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3rd January 2007 Archive

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  • Global chip sales smash record - again

    Consumer electronics drives demand

    World chip sales hit $22.7bn in November 2006, the US-centric Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said yesterday. The figure marks an 11.3 per cent increase over November 2005's $20.4bn total and is 3.1 per cent higher than the previous month yielded. Once again, November's numbers broke the monthly sales record. …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Jan 2007, 09:24

  • Hitachi touts 1.8in HDD energy saving tech

    Lower spin speed

    Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies (HGST) division today said it has begun shipping its latest 1.8in hard drives, a line offering unformatted storage capacities of up to 80GB and based on the company's "second generation" perpendicular recording technology. The Travelstar C3K80 consumes 20 per cent less power than the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Jan 2007, 09:59

  • HP leads laptop league

    Corners 17.7 per cent of the notebook market

    HP is leading the way in the laptops league, with 17.7 per cent of the world notebook market, new figures have revealed. According to market research firm DisplaySearch, HP exceeded its nearest rival Dell's shipments by 50,000 units in Q3 2006, reclaiming the top title. This is the first time the company has been at the top of …

    PCs 3 Jan 2007, 10:17

  • Sony to sell '75m PS3s by 2010'

    Pricey box to win next-gen console war, market watcher forecasts

    Sony's PlayStation 3 may have lost the battle for pre-Christmas sales, but the machine is forecast to win the next-generation console war, beating Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii hands down by 2010. So says market watcher Datamonitor, which reckons Sony will have shipped 75m PS3s around the world by that year. The …

    Consoles 3 Jan 2007, 10:41

  • Card-thin MP3 player planned

    Skinny

    World's slimmest MP3 player, anyone? Wallet-friendly Flash disk maker Walletex is preparing to launch a version of its slimline storage product, this time with music playback, website Krunker.com claims, a fact (tacitly at least) confirmed by the company when it sent over some pics of the product. There's no screen, but the …

    Media players 3 Jan 2007, 10:55

  • HTC 2007 roadmap revealed on web

    STR TRK succcessor revealed?

    Details of smart-phone maker HTC's 2007 roadmap published on the web point to a year of improvements to the company's current line-up rather than a new range of radically redesigned products. Running through the list published by Russian-language website HPC.ru, HTC's QWERTY keyboard slider phone 'Herald' - officially the …

    Phones 3 Jan 2007, 11:30

  • Samsung readies Vista-friendly double-speed Flash chip

    First 50nm 16Gb part

    Samsung will put the first 50nm 16Gb NAND Flash chip into mass production later this quarter, the South Korean giant said today, having just begun sending samples to its customers. The company said the chips use a "multi-level cell" design, a way of squeezing more memory capacity into a given die size. More importantly, the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Jan 2007, 11:50

  • Shuttle launches second-gen mini PC

    XPC Mini X200 adds TV tuner, Wi-Fi, integrated GPU to ultra-SFF barebones

    Updated Small form-factor PC specialist Shuttle has launched the successor to its XPC Mini X100 slimline media centre-oriented computer chassis. The box takes up no more desk space than a sheet of A4 paper and is a mere 5cm high. The XPC Mini X200 incorporates an Intel 945GM-based mobo ready for a Core 2 Duo CPU and up to …

    PCs 3 Jan 2007, 12:25

  • AMD to ship 65nm single-core Athlons this month?

    'Lima' core coming 'mid-January', moles maintain

    AMD will this month ship 'Lima', the 65nm version of its single-core Athlon 64 processor, it has been claimed by motherboard-maker moles. They allege recent AMD roadmaps show the 65nm Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ will appear "mid-January". Details of Lima emerged back in November 2006, but then the part was said to be scheduled …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Jan 2007, 15:13

  • Sky goes VoD after shipping 2m Sky+ boxes

    But what's the difference between video-on-demand and time-shifting?

    Satellite broadcaster Sky is intending to add video-on-demand capabilities to its Sky+ boxes over the next year, allowing subscribers to pay more to record shows they failed to record first time round. Unlike offerings from Channel 4 or the Venice project, Sky isn't planning to offer video over the internet: its Sky+ VoD …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 3 Jan 2007, 15:27

  • Apple faces US iTunes lawsuit

    iPod lock-in under fire on both sides of the Atlantic

    A US class-action lawsuit has been launched against Apple over links between its iTunes music store and iPod music players. The action follows similar charges in Europe, brought by a French consumer rights group. News of the suit, filed in California in July, came in a disclosure by Apple that formed part of its report to the …

    Media players 3 Jan 2007, 15:49

  • CSR slams US Bluetooth patent case

    Fighting them on the beaches

    A US University has filed a patent suit against Nokia, Samsung and Matsushita over the Bluetooth chips in their mobile phones. CSR, the Cambridge, UK supplier of the Bluetooth chips used in the phones, promised to defend its products "vigorously", slamming the legal suit as "without merit in relation to CSR's Bluetooth chips …

    Phones 3 Jan 2007, 19:51