On Thursday, the same day that AMD unveiled - early - its 4800 series of cards (because some etailers were already selling the card), NVIDIA decided it just had to unveil its own new card, as well as some other good news.
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On Thursday, the same day that AMD unveiled - early - its 4800 series of cards (because some etailers were already selling the card), NVIDIA decided it just had to unveil its own new card, as well as some other good news.

The FTC has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Intel's business practices, as revealed by an Intel press release issued Friday in response to a subpoena. Not just Intel, but rival AMD and several PC makers have begun to receive subpoenas from the commission. AMD, which has long complained about Intel's business practices, has not issued a statement yet.

On Monday AMD unveiled GAME!, its new initiative designed to make it easy for consumers to choose components for gaming systems.
After all, choosing a video game console is easy: there's nothing, component-wise, to pick. But what about a gaming PC? What video card do I want? What processor? How much memory? And on and on.

Ah, yes, as I've said before, let others feel the pain of early adoption before you join in. Some users with AMD CPUs are experiencing endless reboots after installing Windows XP SP3. This was after Microsoft delayed delivery of SP3 because of issues with Microsoft Dynamics RMS.

AMD made a host of announcements on Thursday, including officially launching their triple-core Phenom X3 line, which we wrote about earlier, as well as high-performance quad-core Phenom X4 CPUs and an energy-efficient quad-core CPU that uses only 65 watts.

AMD promised to begin shipping triple-core Phenoms in Q1 of this year, and Thursday it began shipping to OEMs and system builders. That's certainly unusual for a tech company, shipping something on time.
