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AMD's 3 GHz Athlon 64-FX 'due Q1 2006'Jul 25, 2005 - in News
AMD will upgrade its Athlon 64 X2 and 64-FX processor lines early next year - potentially the chips' final Socket 939 incarnations before the company debuts its M2 interconnect in Q2 2006.
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Intel launches 2.26 GHz Pentium M 780Jul 25, 2005 - in News
Intel added three new processors to its mobile product line, including a new flagship chip for the high end, a low voltage Pentium M as well as a faster Celeron M for the entry-level notebook market.
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ATI to launch X800 GT as new flagship graphics chipJul 25, 2005 - in News
Before the arrival of its R520 and R580 flagship chips, ATI Technologies plans to introduce the Radeon X800 GT graphics processing unit (GPU) for the high-end market, according to sources at graphics card makers.
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Lenovo intros 17" LCD with adjustable screenJul 22, 2005 - in News
Lenovo doesn't just continue IBM's notebook and desktop PC business, but also has begun launching new monitor products.
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WD ships 400 GByte SATA desktop harddrivesJul 22, 2005 - in News
Western Digital (WD) announced availability of its 400 GByte Caviar SE16 harddrive for desktop computers.
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The Matrix Orbital MX610 Ultra-Smart Character DisplayJul 22, 2005 - in Reviews
To say that the Matrix Orbital MX610 displays a lot more than the time and other mostly redundant data is an understatement. This very easy-to-setup, multi-functional character display not only indicates important system status data, but also offers real-time news, weather and RSS feeds.
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Low-density SDRAM prices to pick up further as Samsung ends productionJul 22, 2005 - in News
According to its clients, Samsung Electronics will stop producing 16Mbit SDRAM from August, which should further push up SDRAM prices amid ramping consumer electronics demand.
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ATI CrossFire to support Intel 955X chipsetsJul 22, 2005 - in News
ATI Technologies has released CrossFire-compatible dual graphics card drivers to support Intel 955X chipsets, according to sources at motherboard makers.
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BenQ looks to expand its display business in 2HJul 22, 2005 - in News
With the goal of becoming the top display vendor in the world, BenQ will aggressively expand its LCD TV business in Japan and Europe in the second half of this year, according to the company.
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Nvidia looks for growth beyond the PCJul 21, 2005 - in News
The PC will remain the core business for Nvidia, but the company is looking to other market segments, chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang told shareholders today. The company hopes that applications such as Google Earth will fuel demand for 3D graphics chips in electronics devices far beyond the PC.
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The GeIL CL 1.5 DDR600 RAM PromiseJul 21, 2005 - in Reviews
In a bid to gain supremacy in memory for the Athlon 64, the GeIL ONE Series DIMMs offer CAS latency of 1.5 clocks or DDR600 speed. We tested to check the merits of their strategy.
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Large-size LCD TV retail prices to drop 9 percent in JulyJul 21, 2005 - in News
Recent figures from WitsView Technology indicated that the ASP (average selling price) for 32- LCD TVs will drop 8.7 percent sequentially this month, while the ASP for the 37" segment will fall 5 percent.
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Hollywood may demand DRM for larger harddrives - analystJul 20, 2005 - in News
Harddrives using perpendicular recording are on track to hit the market in early 2006 with capacities of up to 160 or even 200 GByte in 2.5" form factors. Consumer electronics using these devices could follow soon thereafter - but Hollywod may have a say in how quickly these monster drives make their way into portable audio and video players, Tom's Hardware Guide has learned.
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Intel has dual PCIe 16X slot boardsJul 20, 2005 - in News
Intel has two new chipsets but it seems that vendors are not picking up on them that well.
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Are 17" LCDs Dead?Jul 20, 2005 - in Reviews
Are 17" LCD monitors dead and buried? The answer is far from cut and dry as 17" vendors scramble to upgrade their wares with eye-catching designs and completely new features. Meanwhile, 19" monitor prices continue to slide.
