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Clearspeed Advance Accelerator BoardJun 26, 2006 - in Picture Story
This is the first generation Advance board, based on two CSX600 processors that promise a combined performance capability of 50 GFlops.
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ATI releases Catalyst 6.6 driver packageJun 26, 2006 - in News
ATI continues to deliver on its promise to issue a driver update for its graphics cards. The big news in the June .6 update is a new Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility.
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150 OEMs shipping Intel Woodcrest systemsJun 26, 2006 - in News
Intel's Core architecture gets a solid start with about 150 companies offering more than 200 Xeon 5100 (formerly code-named Woodcrest) platforms today. Pretty much every know server manufacturer has sent out press releases ranging for example from Gateway that promises to offer Woodcrest system in the future to Supermicro that has launched 30 different Xeon 5100 system.
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Samsung, LG Philips pushing widescreen monitor panelsJun 26, 2006 - in News
Both Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD plan to roll out more models of widescreen monitor panels in the third quarter of 2006 to push the proportion of their widescreen monitor panels, according to the Korean-language Electronic Times, Seoul .
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Woodcrest launches Intel into a new eraJun 26, 2006 - in News
Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduced more than five years ago and brought the company down to its knees. Core's mission is to restore Intel's competitiveness and lay the foundation for the firm's future.
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Liquid crystals being tweaked to improve notebook panel performanceJun 26, 2006 - in News
At the recently concluded FPD Taiwan 2006, major Taiwan-based panel makers including Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) were demonstrating how changing the composition of liquid crystals (LC) in their notebook panels can help overcome the tradeoff between response time and power consumption.
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Prices of 50" HD PDP modules to drop below $1,000 by year-end, DisplayBank saysJun 26, 2006 - in News
Prices for 50" high-definition (HD) PDP (plasma display panel) modules are expected to fall to $920 by the end of this year, according to Displaybank.
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PDP TV makers eye 50" segmentJun 26, 2006 - in News
With prices of 50" PDP (plasma display panel) TVs continuing to dip, demand is expected to rise significantly in the fourth quarter of this year, according to channel distributors.
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Heat concerns slow high-power LED adoptionJun 26, 2006 - in News
Adoption of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in high brightness panel backlighting applications, such as notebooks and LCD TVs, has been delayed due to overheating issues, according to sources in the Taiwan LED industry.
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CMC, Ritek to produce 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL discs in Q4Jun 26, 2006 - in News
CMC Magnetics and Ritek, the top two makers of optical discs, have recently started volume production of 15 GB HD-DVD-R SL (high-definition DVD recordable single-sided single-layer) discs and are prepared to begin production of 30 GB HD-DVD-R DL (single-sided double-layer) discs in the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest, according to industry sources.
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Xeon Woodcrest Preys On OpteronJun 26, 2006 - in Reviews
Intel must have craved this day: The Xeon 5100 at 3.0 GHz and 4 MB L2 cache launches today to decapitate the AMD Opteron. Our look under the hood explains what the Core 2 microarchitecture is capable of.
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DarkStar One, Ninety-Nine Nights and Taxi Driver
Jun 25, 2006 - in Picture Story
Unoriginal storyline? Check. Protagonist with backwards zaney name? Check. Noble crusade? Check. Just enough of Elite to ensure that it's compared to Elite in every preview under the sun (whoops...)? Check. It's a space adventure game!
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Xeon WoodcrestJun 25, 2006 - in Picture Story
Pat Gelsinger showed off the Bensley platform at the Spring IDF 2006.
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Woodcrest outperforms Opteron in speed and power consumption - analystJun 23, 2006 - in News
An analyst from Thomas Weisel Partners today issued a research brief that included a first evaluation of Intel's claim to achieve market leadership in terms of power consumption and application performance with its upcoming Xeon 5100 (Woodcrest core) processor.
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Apple's "Phenomenon" due out in 2008?Jun 23, 2006 - in News
The latest release of Apple Computer's Shake compositing software may be the last of its breed, as the company reportedly plans to shift gears and focus on developing the next-generation of the application around a different codebase.
