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8th June 2006 Archive

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  • MSI makes 'first' upgradeable SLI graphic card

    Computex 2006 Novel application of Nvidia's MXM tech?

    Nvidia's MXM notebook-oriented GPU-on-a-card system doesn't appear to been a resounding success. Neither, for that matter, does ATI's alternative, Axiom, but Nvidia's technology did allow MSI to present at Computex what it claimed is the first upgradeable desktop graphics card. The Geminium GO's GPU of choice isn't exactly …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 Jun 2006, 05:03

  • Laptop vendors to adopt desktop 'Conroe' chip?

    Computex 2006 Not likely to limit 'Merom' demand

    Asian notebook manufacturers are wondering why they should wait for Intel's 'Merom' next-generation notebook processor in future laptops when they can use 'Conroe' instead and gain not only better performance - higher clock speeds, at least - but also pay less for it. So claims DigiTimes, citing sources from among Taiwan's …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 Jun 2006, 05:19

  • Acer touts 'beyond the norm' monster 20.1in laptop

    Computex 2006 Readies bevvy of HD DVD-equipped notebooks

    Acer demo'd its monster 20.1in widescreen notebook - you can't honestly call this beast a laptop, and even the word 'notebook' seems inappropriate - at Computex this week, one of four machines it is preparing to offer with built-in HD DVD drives. The Aspire 9800 is a seriously big machine. Acer didn't say what the notebook's …

    PCs 8 Jun 2006, 05:49

  • AMD defines itself as the joker in the pack

    Computex 2006 Literally

    A nice young fellow kitted out in Nvidia green handed out a deck of AMD playing cards at Computex today, one of the many freebies vendors dish out to passers-by to promote their products. This time we wonder if AMD was indeed the schwag supplier - or whether a rival chip maker might be having a laugh... We thought the deck of …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 8 Jun 2006, 06:16

  • Philips, Lite-on, BenQ prep Blu-ray drives

    Computex 2006 August debut for Europe

    Philips this week launched its first Blu-ray Disc drive, and was quickly followed by Lite-on and BenQ. Both the Philips and the Lite-on models are due to ship in the UK in August, the two companies said separately. Philips' TripleWriter SPD7000 internal PC drive supports both single- and dual-layer media - 25GB and 50GB, …

    Storage 8 Jun 2006, 08:28

  • Seagate touts revolutionary notebook HDDs

    Momentus offerings

    Seagate has launched three new families of notebook hard drive under the Momentus monicker. The most radical drive is the hybrid Momentus 5400 PSD (Power-Saving Drive) which adds 256MB of Flash memory to a 5,400rpm SATA300 2.5 inch hard drive. The Momentus also has 8MB of conventional cache memory. The highest capacity model …

    Storage 8 Jun 2006, 11:45

  • Socket F mobos sneak out at Computex

    Computex 2006 Ssh, don't tell AMD...

    Motherboards supporting AMD's Socket F infrastructure cropped up here and there at Computex this week, though the chip maker has yet to launch the DDR 2-supporting processor interconnect. MSI's K9SD Master-A8R board is typical: it's designed for a pair of Socket F Opteron CPUs - the info panel said 200 and 100 series parts, …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 Jun 2006, 12:25

  • Sapphire unleashes the Ultimate

    An albino assassin

    Sapphire's new Radeon X1600 Pro and XT Ultimate graphics cards use a cooling solution that is nearly, but not quite, silent. We're used to seeing mid-range graphics cards that have a passive heatsink. Generally, there's a finned slab of aluminium that sits on the GPU, which is linked via a couple of heatpipes to a larger …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 Jun 2006, 13:19

  • Intel's server chip chief knocks Itanium, Gates and AMD

    One of these is not like the others

    Has Pat Gelsinger sinned? We think so. Intel's former CTO and current sever processor chief made one confession after another, during a session yesterday at Stanford University. Gelsinger did the unthinkable by knocking Itanium and Microsoft and unleashed some future product details. He even dashed into the uncomfortable …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 Jun 2006, 19:07

  • Bring on the T-Mobile Sidekick III... on 26 June?

    Enough to terrify anyone in Paris Hilton's contact list

    There have been more sightings of the T-Mobile Sidekick III, and it’s due to go on sale SOON. How do we know this? Well, the Sidekick III has appeared on the FCC website (Federal Communications Commission) and the speculation is that the US release date is the 26 June. The original Sidekick was pretty much perfect so the …

    Phones 8 Jun 2006, 23:04