It's long been rumoured since purchase that graphics cards wearing the ATI moniker were only going to be around so long. With AMD's pipeline rapidly advancing towards Fusion (hybrid GPU/CPU on a chip), AMD decided it was time to drop the ATI moniker. It's certainly debatable for many reasons on whether this was a good call or not. AMD is trying to keep ATI's brand familiarity alive by continuing the product line names, ie Radeon, FirePro, etc.

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Infineon, who makes baseband chips in most major phones created worldwide, as well as the beloved-Ipad, has had one of their divisions acquired by chip maker, and market monopolist Intel. Intel cites its desire to speed up the rollout of 4g/LTE as the main driver behind the acquisition. It is assuring the SEC, and eyebrows everywhere that this subsidiary will continue to operate as a 'standalone business'.

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There really aren't any words that are needed for this one. This is LG's 31-inch OLED prototype display, which is .11" thick, and has 3D support. Expect reader JJSky to have seven by year's end.

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(AMD) ATI's Southern Islands GPUs were slated to release in Q4 of this year, but because of some manufacturing issues, it was rumored they would not be getting a die shrink from the current 40nm process the 5k series was built on. These images, obtained from a Taiwanese forum, might give some details of what's upcoming.
The performance difference over the 5870 seems mild, with an increase in 3dMark still falling a little short of what the 5970 is getting, albeit outperforming every other gpu. There's no gaurantee on whether this is a 6850 or 6870, or even if it's 100% legit, but in a few more weeks, more details should emerge. The Memory Bandwidth is listed at 204.8 GB/s, and for reference, a GTX480 is 177.5.

Although it would be wonderful if something more meaningful than 3dMark was provided, immature drivers might not provide an accurate representation of performance at this point either.

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