High Tech - News, Reviews and Tests
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Storage Networking World conference opens its doorsOct 27, 2004 - in News
Several storage suppliers are adding to their arsenal of products and technologies aimed at IT managers dealing with the explosion of data storage at Storage Networking World in Orlando this week.
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Projection-technology rivals fight to tell the story their wayOct 27, 2004 - in News
As competition among projection players heats up in both the front-projection and rear-projection TV (RPTV) spaces, a parallel strategic battle over the positioning of various technologies continues to rage.
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Sandisk increases capacity of SD, miniSD, RS-MMC Cards and Memory SticksOct 26, 2004 - in News
Sandisk on Tuesday upgraded a range of its storage devices.
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Nvidia's market share for standalone graphic chips tumblesOct 26, 2004 - in News
For the first time in several years, Nvidia has shipped less standalone desktop graphic cards than its rival ATI, according to industry sources. The firm's market share reached 37 percent in the third quarter of this year, compared to 50 percent in the same period of 2003.
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Intel launches low-voltage Xeon processor with 800 MHz FSBOct 26, 2004 - in News
Intel announced the arrival of a new low-voltage version of its Xeon product series. The new chip is clocked at 2.8 GHz and integrates the 64-bit extension set EM64T.
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Security with Ease: Accordance ARAID 2000Oct 26, 2004 - in Reviews
This compact, easily-installed system provides RAID 1 support without configuration. The ARAID 2000 supports two hard drives, and works completely without drivers.
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Asus SLI board claims 3D graphics recordOct 25, 2004 - in News
Asus' SLI-based A8N-E mainboards are first to break through the 10,000 points barrier of 3DMark 2005. Meanwhile, SLI solutions are also becoming more available with performance PC maker Alienware beginning to take orders for the technology.
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Seagate ships 5 GByte pocket driveOct 25, 2004 - in News
Seagate announced availability of its pocket harddrive drive for users who want to carry their digital data in a small form factor device. The company also has begun shipping a 2.5" portable harddrive with 100 GByte capacity.
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Intel prepares for next 20 years of chip makingOct 25, 2004 - in News
Intel pulled back the curtain Friday on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster and less power-hungry out as far as 2020.
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Nvidia offers DVD decoderOct 25, 2004 - in News
Nvidia today announced its own DVD playback software which is targeted to work in conjunction with Microsoft's Windows media Player and the Windows Media Center Edition.
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In Living Color: 8 New Inkjet Printers Put to the TestOct 25, 2004 - in Reviews
Every year at this time, the four major manufacturers of inkjet printers introduce new printer lines. We compare all the new products and show you what to really expect from them - and most importantly, what they'll cost you.
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Lacie announces external SATA harddrive, high-end LCDOct 21, 2004 - in News
Lacie today introduced a new series of external harddrives with SATA interface at the SMAU trade show in Milan, Italy. The drives are available in capacities up to 400 GByte. The manufacturer also announced a high-end 21" LCD targeted at graphics professionals.
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Corsair announces 550 MHz DDR memoryOct 21, 2004 - in News
Corsair announced a new high-end DDR memory module.
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Intel releases 2.10 GHz Pentium MOct 20, 2004 - in News
Intel today released the latest Pentium M chip in the form of the Pentium M model 765.
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Larger cache to keep Pentium 4 competitive until arrival of dual-coresOct 20, 2004 - in News
Intel's decision to cancel the 4 GHz Pentium 4 580J shifts the bragging rights for the fastest desktop processors into AMD's hands for some time. The Athlon 64 FX-55 and 4000+ outpace Intel's processors on paper as well as in benchmarks. Intel plans to stay competitive with larger cache sizes until dual-core chips are available.
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The Antidote To Tedium: 11 Midi Tower Cases Bring Excitement to the DesktopOct 20, 2004 - in Reviews
It's a question of taste: aristocratic, or eccentric and extravagant? Today brushed aluminum and illuminated monster cases court buyers. We let representatives of both factions strut their stuff.
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NVIDIA Rushes Into PCI Express With nForce4Oct 20, 2004 - in Reviews
Many notable features found their way into NVIDIA's brand new nForce4 chipset for the AMD' Athlon64 family. While these capabilities make it a very desirable product, the reference board was not able to live up to our expectations.
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LG Philips joins LG to make huge OLEDOct 20, 2004 - in News
LG Philips LCD announced yesterday that it will jointly develop the world's largest organic light-emitting diode, or OLED panels, with LG Electronics.
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First HyperTransport 2 compatible products arriveOct 20, 2004 - in News
Eight months after the release of the HyperTransport 2.0 specification, the first series products of products compatible with the technology has been announced, including processors and developer tools.
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Flip-chip-substrate shortage slowing product shipments from ATI, NvidiaOct 20, 2004 - in News
A shortage of flip-chip substrates in Taiwan may slow the shipment of graphics processors designed by ATI Technologies and Nvidia, according to sources in Taiwan.
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Forged Tul graphic cards found in storesOct 20, 2004 - in News
According to graphic card manufacturer Tul, some graphics cards using its brand name "PowerColor" were found available in a retail store.
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OCZ Announces PC2-4200 DDR2Oct 19, 2004 - in News
OCZ announced the release of the revision of PC2-4200 Enhanced Bandwidth DDR2 Platinum Edition series.
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ARM introduces Cortex-M3 processor for low-cost appsOct 19, 2004 - in News
ARM today announced at the first annual ARM Developers' Conference in Santa Clara the launch of the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, which is specifically designed to meet the requirement for high system performance in extremely cost-sensitive embedded applications, such as microcontrollers, automotive body systems, white goods, and networking devices.
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AMD announces AMD Athlon 64 4000+, FX-55Oct 19, 2004 - in News
AMD intends to hold the performance crown for desktop processors with today's introduction of the Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4 GHz) and FX-55 (2.6 GHz) processor.
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Intel expands network processor lineOct 19, 2004 - in News
With a goal of boosting already robust network processor market segment sales, Intel today announced two new families of network processor units (NPUs) for traditional communications applications and for the emerging embedded networking segment.
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AMD's Athlon64 4000 and FX-55: Nails in the P4 EE's Coffin?Oct 19, 2004 - in Reviews
AMD's Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 further close the few performance gaps the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition can still muster. With enhanced multimedia encoding and other features, how hard do AMD's new devices hit Intel where it hurts in the latest performance-war battle?
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Samsung and Marvell develop 3 Gbit SATA driveOct 19, 2004 - in News
Samsung and Marvell said the companies will be first to offer harddrives supporting native 3.0 Gbit I/O transaction capabilities in addition to SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ).
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Microsoft: A single license for a dual-core processorOct 19, 2004 - in News
Microsoft announced that it will continue its per-processor licensing model with the introduction of dual-core and multicore processors. Systems, which required only one software license so far, will not need an additional license, even if it will be equipped with a dual-core chip.
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Micron samples wide-VGA image sensor for carsOct 19, 2004 - in News
Micron Technology on October 18 announced that it is sampling a wide-VGA image sensor product for cars, the MT9V022.
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Major LED makers developing LED backlighting for large-size applicationsOct 19, 2004 - in News
Most major LED makers in Japan, South Korea and the US have successfully implemented LED chips for backlighting used in 15- to 20" LCD monitors and LCD TVs, with plans for larger-sized LED-powered backlighting in development, according to various sources.