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DRAM demand to pick up earlier than expectedMay 23, 2005 - in News
Despite Samsung Electronics officially predicting that the DRAM market will not balance out until the end of the year, sources at the company claim that global DRAM demand stands a good chance of picking up next quarter.
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iSuppli: LCD market gets back on track in 2QMay 23, 2005 - in News
The mood of attendees at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2005 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition in Boston this week is likely to be buoyed by news of a mounting recovery in the large-size LCD panel market.
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AMD aims Geode LX at "x86 everywhere"May 23, 2005 - in News
AMD is sampling a low-power, low-cost, small-footprint embedded processor chipset aimed at extending the x86 architecture to a broad range of resource-constrained consumer and industrial applications, including moderately-sized mobile devices.
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DDR contract price up slightly in 2H MayMay 23, 2005 - in News
The contract price for mainstream 256 MB DRR-400 DIMMs has increased $0.20 to $21.40 for the second half of May, representing the first price increase this year, according to figures posted by DRAMeXchange.
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Infineon: Power management IC growth to outpace rest of semico industryMay 23, 2005 - in News
The power management (PWM) IC segment is expected to grow 15-18% this year, as compared to 5-10% for the entire semiconductor industry, stated Anton Riedhammer, senior director of PWM ICs of Infineon Technologies.
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Harddisk prices spinning higherMay 21, 2005 - in News
In the first quarter, prices for hard disk drives from various manufacturers increased, reversing a recent trend.
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Room for one more: Gigabyte to offer third dual-GPU graphics cardMay 20, 2005 - in News
Gigabyte appears to be on a roll these days with yet another dual-GPU graphics card knocking on our doors. The most recent model will be the flagship model of the 3D1 series and come with two GeForce 6800 GT graphics chips.
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Data Transfer on the Run: High-Speed USB Flash DrivesMay 20, 2005 - in Reviews
Forget the diskettes or read/write optical media! USB flash memory drives are quicker and easier to use. And some models even offer data transfer rates that exceed 20 MBytes/sec!
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Sources claim Samsung to establish BGA substrate plant in SuzhouMay 20, 2005 - in News
Samsung Electro-Mechanics will start volume shipping ball-grid array (BGA) substrate from a plant in Suzhou starting in mid 2006 for packaging Samsung DDR2 memory, according to industry sources.
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Details of ATI's Xbox 360 GPU unveiledMay 20, 2005 - in News
With Microsoft's official announcement of the next-generation Xbox 360 console this week, ATI has decided to disclose some of the architectural details of the graphics processor that it created for the system.
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EMC re-invents itself: Q&A with EMC director Ricky ChungMay 20, 2005 - in News
The need for mass data storage exploded in the 1990s, and one of the companies that rode the crest of that wave was US based EMC.
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ATI MVP mobos to be priced below SLI boardsMay 19, 2005 - in News
ATI is believed to unveil its dual graphics card technology "Multi Video Processing" (MVP) at the Computex trade show later this month. According to sources, tier 1 motherboard manufacturers will offer products that will be priced about 5 percent below an Nvidia-based SLI board and hit the market late in July 2005.
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Case Modding: Enlightening LightingMay 19, 2005 - in Reviews
Looks count for more when the performance is there. This article provides a detailed look at solutions for under-lit PCs.
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Matsushita insists Toshiba yield on DVD formatMay 19, 2005 - in News
The president of Matsushita said on Thursday it is up to Toshiba to yield its position in talks on a unified format for next-generation DVD technology, making clear that Matsushita and its partner Sony won't budge.
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WD intros SATA II and color-adjustable external harddrivesMay 18, 2005 - in News
Western Digital (WD) today announced it is shipping SATA II harddrives that offer a theoretical data transfer rate of up to 300 MByte per second.
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Gigabyte mobo supports DDR2-1066 memoryMay 18, 2005 - in News
Gigabyte is gearing up to announce a new Intel 955X-based motherboard that will support DDR2 memory clocked at up to 1066 MHz, Tom's Hardware Guide has learned. While such modules are not available commercially today, the board provides an opportunity for overclockers to extract more performance from their memory.
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Intel's new desktop chips focus on manageabilityMay 18, 2005 - in News
Intel today is announcing the annual update of its business desktop PC microprocessors, with this year's version focusing heavily on features for easier management.
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DVD format unity talks failMay 18, 2005 - in News
Open war between the two sides championing differing next-generation DVD formats appears likely, following failed peace talks.
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OEM prices of DVD+R/-R discs to further rise next quarterMay 18, 2005 - in News
The better than expected demand for DVD+R/-R discs has resulted in an increase in OEM prices by 10-15 percent in total for this quarter and will further push up prices in the third quarter when it will begin to climb on a monthly basis rather than per quarter as it is currently, said CMC Magnetics chairman Robert Wong.
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Asus first to integrate Ageia's physics chipMay 17, 2005 - in News
Asus and Ageia reached an agreement to use the PhysX processor on add-in boards.
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Catalyst 5.5 brings updates Win x64, Linux driver for ATI cardsMay 17, 2005 - in News
ATI posted the fifth Catalyst driver package for this year.
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Oxford Semi intros SATA bridge chips for external storageMay 17, 2005 - in News
Oxford Semiconductor claims to be the first company to offer a SATA interfacing bridge chip to external storage manufacturers.
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Albatron enables use of AGP 8x cards in PCI Express boardsMay 17, 2005 - in News
Albatron has released a bridge card that allows users in an AGP 8x card in a PCI Express mainboard.
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Logitech Harmony Pilots: No More "Remote Control Bloat"?May 17, 2005 - in Reviews
Much ink has been spilled lately on living room entertainment gear. But what about that basketful of remote controls that comes with it? With Harmony, Logitech says it offers a single device that ends what the company calls "remote bloat."
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ATI confident about Multi VPUMay 17, 2005 - in News
ATI has officially confirmed its Multi VPU and company sources tell us it's very enthusiastic about it.
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NAND Flash revenues surpass NOR for the first timeMay 17, 2005 - in News
The first quarter of this year brought a historic event for the Flash memory industry. For the first time since the introduction of the technology in 1988, revenues of the more recent NAND type surpassed the original NOR Flash driven by booming demand of MP3 players and digital cameras.
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Taiwan DVD disc makers enjoy booming businessMay 17, 2005 - in News
Leading manufacturers of DVD+R/-R discs in Taiwan, in light of growing orders and fully occupied production capacity, have increasingly been choosing the orders for more profitable 16x discs and contracting out the production of 8x discs or for relatively small volumes to second-tier or smaller makers, according to the leading makers.
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AOpen to introduce Pentium M mobo using desktop 915G chipsetMay 17, 2005 - in News
AOpen is set to release its i915GA-HFS motherboard, which although based on Intel's 915G desktop chipset, will support Pentium M CPUs, according to sources at the company.
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Infineon to deliver 1Gb NAND flash by the end of the yearMay 17, 2005 - in News
Sources at downstream DRAM makers have stated that Infineon Technologies has postponed the delivery date of its 1G NAND flash products from this quarter to at least the end of the year.
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Creative's X-Fi: A New Age in Sound Card Power?May 16, 2005 - in Reviews
Lately, you might think sound cards are more about price wars than new technologies. But think again: Creative is about to come at the sector with a left hook. Its X-Fi audio processor packs 51.1 million transistors and a 400 MHz clock speed. We take a first look.
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