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April 29
- Intel nixes 2.8 GHz P4, renames "Pentium 4 with EM64T support"
- Nanotechnology to improve quality, performance of thin displays
April 28
- Gateway updates LCD product line
- Korea and Taiwan battle for TFT-LCD domination
- SiS rides K8 chipset sales to higher margins in 1Q
- Mixed feedback on Samsung forecast of drop in NAND flash prices
- DFI goes industrial with growing ACP sales
- Intel: Xeon to remain best performing chip in certain threaded apps
- HP goes small with 2.5" harddrives
April 27
- Samsung ships Serial ATA II drives, shows hybrid harddrive
- Excess semiconductor inventory lower than expected in Q1
- IBM's Cell processor "impressive", but not an x86 killer - analyst
- Wafer probing demand to rise 30 percent this month
- Intel sees 65 nm transition on track, 450 mm wafers appear on horizon
- Graphic chip shipments climb 41 percent
April 26
- Mobo shipments to drop 5-15 percent in 2Q
- ATI top-end GPUs to win back 'channel leadership'
April 25
- LCD needs aggressive pricing strategy to compete with PDP
- XGI supports AMD64 platform
- Kingmax: DDR2 to be 20 percent of the DRAM this year
- Chaintech launches GeForce 6800 Apogee with 2.5ns memory
April 22
- S3 graphics cards return to US market
- OCZ intros DDR2 Gold series memory
April 21
- US semiconductor industry blames offshoring on high taxes, lack of incentives
- Elpida begins production of 90 nm DDR2 memory
- AMD Athlon 64 Venice, San Diego set sale
- D-Link: Demand for Gigabit Ethernet switches to surge by year-end 2005
- VIA announces chipset support for AMD dual-core technology
- AMD launches dual-core Opteron, announces X2 brand for desktop dual-core
- Sony, Toshiba discussing DVD standard-source
- ATI's Xpress 200M chipset aims at Intel notebooks
April 20
- Kingston dominates DRAM third-party market
- Samsung develops 4 Gigabit Flash memory for cellphones
- Nvidia ships 750,000 nForce 4 SLI chipsets
- DDR2 price premium narrows to 5-10 percent in contract market
April 19
- Seagate increases harddrive shipments to 24.9 million
- Samsung-Sony joint-venture intros amorphous TFT displays
- Gigabyte intros dual-core mobo, supports DDR2-1066
- Inphase promises 300 GByte holographic disc for 2006
- LGE aims to ship 100,000 LCD monitors this year
- Clairvoyante talks about brightening the panel
- Entry level dual-core Opterons to be priced same as high-end single-cores
April 18
- Toshiba offers flat 3D screens without goggles
- Why untested DRAMs are getting into more and more products
- Seagate ups mobile storage to 120 GByte
- Intel dual-core PCs hit the market
- ATI RS482 and RC410 to arrive in June
- DisplayBank: Global PDP shipments reached 1.3 million panels in 1Q05
April 16
- First Intel dual-core PCs to ship on Monday
April 15
- AMD Turion 64 to lead as Intel decides to hold Yonah launch until 2Q06
April 14
- Intel to develop notebook platform for Chinese students
- NEC in DDR2 license deal with Rambus
- AMD intros Mobile Athlon 64 3700+
- Supply of 15" LCD monitor panels running short of demand
- AMD dual-core desktop processor to be named Athlon 64 X2
April 13
- Efficient manufacturing cuts LCD production cost in half
- Sony 'open' to Blu-ray Disc/HD DVD bonding talks
- Intel first to ship dual-core processors - report
April 12
- Via releases Linux source for Unichrome and Savage graphics chips
- Ritek, CMC poised to produce blue-laser HD-DVD discs
- Prices for 17" panels may rise in May
- Dual-core Pentium D headed for May launch
- Intel debuts 854 chipset for consumer electronics
- Investor firm acquires TDK Semiconductor
April 11
- New material structure produces world's fastest transistor
- XGI shows PCI Express graphics card, releases source code for Linux
- Intel preps second generation dual-core: Pentium D 900 series
- Asustek only first-tier mobo maker to see 1Q on-year shipment growth
April 8
- New NEC display improves LCD readability in direct sunlight
- AMD advances launch date for dual core Opteron
- AMD runs silicon in 300-mm wafer fab, preps 65-nm process
- Gigabyte readies performance SLI board for Intel PCs
- Taiwan unveils first self-developed blue-laser DVD pick-up head
- Second-tier mobo makers 1Q shipments down on-year
- Intel Q&A: Homework for motherboard makers
- The world's fastest DDR2 memory
April 7
- The world's fastest nano-optical shutter
- Intel increases NOR Flash density
- Samsung leads organic display market
- I/O Magic increases capacity of mini storage device to 6 GByte
- Nvidia's Intel nForce4 SLI 60 percent more expensive than Intel's chipset
April 6
- ASUS introduces P5ND2-SLI motherboard
- OCZ launches PC-5000 memory series for DFI mobos
- Infineon intros 2 GByte notebook memory, hints to 1 GByte graphic cards
- Global chip sales up 15.8 percent in February
- Taiwan second-tier makers unable to raise OEM prices of optical discs
April 5
- NAND Flash market to triple until 2009 - report
- Tom's Hardware Guide reviews dual-core Pentiums
- Nvidia unleashes nForce 4 SLI for Intel platform
- Despite rising DRAM prices, players remain cautious
- Intel ready to ship dual-core processors
April 4
- Hitachi sees 5 TByte harddrives and 60 GByte microdrives
- Rambus unveils multi-threaded DRAM tech
- Samsung slashes 512 MByte DDR2-533 module quotes 20 percent
- Nvidia bundles GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache-based graphics cards with mobos
- Asustek, Gigabyte and Leadtek to increase graphics-card shipments
April 2
- Storage virtualization tools refined
April 1
- Ramtron intros 1 Mbit FRAM
- NEC-Mitsubishi renamed to NEC Display Solutions
- IBM sees Cell chip for industry, not just gamers
- Nvidia's nForce4 for Intel to arrive on April 6
- AMD may advance dual-core Opteron processor launch
- Transmeta to provide LongRun2 for Sony's Cell processor