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Thursday, July 31, 2003

SiS to Bring 800MHz QPB Pentium 4 Processors into Notebooks?

[2:31 pm]

ALi Licenses Rambus PCI Express PHY Technology.

[10:39 am]

NVIDIA Got 60% of DirectX 9.0 GPU Market in Q2.

[8:46 am]

Thanks to the GeForce FX

AMD Opteron 2.0GHz "Benchmarks" Revealed.

[2:26 am]

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

X-bit Watch: First Ever 3dfx Rampage Preview Published on the Web.

[3:53 pm]

Also Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect Review Up

IBM Unveils New AMD Opteron Based Servers.

[2:19 pm]

AMD Opteron 246 is Coming Closer

Hynix Introduces DDR500 Memory Chips.

[11:09 am]

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

ATI Technologies Said to Gain Mobile Market Share.

[3:55 pm]

AMD Reduces Prices of its Microprocessors.

[10:15 am]

ATI Introduces FIRE GL X2 and T2 Graphics Cards.

[8:37 am]

RADEON 9800 and 9600 Go Professional

Gigabyte Showcases Mainboards for AMD 64-bit CPUs.

[5:08 am]

AMD Reported Another Loss.

[4:53 am]

Bitboys Unleashes the First Real Graphics Products.

[1:03 am]

Monday, July 28, 2003

NVIDIA Lowers Revenue and Margin Guidance.

[3:58 pm]

Prices on Intel Springdale Based Mainboards Slump.

[3:22 pm]

AMD Opteron CPUs to Power a 10Tflops Supercomputer.

[11:45 am]

ABIT Ignites Total Hardware Security Era.

[9:15 am]

Protect Your HDD from RIAA!

Saturday, July 26, 2003

Sanmina-SCI Acquires Newisys, an AMD Server Partner.

[10:41 pm]

NVIDIA NV38 to Come?

[4:21 am]

Just Before NV40, Just to Succeed the NV35

Friday, July 25, 2003

Intel Prescott to Dissipate More than 100W of Heat.

[3:54 pm]

Hottie Hungry Prescott

ITC Approves Penalty Duties Against Hynix Semiconductor.

[3:05 am]

And Hynix Responds

Thursday, July 24, 2003

Western Digital to Acquire a Recording Heads Company.

[6:01 pm]

Sun Reports Unprecedented Financial Loss.

[12:55 pm]

i865PE Waves PAT Goodbye...

[10:26 am]

No One Will Cheat Intel, Understood?

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 and Quadro FX 3000G Pricing Unveiled.

[5:21 am]

Intel Discontinues Pentium 4 2.0, 2.20GHz and Xeon 1.80GHz CPUs.

[4:09 am]

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Transmeta Announces Financial Results.

[5:20 pm]

NVIDIA Launches Quadro 3000 Professional Graphics Cards.

[5:05 pm]

ABIT IC7-MAX3 to Support Prescott Processor.

[12:55 pm]

MAXimum Everything

Preliminary GeForce FX 5700 Specifications Become Known.

[5:44 am]

i875P Supports SMP?

[2:41 am]

A Unique Mainboard Emerges

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

X-bit Watch: AMD Opteron is Not a 64-bit CPU.

[5:48 am]

An IBM Executive Thinks So

There is a Total Mess With Prescott Support by i875P and i865PE Mainboards.

[4:16 am]

Digital Cameras from VisionTek?

[3:55 am]

No, From Argus

Monday, July 21, 2003

ATI RADEON 9800 and RADEON 9800 SE Core and Memory Clocks Unveiled.

[5:30 pm]

Infineon's DRAM Market Share Skyrockets.

[1:19 pm]

Centrino Roadmap Accelerated: Pentium M Celeron to Emerge in 2004 Q1.

[3:53 am]

Saturday, July 19, 2003

RADEON 9200 SE Specifications Unleashed.

[4:35 pm]

Graphics Cards Available

First Mini-ITX Mainboard for Intel Pentium 4-M Processors.

[3:50 pm]

Ultra Compact Intel Inside

ASUS SK8N Goes Around the World!

[1:11 pm]

64-bit For the Masses?

