise costs. One PPE plus one SPE would almost certainly draw more than that. But there's no good way to know because no hard TDP numbers have ever been published. Also, what the hell are you trying to accomplish with a single SPE? That's just plain retarded. Are you not aware that MMX/SSE/etc functions are provided by a coprocessor? Congratulations, you've just reinvented the Pentium MMX. The only advantage of using a cell processor (which has been largely panned by game developers as being a major PITA) in the handheld goes away if you don't have all the SPEs, because you don't have PS3 compatibility. The Cell is a serious boondoggle in gaming. I can't help but continue to believe that it was designed for other purposes (perhaps military) and they decided to build a game console around it to try to recoup some of the cost.
BTW, it's the dissipated power that burns your hand, not the power consumed. If a chip consumed 80W but ran 100% efficient, it wouldn't heat up at all. Uh, and exactly how do you think that energy is dissipated? Free hint: The electrons don't just fly out into the aether.
The SPEs are DSPs Depends on how you define DSP, but we could argue about definitions all day; I hereby announce that I have no intention of doing so.
It's pretty evident that you don't really know anything about the Cell Snicker snort. It's pretty obvious that you got all defensive, but it doesn't make you right.

1: They do not disable the SPEs to increase yield. History: Yields are horrible, Yields can be improved by disabling processing elements, yields have improved. If you can suggest another reason why yields improved, I'd like to see it.
As someone else in this thread mentioned, a Cell with a single SPE, like I suggested be used in a mobile device, would use only about 15W, not the full 60-80W. Probably false, without a process shrink, which would again threaten yields and raise costs. One PPE plus one SPE would almost certainly draw more than that. But there's no good way to know because no hard TDP numbers have ever been published. Also, what the hell are you trying to accomplish with a single SPE? That's just plain retarded. Are you not aware that MMX/SSE/etc functions are provided by a coprocessor? Congratulations, you've just reinvented the Pentium MMX. The only advantage of using a cell processor (which has been largely panned by game developers as being a major PITA) in the handheld goes away if you don't have all the SPEs, because you don't have PS3 compatibility. The Cell is a serious boondoggle in gaming. I can't help but continue to believe that it was designed for other purposes (perhaps military) and they decided to build a game console around it to try to recoup some of the cost.
BTW, it's the dissipated power that burns your hand, not the power consumed. If a chip consumed 80W but ran 100% efficient, it wouldn't heat up at all. Uh, and exactly how do you think that energy is dissipated? Free hint: The electrons don't just fly out into the aether.
The SPEs are DSPs Depends on how you define DSP, but we could argue about definitions all day; I hereby announce that I have no intention of doing so.
It's pretty evident that you don't really know anything about the Cell Snicker snort. It's pretty obvious that you got all defensive, but it doesn't make you right.

I don't know, he seemed to think I was a psycho when I asked him about it.(1)

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1012711/inq-interviews-the-gaming-greats

        -Charlie

(1) I am, but not in that way.

"they took IBM's commitment to OS/2 too seriously .. IBM just walked away, whistling"

I thought OS/2 was a joint project between IBM and Microsoft? Perhaps that explains Borlands decision to commitment to OS/2 too seriously. MS also leaned on IBM to drop OS/2 else it would be forced to pay higher prices for software. See also IBM chief: Microsoft killed OS/2

The Inquirer's ranty Charlie Demerijan was on to this earlier: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1052027/apple-console

Uh, yeah, and it's present in the 9000 series.
You're running on the G92, and all of those are built with the shitty broken process, EXCEPT for some of the later ones, maybe.

Nvidia pushed out the good (non-broken) 9000 series parts towards the end of the 9000 series life cycle, but made NO INDICATION (either by name, note on the box, or by SKU) as to which parts were good and which were bad.

If you picked up a 9000 series part late in the 9000 series' life cycle, you were playing roulette with old stock and new good parts.

Some of these same parts were again rebadged as the lower-end 200 series, since the 9000 series died off. See here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/214/1050214/evidence-that-nvidia-renamed-9xxx-gpus-tips-up
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/502/1016502/nvidia-sticks-names-old-cards
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/123/1051123/nvidia-cuts-reviewers-gts250

Did YOU not pay attention to all the news?

All 65 nm and 55 nm parts during that time frame were broken. FUCKING BROKEN.

Uh, yeah, and it's present in the 9000 series.
You're running on the G92, and all of those are built with the shitty broken process, EXCEPT for some of the later ones, maybe.

