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11th April 2006 Archive

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  • Intel to boost chipset production, bank claims

    Bad news for ATI and co?

    Intel is set to stop shipping motherboards based on third-party chipsets, or at the very least significantly reduce its dependency on other companies' products, investment bank Friedman Billings, Ramsey Group (FBRG) has claimed. According to EETimes, the institution has downgraded ATI as a result. The graphics chips maker has …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Apr 2006, 09:28

  • BenQ sells optical drive biz to Liteon IT

    Deal creates world's second largest CD, DVD drive maker

    BenQ is to sell its optical drive operation to fellow Taiwanese manufacturer LiteOn IT. This gets it closer to shedding the last of its component businesses and focus entirely on end-user products, including phones, notebooks and consumer electronics equipment. The deal sees BenQ take a 13 per cent stake in LiteOn after a new …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Apr 2006, 09:54

  • Fujitsu unveils Blu-ray 37in HD PC-TV

    Four tuners for endless viewing and recording pleasure

    Fujitsu will this month ship a monster high-definition PC-TV hybrid that incorporates not only four TV tuners - two for digital and two for analogue broadcasts - but also twin 300GB hard drives and a dual-layer enabled Blu-ray Disc recorder. The FMV Deskpower TX series builds a full PC into a 37in, 1,920 x 1,080 LCD TV. The …

    PCs 11 Apr 2006, 10:35

  • Fujitsu unveils world's third HD DVD laptop

    Not shipping until June, mind you

    Fujitsu has announced the world's third notebook to incorporate an HD DVD drive, following the lead set by Toshiba and, more recently, Acer. However, the 17in machine is not expected to appear until June. The FMV-Biblio Loox NX 95S/D - a notebook that curiously shares the same model number as Fujitsu's Blu-ray Disc-equipped …

    PCs 11 Apr 2006, 11:22

  • ATI rebrands Xpress chipsets

    'Radeon' out, 'CrossFire' in

    ATI has formally renamed its Radeon Xpress 200 chipset to CrossFire Xpress 1600, the company's website reveals. Such a move had been anticipated - a number of motherboard makers have already begun cutting and pasting the new name into existing product documentation. The Xpress 1600 supports a pair of 8x PCI slots for co- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Apr 2006, 11:47

  • ATI readies Radeon X1900 GT

    Nvidia's GeForce 7900 GT targeted

    ATI is preparing to release a cut-down version of its Radeon X1900 XT and XTX GPUs, reducing the chip's pixel shader complement from 48 to 36 and knocking back its clock speed. The part will ship as the Radeon X1900 GT, it has been claimed. A DailyTech story has the details, but to summarise, the GT will sport a 575MHz core …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Apr 2006, 12:01

  • Sonos slims wireless music playback box

    Multi-room digital music rig gets cheaper too

    Sonos will this month cut the price of its multi-room digital music system. Its latest ZonePlayer wireless playback device, the ZP80, provides the same core functionality as Sonos' ZP100. However, to get the price - and the size - down, Sonos has stripped out the integrated amplifier used to drive speakers directly from the …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 11 Apr 2006, 13:13

  • Samsung unveils Korean card phone

    Just 9mm thick

    Samsung has shown off a mobile phone that's little bigger than a credit card. The ultra-slim handset - dubbed the Platinum Cardphone but more labelled with the more prosaic model number SCH-V870 - measures just 8.7 x 5.4 x 0.9cm and weighs 81g. The handset still manages to squeeze in a 1.3 megapixel camera. We're not sure …

    Phones 11 Apr 2006, 13:56

  • Ricoh GR Digital 8.1Mp camera

    Review A classic camera revived for the digital era

    In October 1996, the Ricoh GR series of 35mm film cameras was born. They were some of the company's first compact cameras aimed at the enthusiast and pro snapper where image quality and the resolving power of the lens were the paramount considerations, and not just a tiny package. A digital GR that aims to follow those …

    Cameras 11 Apr 2006, 15:11

  • 'Yonah' Celeron M 420, 430 ship in Japan

    Intel's as-yet-unannounced Celeron M 4xx series - the first budget-priced processors derived from the chip maker's 'Yonah' core - have gone on sale in Japan, according to local news sources. As Reg Hardware exclusively revealed in January, Intel is preparing a trio of single-core Yonah-based Celeron Ms: the 410, 420 and 430, …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Apr 2006, 15:35