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Semiconductor growth to slow substantially in 2005, analysts saySep 9, 2005 - in News
A new report released by iSuppli dampens the hope for another golden year for the global semiconductor industry. Analysts believe that high energy prices, excess manufacturing capacity as well as damages caused by Hurricane Katrina will have a negative impact on 2005 chip sales.
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TI DLP 1080p chips for projectors arriveSep 9, 2005 - in News
Texas Instruments (TI) announced the launch of its 1080p resolution (1,920 x 1,080) chips for the front projection market at the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association Expo (CEDIA Expo) in Indianapolis, September 9-11, 2005.
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First-tier vendors cutting flat-panel TV pricesSep 9, 2005 - in News
Retail prices for flat panel TVs (including LCD TVs and PDP TVs) from first-tier makers are getting cheaper, as Japan-based Sharp and Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial brand name) are cutting prices for their products.
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Fall Extreme Gamer System Shootout Part 2: ABS M6Sep 8, 2005 - in Reviews
As part of our continuing coverage of SLI systems, the M6 from California-based OEM and reseller ABS represents a no-holds bar effort. Extreme-end components include an AMD FX-57 CPU and two sticks of 1 GB Corsair DDR PC3200XL on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.
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Brands of ATI's new graphic chips leaked, Crossfire boards to cost more than $200Sep 8, 2005 - in News
Details of ATI's upcoming graphics chip generation begin to emerge ahead of the official product launch, which is expected to take place within a few weeks. The enthusiast site Hexus.net today published a complete list of R5xx brand names. Sources also told Tom's Hardware Guide that dual-graphics Crossfire boards may be much more expensive than originally expected.
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Australian Microsoft strategist raises eyebrows with Vista hardware requirementsSep 8, 2005 - in News
A Microsoft strategist told attendees of the TechEd 2005 conference on the Gold Coast last week that Windows Vista's new display driver model may compel users to upgrade to a PC with 2 GByte of DDR3 SDRAM and a graphics card with at least 256 MByte memory, according to Australian PC enthusiast publication APC Magazine .
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Xbox 360 component shipments to boost Foxlink and Ji-Haw revenuesSep 8, 2005 - in News
Foxlink (Cheng Uei Precision Industry) and Ji-Haw Industrial (JH) reported that they began shipping Xbox 360 related components to Microsoft in August, and they expect shipments of the related products to contribute significantly to their revenues in September.
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DDR and DDR2 trending in opposite directions in contract marketSep 8, 2005 - in News
Contract prices for DDR and DDR2 went in different directions in the first half of September, with mainstream DDR continuing trending upward while DDR2 trended down.
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Intel said to be scheduling CPU price cuts for January 2006Sep 8, 2005 - in News
Intel will cut prices for its Pentium D 8xx and Celeron processors in January 2006, when its new 65nm dual-core CPU lines, the Pentium D9 and Pentium 4 6xx series, are expected to hit the market, according to sources at motherboard makers.
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A-Data sampling DDR2-533 and DDR2-667 FB-DIMMsSep 8, 2005 - in News
A-Data Technology, ranked by iSuppli as the number three third-party DRAM-module supplier in the world and number one in Asia, announced that it has started offering DDR2-533 (PC2-4200) and DDR2-667 (PC2-5300) Fully-Buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs) for testing and evaluation purposes.
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Can Gigabyte's i-RAM Replace Existing Hard Drives?Sep 7, 2005 - in Reviews
Connected via serial ATA and equipped with up to 4 GB of DDR memory, the i-RAM plug-in module from Gigabyte is supposed to open up the way to undreamt-of hard disk performance.
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Hitachi GST to start volume shipments of Mikey microdrives in 4QSep 7, 2005 - in News
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) is expected to start volume shipments of its new-generation of microdrives, codenamed Mikey, in the fourth quarter of this year, according to Morse Chen, general manager for Hitachi GST Taiwan and Shanghai.
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DRAM prices to see moderate increase in SeptemberSep 7, 2005 - in News
Spot prices slipped in August as traders began to dump the inventory they had built since May, when DDR 256Mb DDR prices were as low as $2.3.
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Samsung to increase production capacity of LCD glass substrates by 150 percentSep 6, 2005 - in News
Samsung today said that it will invest 1.76 trillion South Korean Won (approximately $1.72 billion) to complete the second phase of its 7G LCD panel fab.
