1st August 2006 Archive

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AMD grabs a quarter of the x86 server market

More share swiped from Intel in Q2

AMD now commands more than a quarter of the x86 server processor market, the latest figures from Mercury Research reveal. As of Q2 2006, the chip maker's market share stands at 25.9 per cent, up from 22.1 per cent in Q1. Those numbers mark a big increase over Q4 2005's 16.4 per cent figure, up from 12.7 per cent in Q3, again …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Aug 2006, 09:26
EVGA unveils water-cooled GeForce 7950 GX2

Quad SLI-ready

Graphics card maker EVGA has formally announced its Black Pearl-branded water-cooled GeForce 7950 GX2-based board. The product runs at 600MHz with its 1GB of DDR 3 memory clocked to 700MHz (1.4GHz effective). That compares with EVGA's now-shipping e-GeForce 7950 GX2 'Superclocked' card, which clocks the GPU to 550MHz and the …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Aug 2006, 10:06
Dell's AMD-based notebooks coming Q4, moles claim

High- and low-end offerings planned

Dell will extend its support for AMD processors to notebook machines in early to mid-Q4, it has been claimed. The line-up will encompass 15.4in and 17in models based on Turion 64 X2, Mobile Sempron and Mobile Athlon 64 CPUs. So say sources close to Taiwan's contract manufacturer community, cited by DigiTimes. Quanta, they …

PCs 1 Aug 2006, 10:18
ATI to fit digital TV chip into GPU for Blu-ray/HD DVD

RV550 to introduce 'universal video decoder'

ATI's upcoming RV550 GPU will integrate the company's Xilleon digital TV image processing chip to bring once high-end 1080p HD output to its mainstream graphics cards, it has emerged. According to presentation slides leaked by Chinese-language site HKEPC, ATI is calling the Xilleon-sourced video engine its Universal Video …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Aug 2006, 10:48
HTC 'Blackberry beater', Excalibur, surfaces on web

Chop, chop

Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome please HTC's up-coming BlackBerry-like Windows Mobile-based smart phone, 'Excalibur', rumoured to be in the works for a while now, but this week finally appearing in the flesh in a piccy posted on the web. According to details sent to website Smartphone Thoughts, Excalibur's a quad- …

Phones 1 Aug 2006, 11:23
Zune 'final design' slips out, sort of

Putting the 'mock' in 'mock-up'

Microsoft's first Zune-branded device will launch in the US just ahead of the Thanksgiving break, rumour-mongers are claiming on the web. Oh, and it's going to have a 60GB hard drive. Or maybe a 30GB job. Or maybe both, in different configurations. And there'll be different colours... And... And... Enough already, here's what …

Media players 1 Aug 2006, 12:18
Xploder to blow up PS2 games to HD resolution

GTA@1080i, anyone?

Why spend 600 quid PS3 when you can pump out HD-resolution pictures from your old PS2 for a fraction of the price? That's the question Xploder.net asked today after announcing an HD upscaler product for Sony's current but soon to be displaced top-of-the-range console. Dubbed the HDTV Game Player, the gadget coverts the PS2's …

Consoles 1 Aug 2006, 14:45
Nvidia unwraps 64x SLI monster GPU rig

Render unto Caesar

What do you get for the graphics buff who has everything? How about Nvidia's Quadro Plex 1000, a racked collection of GPUs in their own box, together capable of rendering 80bn pixels every second and powering monitors with a combined resolution of up to 148 megapixels. It doesn't come cheap, mind - prices start at $17,500. …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Aug 2006, 15:45
Vodafone preps 'super 3G' modem for MacBooks

HSDPA over USB

Vodafone has responded to calls from MacBook and MacBook Pro owners for a compatible version of its 3G Mobile Connect Broadband Datacard with a USB version of the gadget which it pledged to ship in the autumn. Vodafone's HSDPA-equipped Mobile Connect 3G Datacard does feature Mac support, but since it's a PC Card device, it's …

Mac 1 Aug 2006, 15:58