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25th May 2006 Archive

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  • Nvidia grows Quadro NVS mobile GPU family

    Only multi-monitor, business-oriented PCs need apply

    Nvidia has extended its Quadro NVS line of mobile GPUs aimed at business-friendly notebooks that need to be connected to multiple displays - machines typically sold into the financial services world, for instance. Unlike other Quadro NVS parts, the 300M lacks TurboCache support to grab space from the host PC's main memory …

    Bits 'n' Chips 25 May 2006, 09:09

  • Intel quad-core Clovertown to consume 'no more than 120W'

    50 per cent more than 'Woodcrest'

    Intel's quad-core Xeon DP processor, 'Clovertown', will consume less power than the top-end dual-core Xeon 5000 part the chip giant unveiled this week. That said, it'll run hotter than 'Woodcrest' the next-generation architecture-based dualie due to debut next month as the Xeon 5100 series. In a presentation given by Intel to …

    Bits 'n' Chips 25 May 2006, 09:40

  • Nvidia 'world's fastest' graphics card specs leak out

    GeForce 7950 GX2 80% faster than the 7900 GTX, maker claims

    Details of Nvidia's upcoming top-of-the-range GeForce 7950 GX2 SLI graphics card have slipped out ahead of the part's launch, expected to take place early next month at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan. According to a DailyTech report, the card contains two 7900 GTX GPUs each clocked at 500MHz. There's 1GB of GDDR 3 SDRAM …

    Bits 'n' Chips 25 May 2006, 10:04

  • MacBook motion sensor malarkey gets useful

    First there was MacSabre. Now welcome... SmacBook

    If you thought the motion sensor in Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook laptops was only there to help protect your hard drive from accidental drops, or to do silly things like Star Wars lightsabre emulation, think again. Someone's come up with an application that's actually useful: screen control. You can see a video of the …

    Mac 25 May 2006, 10:31

  • Nintendo to pitch Wii at under $250

    Low Wii fee to drive demand

    Nintendo has revealed its next-generation console, the Wii, will retail in the US for $250 or less, and no more than ¥25,000 ($220/£119/€174) in Japan. It also expects to have shipped more than 6m of the machines by March 2007, the company said today. That's as many machines as the total number of PlayStation 3 consoles Sony …

    Consoles 25 May 2006, 11:04

  • Canon joins exodus from film photography

    Will develop no more new film cameras

    Canon is to stop developing new compact and SLR film cameras and devote its entire development programme to digital products, the Japanese camera company said today. Canon isn't getting out of analogue photography entirely. A company spokesman told the Reuters news agency that it would continue to manufacture and sell its …

    Cameras 25 May 2006, 12:21