27th September 2006 Archive

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Eye-Theatre video glasses for iPod

Review Goggle Earth

I've wanted to try a truly personal video system - forgot the clunky VR headsets of yesteryear - since I first saw one faked up on Blake's 7 in the late 1970s. Watching a movie on an iPod means holding the player up to your face for hours at a time. It would be so much better to clip on a pair of video specs, sit back and relax …

Gadgets 27 Sep 2006, 11:02
T-Mobile launches Motorola KRZR in the UK

And the Samsung E870 in champagne

T-Mobile is the first network in the UK to announce the new Motorloa KRZR - or the K1 as it's also known. Just 4.2cm wide, this slimmed down version of the RAZR offers superior features such as a two megapixel camera and Bluetooth wireless stereo. At a mere 10.3 x 42 x 1.6cm, the KRZR is a dinky phone, but it's still quite …

Phones 27 Sep 2006, 12:26
LaCie Silverscreen TV-ready HDD reborn as iZak

Media playback straight off the drive

Storage specialist LaCie hasn't done much with its Silverscreen media-playback hard drive of late, so it's fallen to another supplier to attempt to attract the digital media generation in an external hard drive that can play as well as store music and movies. Enter iZak, a 40GB hard drive - there are 80GB, 100GB and 102GB …

Storage 27 Sep 2006, 16:02
Intel preps Pentium E1040-friendly chipset

IDF 945GC to debut next year

Intel's upcoming 'Conroe'-based Pentium processor, the E1040, will be supported with its own 945-series chipset, reports coming out of Taiwan claim. The part will also be pitched to customer who buy the Core 2 Duo E4000 line. Like the Pentium E1040, the 945GC chipset is due to ship in Q1 2007. It will support a maximum …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 16:21
Sapphire adds DVI output to integrated-graphics PCs

Targets Intel chipsets, would-be Viiv boxes

Sapphire today rolled out a trio of graphics cards based on ATI's latest chips, the Radeon X1900 XT 256, X1650 Pro and X1300 XT, but more interesting is the company's ADD2 card - a x4 PCI Express card that connects a desktop PC's integrated graphics engine to a DVI port. Sapphire said the part requires the presence of an …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 16:41
Sharp shows off three-picture display panel

No more arguments over who watches what

Japan's Sharp today demonstrated an LCD panel capable of displaying three different full-screen images simultaneously. Which of the three you see depends on which way you face the display. Dubbed the "triple-view liquid crystal" display, the system uses a parallax barrier to angle the light from the three images to the …

Gadgets and Gizmos 27 Sep 2006, 16:59
Intel orders software makers to obey Moore's Law

IDF Get with our 2014 program

Once in multi-core processor denial, Intel has well and truly moved past the anxiety that follows abandoning the "boost GHz at all costs" mentality that served the company well for so long. So firm is Intel's new multi-core embrace, that it now even accepts the idea that non-Intel architecture products may soon find a place on …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 17:36
Nokia presses play on XpressMusic kid-friendly phones

For the 'young and sociable'

Nokia has launched its anticipated XpressMusic handset line, rolling out three similarly styled handsets, including a revival of its 3250 twist phone. The XpressMusic line-up also comprises the 5200 and 5300, both slider phones of the same design. All three are aimed at "young and sociable" consumers, the Finnish phone …

Phones 27 Sep 2006, 17:42
AMD ordered off US front in Intel suit

Delaware judge limits scope of anti-trust case

Intel's lawyers will have their laptops searched at one less airport, after a US district judge limited the scope of AMD's antitrust action against the company. In a motion filed with the Delaware Court, Intel sought to have AMD's US suit, alleging monopolistic conduct in the microprocessor market, dismissed on the grounds …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 18:14
Intel readies SSE 4 for 2007

IDF x86 ISA to be extended with application-specific opcodes too

Intel has said it will extend the x86 instruction set with even more Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE), this time pledging to add a further 50 instructions to the ISA - the largest number of extra program codes the chip giant's added to the x86 lists since the introduction of SSE 2 with the debut of the Pentium 4 in December 2000 …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 18:21
IDF Fall 2006 - Complete Coverage

IDF All the stories, all the insight

Click here for our full coverage of this autumn's Intel Developers Forum, held in San Francisco. Mobility Taiwanese firm pips Intel to tilt-and-angle laptop display Intel intros next-generation Centrino Duo platform Desktop Intel: 'Nehalem-C' out, 'Westmore' in Intel's quad-core Core 2 Quad exposed Intel readies SSE 4 …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 18:38
'Get on our bus' – Intel calls out to partners

IDF Fresh PCI Express too

Like a psychiatric patient experiencing a breakthrough, Intel has opened up in a big way, allowing third parties to plug into its processor architectures on two new fronts. Most immediately, Xilinx and Altera will start crafting FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) that connect to the front side bus on Intel's server chips. …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 20:26
Intel's quad-core Core 2 Quad exposed

IDF

Read Reg Hardware's complete IDF Fall 06 coverage here

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 20:44
Intel intros next-generation Centrino Duo platform

IDF Santa Rosa blooms

Intel has formally announced 'Santa Rosa', the next generation of its Centrino notebook platform, which will incorporate 802.11n Wi-Fi, 'Robson' NAND Flash hard drive cache and GMA X3000 integrated graphics. It's no surprise that Santa Rosa will feature Core 2 Duo, but this one can run on an 800MHz frontside bus. However, the …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 21:41
Taiwanese firm pips Intel to tilt-and-angle laptop display

IDF Product demo'd months before Intel concept machine shown

Intel Mobility VP Dadi Perlmutter today showed off a concept notebook equipped with a special 'slide up and tilt forward' display. The mechanism mounts the laptop's screen on a stand that allows it to be raised and angled. Cute, but Taiwanese laptop maker Dialogue showed the same concept off almost four months ago. As Reg …

PCs 27 Sep 2006, 22:17
Intel: 'Nehalem-C' out, 'Westmere' in

IDF Codename musical chairs

Intel is playing musical codenames again. Having spent the last six months calling the 32nm die-shrink of its 45nm 'Nehalem' microarchitecture, 'Nehalem-C', the technology is now being called 'Westmere', according to Mooly Eden, Intel's Mobility division general manager. Following revelations that the chip giant's 32nm …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 23:03
Itanium powers world's fastest Solaris box!

IDF The shock, the horror

No IDF would be complete without a healthy dose of Sun Microsystems bashing. Intel has come a long way since the days when St. Fister had to compare Itanic boxes against 400MHz UltraSPARC IIi systems. Yes, Intel can roll out real benchmarks now that show its paper dominance over Sun. Server chief Pat Gelsinger today took the …

Bits 'n' Chips 27 Sep 2006, 23:27