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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has announced the extension of its joint development collaboration with IBM to include 22nm bulk CMOS technology.

Graphics card makers including Micro-Star International (MSI), Albatron, Gigabyte Technology and Leadtek Research have launched graphics card based on Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GTX GPU.

Lite-On IT is developing built-in Blu-ray Disc-(BD) ROM drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console, according to industry sources.

Intel is planning to announce a DirectX 10 driver for its IGP chipsets around the end of April, according to sources at motherboard makers.

ASRock has launched a motherboard based on AMD's 780G and SB700 chipsets, the A780FullDisplayPort, which features outputs including D-Sub, DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort through a dongle.

Intel is delaying the launch schedule of its P45 chipset from originally in May to mid-June, according to sources at motherboard makers.

AMD is expected to grow its penetration in the mainstream graphics card market after seeing a meaningful cost down thanks to improved yields for its RV670 series chips, according to industry sources.

Japan-based vendors of digital cameras increasingly are adopting LCD panels in sizes of 2.

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Asustek Computer has announced its Splendid HD1 video enhancement card, which is able to increase picture quality for HD content to deliver sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced the unveiling of the foundry's first 40nm manufacturing process technology with first wafers expected in the second quarter of 2008.

Asustek Computer recently launched its latest 1U server, the RS100-E5/PI2, a quad-core/dual-core Intel Xeon 3000 series platform, which supports Intel 45 nm processors with a FSB up to 1333 MHz.

AMD is planning to launch a Radeon HD 3830 graphics chip for the mid-range/entry-level market, according to sources at graphics card makers.

In order to defend its entry-level notebook market, Intel is planning to launch two 65nm Merom-based processors for its Centrino 2 platform (Montevina), according to sources at motherboard makers.

Texas Instruments DLP Cinema announced today at ShoWest that IMAX will incorporate the DLP Cinema projector solution.