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3rd October 2006 Archive

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  • AMD to ship K8L next-gen desktop CPUs Q3 07?

    Will Altair fly?

    AMD's 65nm 'Altair' processor, the first desktop chip to be based on the company's next-generation K8L architecture, will debut Q3 2007, various Asian reports claiming to be derived from the firm's roadmaps allege. Set to debut at between 2.7GHz and 2.9GHz, Altair will run on a 4GHz HyperTransport bus. Each core will have …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Oct 2006, 08:59

  • ATI 80nm GPUs given PCI Express thumbs-up

    ATI's upcoming RV535, RV560 and RV570 GPUs have been certified as PCI Express-compatible by the PCI SIG, a move that paves the way for the parts' release. All four chips have been said to be ATI's first products fabbed at 80nm. The RV570 is expected to ship as the Radeon X1950 Pro. It's said to contain 36 pixel processors, …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Oct 2006, 09:34

  • Creative boosts Zen V Plus to 8GB

    More tunes

    Creative's Zen V Plus music player is to be upgraded to 8GB, the music player manufacturer has revealed. The colourful gadget is currently available in 1, 2 and 4GB incarnations. It sports a 1.5in, 128 x 128, 262,144-colour OLED screen for video and photo playback, and supports MP3 and WMA DRM music formats. It can take voice …

    Media players 3 Oct 2006, 09:49

  • Sony Ericsson unveils text-recognition phone

    Stylish meets stylus

    Sony Ericsson will this month ship its first true clamshell form-factor phone with a touch-sensitive main display. Dubbed the Z558, the handset will also feature character recognition ready for what the company called "one-touch" text messaging. The Z558's touchscreen is a 220 x 176, 262,144-colour job. The phone also has a …

    Phones 3 Oct 2006, 10:16

  • HP debuts HD DVD add-on drive

    HP DVD anyone?

    Erstwhile Blu-ray Disc backer HP is preparing an external HD DVD drive, it has emerged. The company's also equipping two of its consumer-oriented notebook and media centre systems with drives that support the next-gen optical disc format. The HD100 is a read-only unit aimed at folk who want to play back pre-recorded media on …

    Storage 3 Oct 2006, 10:44

  • AMD to bridge Socket AM2, AM3 with intermediate interconnect?

    Socket AM2+ may be key to AM3 backwards compatibility

    AMD looks set to implement a Socket AM2 revision spanning the processor interconnect's current specification and the upcoming Socket AM3 due in 2008. That at least is what reports coming out of Taiwan citing local motherboard-maker sources claim. According to a Chinese-language HKEPC report, the intermediate interconnect is …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Oct 2006, 11:14

  • Nokia touts low-cost, low-power wireless tech

    Wibree an 'extension' to Bluetooth, apparently

    Nokia today invited hardware and software makers to join it and implement a new wireless data transfer technology designed to operate over very short distances. Yet the Finnish phone giant insisted the technology, dubbed Wibree, is complementary to Bluetooth. Like Bluetooth, Wibree operates in the 2.4GHz band of the spectrum …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 3 Oct 2006, 12:10

  • Western Digital ships 1TB RAID-able external HDD

    Max capacity or max data security

    Western Digital has beefed up its My Book Pro line of external hard drives with a RAID-equipped model that packs in two HDDs to yield a whopping terabyte of unformatted storage capacity. The My Book Pro Edition II sports a trio of Firewire ports - one 400Mbps connector and two 800Mbps ports - and a USB connector of the kind …

    Storage 3 Oct 2006, 14:38

  • Asus guarantees pre-n kit will meet 802.11n standard

    Free software or hardware upgrades if not

    Asus has put its money where its mouth is and pledged to provide free upgrades to its pre-802.11n wireless products should changes to the final version of the specification require software or hardware changes for compatibility. The guarantee, which covers Asus' WL-500W Super Speed N wireless router and WL-100W Super Speed N …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 3 Oct 2006, 15:52

  • Sony punching out PS3s 'full swing', claims analyst

    On target to ship 2m units by year's end

    Sony's PlayStation 3 production programme is "in full swing", market watcher American Technology Research (ATR) has claimed. Crucially, this means the consumer electronics giant will meet its target and ship 2m of the next-generation consoles by the end of the year. According to a report written by ATR analyst PJ McNealy, …

    Consoles 3 Oct 2006, 16:01

  • Mandriva Linux 2007 outed

    Big bundle

    Mandriva has opened its download doors for business the latest version of its desktop Linux operating system. Mandriva Linux 2007 is bundled with loadsasoftware, including Skype, Kaspersky anti-virus, a desktop DVD player, a music player, some computer games, virtualization software and, in one edition, an in-house developed …

    PCs 3 Oct 2006, 22:50