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IBM intros 200 GHz silicon germanium techAug 5, 2005 - in News
IBM today announced availability of a new 130 nm generation of its silicon germanium (SIGe) foundry technology "8HP".
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Organic battery to enable backups during power failuresAug 5, 2005 - in News
NEC is working on a small organic radical battery for desktop PC, that can keep a computer running during power outages. The device will be able to provide enough juice to enable data backups and minimize the risk of losing valuable work.
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A-Data launches 4 GB 200x MMCplus cardAug 5, 2005 - in News
Following its recent announcement of a 4 GByte 150x (22.5 MB/sec; 1x = 150 kB/s) SD card, A-Data Technology has just unveiled another high-end flash-memory product, a 200x 4 GByte MMCplus card.
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THG Siggraph report - Day 1Aug 4, 2005 - in News
Every year, graphics professionals, video game designers and movie moguls meet for the Siggraph convention. The convention is a mix of "pie in the sky" demonstrations of future technologies and costly movie making hardware and software. Attendees, upon seeing the X-Wing model in the Los Angeles Convention Center lobby, get a sense of Siggraph's theme - creating a new reality from imagination.
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External Hard Drives with Trimmings AplentyAug 4, 2005 - in Reviews
External hard drive capacities continue to grow and their prices certainly don't break the bank. Now, vendors such as Fastora, Maxtor and Smartdisk are designing in value-added features that make these devices that much more exciting.
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Sony to place LCD TV panel orders with AUO and CMOAug 4, 2005 - in News
AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) have received LCD TV panel orders from Sony, according to the Taiwan-edition of the Chinese-language Apple Daily News.
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Nvidia to offer Vista drivers with Beta 2 arrivalAug 3, 2005 - in News
Nvidia on Wednesday said that it will release a driver designed for its graphics cards running under Microsoft's Vista operating system as soon as the Beta 2 of the software becomes available.
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AMD hikes single-way server chip pricesAug 3, 2005 - in News
One day after announcing price cuts across its range - AMD has gone into reverse and increased the price for its single-way Opteron server processors.
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ATI X800GT's about to be releasedAug 3, 2005 - in News
August 8th is one date that is being bandied about - but don't expect to see them in North America for at least a week or two after that.
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Zygote launches online store for scientific 3D model artAug 3, 2005 - in News
Zygote, a company that is mostly know for providing image data biomedical, entertainment, scientific and animation markets, announced that it has launched a beta online store covering the firm's "3D Human Anatomy Collection", biology and nanotechnology products.
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Pricing pressure drives DRAM revenues lowerAug 3, 2005 - in News
DRAM makers faced steep declines in memory revenues in the second quarter of this year: DDR production is slowly shifting in favor of DDR2, but only two out of the ten largest manufacturers were able to post gains during the period, iSuppli said in a report released on Wednesday.
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Turning Your Printer Into A Paper Shredder (On Purpose)Aug 3, 2005 - in Reviews
Do you have a Xerox Phaser laser printer you're about to replace and don't know what do with it? Why not turn it into a high-volume paper shredder? A few spare parts and some disassembly are all that is required.
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Siggraph 2005: Texas Memory Systems shows 32 GByte solid state storage systemAug 3, 2005 - in News
At the annual Siggraph convention held in Los Angeles, Texas Memory Systems demonstrated a solid state (all RAM) storage unit that promises to blow away traditional hard-drives, both in performance and price. The unit dubbed the RamSan-400 holds 32 to 128 GByte of RAM and can sustain 3 GByte per second transfer rates. Starting Price is steep at around $65,000.
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Corning to volume produce 8G LCD substrates next yearAug 3, 2005 - in News
Corning has started constructing an eighth-generation (8G) glass substrate plant in Japan, with volume production to commence next fall, according to Corning CEO Wendell Weeks, as cited by Japan-based Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (via the Chinese-language Commercial Times).
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Prices for DRAM and NAND flash both enjoy moderate growthAug 3, 2005 - in News
Although the increase in DRAM spot pricing slowed in the week from July 26 to August 1, overall pricing still rose within a 2% range, while in the NAND flash segment, all segments drew attention, with 2Gbit parts enjoying the greatest price increase at 5.5% last week.
