19th September 2006 Archive

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ATI RD600 to support three GPUs for science apps?

Next-gen chipset coming next month, report claims

ATI's RD600 chipset for Intel processors will launch next month, it has been claimed. Whether motherboard makers will back the product now that ATI is on the verge of being subsumed into Intel competitor AMD remains to be seen. The chipset had originally been scheduled to debut in August, a DigiTimes report claims. Certainly …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 08:05
Intel quad-core Core 2 Extreme to ship mid-November?

Regular desktop CPUs to be Core 2 Quadros, apparently

Intel's quad-core desktop processors will be branded Core 2 Quadro and Core 2 Extreme, Taiwanese motherboard maker moles have alleged. The chip giant's roadmaps have, in the past, indicated that the first quad-core desktop will be an Extreme-branded part. What's new is the name of the Extreme part, which is based on ' …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 09:12
Toshiba recalls 340,000 Sony-made batteries

Performance problems only - no fire risk, company says

Toshiba has joined Dell and Apple, and asked its customers to send back their Sony-made laptop batteries currently sitting in Dynabook and Satellite machines. The notebook maker's recall extends to some 340,000 customers worldwide. The recall does not appear to have been formally announced - details of the programme come via …

PCs 19 Sep 2006, 09:48
Nvidia hit with patent infringement lawsuit

Whose Ball Grid Array is it anyway?

Nvidia has been accused of patent infringement. Minneapolis-based Scanner Technologies claims it owns techniques that the GPU maker uses in the manufacture of ball grid array (BGA) chip-pin layouts without its permission. It said the alleged infringement was "willful and deliberate". Scanner said yesterday it has filed a …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 09:52
Intel readies low-voltage Core 2 Duos

Merom-based Celeron M CPUs too

Intel will ship its first Core 2 Duo-derived Celeron M budget notebook processors in Q1 2007, Taiwanese industry sources have claimed. At the same time, the chip giant will offer low-voltage versions of its current 'Merom' line-up, they say. The Merom-based Celeron M series will debut with the 520, a 1.6GHz single-core part …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 10:12
O2 unwraps latest XDA smart phones in Germany

HTC's new line-up rebranded

Carrier O2's German division has announced a pair of new XDA smart phones, both quad-band GSM/GPRS devices with built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, and running Windows Mobile 5.0 on 200MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 850 processors. The XDA Cosmo is better known as the HTC S260 - aka 'Excalibur' - which the manufacturer …

Phones 19 Sep 2006, 10:52
Intel preps four-chip four-core Xeon Q4 debut

Low-voltage and "extreme" versions too

Intel will follow up Q4's quad-core Xeon DP debut with a low-voltage part in Q1 2007, it has emerged. The four-core server processors - codenamed 'Clovertown', will ship as the Xeon 53xx family, reports coming out of Asia claim. Borrowing from the naming scheme introduced with the Core Duo mobile processor line back in …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 11:36
Gefen 4x4 HDMI Matrix audio-visual interconnect

Review Multiple input, multiple output

Gefen has announced an HDMI four-by-four crossover unit. Though it can be used as a straightforward HDMI switch for linking multiple players to a single display, it's actually more advanced than that: any of the four inputs can be switched to any of the four outputs... That means a signal, say on input one, can be …

HD 19 Sep 2006, 12:27
Sony to take Apple's MacBook laptop head on

Vaio N10's inspiration is clear

Sony has rolled out its latest Core Duo-based consumer-friendly notebook, a compact unit with a footprint the size of an A4 sheet of paper, a 15.4in widescreen display and more than a hint of the Apple MacBook about it. The Vaio N10 can be configured with one of a number of dual-core Core Duo processors, 80-100GB of hard …

PCs 19 Sep 2006, 12:35
MSI declares CrossFire on Intel P965 chipset 'first'

Driver jiggery-pokery?

MSI has managed to get Intel's P965 chipset to support ATI's CrossFire, enabling the system on its P965 Platinum motherboard - an industry first, the company claimed today. So far, the multi-GPU technology has been limited to ATI's own chipsets and to Intel's 975X chipset. The P965 Platinum ships with a pair of x16 PCI …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 13:08
Moto buys Symbol Tech

Beep beep beep - $4bn please

Motorola is acquiring industrial mobile-device specialist Symbol in a cash deal worth almost $4bn. Symbol launched in 1975 and thanks to its low-cost handheld scanners, rode the introduction of barcodes. It subsequently invested heavily in making the scanners wireless, with recent growth coming from RFID readers and …

Phones 19 Sep 2006, 14:03
Pre-AMD, ATI preps novel server charge

GPGPU for U and me

Even before its merger with AMD closes, ATI plans to charge the server market with a new type of graphics product that could shake up the high performance computing scene. Advocates of ATI's technology say it could create a lucrative new revenue stream for the company and add some weight to the ATI/AMD marriage. ATI has …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Sep 2006, 20:47