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First-tier LCD-monitor panel prices to stabilize in January, reportDec 22, 2004 - in News
Prices of first-tier LCD-monitor panels are likely to stabilize next month, while panel prices from second-tier makers may continue falling, according to iSuppli and system makers.
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Sony may quit plasma TV businessDec 22, 2004 - in News
Sony is studying scaling down its plasma television business and may withdraw from it completely by the end of next year, industry sources said yesterday.
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New graphic displays for the blindDec 22, 2004 - in News
The micro robotic group at the caesar research center has recently been awarded one of three research prizes by the ONCE foundation for for the invention of graphical tactile displays for the blind.
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VGA Charts V: PCI Express Graphics CardsDec 22, 2004 - in Reviews
In Part IV of the Tom's Hardware Guide VGA charts, we pitted the current AGP models against each other. In Part V, it's time to take a look at the new models utilizing the PCI Express bus, including NVIDIA's SLI cards.
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Teac launches portable HDDsDec 22, 2004 - in News
Teac America, a manufacturer of optical disk drives, USB floppy drives and duplicators, announced that it would be launching its new line of external portable hard disk drives.
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Taiwan sources: Mainstream LGA775 desktop CPUs in tight supplyDec 22, 2004 - in News
The current supply of Intel desktop-use mainstream LGA775 Pentium 4 CPUs, such as the Pentium 4 530 (3.0 GHz) and 520 (2.8 GHz), is insufficient in Taiwan, especially in the channel, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
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The Mother of All CPU Charts Part 2Dec 21, 2004 - in Reviews
We continue to trace CPU history by detailing AMD's path from its Athlon debut to its Athlon64 glory. We then conclude with the mother of all charts, comprising 3,300 benchmarks for CPUs since 1995. What more can we say?
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ATI revenues rise on PC card salesDec 21, 2004 - in News
Graphics card and chip maker ATI on Tuesday reported the results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2005, which ended November 30, 2004.
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Iomega intros triple interface drivesDec 21, 2004 - in News
Iomega said it has started shipping a redesigned family of external hard drives which include three interfaces - USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800.
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Nvidia's PureVideo promises home theater video quality for the PCDec 20, 2004 - in News
Nvidia today announced the availability of PureVideo. The technology is designed to accelerate MPEG 2 and high-definition content on computer systems equipped with an Nvidia graphics card carrying a GeForce 6-series processor.
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iSuppli: Worldwide DRAM sales to slow in 2005Dec 20, 2004 - in News
Although global DRAM revenue growth fell short of expectations in the third quarter, and near-term business conditions have worsened, the market remains on track to achieve sales growth in 2004 and 2005, according to iSuppli.
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Micron enters NAND Flash market, ships 2 Gbit 90 nm devicesDec 20, 2004 - in News
The rapidly growing market for NAND Flash, a technology typically used for storage media such as Flash cards, continues to attract new manufacturers.
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Elpida ships FB-DIMM samplesDec 20, 2004 - in News
DRAM maker Elpida today announced that it has shipped samples of its Fully-Buffered Dual in-line memory modules (FB-DIMM), The devices provide a data rate of up to 4.8 Gbit per second, equivalent to 6.4 GByte per second (GB/s) data bandwidth. Currently available DDR2 Registered DIMMs offer a throughput of 3.2 GByte per second.
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The Mother of All CPU Charts Part 1Dec 20, 2004 - in Reviews
Forget about the thousands of magazine articles and forum discussions on CPU performance. It's all here now in black and white: We are about to offer you 3,300 benchmarks for CPUs since 1995. But before we do that, we take you back in CPU history in Part 1 of our series.
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Nvidia NV48 still alive, expected to be released in 2Q 2005Dec 20, 2004 - in News
Nvidia has not given up on the NV48 and is expected to roll out the GPU in the second quarter of next year, despite market rumors saying the company has cancelled the chip, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers.
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IBM researchers eye 100 TByte tape driveDec 17, 2004 - in News
IBM has begun work on new technologies designed to boost the capacity of tape storage devices by 250 times.
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Taking AMD and Intel processors to the limitDec 17, 2004 - in News
One year ago, an ambitious project at the Tom's Hardware Guide Lab set a world record of processor speed - 5.25 GHz. This year, the staff focuses on a real world stress test to highlight reliability and quality of the processors: Progress and results can be viewed in real time over the Internet.
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CPU Stress Test: We "Stress Out" AMD and IntelDec 17, 2004 - in Reviews
The stresss test ran for 24 days. What are the results for AMD and Intel?
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5.1 Surround Sound on the CheapDec 17, 2004 - in Reviews
The 5.1 surround sound experience is a growing must-have for gamers and film buffs who demand life-like resonance for gun shots, explosions and the like during Doom III or DVD play. We look at three entry-level systems to see if a quality 5.1 speaker listening experience can be had for less than $100.
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Samsung shows 2.5m monster monitorDec 17, 2004 - in News
Samsung has unveiled what's possibly the world's largest plasma monitor screen - a monster 255cm (102in) high density panel codenamed 'Atlas'.
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AMD to gain market share in 2005Dec 17, 2004 - in News
AMD will continue to grab market share from Intel next year, investment house Piper Jaffray (PJ) forecast this week, thanks to what the researcher called a "very compelling product line".
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PowerPC development from the bargain basementDec 16, 2004 - in News
The Kuro Box promises something fairly interesting: a usable single-board PowerPC computer, for only US$160 - when other PowerPC development boards often cost ten times as much.
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Analyst: AMD will have an edge over Intel through 2005Dec 16, 2004 - in News
Piper Jaffray said Advanced Micro Devices should have an edge over Intel "throughout 2005" but resumed coverage of both companies at "market perform" and both at price targets of $25.
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LCD as a molecular magnifying glassDec 16, 2004 - in News
Dutch researcher Johan Hoogboom has developed a technique for making LCDs (liquid crystal displays) without the need for cleanrooms.
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AMD readies price cuts, new chipsDec 16, 2004 - in News
Reliable sources said that AMD will respond to pricing by Intel by dropping prices, dropping some chips and introducing some new Opterons on February the 14th next.
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PCI Express 2.0 to double bandwidthDec 16, 2004 - in News
The guardian of the PCI Express specification, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), has agreed to increase the bus' data rate to 5Gbps - double its current throughput.
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HP engineers to join IntelDec 16, 2004 - in News
ntel has agreed to hire the team of Hewlett-Packard engineers that helped design the chip giant's Itanium microprocessors for server computers, both companies said Wednesday.
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SiS and VIA start volume shipments of K8 PCIe-enabled chipsetsDec 16, 2004 - in News
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies recently began volume shipments of PCIe-enabled core-logic chipsets for the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) K8 platform, following Nvidia with its nForce4 MCP and ATI Technologies with its Radeon Xpress 200 series, the companies said.
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Last minute name change for Nvidia's new GeForce 6200 with TurbocacheDec 15, 2004 - in News
PCI Express allows Nvidia to tap into system memory to save expensive on-board graphics memory and achieve high performance at the same time. Tom's Hardware Guide and other publications however raised concerns over a possibly misleading naming of the cards and prompted Nvidia to revise the product name.
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