ATI RADEON 9600SE and RADEON 9200SE to Come.

[9:34 am]

Expanding ATI Market Share

IBM Reports 2003 Second Quarter Financial Results.

[9:32 am]

Friday, July 18, 2003

NVIDIA-based Graphics Cards Will Have a Bug in Half-Life 2?

[3:58 pm]

FSAA Cannot Be Enabled

Intel Reports Second Quarter Financial Results.

[1:34 pm]

X-bit Watch: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to Kill Linux?

[9:16 am]

VIA Admits nForce2 is Better than KT600.

[8:11 am]

And Not Surprised with NVIDIA’s Success

VisionTek GOes Xtreme Storage Solutions.

[2:49 am]

First Affordable DDR500 Memory Modules from OCZ to Come.

[2:43 am]

Thursday, July 17, 2003

ATI RADEON 9800 SE Details Revealed.

[3:33 pm]

RADEON 9500 Returns...

ASUS Claims P4P800 and P4C800 Mainboards to Be Prescott Compatible.

[8:38 am]

But Removes the Written Statement from its Web-Site

Sun Confirms FPU Problems of UltraSPARC III CPUs.

[8:31 am]

Seagate Reports Financial Results for Quarter and Year.

[8:02 am]

Everything Goes Fine

AMD Opteron Cluster Solution Purchased by a University!

[5:44 am]

The First Commercial Opteron Cluster System Shipment

Mainboards to Be Produced Only in China?

[5:38 am]

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Gigabyte Mainboards Support Intel Prescott Processor Now?

[5:28 pm]

Intel Lowers Prices on Xeon Processor.

[3:50 pm]

As Expected

ELSA Introduces Professional Graphics Card on ATI FIRE GL.

[10:22 am]

TYAN Unveils Uniprocessor Mainboard for AMD Opteron.

[7:03 am]

1P Opteron Servers to Come?

Corsair Unleashes DDR500 Memory Kits.

[5:46 am]

Wicked Sticks

Triplex Announced GeForce FX 5900 Graphics Card.

[4:24 am]

Follows MSI, Creative Technology, SUMA, Club3D, Gigabyte...

Intel Celebrates 35th Anniversary.

[2:43 am]

Three and a Half Decades of Innovation

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Prescott Celeron Processors to Be Compatible with Current Mainboards?

[4:52 am]

Would You Ever Downgrade a Pentium 4 to Celeron?

VIA KT600 Based Mainboard from SOYO.

[2:41 am]

The First Higher-End Mainboard on KT600

Samsung Begins Volume Production of 1Gb DRAM Chips.

[2:09 am]

Using 300mm Wafers and 0.1 Micron Technology

X-bit Watch: NVIDIA to Rejoin 3DMark Beta Program.

[1:55 am]

And to Make a Demo for NV40

Intel Unveils Xeon Processors with 1M of L3 Cache.

[1:04 am]

Faster Than AMD Opteron!

SGI Goes ATI.

[12:28 am]

ATI’s Graphics Processors in 300K Systems

Monday, July 14, 2003

AMD and Fujitsu Form New Flash Memory Joint-Venture.

[12:34 pm]

Spansion: The Largest Flash Company

First-Tier Mainboard Makers Report June Results.

[11:23 am]

Sales and Shipments Digest

SiS Announces R659 Officially and Once Again.

[10:07 am]

The Most Paper Chipset Ever?

AMD to Make Changes to the Stock Coolers.

[7:50 am]

And to CPU Boxes

Find Hot-Spots without Powering Up Your Notebook.

[7:34 am]

A Hot Small Device is Now Available

An Infineon Subsidiary Seeks for Financial Aid from Portugal.

[2:09 am]

Is It Legal?

Saturday, July 12, 2003

Mainboards with Prescott Support to Come in August.

[1:15 am]

You May Now Start Collecting Money. Again

Friday, July 11, 2003

Springdale and Canterwood are Not Compatible with Prescott?

[9:54 am]

"Ensure '03 Platforms are Prescott-Ready", but Coppermine Returns...

Sony Recalls Certain Vaio Notebooks.

[9:53 am]

OCZ Introduces DDR500 Gold Edition Memory Modules.

