Friday, April 17, 2009

AMD SB850 Chipset Specifications

According to a recent news-article on the English version of Expreview.com, Intel's main competitor in the market of x86 processors and computer platforms will soon be updating its product portfolio with the addition of the highly anticipated RD890 northbridge and the SB850 southbridge. The roadmap details some of the technical specifications of the upcoming southbridge, which will include support for the next-generation SATA 3 6GB/s interface, RAID 5 and 14 USB ports. In addition, the RS880D chipset will include the graphics capabilities of the Radeon HD 3400, featuring a core speed of 700Mhz, support for DirectX 10.1, UVD2.0 and Hybrid CrossFireX.

Before the release of this high-performance product, AMD will announce the new AMD 785G mainstream chipset, the last of the company's 7-series IGP chipsets. This is a product that shares its specifications with the current 780G northbridge, offering a 500MHz core speed, DX10, UVD, HDMI and PCIe Express 2.0 support. However, the 785G will introduce the support for DirectX 10.1 and UVD2.0, when it will launch at the beginning of the third quarter.

LG GW610 communicator leaked

The official announcement of this model is yet to come. Site Wi-Fi Alliance details about the device is very small. Although there pointed out that the dual Smartphone (Communicator). It is anticipated that the new is running Windows mobile operating system and supports the mobile communication standard UMTS. Perhaps, LG GW610 is equipped with 2-MP camera, and, of course, Wi-Fi-module (if not certified by the organization). This communicator (or smartphone), most likely, will go on sale this year.

LG GW610 making it the second handset from LG’s GW line right after the GW520 Calisto. The next LG GW610 cell phone is dual-mode cell phone and a Windows phone. Moreover, according to the info found on LG’s website, the GW610 has a square 320 x 320 pixels display, a 2MP camera and UMTS connectivity (probably HSDPA too).