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 [...]
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 [...]
The Australian arm of Taiwanese PC component giant Gigabyte today issued a recall for all Intel Sandy Bridge products. The recall was issued in a PDF originally entitled “Gigabyte Official Announcement- 6 Series MB Recall” and sent to its network of partners earlier today. Inside, Gigabyte Australia announced how it is responding and resellers should [...]
The SATA controller flaw engulfing Intel’s new Sandy Bridge flaw could continue to degrade for a period of up to three years. That’s the result after notebook maker MSI sent an email to its international teams. In addition, MSI has stopped distrubution and sales of all its Intel 6-series (Sandy Bridge) products until further notice. [...]