Microsoft “7″ in Three Years?
I’m not sure Microsoft realizes this but Vista was just released…um…this year because I’m sure if they did, they wouldn’t be telling us they’d be releasing a new operating system in three years. From what I’ve gathered in the last few days, the new OS is codenamed “7″ (changed from “Vienna”) is apparently in [...]
Nvidia G92 GeForce 9800 GPU - Rumored Specs
Consider this info as 100% unverified rumor-fodder, but for the curious, here are the purported specs of Nvidia’s next GPU:
65nm process technology at TSMC.
Over one billion transistors.
Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
Double precision support (FP64).
GPGPU native.
Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
Fully Scalar design.
512-bit memory interface.
1024MB [...]
6th Gen iPod Interface?
When the iPhone was announced, most folks said that the ideal design for the next iPod would probably be the iPhone without all the, well, phone parts to it. A video surface yesterday with what looks like the new iPod interface and while it does look cool, it looks like it will maintain the [...]
Rumor Control: Microsoft didn’t admit anything
Yesterday, an Australian business site reported on Microsoft’s warranty extension story and conference call (about 4 days after it happened; see our report here). Okay, so they were a bit late. What is a site to do when they report on a story so late? Make something up! As you know, the story is [...]
Rumor Control: 60GB PS3 is going nowhere - at the moment
Yesterday there was a report that someone at Sony (with the fancy title of PRESIDENT no less) said that the 60GB PS3 was no longer being produced, and as soon as the current stock sold out, they would go back to selling a single SKU (presumably, the crippled 80GB version). He said that they [...]
Rumor: XBOX 360 will get a price cut as well
In what’s becoming an E3 tradition where console manufacturers try to one-up each other with price cuts right as the event starts, a securities analyst is saying that Microsoft will very likely announce a price cut of their own for all models of the 360 during E3.
He said that the price cut will affect [...]
RUMOR: PS3 price cut forthcoming?
Update: Coming in from GameDaily is confirmation from “one of the world’s biggest retailers” that the price cut is indeed true. w00t!
Consider this a total rumor right now, but folks on the DVD Talk Forum have come up with what looks to be next week’s advertising for Circuit City. In it, the PS3 receives the [...]
