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7th March 2006 Archive

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  • Don't wait for Apple - upgrade your Intel Mac

    DIY a Duo

    There's an upside to Apple's decision to use bog-standard PC chips. Mac owners don't have to wait for the aftermarket to produce custom boards to rev their machines. And they don't have to sit idling in front of roadblocks set up by Apple, either. No sooner had the single core Mac Mini rolled onto the market, than an …

    Mac 7 Mar 2006, 00:10

  • Sony to ship blank Blu-ray Discs this month

    Single-layer for now

    Sony's blank-disc division will this month begin shipping rewriteable Blu-ray Discs in Europe. Recordable discs will appear in April, the company said. However, dual-layer versions will not surface until later in the year, it added. The products due in March and April each provide 25GB of storage capacity and run at 2x speeds …

    HD 7 Mar 2006, 12:09

  • ATI hires US XGI staffers

    Buys XGI partner too

    ATI hasn't acquired XGI, but it did say yesterday it has bought some of the Taiwanese graphics chip company's US-based staff. It also said it has snapped up Microsynergy, an XGI partner based in Shanghai. ATI CEO Dave Orton said the move gives the company a foothold on mainland China in a city central to China's booming …

    Bits 'n' Chips 7 Mar 2006, 12:27

  • Intel spills beans on UMPC

    Not a PDA replacment but a 'PC companion'...

    The products are coming on Thursday, 9 March, but Intel is already telling us how we're all going to be using its new ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) platform, now revealed to be "designed to access online media and content on the go". Intel is cagey about whether the UMPC is a PDA replacement - it counts too many PDA makers as …

    Phones 7 Mar 2006, 13:02

  • LaCie Rugged 80GB portable hard drive

    Exclusive Review Won't get lost in fog...

    LaCie was one of the first hard drive vendors to offer truly mobile products: compact external drives powered by the host computer so the only accessory you need is the connector cable. The down sides have always been a higher price than desktop, mains-powered parts, and usually lower capacities and speeds. But for many users - …

    Storage 7 Mar 2006, 13:59

  • ATI unveils Mobility Radeon X1800, X1800 XT

    Not shipping, though...

    ATI has just unveiled its new Mobility Radeon X1800 and X1800 XT notebook-oriented graphics chips, both fabbed at 90nm and incorporating more than 312m transistors, used to provided respectively 12 and 16 Shader Model 3.0 pixel shaders and eight vertex shaders. Both GPUs support eight-channel DDR, DDR 2 and GDDR 3 memory, …

    Bits 'n' Chips 7 Mar 2006, 14:27

  • Intel's new 'Core' could gore AMD

    IDF Magical knob tweaks

    Intel today worked hard to convince anyone who would listen that AMD's performance advantage has come to an end. A new processor architecture stretching across its mobile, desktop and server lines will deliver better overall performance and better performance per watt than AMD's rival products. And this performance edge is …

    Bits 'n' Chips 7 Mar 2006, 21:37

  • Intel puts on multi-core peep show

    IDF Feel the heat future

    Intel's main revelation of a new chip architecture stole the show on the first day of IDF. The chip beasty, however, did dish out a couple more tidbits that will interest the enterprise crowd. On the more immediate front, Intel will start shipping its "Sossaman" low voltage version of Xeon next week. IBM announced plans to pick …

    Bits 'n' Chips 7 Mar 2006, 23:56