AMD (advanced micro devices) will be releasing their new ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 and the 4870 X2 graphics cars. They stated this week that the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 graphics card will be available in September for only $399. The 4870 X2 has already shipped out and will be available for $599.
IBM scientists believe that stacked processors have a much higher power density than most nuclear reactors. The amount of heat that processors with processing circuits, cores, and other components are extremely high. One of the large challenges that they have had is trying to cool it off.
This week Apple spent most of their time fixing the security breaches and vulnerabilities that were found in many of the components and application that were bundled with the Mac OS X. Yesterday they were able to patch 40 of these security problems which were found in 25 of the applications. These applications included iCal, Flash Player, and Apache.