Nvidia pushed out the good (non-broken) 9000 series parts towards the end of the 9000 series life cycle, but made NO INDICATION (either by name, note on the box, or by SKU) as to which parts were good and which were bad.

If you picked up a 9000 series part late in the 9000 series' life cycle, you were playing roulette with old stock and new good parts.

Some of these same parts were again rebadged as the lower-end 200 series, since the 9000 series died off. See here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/214/1050214/evidence-that-nvidia-renamed-9xxx-gpus-tips-up
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/502/1016502/nvidia-sticks-names-old-cards
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/123/1051123/nvidia-cuts-reviewers-gts250

Did YOU not pay attention to all the news?

All 65 nm and 55 nm parts during that time frame were broken. FUCKING BROKEN.

Uh, yeah, and it's present in the 9000 series.
You're running on the G92, and all of those are built with the shitty broken process, EXCEPT for some of the later ones, maybe.

Nvidia pushed out the good (non-broken) 9000 series parts towards the end of the 9000 series life cycle, but made NO INDICATION (either by name, note on the box, or by SKU) as to which parts were good and which were bad.

If you picked up a 9000 series part late in the 9000 series' life cycle, you were playing roulette with old stock and new good parts.

Some of these same parts were again rebadged as the lower-end 200 series, since the 9000 series died off. See here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/214/1050214/evidence-that-nvidia-renamed-9xxx-gpus-tips-up
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/502/1016502/nvidia-sticks-names-old-cards
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/123/1051123/nvidia-cuts-reviewers-gts250

Did YOU not pay attention to all the news?

All 65 nm and 55 nm parts during that time frame were broken. FUCKING BROKEN.

Also, if you're into the whole "Free as in speech, not free as in Beer" thing, Ati should be the hardware of choice, even though their proprietary drivers aren't as good as NV's.

And apart from ATI's support for OSS driver projects, NVidia has pulled off some highly questionable moves in the recent past, comparable on the moral scale to Microsoft business tactics, effectively making them a no-buy in my book as long as ATI puts out competetively priced and performing products.

Also, if you're into the whole "Free as in speech, not free as in Beer" thing, Ati should be the hardware of choice, even though their proprietary drivers aren't as good as NV's.

And apart from ATI's support for OSS driver projects, NVidia has pulled off some highly questionable moves in the recent past, comparable on the moral scale to Microsoft business tactics, effectively making them a no-buy in my book as long as ATI puts out competetively priced and performing products.

The Inquirer (I know, they hate nVidia with a passion) is speculating that the GT275 may be a relabeled GT260, except for reviewer cards which may be relabeled GT280's: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/599/1051599/nvidia-hoodwinks-reviewers-mythical-gt275s

I guess this is common for ATI/AMD and nVidia to do, but it's the first I've heard of it and it seems awful slimy.

You might want to check the hard drive load cycle count as my Compaq went through the roof with Ubuntu on it, increasing by 3 counts every few seconds.

Ok, the panel voltage is about 17V. If anything with 17V cannot be the cause of fires, certainly a li-ion battery cannot, since it's cell is only 3.7V.

Then howcome Apple recalled all those batteries for those Powerbooks? Don't own one myself, but I'm going out on a limb and say that the voltage involved is on the order of 5-6V, same as my Thinkpad.

Or so they tell The Enquirer. Symantec update triggers firewall, many wounded Go fugure. :D

one of these home file servers:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/313/1051313/ibm-steps-home-media-servers

SAMMY570 SAID : "All this means is that NO, MS can't just go and download the SDK and code happily for the iPhone ever after. It must first go out and shell out (a lot of) cash for some Apple PC it didn't want in the first place." Weirdly enough, MSFT had no trouble with buying a boatload of MACS when they were developing for the XBOX360. http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/23/even-microsoft-wants-g5s/ or http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8096/Xbox-360-Development-Kit-Spotted/ or http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/308/1030308/xbox-2--sdk-released-on-cool-apple-power-mac-g5s

Basing on this old article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/780/1013780/nvidia-declares-war-intel

But also on this one:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/11/1815221

It *might* seems NVIDIA is "lock & loading" its GPU to bump up in the market on hybrids (low cost stuff?). HAs AMD+ATI already done something?

In the future We'll add a GPUCPU just as easy as adding a graphics card! :-)

The PC Authority site got slashdotted, but this sounds terribly like Charlie Demerijan's article from 2 days ago.

