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24th July 2006 Archive

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  • Microsoft confirms Zune software, hardware family

    iTunes meets MySpace?

    Microsoft has confirmed it is developing a "family of hardware and sofftware products" under the Zune brand in a bid to win a big chunk of the portable media playback market away from Apple's iPod and its competitors. It's been alleged in the recent past that Microsoft's goal it to grab 20 per cent of the PMP business, though …

    Media players 24 Jul 2006, 08:22

  • AMD Socket F Opterons due mid-August

    Two-week delay?

    AMD's Socket F interconnect and the DDR 2-enabled Opteron processors that will require it will not launch until mid-August, the chip maker has apparently revealed. Until now, moles were pointing to 1 August as the launch date, following a slight delay from an alleged originally scheduled roll-out on 11 July. Socket F …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 08:43

  • AMD slashes prices by up to 61%

    CPUs axed too

    AMD has cut the prices of a number of mobile and desktop processors. It also dropped a number of CPUs from its price list too. The Turion ML series of single-core CPUs saw prices fall today between 5.8 per cent and 25.7 per cent. The ML-30 and ML-28 were dropped from the price list, as were the MT-28 and MT-30. Other MT- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 09:11

  • ATI readies Radeon X1950

    Updated GDDR 4 on board, report claims

    ATI - well, maybe AMD, we suppose - is about to launch its latest X1900-class GPUs, including a chip capable of using GDDR 4 graphics memory. The Radeon X1950 - as the new part is apparently dubbed - will ship in CrossFire and XTX versions, various websites claim. Both boards will support up to 512MB of GDDR 4 and contain 48 …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 09:33

  • AMD to buy ATI

    Cash'n'shares purchase totals $5.4bn

    AMD and ATI are to tie the knot, the two companies confirmed this morning, ending weeks of frenzied speculation in the process. The merged business will form a "formidable" competitor to Intel, Nvidia and other chip makers, the pair suggested. Well, maybe. And then only if both firms' shareholders approve the board- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 09:53

  • Abit recalls AN9 32X mobos

    Overheating risk, company admits

    Abit has asked owners of its AN9 32X motherboards - all of which are based on Nvdia's nForce 590 SLI - to send back their mobos for a free repair. A fault with the boards' heatsink assembly could cause the products to overheat, the company said. The boards affected by the recall are regular AN9 32X and the Fatal1ty-branded …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 10:16

  • ATI preps internal CrossFire connector

    80nm X1650 XT first to get it?

    ATI's Radeon X1950 line-up is to be accompanied later this year by the X1650 mainstream graphics chip series, if the latest leaks coming out of Asia are to be believed. The GPU family is said to include the X1650 XT and X1650 Pro - the former uses a new, internal cable for CrossFire connections. The Radeon X1650 line-up …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 10:45

  • Nokia ships latest n-series smart phones

    N93 here at last

    Nokia has at last begun shipping its N73 and N93 media phones to its carrier customers, the handset giant said today. The N73 is Nokia's bid for camera-phone supremacy: it sports a 3.2 megapixel unit with auto-focus, flash, mechanical shutter, 20x digital zoom and Carl Zeiss optics all feeding through to handset's 2.4in, 262, …

    Phones 24 Jul 2006, 11:50

  • AMD, ATI and the GPU

    Comment Breaking the monopoly

    "We may lose business on Intel boards, but we will break the Intel monopoly." With these words, AMD's CFO Bob Rivet announced the takeover of graphics chip maker, ATI, offering a future of joined-up shared processing, split between CPU and GPU. The deal, announced today, goes back some time. Last year, at Computex in Taipei, …

    Bits 'n' Chips 24 Jul 2006, 13:27

  • Dell pledges free CPU upgrade to waiting XPS 700 buyers

    Conroe instead of Pentium D

    Dell is to offer a free Core 2 Duo processor upgrade to anyone who's been waiting since 18 July or before for one of the company's new XPS 700 gaming PC. The pledge follows increasing frustration on the part of buyers who've been waiting what seems like an age for their system to ship. Dell launched the XPS 700 late in May …

    PCs 24 Jul 2006, 14:30

  • Nintendo ships 21m DS handhelds

    Key of the door

    Nintendo has sold 21m DS handheld games consoles around the world since the device was launched on 21 November 2004. The company said it attributed the gadget's success to the availability of titles for the old as well as the very young. ®

    Consoles 24 Jul 2006, 15:25