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Toshiba ships first harddrive with perpendicular recording techAug 16, 2005 - in News
Toshiba claims it has won the race of bringing the first PMR harddrive to the market. PMR, short for perpendicular magnetic recording, is believed to increase the capacity of harddrives substantially: Toshiba's first PMR device is a single platter 1.8" model with a storage density of 133 Gbit per square inch.
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AMD pumps up notebook performance with 4000+ chipAug 16, 2005 - in News
AMD today unveiled its fastest ever 64-bit notebook processor, the Mobile Athlon 64 processor 4000+.
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Samsung low density NAND flash price premium narrowsAug 16, 2005 - in News
With Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor continuing to migrate to higher-density NAND flash production, the spot price gap between the two Korea memory makers' low density 1Gbit parts narrowed to 28.2% for the month from July 15 to August 15, down from 57.8% once month earlier, according to figures gathered by Asia's IC Exchange.
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17" LCD monitor prices continue to riseAug 16, 2005 - in News
LCD monitors vendors CMV, Acer and BenQ will raise their prices for 17" and 15" LCD monitors, starting from the second half of August, according to the companies.
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Graphics card makers roll out Nvidia GeForce 7800GT cardsAug 16, 2005 - in News
Taiwan-based graphics-card makers Albatron, AOpen, Chaintech Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) claim they have begun volume shipments of their SLI-ready PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards based on the recently introduced Nvidia GeForce 7800GT graphics processor unit (GPU), according to the companies.
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Intel lowers pricing of Pentium 600 seriesAug 15, 2005 - in News
Intel reduced pricing of its Pentium 4 600 series in a move to phase out the 500 series.
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Intel accelerates dual-core server roadmapAug 15, 2005 - in News
Intel will introduce its first dual-core Xeon well ahead of schedule. Originally planned for the first quarter of next year, the Paxville MP and DP chips will make its debut in the fourth quarter of this year and bring support for fully buffered memory.
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Seagate ships 400 GByte nearline SATA harddrivesAug 15, 2005 - in News
Seagate today announced that it has begun shipping nearline SATA drives that are designed to fill the gap between online and offline enterprise storage. The company claims that the new NL35 are more reliable than desktop drives, while offering a lower-priced enterprise storage solution for applications such as disc-to-disc backup, archive, and tiered storage.
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Microsoft MCE Keyboard: The Missing LinkAug 15, 2005 - in Reviews
PCs that use the Windows Media Center interface are experiencing growing success. But for use in a living room, they need an effective peripheral for input. This keyboard, especially designed for that application, is an interesting response to the problem.
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Budget And Premium Motherboards At The CrossroadsAug 15, 2005 - in Reviews
Sometimes a single manufacturer offers a wide selection of motherboards, all able to host your desired processor. This leaves the user with an essential question: are premium motherboards worth the extra money? We compared MSI's budget motherboard with its highest-end model to find out.
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Nvidia C51 to hit market on September 20Aug 15, 2005 - in News
Nvidia is expected to launch its C51 integrated PCI Express (PCIe) chipset for the AMD K8 platform on September 20.
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ARM advances: Q&A with ARM VP John CornishAug 12, 2005 - in News
ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) continues to turn the soft-IP business model into a success story.
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Intel to unveil Pentium 4 successor at IDFAug 12, 2005 - in News
Intel confirmed that it will showcase its "next generation" desktop processor architecture at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Fall. Code-named Conroe, the new processors promise a significant lower power consumption than the current NetBurst architecture that is used in the Pentium 4 and Pentium D 800.
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NAND boosts Flash memory market in Q2Aug 11, 2005 - in News
Strong demand from makers of consumer-electronics products and mobile phones helped Flash memory makers to increase their sales slightly to $4.1 billion in the second quarter of this year. NAND Flash continues to grab market share and is on track to replace NOR Flash in more and more devices.
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Samsung says DDR2 output surpassing DDR1Aug 11, 2005 - in News
The DRAM is in the midst of its next major shift with DDR2 memory production beginning to outpace DDR1 devices. Samsung is the first manufacturer to announce that it has reached this mark. The company sees "plenty of life left in DDR2" and expects to double module capacity to 4 GByte later this year.
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Nvidia releases GeForce 7800 GTAug 11, 2005 - in News
The 7800 GT joins Nvidia's high-end 7800 graphics chip family and offers consumers a new choice that is positioned between the flagship 7800 GTX and the 6800 Ultra graphics processors. According to the manufacturer, the new GT is available in volume starting today.
