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LED makers eye large-size panel backlighting amid falling marginsMay 27, 2005 - in News
With oversupply and increased competition dragging down the prices for handset keypad-use blue LEDs by an average of 50 percent annually over the past five years, Taiwan LED makers are eying new market segments, such as LEDs for 15- and 17" monitor-panel backlighting in order to boost their margins, according to LED maker Unity Opto Technology.
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Hynix and Micron to aggressively expand NAND flash capacityMay 27, 2005 - in News
Hynix is expected to more than double its NAND flash wafer starts by year-end while Micron Technology will begin volume producing NAND flash on 12" wafers, according to sources.
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Don't expect strong Intel Pentium D shipments this yearMay 27, 2005 - in News
Intel will not be able to ship more than 500,000 Pentium D dual-core processors this year, as demand will not pick up until 2006, sources with motherboard makers in Taiwan said yesterday.
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Corsair ships 1 GHz DDR2 memoryMay 26, 2005 - in News
Corsair claims it is first memory manufacturer to ship DDR2 memory clocked at 1 GHz.
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Gigabyte to support four SLI graphics cards on one motherboardMay 26, 2005 - in News
If even two graphics cards in your PC are not enough, what about four? SLI typically is limited to two cards within one system, but sources told Tom's Hardware Guide that Gigabyte will soon offer a "Quad" motherboard with slots for up to four Nvidia-based SLI cards.
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Intel launches Pentium D dual-core processorMay 26, 2005 - in News
Intel's next mainstream computing platform is officially introduced today. Three new Pentium D chips integrate two processor cores and promise to improve computing performance in multitasking and multimedia environments. New are also the 945P/G chipsets that succeed the 915 series.
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ViewSonic Overdrive LCDs: A New Era of Very Fast Panels?May 26, 2005 - in Reviews
ViewSonic says its first LCD panel to offer a new gray-to-gray response time calculation and "Overdrive" signal technology is bursting with speed. Given the traditional disconnect between LCD vendors' claims and reality, we thought we would pit ViewSonic's TN VP192s LCD with a black-to-white latency of 12 ms, against its new VP191b with a purported GTG response time of 8 ms.
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Crossfire may boost ATI chipset shipmentsMay 26, 2005 - in News
ATI Technologies, which reportedly is set to roll out its long-anticipated multi-VPU Crossfire technology at the upcoming Computex Taipei, may see a boost in its chipset shipments as well, local motherboard makers predict.
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Intel claims no tight chipset supply, mobo makers not so sureMay 26, 2005 - in News
Ever since late 2004, the shadow of an Intel chipset shortage has hovered over the motherboard industry.
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ProMOS and Hynix to jointly develop 70nm productionMay 26, 2005 - in News
ProMOS Technologies has strengthened its relationship with memory maker Hynix Semiconductors for developing next generation stacked die technology, according to the company.
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Holographic storage to debut at "very end" of 2006May 25, 2005 - in News
InPhase is edging closer to a commercial release of its holographic storage system "Tapestry". The technology will offer 300 GByte space on one disc and will be marketed as high-end archival storage solution - but may also appeal to some pro-sumers and small businesses.
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Western Digital and LSI Logic explain and promote SATA II harddrivesMay 25, 2005 - in News
Disk drive maker Western Digital Corp (Lake Forest, California) and disk controller chip and adapter manufacturer LSI Logic Corp (Norcross, Georgia) have taken to the road to help system builders and resellers transition to the latest hard disk standard, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment II or SATA II. While marketing is always a goal of such efforts, the two companies are placing a heavy emphasis on technical information in their presentations.
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Dothan Over Netburst: Is The Pentium 4 A Dead End?May 25, 2005 - in Reviews
With a simple adapter, Intel's Pentium M processor can be used on veteran mainboards based on the i865 and i875 chipsets. Would you believe that this unorthodox combination proves to be so fast that it beats even the Athlon 64 FX and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition?!
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Samsung to continue lowering 8 Gbit NAND flash pricesMay 25, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electronics has been slashing the price of its 8Gbit NAND flash memory since the beginning of the year, with the original price of US$58 expected to eventually fall to US$30, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported.
