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SK hynix is considering whether to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, reports the Wall Street Journal. If the company proceeds with the plan, it intends to invest $4 billion in it and construct one of the world's largest advanced packaging facilities. But to accomplish the project, SK hynix expects it will need help from the U.S. government. Acknowledging the report but stopping short of confirming the company's plans, a company spokeswoman told the WSJ that SK hynix "is reviewing its advanced chip packaging investment in the U.S., but hasn’t made a final decision yet." Companies like TSMC and Intel spend billions on advanced packaging facilities, but so far, no company has announced a chip packaging plant worth quite as much as SH hynix's $4...
DigitalStorm BlackOps: Almost Too Fast
While most of the desktops we've received so far have been fairly affordable (read: south of two large), we haven't really had a chance to take a run at...
77 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/29/2010ASUS N53JF: Midrange 15.6” 1080p, Take Four
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a 15.6” notebook walks into the AnandTech labs, sporting NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 425M and a 1080p display…. Yes, for the fourth...
65 by Jarred Walton on 12/28/2010Nvidia Tegra 2 - Graphics Performance Update
So I have a confession to make. Before we posted our Tegra 2 performance preview, I ran the Quake 3 demo on the Viewsonic G Tablet and the Samsung...
28 by Vivek Gowri on 12/20/2010First Look: Viewsonic G Tablet and Tegra 2 Performance Preview
The slate computing market is about to explode, with a literal flood of new tablets releasing over the coming months. Many of them will be Android based, running NVIDIA’s...
81 by Vivek Gowri on 12/9/2010HP EliteBook 8740w: IPS on the Go
The search for a notebook with a quality screen, at least in the mainstream sector, can often feel like a futile one. Outside of Jarred's recent love affair with...
63 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/8/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
NVIDIA can be a very predictable company at times. It’s almost unheard of for them to release only a single product based on a high-end GPU, so when they...
55 by Ryan Smith on 12/7/2010AVADirect's Clevo B5130M: GeForce GT 425M with a 15.6" 1080p Chaser
Finding a mainstream notebook with a high resolution screen can be harder than pulling teeth. Outside of the new Dell XPS 15 and the odd business-class machine, a resolution...
25 by Dustin Sklavos on 11/23/2010ASUS UL80Jt: Overclocked i3 ULV
Back when ASUS released the UL80Vt last year, we gave it a glowing review, praising its balance of performance and battery life without breaking the bank. The UL80Vt had...
47 by Vivek Gowri on 11/17/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: The SLI Update
Picking up immediately from where we left off yesterday with our review of NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 580, we have a second GTX 580 in house courtesy of Asus...
83 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2010Dell XPS L501x: An Excellent Mainstream Notebook
As we discussed a couple weeks back, Dell has relaunched their XPS brand for laptops, with a focus on quality and "mainstream performance". The latter means that unlike previous...
95 by Jarred Walton on 11/10/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined
There's little doubt in our minds that the GF100/GTX 480 launch wasn't quite what NVIDIA was hoping for. It did end up being the fastest single GPU card on...
160 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2010ASUS G73Jw: Out with the Old, In with the New
The original ASUS G73Jh was an instant classic: a great performer with a good screen, build quality and cooling at an amazing price. Six months later, ASUS is coming...
53 by Jarred Walton on 11/3/2010Dell XPS Laptops: Back to the Future
Dell's first XPS system debuted way back in 1993, with the first XPS laptops coming a decade later. The past several years have been quiet on the XPS front...
79 by Jarred Walton on 10/21/2010Apple MacBook Pro 13: Can a Mac Be a Decent Windows Laptop?
Apple fans, please forgive me, and feel free to skip this post. I have been testing out a MacBook Pro 13 running Windows 7 and have put it through...
118 by Vivek Gowri on 10/14/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430: The Next HTPC King?
It’s been 7 months since the launch of the first Fermi cards, and at long last we’re here: we’ve reached the end of the road on the Fermi launch...
121 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 10/11/2010NVIDIA GTC 2010 Wrapup
Today we’re wrapping up our coverage of last month’s NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, including the show’s exhibit hall. We came to GTC to get a better grasp on...
20 by Ryan Smith on 10/10/2010AVADirect Clevo X7200: Six Cores, SSD RAID, and GTX 480M SLI Yields World's Fastest DTR Notebook
The march of progress is inevitable, with faster computers constantly replacing last year's top performing parts. Clevo is a company with a heavy focus on Desktop Replacement (DTR) notebooks...
39 by Jarred Walton on 10/7/2010Toshiba A665-3DV: 3D or Not 3D?
Last month we had our first look at AMD's latest Danube platform with a quad-core P920 processor in the Toshiba A660D. After we posted that review, Toshiba asked us...
14 by Jarred Walton on 10/6/2010NVIDIA Launches Quadro 2000 & Quadro 600
This morning NVIDIA is announcing the rest of its Fermi-based Quadro family: the Quadro 2000 and the Quadro 600. Based on the GF106 and GF108 GPUs respectively, the 2000...
18 by Ryan Smith on 10/4/2010ASRock's High-End Vision 3D HTPC Reviewed
ASRock is one of the companies held in high esteem by everyone here at AnandTech. We have been reviewing their HTPC offerings since they first came out their Ion...
51 by Ganesh T S on 10/3/2010