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The year 2010 was hardly full of market-changing revolutions and revelations, but the local revolutions were very exciting. As the year is about to end, we are taking a look back on the news-stories that you read most this year and try to determine the events, companies and consequences that formed the year 2010.
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Every day thousands of electronics products born and vanish into oblivion. Some devices and technologies capture a significant market share, some just become one of the many. But there are devices that we call "breakthroughs", those, who not only play a significant role on the market, but which become inflection points for the high-tech consumer industry at large. Today we are taking a look that the digital products that impacted the lives in the last ten years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/breakthroughs-2010.html">Read me...</a><br />
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In a few weeks we will start posting reviews of Intel processors based on the new Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. But while we are still bound by the NDA, we decided to sum up all the information we know about these promising new products, which doesn’t fall under the NDA.
We like to talk about Lamborghinis and Porsches, but in reality we own Corollas and Golfs. Meet the latest of the graphics cards 'Golf GTI' breed - Gigabyte GV-N460OC-768I. Sporting bigger cooling and more horsepower, can it still make an impression just as GeForce GTX 460 1GB did?
Today we are going to talk about two new system cases from Antec and Corsair. They have one interesting feature in common: they are the first system cases with a USB 3.0 port on the front panel.
This mainboard has no specific technical advantages over the previously reviewed mini-ITX LGA1156 mainboards. However, we didn’t find any serious drawbacks either. Instead, the board sports one important advantage: it sells at the lowest price of all.
Asus designed M4A88T-I Deluxe Mini-ITX mainboard for Socket AM3. With this mainboard and energy-efficient Athlon II processors we put together a unique system: compact, fast and energy-efficient and built using only AMD components.
Today we are going to talk about the differences between enhanced architecture of Cayman graphics processors and their predecessors. We will also check out the first graphics cards based on them, test their performance, acoustics and power consumption.
Nvidia keep holding the initiative in their hands. Following an almost ideal flagship GeForce GTX 580, the company announced the continuation to this family – GeForce GTX 570, which promises to be just as successful.
There are only a handful of metrics by which 2009 didn’t end as a successful year for AMD. With the launch of the Radeon HD 5800 series in September of that year AMD got a significant and unusually long-standing jump on the competition. By being the first company to transition a high-end GPU to TSMC’s 40nm process they were able to bring about the next generation of faster and cheaper video cards, quickly delivering better performance at better prices than their 55nm predecessors and competitors alike. At the same time they were the first company to produce a GPU for the new DirectX 11 standard, giving them access to a number of new features, a degree of future proofness, and good will with developers eager to get their hands on DX11 hardware.
Ultimately AMD held the high-end market for over 6 months until NVIDIA was able to counter back with the Fermi based GTX 400 series. Though it’s not unprecedented for a company to rule the high-end market for many months at a time, it’s normally in the face of slower but similar cards from the competition – to stand alone is far more rare. This is not to say that it was easy for AMD, as TSMC’s 40nm production woes kept AMD from fully capitalizing on their advantages until 2010. But even with 40nm GPUs in short supply, it was clearly a good year for AMD.
Now in the twilight of the year 2010, the landscape has once again shifted. NVIDIA did deliver the GTX 400 series, and then they delivered the GTX 500 series, once more displacing AMD from the high-end market as NVIDIA’s build’em big strategy is apt to do. In October we saw AMD reassert themselves in the mid-range market with the Radeon HD 6800 series, delivering performance close to the 5800 series for lower prices and at a greater power efficiency, and provoking a price war that quickly lead to NVIDIA dropping GTX 460 prices. With the delivery of the 6800 series, the stage has been set for AMD’s return to the high-end market with the launch of the Radeon HD 6900 series.
Launching today are the Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950, utilizing AMD’s new Cayman GPU. Born from the ashes of TSMC’s canceled 32nm node, Cayman is the biggest change to AMD’s GPU microarchitecture since the original Radeon HD 2900. Just because AMD doesn’t have a new node to work with this year doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work, and as we’ll see Cayman and the 6900 series will brings that hard work to the table. So without further ado, let’s dive in to the Radeon HD 6900 series.