Intel tries to backstop its own roadmaps - Bob Colwell, former Intel chief architect
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9300/9400 mGPU reviews spun
THE GREEN GOBLIN'S new partnership with Apple gave the fruit-flavoured toy maker an opportunity to premiere the 9300 and 9400 mGPUs (IGP seems to have become 'taboo' in NVland). Contrary to Apple, Nvidia is touting the HD video end of business with Blu-ray and it’s PureVideoHD marchitecture. But that’s just marketingese. When it comes to raw processing power, the 9400 mGPU matches a 790GX chipset’s performance, but if you read the power consumption, Nvidia finally gets a lead. Reading through the reviews, we were honestly expecting the 'mGPU' to do a little better than ATI’s offer, considering the 790GX is old news.
Still, a whole bunch of sites have reviewed the 'mGPU' to exhaustion, sometimes tripping on some issues that are still being sorted by mobo makers. ECS, Zotac and Asus got the lion’s share of reviews…
Here they are in no particular order:
Tosh has been showing hacks a good time in Zurich, but most of them didn’t notice Tosh’s netbook. So Thrusting Reviews grabbed one and published a review of the Netbook pretender. The name of the game is NB100, and it comes with all the dressings of the Atom platform, with Ubuntu Linux or XP. No pricing, but it looks promising says Andy.
OCaholic in Switzerland had a spin with Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 1TB unit. The review portrays a very capable hard drive, that exceeds listed specifications in some cases, and that provides more than enough storage and speed for your PC’s main hard-drive. It isn’t insanely priced either… get it here.
We’ve always said Microsoft makes better mice than operating systems, and Tweak Town proved us correct by reviewing the Sidewinder X5 gaming mouse. The review’s a bit Starwarsy, but you get a good feel for what the mouse is and what it can do. Pair it with an X6 gaming keyboard for maximum effect, says Andrew. Get it here.
Hardware Canucks and Legion Hardware both feature reviews on Thermalright’s T-Rad2 VGA cooler. It’s a two-slot design with six heatpipes, but no fan – it’l l fit 92mm and 120mm fans, though, so remember to pick one up. It also has RAMsinks as a bonus. Tests at Legion Hardware were done on a notoriously warm 8800GT while HC opted for a 9800GTX and an HD4870. Results were pretty impressive, overall. Just remember the price doesn’t include the fan. Legion’s review, here. HC’s review, here. µ
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So tell ther truth Jian are you jen hsu himself are just one of his evil minion's 

your comment on the big bang talked about ATI 's 549 anywhere you look but when the 280 was on top it was 700+ 

so put down the crack pipe 

and 

continue to be assraped on price 

because NVIDIA's can of whoop ass is just a fart in a whirlwind
Just checking Toms I get roughly, 9% faster in Crysis, 30% faster in Unreal Tournament (that's Playable on NV (30fps) by the way, and NOT playable on AMD 790 22fps), 10% in World In Conflict, 10% in Supreme Commander.

Also a quote about Bluray says Intel sucks (useless), and about AMD "AMD fares much better—expected, since the graphics engine driving its 780G and 790GX chipsets is more than a year old and is consequently quite mature. Like Intel’s G45, AMD’s integrated chipsets are able to offload Blu-ray playback, though you’ll see later in this review that the technology is still evolving and far from perfect."

Note they say Nvidia is great at Bluray etc. Anandtech says it also (though as with any chipset, wait until bugs are worked out...Hell, Tom's says a although Intel was released in June they still suck, drivers are still crap).

So Nvidia walked away with the gaming and managed to make bluray etc work fine for HTPC markets. Yet you expected more? What exactly? Call a spade a spade...Sorry Nvidia's killer chipset (tom's says Intel should be wary) doesn't fit in with your usual bashing articles. I can't wait to see what you write when NV wipes the floor with AMD on the next Vid Card round. NV is like Intel. They both have lots of dosh to weather a bad product release, and as such both have enough money to innovate and royally blow you away the next time. AMD can't spend on R&D so readily, and as such will be beaten to a pulp after pissing NV off. I love AMD, but they should have fired Hector instead of giving him a 3mil bonus...Jesus, how stupid are they? 

Admittedly both companies have traded blows in graphics, but AMD isn't making any money while NV pockets 850mil last year. Even if they blow this years wad on fixing problems (doubtful, but I'll await judgment until the quarter shortly) with laptops, they still be around next year since they have money in the bank and aren't in the RED (no debt makes dealing with problems a cakewalk). A 4Bil loss for AMD since taking on ATI (and more even before that), and about the same in debt makes it difficult to get anywhere no matter how good your product is. They have to make around 300mil just to see a profit after covering interest on their debt (maybe worse, since they're practically a junk bond stock). That was lowered recently by relieving themselves of 1.2B spinning off fabs, but now they have to pay someone to make every chip. So essentially NOTHING happened. 

Unfortunate for all of us, as NV will go back to raising prices (I can see $800-1000 cards on the horizon again at launch) just as Intel is doing now. Note Intel's revenue was up 8%, yet PROFIT was up 25%. That's called PRICING POWER because AMD sucks now. I hope AMD stopped some of the bleeding with their recent cards but NV's die shrinks just allows them to drop pricing to kill AMD profits just like Intel does. 

I really hope NV and AMD merge or something now the AMD has no fabs (or IBM/Samsung could buy them) and then lock out Intel with graphics so things even up for a while. Intel would have killer cpus, but NV would get all the gamers with AMD cpu's. Maybe they could grow big enough together to make it an even race by the time Intel's 2nd or 3rd rev of graphics comes out (since the first will just suck with no support, dev's don't want to learn anything new or difficult). Otherwise we're all in for some expensive upgrades in a few years. I'm probably just dreaming though...LOL.