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With a minimum of fuss and fanfare, AMD and Nvidia have made some changes to their mobile lineup over the past few days. First off, AMD quietly released seven new Llano A-series APUs to its lineup, but that’s overshadowed by the launch of the new Radeon HD 7000M graphics chips. Actually, the Radeon HD 7000M series only sort of launched. Rather than unveiling long-awaited new 28nm GPUs, the HD 7000M models announced yesterday are basically just rebranded 40nm HD 6000M chips. Nvidia's new GeForce 600M series is likewise pretty much rebranded 500M chips.
The problem is that yields of 28nm chips simply aren’t good enough for a full retail roll-out yet. AMD decided that rather than miss the holiday season, it would be wiser to launch the new line with rebranded 40nm parts. If you’re waiting for the “real” Radeon HD 7000M, a partial run of 28nm chips may hit the streets by New Year’s, but the full launch of the next-gen GPUs won’t happen until sometime in 2012.
As for the rebranded chips, AMD didn’t release full details, only general configurations – which look the exact same as the HD 6000M chips. Clock rates are currently unknown, but presumably they’ll be higher than the clock rates on the HD 6000M chips. Check out AnandTech for a more details and a spreadsheet comparing the HD 7000M specs against the HD 6000M specs.
Nvidia also launched its new GeForce 600M lineup yesterday -- which, like AMD's mobile graphics, are a rebranding of the models that are already around, but with slightly tweaked clock speeds and memory bandwidth. Notebook Check has detailed info.
Six of AMD's seven new Llano APUs, on the other hand, are mostly incremental upgrades to existing chips that add around 100 MHz to clock rates. The seventh chip bucks the trend; the A4-3305M follows up on the A4-3300M by keeping the same clock speed and shaving off 1MB of the L2 cache. The GPU features fewer shaders than its predecessor, but clocks them higher. Check out CPU-World for a full list of specs and details. Read more at.... |
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Tis the season to shop around, and while you're out there buying gifts, sometimes you have to splurge on yourself. That's what IBM is doing, which announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DemandTec, a cloud-based analytics company, for around $440 million in an all-cash transaction. IBM is hoping the acquisition will extend its Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based price, promotion, and other merchandising and marketing analytics to its portfolio.
"DemandTec has unprecedented capability to improve customers’ price and promotion tactics on a stand-alone basis and connect retailers and manufacturers for collaborative planning through the cloud," said Dan Fishback, President and Chief Executive Officer of DemandTec. "IBM Smarter Commerce is the perfect fit for DemandTec. IBM is the only provider of price and promotion offerings within a rich solution set that supports companies’ buy, market, sell and service processes."
Even for IBM, $440 million isn't exactly chump change, but justifiable given that IBM estimates the market opportunity for Smarter Commerce to be around $20 billion in software alone.
DemandTec is home to 350 employees and headquartered n San Mateo, California, with additional offices in Minneapolis, London, Paris, and Bangalore. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012. Read more at.... |
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As we're still discussing the mess from the Dajaz1 censorship, in the other big case involving domain censorship, we've got another troubling situation.
Yesterday was the latest hearing in the forfeiture case involving Rojadirecta (Puerto 80), and the end result was that -- believe it or not -- the case was dismissed (pdf). The ruling doesn't say much -- basically says the reasons were stated during the oral arguments, and there's no transcript yet. However, the basics are that it was dismissed on a technicality (over a failure to plead the willfulness, which is necessary for criminal infringement), and the government has 30 days to amend and refile its complaint -- which is quite likely. While having the case dismissed sounds like a big deal, this seems more like a temporary pause, rather than anything meaningful at this point (unlike the Dajaz1 situation).
But here's the weird thing: technically, because of the dismissal, there's no forfeiture case going on, and the seizure time period has long expired. So... um... why does the government still have the domains in question? There's no ongoing case, and even if the government intends to refile, it's hard to see how it has a right to hang onto the domains in the meantime. But... it is. It seems like both Dajaz1 and Puerto 80 should be celebrating the returns of their domains today, but only one is....Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
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