[6:20 am]

Sun to Launch 4-Way Xeon Based System.

[6:19 am]

Another Nail in UltraSPARC Coffin

Intel Misses i865 Chipset Market Share Target.

[6:17 am]

Used to be Too Optimistic

Thursday, July 10, 2003

ATI is Getting Ready to Attack Again.

[4:25 pm]

Also ATI RV420 Plans Unveiled

Rambus, Toshiba and Elpida Announce XDR DRAM.

[3:25 pm]

RDRAM II?

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Kingston Unveils DDR466 and DDR500 Memory Modules.

[5:37 pm]

VIA PT800 Now Launched Officially.

[6:14 am]

VIA Almost Comes Back

Promise Technology to Offer RAID Controllers with FRAM Memory.

[3:46 am]

ALi and ULi Co-Announced M1683 Chipset.

[2:40 am]

So What?

Tuesday, July 8, 2003

NVIDIA NV33 and NV36 to Come Soon.

[5:18 pm]

NV40 - Not so Soon

VIA Launches Antaur Processor Officially.

[4:40 pm]

Gigabyte to Produce NVIDIA Based Graphics Cards?

[1:26 pm]

But Will Not Drop Powered By ATI

Intel Xeon with 1MB L3 Cache to Come on Monday.

[11:43 am]

Xeon to Drop in Price Too

NVIDIA’s Chip-Packaging "Mystery" Resolved.

[9:24 am]

Intel to Lower Celeron Pricing in August.

[3:04 am]

Monday, July 7, 2003

AMD Athlon 64 Launch Date “Announced Incidentally”.

[3:46 pm]

Hopefully, the Final Date

Intel Prescott 3.40GHz Pricing Unveiled.

[8:17 am]

Astonishing Price for Astonishing Chip

RADEON 9100 IGP Based Mainboard from FIC Details Revealed.

[7:26 am]

NVIDIA is Preparing GeForce FX 5600SE?

[6:29 am]

i865P to Go, i848P to Come?

[3:54 am]

Also i865GV to Come

RADEON 9600 PRO with Wireless TV-Out and VIVO.

[2:19 am]

And with Silver Coating

Friday, July 4, 2003

OCZ Unveils Quad-Module Memory Kit.

[12:58 pm]

Four is Better than Two

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra: Made in Korea?

[10:46 am]

Or Packaged In Korea?

Intel to Change CPU Box Design.

[10:03 am]

Second Time a Year

AMD Opteron 246 Will Not Come on Monday.

[3:41 am]

Maybe on the 4th of August? Or September?

RADEON 9600 PRO with Boosted Memory Speed From PowerColor.

[2:33 am]

Thursday, July 3, 2003

MSI to Offer GeForce FX Graphics Cards with Ultimate Bundles.

[5:39 pm]

MSI NBOX to Come

Phantom: A Next-Generation Console with NVIDIA and Intel Inside?

[8:44 am]

PGPU and Phantomium?

SiS Reported June Sales Results.

[8:42 am]

Semiconductor Sales in May Increased 2%.

[8:12 am]

The Great Rebound Has Started?

Western Digital to Launch ATA-133 HDDs.

[5:03 am]

Also, HDDs with FDB Motors

ATI Extends Patent Cross-License Agreement with Intel.

[3:50 am]

Receives License for 800MHz QPB

AMD Denies Existence of Performance Formulas for Unannounced Products.

[2:56 am]

VIA Reported June Sales Results.

[2:22 am]

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Life, Liberty and the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra.

[5:19 pm]

Graphics Cards Hit the Stores Across the USA

Samsung Licenses Rambus Yellowstone.

[1:03 pm]

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

SiS Rolls Out SiS661 with Integrated Graphics for 800MHz CPUs.

[4:11 pm]

Leadtek Prepares NVIDIA Crush K8 Mainboard.

[2:49 pm]

Number of WLAN Hotspots to Explode in 2003.

[1:48 pm]

Cables Set to Disappear?

Intel Tejas Specifications Emerged.

[1:31 pm]

Pictures Too

NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 Based Mainboards in Mass Production Now.