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DRAM market shows stronger shift to DDR2Sep 22, 2005 - in News
Global DRAM output grew 4.47% on month to 568.7 million 256Mbit-equivilantent units in August, according to DRAMeXchange.
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Vista graphics drivers to be more stable than XP drivers, ATI saysSep 22, 2005 - in News
Graphics drivers developed for Vista, Microsoft's next generation operating system, will be far more stable than their Windows XP-based counterparts, and not crash the operating system anymore, an executive of graphics chip developer ATI told Tom's Hardware Guide .
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MSI readies three new NVIDIA 6100-integrated boardsSep 22, 2005 - in News
DigiTimes is reporting this morning that manufacturer MSI has introduced three new motherboards based on NVIDIA's newly-unveiled 6100-series integrated chipsets.
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Katrina damage to silicon firm won't affect chip production in 2007: iSuppliSep 21, 2005 - in News
It remains too early to gauge the full effect of the shutdown of a New Orleans facility that produces a key chemical used in epitaxial-film deposition on silicon substrates.
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Agere unveils system-on-a-chip for portable HDD devicesSep 21, 2005 - in News
Agere Systems today announced a new highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) for miniature hard disk drives (HDDs) used in portable consumer electronics (CE) devices.
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Three Premium nForce4 Motherboards from Gigabyte, Jetway, and MSISep 21, 2005 - in Reviews
Which chipset: Intel or NVIDIA? We start our big comparison test of the best premium motherboards on the market with three nForce4-based Pentium motherboards.
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ATI launches Avivo graphics platform for home entertainmentSep 21, 2005 - in News
ATI launched its next-generation "Avivo" video and display controller technology this morning, promising more realistic color resolution, and the capability to deliver "flawless" video playback.
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New Biostar iDEQ 330N mini-PC based on Nvidia GeForce 6100Sep 21, 2005 - in News
Biostar Microtech International today unveiled its small-form-factor (SFF) system based on Nvidia's new integrated graphics processor (IGP), the GeForce 6100, for the AMD Socket-939 platform.
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Manufacturers report Intel chipset shortage across-the-boardSep 21, 2005 - in News
DigiTimes reports this morning that motherboard manufacturers are claiming not just low-end but high-end Intel chipsets have been difficult for them to obtain: Intel's chipset shortage has extended from its entry-level PCI Express (PCIe) 915 series to the high-end 945G line, according to motherboard makers.
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LaCie offers a fashionable, flashy USB keychain hard driveSep 20, 2005 - in News
LaCie, a company known for portable hard drive systems, is entering the USB memory key market in a big and colorful way. Next month, the company will introduce its 'Carte Orange' credit card-sized memory device, in 4 Gb and 8 Gb configurations, powered by a miniature hard-drive.
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New Intel 65 nm lithography promises reduced leakage for small devicesSep 20, 2005 - in News
In a further demonstration of Intel's renewed focus on power conservation over performance where necessary, the company is announcing the addition of a new, alternative lithography process for the 65 nm category that stresses orders-of-magnitude reductions in power leakage.
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Fall Extreme Gamer System Shootout Part 5: Falcon Northwest Mach VSep 20, 2005 - in Reviews
High-quality components, superior customer service and all the trimmings: Falcon Northwest's Mach V does it all, but still, does this system live up to this gaming machine builder's venerable reputation?
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Intel remixes chip recipe to cut powerSep 20, 2005 - in News
Intel plans to begin cutting the power consumption of its chips right at the factory.
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Nvidia's first IGP targets mainstream marketSep 20, 2005 - in News
Nvidia is aiming at the high-volume mainstream graphics market with its first integrated graphics solution previously know as "C51." The company offers a mix-and-match product for board and system builders that consists of two nForce media and communications processors (MCPs) and two graphics chips with a GeForce 6 core.
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PDC: Microsoft's Greg Sullivan on XML, information systems, GoogleSep 19, 2005 - in News
Toward the end of Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference here on Thursday, we sat down with the company's group product manager for Windows, Greg Sullivan, to chat about the emergence of a "big picture" vision of Windows appearing and working everywhere, not just on PCs, but on handheld devices, the back ends of digital cameras, and the ice makers on refrigerators. Connecting all these seemingly unrelated devices is a standards-driven contextual information sharing system that Microsoft - and perhaps only Microsoft - is developing.