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Samsung proposes LCD size standardMay 25, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electronics called for the standardization of LCD glass sizes among display makers worldwide and has proposed new mother glass substrate size standard for next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
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LCD TV panel shipments exceed LCD TV shipmentsMay 25, 2005 - in News
Global shipments of LCD TV panels will exceed LCD TV shipments by more than 20 percent in the first half of this year, amid strong demand from downstream makers, according to DisplaySearch.
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DRAM spot prices remain stableMay 25, 2005 - in News
Fluctuation of DRAM pricing over the past week has been limited, with the price change of mainstream 256 Mbit (32Mbitx8) falling less than one percentage point, and effectively tested (eTT) parts trading within a narrow range of $2.02-2.07 over the same time period.
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AMD releases virtualization spec "Pacifica" for AMD64 platformMay 25, 2005 - in News
AMD released the full specification of its virtualization technology "Pacifica" at the LinuxWorld Summit. Pacifica promises to bring hardware and software-based virtualization capabilities to AMD64 servers, workstations, desktops and mobile computers.
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Universal Display demos transparent OLEDMay 24, 2005 - in News
Universal Display (UDC) today announced the development of the world's first high-resolution active-matrix transparent OLED (AM-TOLED) display.
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Shoppers get a sneak peek at Pentium DMay 24, 2005 - in News
Intel's forthcoming Pentium D, the company's first dual-core processor for desktop PCs, was already on display in a small electronics shop in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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VGA Charts VI: PCI Express Update Summer 2005May 24, 2005 - in Reviews
Our latest VGA Chart compares 33 different graphics solutions, including Intel's integrated GMA900/i915G device and three SLI cards. Our test workup comprised no less than seven applications, three different resolutions and two different quality settings per game.
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Nanotech to increase DVD capacity to 850 GByteMay 24, 2005 - in News
Iomega believes DVD media to remain competitive with upcoming optical storage technologies such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD: Nanotechnology could multiply the current maximum capacity to 8.5 GByte 40 to 100 times, the company said.
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DDR-memory family targets mobile devicesMay 24, 2005 - in News
Micron Technology has launched a new DDR (double data rate) memory family targeting the mobile market.
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CCFL makers to expand capacityMay 24, 2005 - in News
Due to a surge demand in global LCD TV market, Taiwan-based CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) makers such as Wellypower, Delta Electronics and Audix aim to expand their capacity this year, according to market sources.
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UMC and Chartered to produce flash chips for SpansionMay 24, 2005 - in News
Spansion, a joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Fujitsu, may place orders with United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing to produce "ORNAND" flash memory, as its parent companies may not be able to allot capacity for its use, according to sources in the industry.
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Samsung develops Flash-based harddriveMay 23, 2005 - in News
Samsung announced that it has developed the first solid state disk (SSD) based on NAND Flash memory technology. 1.8" 16 GByte SSD drives will ship in August of this year.
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Pentium D, Athlon X2 systems to arrive this monthMay 23, 2005 - in News
PC manufacturers are preparing the launch desktop dual-core systems using AMD and Intel processors later this month.
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Coming soon to a monitor near you: LEDsMay 23, 2005 - in News
After years of development, the first LCD displays using Light Emitting Diode (LED) backlights are about to enter the market. Initial product offerings will be few and far between, but much of the industry will be watching from the sidelines, gauging the market reaction and weighing the pros and cons of jumping into the game, market research firm iSuppli expects.
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I Want My 32" LCD TVMay 23, 2005 - in Reviews
We recently scrutinized the kind of picture you get with 26" LCD TVs, but we now go larger with a look at 30" and 32" wares. Does size matter when it comes to picture quality?
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T is for Turbo: The Hitachi DeskStar T7K250May 23, 2005 - in Reviews
With its redesigned 250 GB model, Hitachi is adding a drive to its product portfolio for both mainstream purchasers and potential upgraders. Even if you are using older 40 GB and 80 GB drives, this is a worthy upgrade.
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