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Two Fast and Functional USB Flash DrivesAug 10, 2005 - in Reviews
Memina elicits superlatives with its record-shattering Rocket 4 GB USB flash drive. Kingston counters with its DataTraveller II Plus Migo Edition, which carries your e-mail and Windows installation files around and imports them onto other desktops. Which is better, and why?
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LCD monitor makers enjoy strong JulyAug 10, 2005 - in News
Taiwan-based LCD monitors including Jean, Amtran Technology, BenQ and Coretronic all posted strong sales results in July, according to the companies.
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SiS lands entry-level chipset orders from IntelAug 10, 2005 - in News
Intel may purchase entry-level chipsets from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) for its entry-level motherboards, sources cited by today's Chinese-language Commercial Times indicated.
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AMD simulates virtualization tech PacificaAug 9, 2005 - in News
AMD announced that it will equip its x86 64-bit simulator with "workable model" of the virtualization technology code-named Pacifica. According to current roadmaps, Pacifica will launch in the first half of 2006, Intel will roll out its equivalent "VT" later this year.
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Getting Started With Digital AudioAug 9, 2005 - in Reviews
So you want to be your own music producer or engineer? We'll show you what hardware and software you need to get started.
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Taiwan chipset manufacturers plan for US production shortageAug 9, 2005 - in News
With Taiwan chipset makers initially focusing their integrated PCIe chipset development on the AMD K8 platform, they may not be able to take advantage of Intel's plans to phase out its 915PL/GL series chipsets, sources at motherboard makers commented to DigiTimes.
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Intel to trim power consumption of desktop CPUs in half by H2 2006Aug 8, 2005 - in News
New Intel processor roadmaps suggest that the company will aggressively reduce the power consumption of its higher end desktop processors with the introduction of the "Conroe" family in the second half of next year. By then, Intel will also have a 64-bit refresh for Yonah ready and introduce a Celeron M-branded single-core Yonah.
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Rambus introduces complete, integrated PCI Express solutionAug 8, 2005 - in News
Rambus wants a bigger slice of the quickly growing PCI Express market. The company today announced that it is adding a logic controller to its existing physical PCI Express layer and now offers a complete interface solution that, for example, can be adopted by graphics card developers.
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Dell XPS 600 first to offer dual x16 SLIAug 7, 2005 - in News
Nvidia continues to aggressively expand the reach of its dual-graphics card technology SLI - and has found a new high-volume partner: Dell offers a new high-end nForce SLI x16 chipset and two GeForce 7800 GTX graphics cards in its new XPS 600 gaming system. The standard SLI chipset moves into the mainstream market.
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Toshiba, Clariant team on 30 GByte recordable HD-DVDAug 5, 2005 - in News
Swiss chemical company Clariant International and consumer electronics manufacturer Toshiba of Japan have jointly developed a dye that is necessary for dual-layer recordable HD-DVD discs capable of storing 30 GByte of data, representatives of both firms said Friday.
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EVGA offers lifetime warranty for retail graphics cardsAug 5, 2005 - in News
Graphics card manufacturer EVGA today announced that the company offers a lifetime warranty for its products.
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AET at SiggraphAug 5, 2005 - in News
Tom's Hardware Guide has established an ongoing relationship with Academy of Entertainment and Technology (AET) at the Santa Monica College in the Los Angeles area. Brant Looney and Tim Ryan of AET's tech support staff kept a diary of what they saw at Siggraph and products they would love to get their hands on for use in AET's programs.
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When Size Really Matters: Smallest Flash CardsAug 5, 2005 - in Reviews
You can find CompactFlash memory cards today with capacities of up to 8 GB, and 4 GB Secure Digital flash (SD) cards are just around the corner. While rather small, their size still makes them unsuitable for use in ultra-small devices like cellphones, smart phones, PDAs, and so forth. Here, we take a look at smaller memory formats, including MMCmicro and MicroSD, which promise mass data storage in truly tiny packages.
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Imagination announces Shader Model 3 capable mobile graphics processorsAug 5, 2005 - in News
Imagination, a UK-based IP company that licenses its technologies to chip and electronics manufacturers such as Intel and Nintendo, unveiled a new graphics core technology, which promises to advance 2D and 3D graphics acceleration on mobile wireless devices.
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