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ATI strikes deal with Intel, delivers Xpress 200 IGP for Intel boardsSep 19, 2005 - in News
ATI and Nvidia remain focused on their discrete graphics card business, but apparently expand their reach into lower margin areas to increase production volume: While Nvidia is preparing the launch of its C51 integrated graphics processor (IGP), ATI convinced Intel to use its Xpress 200 chipset on entry level Intel-branded boards, sources told Tom's Hardware Guide.
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Up And Down With Antec's P180 CaseSep 19, 2005 - in Reviews
So you want a faster gaming machine? A do-it-yourself upgrade isn't always easy. Here is one tale about what it's like to fit an ATI Radeon X800 XL card and an AMD Athlon 64 4000 into an Antec P180 case-that had a happy ending after much aggravation.
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Thecus N4100 Brings Storage Space To Your LANSep 19, 2005 - in Reviews
Thecus's current NAS box houses up to four hard drives and offers a Gigabit Ethernet LAN connection. It works well, but our real-world test also revealed some weaknesses.
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Double-Height Chic: Two Multifunction Panels From AeroCoolSep 19, 2005 - in Reviews
These AeroCool fan controllers not only offer extraordinary design, they also double up inside two 5.25" drive bays in your PC. They deliver fan controls plus temperature indicators or a memory card reader, in one cool, capable package.
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New Nvidia and ATI GPUs to help drive up average selling price in 4QSep 19, 2005 - in News
Demand for high-end graphics cards will peak in the fourth quarter of this year, driven by the introduction of high-end graphics processor units (GPUs) from Nvidia and ATI Technologies, according to Taiwan graphics card makers.
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Memorex intros "smallest" 4 GByte USB harddriveSep 16, 2005 - in News
Memorex expanded its Traveldrive pocket storage family with what the firm claims is the smallest USB Flash drive currently available on the market. For about the same price than a 2 GByte USB Flash drive, the "Mega Traveldrive" offers twice the capacity and competes with established products such as Seagate's ST1 drive.
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ASRock 939Dual-SATA2: With AGP and PCIeSep 16, 2005 - in Reviews
ULi's M1695 chipset shines thanks to simultaneous support of AGP and PCI Express. The first motherboard to use the platform comes from ASRock - can the budget Asus brand exploit the chipset's potential?
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Nvidia C51 to help grab integrated chipset marketSep 16, 2005 - in News
Drew Henry, General Manager of Nvidia Platform Products Division, recently sat down with DigiTimes and talked about the prospects for Nvidia's upcoming integrated chipset series, the C51.
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PDC: Microsoft to aim for "tiered" hardware requirements for VistaSep 16, 2005 - in News
Microsoft unveiled here at PDC 2005 the new 3D hardware acceleration dependencies of Windows Vista that will be realized even for ordinary 2D renderings. Tom's Hardware Guide learned that Microsoft intends to offer a "tiered" experience - the basics will run on an integrated chipset, but all the bells and whistles will call for a capable 256 MByte discrete graphics board.
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ATI announces X800 GT, GTOSep 15, 2005 - in News
ATI today launched two new graphics cards based on the current X800 core.
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Reports of demise of 1" harddrives "greatly exaggerated" - iSuppliSep 15, 2005 - in News
Claims that the concepts of 1" and 1.8" harddrives may be in their final days are taken out of proportion, market research firm iSuppli said.
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Fall Extreme Gamer System Shootout Part 4: CyberPower' XLCSep 15, 2005 - in Reviews
CyberPower's XLC SLI gaming machine had plenty of power, but a water-cooling problem dampened our enthusiasm somewhat. Otherwise, the system's first-rate components, the vendor's meat-and-potatoes approach to design and inexpensive price made the XLC difficult to ignore.
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Are Intel's Integrated Graphics Processors Good Enough for Gaming?Sep 15, 2005 - in Reviews
Intel claims its integrated graphics processors are now good enough to play your favorite 3D games. With the launch of Intel's GMA950, are Intel's boasts based on reality - or simply the stuff of marketing pipe dreams?
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LCD TV panel inventory building, as are oversupply concernsSep 15, 2005 - in News
Due to less than expected sales of LCD TV panels in the first half of this year, LCD TV panel inventory is piling up and oversupply may worsen this year, as panel makers ramp up more capacity, according to DisplaySearch.
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