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Silverstone Sugo SG01 Is Stylish Flexibility, CubedJul 20, 2005 - in Reviews
Silverstone's aluminum cube can be equipped more flexibly than most SFF PCs. The secret to its success? It can house any standard microATX board available today.
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Nvidia takes SLI mainstreamJul 20, 2005 - in News
Selling dual-graphics cards does not just work in the performance market, says Nvidia. A new driver and the new entry-level 6600 LE graphics card enable system builders to offer SLI PCs for less than $800.
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Samsung outsourcing TV panels from AUO and CMOJul 20, 2005 - in News
AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) recently became suppliers of 32" (and other smaller-size) LCD TV panels for Samsung Electronics, according to an unspecified Samsung Executive quoted by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).
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IDC: Global IC industry will still see growth in 2005Jul 20, 2005 - in News
Although capital expenditure (capex) among global semiconductor players will drop 15-17% on year in 2005, overall production value should still show growth, according to Shane Rau, PC chip analyst of International Data Corporation (IDC).
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MIC sees rising shipments of Socket 939 and LGA 775 motherboardsJul 20, 2005 - in News
Shipments of motherboards based on the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) socket with 939 pins and the Intel LGA 775 contributed a combined 17.2% to total motherboard shipments worldwide in the first quarter of this year, up 10.1 percentage points from 7% in the third quarter of last year, according to Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC).
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Nanotech manufacturing could break semiconductor biz models - analystJul 19, 2005 - in News
With semiconductor structures getting smaller every two years, a switch to nanotechnology manufacturing is inevitable and a matter of time. Skyrocketing cost to build nano-fabs will have dramatic effects on the semiconductor industry and force chip companies to rethink their business model, suggests a new research report.
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Samsung showcases 82" LCD TV, 40" OLEDJul 19, 2005 - in News
Samsung uses the International Meeting on Information Display 2005 conference, currently held in Seoul, to show its most recent devices.
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SDK first to manufacture perpendicular harddrive mediaJul 19, 2005 - in News
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) claims that it is first to have started mass production perpendicular recording platters for harddrives. According to the company the 1.8" discs double the capacity of current devices to 40 GByte per platter.
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Samsung raises panel forecast on increased LCD TV demandJul 19, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electronics has revised its forecast for overall LCD panel demand this year upward by two million units, with its forecast for LCD panel demand growing from 18 million to 20 million units.
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Hynix stops shipping NAND flash to spot marketJul 19, 2005 - in News
Hynix Semiconductor announced it stopped supplying NAND flash to the spot market on July 8, amid strong demand from consumer electronics customers, according to market sources.
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Global demand may reach 4.5 billion DVD discs this yearJul 19, 2005 - in News
This year, 80 million DVD burners and 10 million DVD recorders will be sold, and each customer will use 40-50 DVD discs a year on average, resulting in an estimated global demand of 3.5-4.5 billion DVD discs in 2005, according to Ritek company spokesman Eric Ai.
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MSI launches SLI mobo for Intel P4 platformJul 19, 2005 - in News
Micro-Star International (MSI) announced on July 15 the availability of the P4N SLI motherboard for the Intel LGA-775 Pentium 4 CPUs, with a price tag of NT$9,500 (US$298).
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Prices for monitor and TV panels to go in different directionJul 19, 2005 - in News
Prices for 17" monitor panels will continue to rise in the second half of this year while prices for 32" TV panels will steadily fall, according to DisplayBank president Kwon Sang-sei Sei.
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TCG releases specification for "trusted servers"Jul 18, 2005 - in News
Continuing its effort to build an environment for a "trusted" computing environment, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) today released a "trusted server" spec that complements the group's network and client security framework.
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Pushing Your DDR2 RAM To The MaxJul 18, 2005 - in Reviews
Does DDR2-800 deliver the hoped-for performance boost for Intel PCs? With DIMMs from Adata and Corsair in hand, we experimented with slower clocks but very short timings.
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