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You can’t doubt AMD’s commitment to marketing speech: the company is describing their new ATI Radeon HD 5970 as the “fastest graphics card in the world”, and from glancing at the specifications it certainly looks potent.  The Radeon HD 5970 – which we saw leaked in recent weeks – packs DirectX 11 support, dual Cypress graphics processors for up to 5 TeraFLOPS of power, and the potential for twice that if you hook up twin HD 5970 cards using CrossFireX.  A single card can, thanks to Eyefinity, create a 7,680 x 1,600 workspace across three displays.

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Last week Intel and AMD settled their long running legal battle with Intel dishing out $1.25 billion to AMD and putting a patents cross-license agreement in place. I thought at the time with the worth of Intel and how much business the company does the fine was a mere drop in the bucket.

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Most computer enthusiasts will recognize the Cooler Master name as the maker of some of the best computer cases on the market. Over the years, Cooler Master has offered up some very cool editions of its cases. One of my favorite was the NVIDIA version the Stacker that they produce. The case was notable for its cool green accents that NVIDIA fans can appreciate.

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AMD has announced that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jaguar supercomputer has been updated with new six-core AMD Opteron processors. The supercomputer and its new processors now holds the top spot on the list of the top five supercomputers in the world.

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Here we go with another week in review. Monday IDC released their data on the number of CPUs shipped for Q3 2009. The number of CPUS shipped grew 23% for the quarter compared to the previous year. ZiiLABS unveiled its new ZMS-08 Blu-ray quality media processor this week. The processor promises to be full 1080p HD video support and more for portable devices like tablets.

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With the news that Intel and AMD have settled their antitrust, patent and license disagreements, it's all love, hugs and snuggles in the big, scary world of silicon today.  The two companies have settled all of their ongoing legal disputes, with a new, five-year cross license agreement and Intel paying AMD $1.25bn together with agreeing "to abide by a set of business practice provisions" that, as yet, we don't know full details regarding.

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With the global economy starting to recover, shipments of PCs are growing as well. That means when more PC ship more components used in the machines like CPUs are sold as well. The latest numbers for CPU shipments for Q3 2009 are in from IDC.

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The thought of a ThinkPad netbook is enough to make anyone even vaguely familiar with Lenovo suspicious, but according to ThinkPadToday that’s exactly what the company have up their corporate sleeve.  They’re claiming that the rumored ThinkPad X200e will actually drop as the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e on January 5th 2010, with the tagline “Entry level ultra portable, the first ThinkPad of its size”.

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AMD are reportedly planning two new desktop platforms which will see a May 2010 launch, at least that's the latest rumor out of motherboard manufacturers.  The AMD Dorado and Leo platforms will target the mainstream and high-end respectively, with each using ATI Radeon HD 5000 series video cards and processors from either the Athlon II or Phenom II ranges.

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MSI have outed their latest ultraportable, and it comes as a pleasant surprise to find a chip other than Intel’s Atom under the hood.  The MSI Wind U230 squeezes AMD’s 1.6GHz Neo X2 MV40 processor into a 12.1-inch 1366 x 768 chassis with AMD Radeon HD3200 graphics, up to 4GB of RAM and a choice of 160GB, 250GB or 320GB hard-drives.

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