14th July 2006 Archive

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Intel 'Conroe' Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme

Review Intel's next-gen architecture - it's here

It's been a month and ten days since Reg Hardware previewed Intel's Core2 Duo processor, but now we have the official, shipping, ready-to-slap-in-your-PC product. So is it really as good as the early numbers indicated? Read on, read on... To test its new baby, Intel sent out one of its own D975XBX motherboard with a beta BIOS …

Bits 'n' Chips 14 Jul 2006, 05:02
AMD to complain about Intel in Germany

AMD vs Intel Anti-competition allegations again

AMD will formally complain to German anti-trust authorities about alleged attempts made by Intel to stop certain retailers selling PCs based on AMD processors, the chip maker said yesterday. Earlier this week, it emerged an unknown company has already filed a formal complaint about Intel with Germany's Federal Cartel Office ( …

Bits 'n' Chips 14 Jul 2006, 09:42
California to sue DRAM makers over price-fixing claims

Will file lawsuit with 33 other states

Seven of the world's biggest memory makers today face an antitrust lawsuit from 34 US Attorneys General who claim the companies conspired "to fix DRAM chip prices, artificially restrain supply, allocate among themselves the production of DRAM chips and markets for the chips, and rig bids for DRAM chip contracts" between January …

Bits 'n' Chips 14 Jul 2006, 10:31
Sony, Samsung confirm 8G LCD deal

$1.9bn plant to begin production in 2007

Samsung and Sony today announced an agreement to build an eighth-generation LCD plant, confirming claims made last month that the pair were near to signing just such a deal. The two companies said their LCD joint-venture, S-LCD, will invest KRW1.8tr ($1.9bn) - with each parent contributing half - in the facility, which will …

HD 14 Jul 2006, 10:48
FujiFilm fetes face-detecting digicam

Eyes, check. Mouth, check. Yes, it's a face...

Fujifilm will this autumn ship a digital SLR camera equipped with a face-spotting feature to help snapper's take better people pictures, the company announced this week. It also unveiled its latest compact digicam, a 6.3 megapixel machine with an ISO 3200 rating. The FinePix S6500fd sports a six-megapixel sensor too. The …

Gadgets and Gizmos 14 Jul 2006, 13:00
Griffin iTrip to be UK street-legal by year's end?

UK authority formally proposes legalisation

UK communications regulator Ofcom had finally formally proposed the legalisation of low-power FM transmitters typified by Griffin Technology's iTrip, used to beam whatever an iPod's playing to a nearby radio. The agency said it hopes it could have a Europe-wide legislative framework in place by the end of the year. Use of the …

Media players 14 Jul 2006, 13:26