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Intel may exit entry-level chipset marketAug 3, 2005 - in News
Intel plans to phase out its 865 and 915PL/GL chipsets in the fourth quarter and exit the entry-level chipset market, sources with motherboard makers revealed.
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Kingston starts increasing DDR2 procurementAug 3, 2005 - in News
Kingston Technology has started increasing the amount of DDR2 it is sourcing from the spot market amid a positive forecast for DDR2 penetration rates, according to market source.
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Crucial takes Ballistix memory to 1 GHzAug 2, 2005 - in News
Crucial today introduced a 1 GHz version of its performance memory series Ballistix.
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Pretec launches 4 GByte 133x SD cardAug 2, 2005 - in News
Pretec claims its new 133x SD card offers more capacity than any other SD card on the market.
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AMD to offer ECC memory support for Opteron 100 seriesAug 2, 2005 - in News
AMD today said that it now ships Opteron 100 processors that support error-correcting code (ECC) unbuffered memory.
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Elpida to begin volume production of 4 GByte FB-DIMMs in Q4Aug 2, 2005 - in News
Elpida today announced that it will begin mass-production of Fully Buffered Dual In-Line Memory Modules in the fourth quarter of this year, providing enough supply for Intel's next-generation dual-core workstation and server platforms scheduled to launch in Q1 of 2006.
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Nanya expects DRAM contract prices to continue rising in AugustAug 2, 2005 - in News
Following a rebound in contract prices last month, Nanya Technology predicts that the average contract price should grow 5% on tighter DRAM supply, according to Nanya vice president of global sales and marketing, Pei-lin Pai, as quoted in the Chinese-language Apple Daily News.
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Storage enclosure packs four 2.5" harddrives into one 5.25" bayAug 1, 2005 - in News
Fujitsu announced that Enhance Technology will use the firm's next-gen SATA harddrives in the QuadraPack 14, storage enclosure that can house up to four 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) harddrives mounted into a single 5.25" drive bay.
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Memorex releases 8x DVD+RW mediaAug 1, 2005 - in News
Memorex claims it is first to offer DVD+RW media for 8x writing speeds.
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Global semiconductor industry on track for solid growth in 2005Aug 1, 2005 - in News
All those storm clouds forecasted to shake up the semiconductor industry in 2005 are gone. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), sales of chip manufacturers in the first half of 2005 are well above 2004 levels and are expected to set a new record result of $226 billion by the end of the year.
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Instat predicts rosy future for new chipset designsAug 1, 2005 - in News
Market research firm Instat estimates that PC core-logic chipset market will grow from $6.9 billion in 2005 to $10.3 billion in 2009.
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Open GL ES 2.0 advances 3D graphics acceleration for cellphones, handhelds, PS3Aug 1, 2005 - in News
A consortium of the world's leading embedded systems manufacturers and developers, meeting at SIGGRAPH 2005, today announced OpenGL ES 2.0, an improved derivative of OpenGL for use in cellphones, embedded systems, including Sony's Playstation 3.
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A Dissatifying Compromise With AMD's 64 bit Sempron 3400+Aug 1, 2005 - in Reviews
In response to Intel's Celeron D 351, the latest Sempron 3400+ not only implements more cache memory, it features AMD64. Sounds good, but does it really make sense to choose it over an entry-level Athlon 64?
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Dual-Core, Simple Price: Athlon 64 X2 3800+Aug 1, 2005 - in Reviews
AMD's initial release of dual-core processors revealed only one weakness: they were too expensive. But today there's a new entry-level model, the pricing of which should make the buying decision easier. We take a look at the new Athlon 64 X2 3800+, and also compare and contrast all the members of the X2 family.
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AMD announces dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+Aug 1, 2005 - in News
A new 3800+ model joins AMD's dual-core X2 series and goes head-to-head with Intel's Pentium D processors with a more affordable price tag. The company also launched quietly the Sempron 3400, a new flagship for the firm's entry-level processor family.
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