High Tech - News, Reviews and Tests
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OCZ and Inphi introduce Zero-Buffer DDROct 6, 2004 - in News
OCZ in a joint effort with Inphi nnounced the release of Zero-Buffer DDR (ZB-DDR) technology for unbuffered memory modules.
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Transmeta demos 2 GHz Efficeon processorOct 6, 2004 - in News
Transmeta announced that it will debut a new generation of its TM8800 Efficeon processor later this year. The processor will be clocked at 2 GHz and support Intel's SSE3 instruction set.
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THG Pushes Broadcom's RAIDCore Storage Controller EnvelopeOct 6, 2004 - in Reviews
Broadcom's RAIDCore storage controllers have raised the performance bar, but what happens when their performance limits are tested? THG decided to push the envelope by combining four Broadcom RAIDCore SATA controllers, resulting in a RAID array with 32 SATA drives.
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iSuppli: Big growth ahead for small-size LCDsOct 6, 2004 - in News
Driven by increasing demand for mobile phones and digital still cameras (DSCs), the market for all types of small-size LCD panels will swell to 3.2 billion units by 2008, rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3 % from 2.8 billion in 2004, iSuppli predicts.
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Ritek develops dye to produce DVD+R DL discsOct 6, 2004 - in News
Ritek has succeeded in developing advanced dyes for making DVD+R DL (single-sided, double-layer) discs, becoming the second company to develop the dye after Japan-based Mitsubishi Chemical, according to company spokesman Eric Ai.
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SiS set to launch AMD PCIe chipsets in NovemberOct 6, 2004 - in News
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) is making inroads into the AMD chipset market and will increase its efforts by releasing a number of PCI Express (PCIe) chipsets for the AMD K8 platform, beginning in November, according to the company.
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AMD: Dual-core tech accelerates Opteron by more than 30 percentOct 5, 2004 - in News
AMD used the Fall Processor Forum to provide more details about its dual-core Opteron architecture which is scheduled to be released by mid of 2005. Buyers could expect performance increases of 30 to 55 percent over the single-core versions, the company said.
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Sony nixes copy-protected CDs in JapanOct 5, 2004 - in News
Sony's Japanese music unit says it will no longer sell CDs with built-in copy protection, a technology it had been pushing for two years.
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Inphi announces phase lock loop for DDR2 667 and 800Oct 5, 2004 - in News
Inphi today announced that it has delivered to customers the industry's first Register and Phase Lock Loop (PLL) for Registered DIMMs (RDIMM) operating at 667 and 800 Mbps using Double-Data-Rate 2 (DDR2) technology.
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Via readies 64 bit capability for IsaiahOct 5, 2004 - in News
Via Technologies will add 64-bit capabilities into Isaiah, a multimedia processor core design expected to arrive in 2006, the company plans to announce Tuesday at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, California.
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DDR 2 800 MHz in shops by ChristmasOct 5, 2004 - in News
Just when DDR 667 is still a very rare memory bird, aggressive memory company OCZ is preparing a speed bump with DDR 2 800 memory.
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Group formed to promote Blu-ray Disc formatOct 5, 2004 - in News
Fourteen companies have joined forced to promote the Blu-ray Disc format through a new industry association launched here.
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Taiwan second-tier makers raise CD-R OEM prices to US$0.10Oct 5, 2004 - in News
Some second-tier and smaller manufacturers of optical discs recently increased their OEM quotations for CD-R discs to US$0.10, up from US$0.08-0.09, on increased costs of polycarbonate (PC), a key component, according to Taiwan makers.
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Sanyo shows HD-DVD playerOct 5, 2004 - in News
Sanyo Electric unveiled a prototype player supporting the next-generation optical disc format HD-DVD at the Ceatec 2004 show here this week.
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Western Digital debuts 2.5" hard drivesOct 4, 2004 - in News
Western Digital (WD) today launched its first harddrives for the growing notebook segment. The Scorpio series models are available in capacities from 40 to 80 GByte.
