Last week AMD CEO Hector Ruiz vowed that the company would stop hemorrhaging cash and return to profitability soon. "That is our number one goal right now," Ruiz said in a conference in Bangalore.

Though we've heard through the grapevine that NVIDIA is readying DisplayPort capable graphics cards for sometime early next year, AMD has stepped up with the first DisplayPort-enabled graphics card to hit our test labs.

This sort of obscure problem is not really uncommon in microprocessors, but CPU makers are often able to fix them on the fly with little impact to the end user. This particular erratum is especially unfortunate because the fix for it involves sacrificing a substantial amount of performance.

AMD's four-core Opteron saga continues with a trio of nasties concerning the chip reaching The Register. First off, all of the SPEC benchmarks performed to date with Opteron-systems (Barcelona) will be pulled over the next week, El Reg can confirm.

After being late to market with high-performance graphics offerings for a number of times, ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, is reportedly considering high-end graphics solutions that utilize more than two or, perhaps, even more physical dice.

Hackers obviously see the “Windows to Mac OS switchers†as the gullible, click on anything type of user who made the switch to Mac because they’d trashed their old systems. They trashed their Windows machines, now the hackers are giving them the opportunity to do the same to their Mac systems.

Rather than cleanly installing the MMO update, an incorrectly placed backslash in the program's install path does something a little different -- it overwrites a PC's Windows boot.ini file, effectively killing the computer come the next reboot.

Known as the Core 2 Quad Q9300, this processor will come clocked in at 2.5GHz (100MHz faster than the Q6600) but will carry only half the L2 cache (6MB). On the upside, being a 45nm Penryn chip it's going to run a lot cooler and with a lot more overclocking headroom to boot; potentially making it the new chip of choice for many enthusiasts.

The biggest change beside the fan size is the fan RPM. The old one have an awkward fan speed: 1459~4333RPM (default fan speed 1640RPM, full speed 4333RPM). In full speed the fan did not bring us cool air but noise.

The problem is that two of the PCIe 16x slots are PCIe2 and one is PCIe1. Hmmmm. The PCIe2 slots are connected to the north bridge via a chip called the Nforce 200 bridge chip. This is rumoured to be one of the things they still haven't managed to get completely functional yet.

It is releasing the test code this week to the 15,000 or so people who have been beta testing SP1 already, and will also make it available on Thursday to those in the MSDN and TechNet developer programs.

Specifically, the bill calls for strengthening the civil and criminal laws relating to copyright and trademark infringement. It would also create an intellectual property enforcement representative who would report to the White House, and establish a permanent intellectual property division within the Department of Justice.

Overall, it looks like Nvidia was the one to make strides this week. As we reported earlier today, the company's GeForce 8800 GT 256MB is now available, too. However, prices are still well above officially announced ranges in both AMD's and Nvidia's cases, and they've actually gone up.

Robbie Winget, an occupational therapist who oversees use of the Wii at Dodd Hall, said news that a rehab hospital in Alberta, Canada, was using the popular new video game system sparked the idea.

According to Norwegian site Nettavisen , Hans and his sister apparently enraged one of the local moose (mooses? meese?) during a walk in the forest near their home. After shouting at the gigantic creature to ward it away from his sister, Olsen dropped to the ground, and presumably his lifebar plummeted to zero.