Rambus formally launched its chip-to-chip interconnect, codenamed "Redwood", and has positioned it as the physical interface over which next-generation buses will be run.
Rambus provided an overview of the technology last month, when the company disclosed that Sony would be using the technology in next-generation entertainment products, without specifically naming the PlayStation.
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VR-Zone managed to caught up with Matt Dunford, Intel Client Performance Manager and share with us some of his views on the much debated 3DMark2003.
Hardware Extreme has posted another 3DMark 03 article
VR-Zone has some information about the upcoming ABIT BH7 board made for the overclockers.
The nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology--a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers--announced Thursday that licensing will begin Feb. 17. Blu-ray Disc technology allows for 27GB storage capacities on a single-sided 12cm disc. DVDs hold 4.7GB of data. Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and Thomson are known as the "Blu-ray Disc Founders" and have been pursuing a broad acceptance of the format.
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X-bit labs has posted their Memory Market Overview for February, 2003.
HotHardware has posted an complete update on the 3DMark 2003 / NVIDIA post.
Explosive Labs has posted a few screenshots of 3DMark03 results
Hardware Analysis has posted part 2 of their how-it-works series on Semiconductor Physics.
Everything USB has posted a news story on the Ratoc USB host adapter for Pocket PCs
Sudhian Media has posted an article on the Chaintech Evolution Event
HotHardware has posted some comments from nVidia on 3DMark2003
NeoWin reports that Office 11 gets the name Office 2003
Microsoft has released Visio 2002 Resource Kit
Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative.
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Thanks NeoWin for this one:
The purpose of this program, unlike most betas, is to augment the reporting capabilities of your existing Windows XP SP1 operating system to allow us to study Application Termination failures. The results of this study will be used to improve future versions of Windows.
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A computer trade group has filed a fresh complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission, alleging the latest XP version of Windows gives the software giant an illegal advantage that kills competition, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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It's déjà vu all over again: AMD has once again put out a high-end desktop processor that is meant to compete with Intel's fastest. This time it's the Athlon XP 3000+ aiming to go toe-to-toe with the 3.06-GHz Pentium 4 released a few months ago.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued its aggressive first-quarter rollout of new processors on Monday, unveiling its long-awaited Athlon XP 3000+ desktop chip.
The 32-bit chip, code-named Barton, is part of AMD's push to chip away at Intel Corp.'s dominance. The 3000+, with a 333MHz front-side bus, 640KB of on-die cache memory-512KB of Level 2 cache and 128KB of
L1 cache-and 2.1GHz of speed, is designed to compete with Intel's Pentium 4 line.
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Though the question was asked five years ago when Apple made the first move, Dell's recent abandonment of the floppy drive once again poses the question of: What's next?
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OCIA has totally revamped their site with a new and improved site design.
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As of this week, DVD X Copy, a 321 Studios application recently reviewed by PC Magazine, is readily available from the 321 Web site and many popular retailers, including CompUSA and Fry's. But if seven of the leading movie studios have their way, this won't last long. On April 25, in US District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Susan Illston will hear a motion from the seven studios claiming that 321 Studios two products (DVD Copy Plus and DVD X Copy) are illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and should be removed from the market.
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MajorGeeks have a Geek Give-A-Way
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday released a faster version of its Athlon chip for servers and workstations, an upgrade to help the company maintain its new foothold in the server processor market.
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ExtremeTech has posted part 1 of their Platform Conference Summary
Slashdot reports that Finland drops EUCD for now
The Inquirer has posted a news story on the upcoming Office 11 Beta 2
The Inquirer reports that the AMD Athlon 64 delayed until September
InfoWorld has posted a news story on 64-bit computers
In a late January advisory, Mike Paxton, senior analyst for the Converging Markets & Technologies Group at market research firm InStat/MDR, described the trend as "the continuing effort to 'seize and hold the high ground' in the living room." As Paxton sees things, there is a war raging between the PC and consumer electronics industries over how home networks and living room-based technologies will be controlled.
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Thanks APK for this one:
EliteBastards has posted an article with a brief history of 3Dfx, ATI and nVidia
3D Game Man has posted Unreal II: The Awaking Screenshots
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Thanks Christian for this one:
A Microsoft legal document put a late 2004 expected ship date on the next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," putting in black and white what Microsoft officials have been telling partners, customers and reporters in private conversations.
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SAN JOSE - Following on the heels of its dual-channel Rambus-enabled chipset, Silicon Integrated Systems Inc. officials confirmed that SIS is developing a four-channel model set to sample later this year.
The SIS R659, the sequel to the SIS dual-channel R658 chipset, is set to sample in the third quarter, according to a SIS spokeswoman. A formal announcement is due "very soon", the SIS spokeswoman said, but later amended her statement to say that the R659 may be announced after the Chinese New Year next week.
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Intel will pull out its scissors next month to make the first of two price cuts scheduled for this quarter, sources say.
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Sudian Media has posted an editorial: What was the single most important event in PC history?
High-speed Web and e-mail access are on their way to a tray table near you. A consortium of companies is rallying behind the Connexion airline Internet service system from Boeing, and tests of the service are already underway.
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Veritas Software on Wednesday introduced a new version of its Windows backup software at the posh Ritz-Carlton here.
The new software, Backup Exec 9, is a key part of the storage software maker's business--with the Windows-based backup program accounting for roughly $300 million of the company's $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
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RealNetworks on Wednesday made available the source code for sending video and audio over the Internet to other software and hardware makers.
The release of the code, called the Helix DNA Server, is part of RealNetworks' push to create a universal platform for sending and receiving digital media in order to fend off cross-town rival Microsoft.
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ipKonfig.com tours Space Imaging's head office, and zooms in on the IKONOS commercial satellite.
Designtechnica has posted their CES 2003 coverage
Thanks Mark. The Register reports that AMD makes massive Q4 loss
Sudhian Media has posted an editorial: Internet reaches twenty. What of the next twenty years?
The Inquirer reports that the german c't magazine has posted some AMD Opteron benchmarks
PC Stats has sends word that the Ontario Securities Commission commences proceedings in relation to ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC.
With FireWire Encrypt, WiebeTech has come up with an elegant storage-based solution for on-the-fly data encryption, writes David Morgenstern.
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Users of Intuit's TurboTax income tax preparation software are up in arms as a result of new DRM features which were added, with no warning, to this year's product.
According to media reports, the company has incorporated a "product activation" feature, similar to those used by Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows XP, which may prevent the program from being moved from one computer to another. The copy protection scheme, a Macrovision product called SAFECAST or C-Dilla, can also cause problems if hardware is upgraded. Should a user replace his or her hard drive or upgrade to a new computer, he or she may not be allowed to print a return or prepare an amended return.
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CHIP GIANT INTEL will release a version of the Itanium in 2005 that includes two processors in the same package – confirming reports from last year.
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X-bit labs has posted the monthly Memory Market Overview.