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Intel releases new 64-bit compilers, supports EM64TOct 4, 2004 - in News
Intel today introduced new software compilers which allow developers to create applications for Intel's Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T). The products support AMD64 architecture and join the existing compilers for the Itanium 2 platform.
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VGA Charts IV: AGP Graphics CardsOct 4, 2004 - in Reviews
This year's VGA charts feature performance tests for 10 games and benchmarks in three resolutions and quality settings, including an overview of 35 AGP graphics card classes from ATi, NVIDIA, S3 and XG.
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Toshiba promises breakthrough on LCD power consumptionOct 4, 2004 - in News
Scientists at Toshiba have developed a way of backlighting LCD TVs that mean 30 percent less power is consumed, according to the Nikkei Business Daily.
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Sources: Some graphics card makers have insufficient supply of GPUsOct 4, 2004 - in News
Supplies of higher-end graphics chips are currently running short of demand by about 20 percent, which may affect some graphics card makers' efforts to boost their October sales, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers.
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AthlonXP Underclocking for a Low-Power FixOct 1, 2004 - in Reviews
It's a lot easier than you think. A few simple tweaks can transform an AthlonXP with the right motherboard into a mobile version that throttles down to a clock speed of 300 MHz for a range of applications that do not need 1 GHz and more horsepower. We also detail why our power-consumption reducing hacks do not apply to the Pentium 4.
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DRAM-testing crunch poses threat to chip supplyOct 1, 2004 - in News
A DRAM-testing crunch in Taiwan is hindering chip supply, according to industry sources.
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More second-tier graphics card makers to join strategic allianceOct 1, 2004 - in News
The alliance of five graphics card makers that intend to leverage their bargaining power for purchasing graphics chips at reduced rates has attracted the attention of five more second-tier graphics card makers, which have expressed their willingness to join the club.
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Intel sells 50 million Hyper-Threading processorsSep 30, 2004 - in News
Intel said on Thursday that it has shipped more than 50 million of its desktop, server and mobile processors with Hyper-Threading (HT) technology since its introduction two years ago.
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Sandisk launches 8 GByte and high-speed CompactFlash cardsSep 30, 2004 - in News
Sandisk increased capacities and bandwidths of its CompactFlash product line. The cards are now available with up to eight GByte of space and twice the data transfer speed of the previous generation.
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TSLI intros low-jitter, high-frequency PLL clock multiplier ICSep 30, 2004 - in News
TSLI today announced a very-low-jitter, high-frequency PLL clock-multiplier IC, the T98553, that is designed to replace high-cost crystal oscillators for use in serial data communications market.
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Optodisc denies rumor of using Maxell DVD-R codeSep 30, 2004 - in News
Optodisc Technology, a producer of DVD discs in Taiwan, has denied a rumor that the company extended the use of Maxell's DVD-R code from OEM production of DVD-R discs for Maxell to production for other purposes.
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ATI to roll out R500 GPU for Xbox 2 in 1Q 2005Sep 30, 2004 - in News
ATI Technologies is expected to roll out a new GPU, codenamed R500, for the Xbox 2 in the first quarter of next year, according to market sources.
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Hitachi and HP offer 300 GByte Drives for server and storageSep 29, 2004 - in News
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and HP today announced availability of the industry's first storage and server solutions offering high-performance 300 GByte Fibre Channel and SCSI disk drive capacity.
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Seagate ships 100 GByte notebook harddriveSep 29, 2004 - in News
Seagate expands its line of notebook hard drives: The new Momentus 5400.2 model comes in capacities up to 100 GB and an areal density of 50 GByte per disc.
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Seagate's Savvio Offers Mobile Form Factor for Enterprise-Caliber StorageSep 29, 2004 - in Reviews
Savvio offers 74 GB of storage capacity in a 2.5" hard drive form factor. Added to that are an Ultra320 interface, high data densities and a 10,000 rpm speed. THG gauges how the form factor and specs measure up performance-wise.
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