Success of the MA78GM-S2H universal microATX motherboard apparently inspired Gigabyte engineers to a more daring experiment, a more feature-rich motherboard. While the video buffer does not increase the prime cost much, the voltage regulator does. Nevertheless, we are sure that users will be interested in this original motherboard.

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The red team also has an ace up its sleeve, the HD4850 X2. Equipped with cheaper DDR3 memory, this card should retail at around €270, maybe even less by the time it appears on the market. It should be faster than the current 65nm GTX260 and we're expecting it in late September. However, AIBs don't seem to be in a rush, as they're doing fine as it is. Basically, at the moment the only trouble for ATI is that it has nothing in between its €200 HD4870 and the €400 HD4870 X2. The HD4850 X2 should fill this gap perfectly.

Spansion already has sold two of its three Japanese plants, Berenbaum wrote, "and our checks suggest its Austin fab is up for sale, but that a buyer hasn't been found" A Spansion spokeswoman said that the Austin factory remains a key part of the company's flash memory production system. The company expects to continue using the facility for the foreseeable future, she said. But the company announced in July that it was looking for "strategic alliances to transfer certain assets to third parties and establish manufacturing and technology partnerships."

This week it’s the turn of Biostar with the TA790GX A2+ which is handy as it gives us the chance to clear up a couple of unresolved issues that we had with the A7DA-S. The first concern is the high SRP of £114 that Foxconn gave us for the A7DA-S. As we said in the review, we hoped that the price would drop to £70-£75 but Scan currently has this model listed at £108 so it looks like our hopes have been dashed. By contrast the Biostar is on sale at Envizage for a few pence over £60. Now that’s more like it.

As for AMD, Pajjuri says the change followed a review of his ratings following the call on ADI. “Although we have not changed our fundamental outlook for AMD, we believe it is relatively less attractive than other Neutral rated stocks in its cluster,” he writes. “AMD has outperformed its peers in recent weeks due to attractive valuation, sale of the digital TV business, and the optimism about the potential announcement of its long awaited asset-lite model.”