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Nvidia 7800 Ultra cancelled?Sep 6, 2005 - in News
The Inquirer repoirts that Nvidia apparently has decided to cancel its upcoming 7800 Ultra card.
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Fall Extreme Gamer System Shootout begins with Liquid XS from All American ComputersSep 6, 2005 - in Reviews
Our latest SLI gaming system review takes us to All American Computers, which offered up a custom-built, acrylic brushed case packed with a water-cooled AMD Athlon 64 4000+, XFX 7800 GTX graphics cards and other trimmings. For $4321.49, ACC's Liquid XS more than does the job.
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Samsung announces first 256 Mbit PSRAM for cellphonesSep 6, 2005 - in News
Samsung today said that it plans to begins production of a high-density UtRAM, the firm's Pseudo SRAM product, later this year. The memory aims to accelerate multimedia applications in 3G cellphones.
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PBGA substrate shortage may disrupt SiS and VIA chipset shipmentsSep 6, 2005 - in News
Because supplies of plastic ball-grid array (PBGA) substrates will continue to be short of demand throughout the end of this year, Taiwan chipset makers Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies may face difficulties in fulfilling large entry-level chipset orders in the third quarter, according to sources in the Taiwan substrate industry.
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Gigabyte introduces Nvidia nForce Professional RoHS-compliant motherboardSep 6, 2005 - in News
Gigabyte Technology recently introduced an AMD Opteron-based GA-2CEWH motherboard, its first product that follows the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation.
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Tight PDP supply expected for 4QSep 5, 2005 - in News
Although supply and demand for PDPs (plasma display panels) are likely to reach a balance this quarter, supply is expected to run short of demand in the fourth quarter, as orders are fully booked through the first quarter in 2006, according to unspecified PDP makers.
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Packaging and testing outlook bright as demand picks upSep 5, 2005 - in News
Thanks to the upcoming hot season for the packaging and testing industry, sales from Taiwan's Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) are likely to increase 10-20% sequentially this quarter and continue to rise in the fourth quarter, according to Joseph HS Tung, CFO and vice president of ASE and SPIL chairman Bough Lin.
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ATI R520 GPUs to come in 3QSep 5, 2005 - in News
ATI has informed its clients in Taiwan that it will gradually begin volume shipments of its R-series GPUs, including the R520, RV530, RV515 and RV505 by the end of the third quarter.
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Maxtos intros 500 GByte external network and media storageSep 2, 2005 - in News
Maxtor launched a new external network storage device named Shared Storage Plus.
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Via announces P4M800 Pro IGP chipset for P4Sep 2, 2005 - in News
Via today announced the P4M800 Pro chipset for Intel's Pentium 4 and Celeron processor with up to 800 MHz FSBs.
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Hitachi thinks small with new 8 GByte microdriveSep 2, 2005 - in News
Hitachi today introduced a new generation of its smallest form factor harddrives. Mikey, the firm's 1" microdrive is now available in capacities of up to 8 GByte and claims to be the first harddrive to offer a CE-ATA interface, which is widely promoted to spread among consumer electronics devices. There are also new 30 and 60 GByte slim versions of Hitachi's 1.8" Travelstar series.
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DRAM price slide to continue next year amid capacity expansionSep 2, 2005 - in News
In a recent report from Samsung Electronics, the company raised its forecast for global DRAM supply for this year and next year amid industry-wide capacity expansion, and predicted that DRAM spot prices will continue to slide in 2006.
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ASP for 7" LCD panels to rise in 2H05Sep 2, 2005 - in News
The ASP (average selling price) for 7" LCD panels may rebound to US$40 in the second half of 2005 driven by tight supply, according to Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) as cited in the Taiwan-edition of the Chinese-language Apple Daily.
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Chipset prices may rise 10 percentSep 2, 2005 - in News
ATI Technologies, Nvidia and VIA Technologies may raise chipset prices by approximately 10% as demand is outpacing supply, according to sources in the Taiwan chipset industry.
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Elpida jumps into consumer electronics DRAM businessSep 1, 2005 - in News
Elpida announced today that it will offer a 512 Megabit DDR Digital Consumer DRAM device that specifically targets consumer electronics applications.
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Fierce competition causes semiconductor market to declineSep 1, 2005 - in News
Growing pricing pressure in key segments of the global semiconductor industry brought the first year-over-year revenue decline in 2005. Despite increasing energy prices, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) sticks to its forecast that revenues will post overall solid growth for the year.
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