An international solid state circuit conference, which sounds super fun, has been going on this past week. One thing that we should care about is IBM’s announcement that it has figured out a way to shrink the Cell processor that’s used in the PS3, cutting its power consumption in half (or just about). Following the imaginary flow chart, less power consumed leads to less heat generation which leads to less chance of overheating and failure. It’ll also be cheaper to produce, which could, one day, help Sony lower its price. IBM has also found a way to cut the power usage of the light bulb that appears over their heads, each time they get a bright idea.

It seems like just yesterday AMD and Dell were in some sort of honeymoon phase, finally together after years of teasing and blushing and double entendres. But things are not rosy in paradise, it seems, as there are rumors buzzing around the country club that Dell will shortly call it off. At least online. Those wanting an AMD powered machine will have to suffer the indignities of shopping retail. This is a big loss for AMD. Hopefully they’ll be cutting deals left and right with Asian computer makers to make up for the loss of Dell.

The Carbon-Li PC tower case features carbon fiber accents and plenty of LEDs make fellow nerds drool.

Carbon-Li now resides with Point of View, at the company’s HQ in Eindhoven, Netherlands. There, it’s used as a demonstration and presentation rig at shows to help promote the company. When it’s not making its rounds at various retail and consumer shows, it’s used by PoV as a games testing rig – after all, it’s built with some of the best hardware on offer.

GT provided the Nerd with a video preview of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, which is slated for release on April 17th in the US. It looks so realistic.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue runs in full high definition at 1080p. Additionally, in conjunction with a robust offline experience, for the first time in the history of the franchise Gran Turismo 5 Prologue supports up to 16 players racing head-to-head online, complete with global leaderboards.

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Sony’s new ¥38,000 (about $355) XDV-D500 features a 3-inch, 432 x 240 pixel resolution display with 160-degree viewing angle, 500:1 contrast, and a battery capable of about 8-hours of TV reception. It can even record up to 10 hours of scheduled programming to 2GB of internal memory. The itty bittier XDV-G200 brings a 2-inch LCD to the show, AM/FM radio too, then ditches the EPG and recording function. This is Japan mind you, so these sets receive digital 1Seg TV, in other words you can kiss your import fantasies goodbye.