Taiwanese notebook and PC component maker ASUS has announced that it has begun shipping replacement B3-stepping motherboards and notebooks. The news comes as the company announces the reintroduction of Intel’s troubled platform is ahead of schedule. Chip giant Intel announced on January 31 that a design flaw affecting hard drive connections had been found and [...]
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Taiwanese motherboard maker MSI is one of the first out of the blocks with Intel’s new budget H61-chipset motherboard and the first so far to feature the B3-stepping fix for Intel’s Sandy Bridge chipset. The H61MU-E35 will handle all LGA1155 socketed processors from Intel, offers up to 16GB of RAM through two DIMM sockets, features [...]
Not wasting any time, Taiwanese component and notebook maker MSI has just announced it has begun manufacture of replacement Sandy Bridge motherboards with the new B3-stepping 6-series chipset. The company announced that consumers would be able to tell the new product by looking for this sticker (pictured) indicating use of B3-stepping parts. Chip giant Intel [...]
Chip giants Intel and AMD will need to be careful in the next 12 months as demand for PCs and notebooks slows in favour of smartphones and tablets. It’s still early days but with demand for alternatives to the Windows PC being sold in increasing numbers, the days of expecting an Intel or AMD chip [...]
Taiwanese notebook and motherboard maker ASUS has released an open letter to consumers and partners revealing its response to Intel’s Sandy Bridge chipset flaw, announced on January 31. In the letter, shown below, and as expected, ASUS outlines its plans to offer unconditional return of all Sandy Bridge products, as well as an immediate halt [...]