And while Charlie's articles are terribly fun to read, they don't quite qualify as news. Call them rants, speculation, whatever you wish, but not news. At least unless they get picked up blindly by other publications...

The day after he brought you news about Intel creating the Playstation 4 GPU discussed here comes more industry shaking news, original article here.

Wow, that's two pretty big news scoops on back to back days for Charlie with both making Slashdot's homepage at the same time!

The day after he brought you news about Intel creating the Playstation 4 GPU discussed here comes more industry shaking news, original article here.

Wow, that's two pretty big news scoops on back to back days for Charlie with both making Slashdot's homepage at the same time!

Actually no. You're wrong. Try knowing something about what you're talking about.

This will help you:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/321/1003321/dx10-is-do-able-on-windows-xp

Anyone remember what happened to Sony for the DVD/CD Burning software fiasco? Sony was forced to remove the product from the shelves by the uproar of the people it hurt, and pay for damages it caused to the systems. Why can we not see this again but with more companies, DRM hurt the people that actually purchase the products. I have more than once chosen to buy a game and found it has nasty DRM and I just hack it if I love the game but more often than not just force the retailer to take a return on the game.

The best thing about you "Linux shills" is that you make outrageous claims about Windows while in the same breath letting it known publicly you've never touched it with a 10-foot pole.

And I include Peter Gutmann in that bracket too; find me a single example where one of his claims has been substantiated with actual hands-on testing.

It's awesome; kinda like you build up an almost convincing argument, only to smash it down again in the next paragraph.

Revisionist history. It wasn't Slashdot that made people think Vista was slower than XP.

it was Infoworld:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/17/12TC-vista-versus-xp_6.html

and Fox news:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314141,00.html

and PC World:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/129410/vista_ui_is_a_step_back_for_microsoft.html

and MICROSOFT when they told the gaming industry Vista was 10 to 15 percent slower (or virtually identical in your world)

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/027/1003027/vista-gaming-will-be-10-to-15-per-cent-slower-than-xp

(links from searching vista slower) Go on, now you can talk about how that was before the service pack, or pre-release, or whatever, but that is when reputations are built. Windows 7 is getting praise because the FIRST IMPRESSION is that it doesn't suck. Vista's first impression was that it generally was slower and used more memory. It isn't all about different caching strategies or Vista wouldn't be almost unusable on netbooks (and if that weren't the case Microsoft wouldn't have agreed to keep selling XP to netbook vendors). So give it a fucking rest and go troll some people who are stupid enough to believe you.

Amongst other things, they got caught with their pants down after they paid a market company to create a fake PSP fan site a couple of years ago: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/820/1041820/sony-fakes-psp-fan-site

Why do we bother... with CPUs anymore? I'm just going to fill a case with graphics cards and call it a day.

Then you can enjoy the fact that you'll be able to run your anti-virus software 21x faster too.

To understand why this may be a poor choice for 3D glasses technology for consumers, as well as some thoughts on why NVIDIA might have gone with it anyways, here's an article that gets into the nitty gritty. Brief summary; headaches and batteries.

(Insert usual disclaimer about the Inquirer not exactly being an enthusiastic supporter of NVIDIA here..)

Reminds me of this article i just read a couple of days ago: Some australian nutters want to use the filter to block hardcore pornography.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/233/1009233/australia-wants-ban-internet

A CITY IN CHINA has required Internet café operators to replace pirated software with legitimate versions - the officials primarily pushing Linux.

Nanchang, the capital of China's Jiangxi province has around 600 Internet cafés which will be affected by the order - yet some are moaning about the cost of legal software.

Cafes which don't adhere to this order however, will lose their licence to operate.

"We recommend the use of Red Flag Linux server operating system or Microsoft Windows Server operating system," said the directive issued by Nanchang's Cultural Department.

Although Windows will be an option for the cafes, Linux seems to be the preferred OS as officials seem to have struck a deal with a local Red Flag Linux distributor to install licensed software and provide two years of support.

Ren Xiaojie, general manager of a software distribution company said, "We're using domestically produced Red Flag software, and have set a standard one-time fee of 5,000 yuan (about £150) for each Internet cafe, which includes a lifetime license, and we will provide all Internet cafe owners two years of maintenance support for free."

The Business Software Alliance, established to fight software piracy, estimated that the rate of software piracy in China was more than 80 percent last year which highlights the intensity of the problem.

people are basically flushing those down the toilet by giving every device one (including their toilet).

We may see that in the not too distant future