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AMD's quad-core CPU to consume dual-core powerJun 23, 2006 - in News
If AMD has its way, then Intel's performance-per-watt leadership claim may be short lived: The first quad-core Opterons, due in 2007 will consume the same power as today's dual-core processors, while AMD expects Intel to increase the power envelope when adding more cores.
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Parental controls get a boost with Windows Vista - UPDATE - Video addedJun 23, 2006 - in News
With all the games on the market, how do parents ensure their children will only play the appropriate games at the appropriate times? The upcoming Windows Vista will include a slew of parental game controls that will please parents and perhaps annoy their children who want to sneak in some World of Warcraft before finishing their homework. The new OS can track, limit and even stop game usage for little Johnny or, as Microsoft calls him, Toby. Chris Donahue, Microsoft's Group Manger for Games for Windows, stopped by our Westlake Village, California office to show us exactly how the new controls work and how to set them up.
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Lego Star Wars II and Made Man
Jun 23, 2006 - in Picture Story
One of the games for what I suppose we can now call the "Alzheimer's Generation" of consoles is Lego Star Wars II. The original was the best Star Wars title released around the time of Episode III, and the tongue in cheek humour matched well with the capt
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A-Data to begin mass production of 2 GB FB-DIMMs in JulyJun 23, 2006 - in News
Next month, leading Taiwan memory-module house A-Data Technology plans to commence mass production of 2 GB fully-buffered DIMMs that utilize DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 DRAM chips, mainly manufactured under a 90nm technology process, from Samsung and Elpida, the company said.
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TSMC and UMC eyeing 45nm productionJun 23, 2006 - in News
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will start volume production on 45nm technology in the third quarter of 2007 at the earliest, according to company vice president Jack Sun, while sources added that United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) is also working on developing its 45nm process technology.
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TSMC: Semiconductor industry won't see stunning killer applications in next 5-10 yearsJun 23, 2006 - in News
The semiconductor industry is unlikely to see in the next 5-10 years stunning killer applications that can spark dramatic growth, but stable growth will be enabled by applications evolved from existing products, according to Kenneth Kin, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and sales of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
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Lightscribe DVD burner prices fall due to stagnant salesJun 23, 2006 - in News
Retail prices of Lightscribe DVD burners in the Taiwan market have dropped by 7-10% because sales have fallen short of expections in tandem with booming sales of DVD burners without LightScribe functions, according to local retail channels.
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Neurons self-organise to make brain chipsJun 22, 2006 - in News
Brain cells can be enticed into forming uniform functioning patterns using a nano-engineering trick.
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Wrist-worn Linux PC demoed at military tech conferenceJun 22, 2006 - in News
Eurotech's U.S. arm, Parvus, will demonstrate the company's innovative wrist-worn PC at a military technology conference June 19 in Washington, D.C.
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Need for Speed CarbonJun 22, 2006 - in Picture Story
Need for Speed Carbon: Inside drift, screenshot from Xbox 360 version
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Altera launches Stratix II FPGA security solution for IP protectionJun 22, 2006 - in News
Altera today announced the availability of a comprehensive Stratix II FPGA security solution designed to protect intellectual property (IP).
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ABI: More than half a billion mobile TV subscribers by 2011Jun 22, 2006 - in News
In 2011, mobile TV services will have some 514 million subscribers worldwide, up from only 6.4 million at the end of 2005, according to ABI Research.
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Global LCD-TV panel inventory to reach 15 million units in 2006Jun 22, 2006 - in News
TFT-LCD panel makers are expected to suffer from serious inventory issues throughout this year, with LCD-TV panel inventory likely to reach 15 million units in 2006, according to estimates from Taiwan-based panel makers.
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Global notebook shipment to fall 10% in Q2, say Taiwan makersJun 22, 2006 - in News
A weak notebook market is unlikely to see improvements this quarter and Taiwan notebook makers estimate global shipments will drop 10% sequentially in the second quarter, according to the makers.
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