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News
Friday, December 31, 2004
Top Hardware Articles of the Year at X-bit labs.
A Glance Back to the Reviews
Thursday, December 30, 2004
AMD’s Dual-Core Opteron Processors May Reach 2.40GHz Speeds.
AMD's Dual-Core Server Plans Sketched
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
X-bit Watch: History of Microprocessors from the Dawn of Times, Till the Dawn of Dual-Core.
Also: Sharp's 3D Monitor Reviewed, Intel Pentium M Functions Under Linux
TSMC Ships 90nm Products to Altera, Qualcomm
Laptops Will Work Whole Day on One Charge in Six Years
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
XGI’s New Low-End Part to Sport Memory Sharing Tech.
XGI's XG47 to Copy TurboCache, HyperMemory Approaches
Peculiarities of PlayStation 3 Graphics Chip Emerge
Computer Fans Prefer PCI Express-Only Platforms
ASUS Targets to Supply 30% - 60% More Graphics Cards Next Year
Monday, December 27, 2004
D-Link's New Routers Gives Games, Conferencing a Priority.
D-Link Targets Gamers with New Routers
Infinium Plans to Demo its Console, Service in Early January
IWILL's 2-Way Barebones to Emerge After Delay
AMD Asked to Reconsider Marketing Campaign
Intel's 65nm Dual-Core Chip with Vanderpool, LaGrande Possibly Got its Name
Also: Modern GPUs Compared, Extreme DDR2 SDRAM Reviewed
Intel's Pentium 4 Processors May be in Shortage
Thursday, December 23, 2004
ATI’s Rialto Bridge: “Over the Next Couple of Months”.
ATI's AGP-to-PCI Express Bridge to be Ready Soon
IBM to Incorporate Virtualization Technologies into Power Chips Next Year
Intel Developer Forum Puts Tomorrow's Platforms Center Stage
ATI Says Unified Rendering Engine – the Way to Go, NVIDIA Disagrees
Intel's 915PL and 915GL Chipsets to Lack DDR2 Support
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
X-bit Watch: Judge Backs $664 Million EU Fine Against Microsoft.
Also: Foxconn Settles with Journalist, ATI CATALYST AI Examined
SiS, VIA Report Unsatisfactory Monthly Sales
WD Adds 320GB HDD into Lineup, Proclaims
NVIDIA Finally Delivers GeForce6 Video Engine
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
ABIT Keeps Supplying Mainboards Amid Accounting Scandal.
ABIT Faces Accounting Scandal, but Says No Partners Affected
Elpida Samples Fully Buffered DIMMs with Partners
Monday, December 20, 2004
Gigabyte Plugs Two Graphics Processors on One Graphics Card.
Gigabyte 3D1 with Two GeForce 6600 GT Outperforms Top VPUs
Graphics Company Claims 85% ATSC/OpenCable Market Share
NVIDIA's NV48 May Still Be in Plans, Contrary to Reports
Friday, December 17, 2004
X-bit Watch: Foxconn Electronics Condemned for Suing a Journalist.
Also: GeForce 6200 TurboCache Tested, Extreme PC Systems on Xeon, Athlon 64 Compared
NVIDIA Aims to Integrate Microprocessors into its MCPs
Intel Corp. Hastily Removes i925X from Own Lineup
NVIDIA Discloses Some Intel Chipset-Related Plans
Thursday, December 16, 2004
ASUSTeK Asks Rival Foxconn for Help.
Foxconn Reportedly Makes Notebook Chassis for ASUS
Intel Hires HP's Itanium Engineers
PCI Express to Get 5GHz Speed in 2007
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
AMD Quietly Ships Server 90nm Processors.
AMD Produces Opteron Chips at 90nm
ATI’s RADEON X800 XL, X800 More Affordable than Expected
NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 with TurboCache Set to Redefine Entry-Level
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
AMD Targets Industrial Computing with New System-on-Module.
AMD Ships AMD Geode GX SOM-144 Reference Design Kit for Industrial Computing
Lenovo Will Continue to Develop Laptops in Yamamoto Lab
Retail Partners of ASUS Sell A8V-E Deluxe Mainboards
Taiwanese Chip Designers Jump on PCI Express Bandwagon
Monday, December 13, 2004
Fujitsu Intros Innovative 100GB HDD for Mobiles.
Fujitsu Catches Up with Rivals for Large Mobile HDDs
AMD's Future Chips to Use Dual Stress Liner Tech
Sunday, December 12, 2004
X-bit Watch: Best Mainstream PCI Express Graphics Chosen.
Also: Intel Matrix RAID Reviewed, FIC SFF Tested, etc
NVIDIA Transits Xbox Products to UMC, Seeks Deals with Chartered
ASUSTeK Debuts World's First Dual PCI Express AMD64 Platform
VIA Links Past and Future: AGP and PCI Express on a Single Platform
Matrox Graphics Unveils Parhelia APVe
Friday, December 10, 2004
ATI Shuffles Mainstream VPUs: X700 XT Gets Replaced by X800.
ATI's Performance Mainstream VPU May be Canned in Favour of New Product
HD DVD Promoters Fuse HD DVD with DVD
AMD Says Multi-Core, DDR3, HyperTransport 3, PCI Express Gen 2 – Future
Samsung Samples 512Mb GDDR3 Chips
Thursday, December 9, 2004
NVIDIA Aims to Create Another SoundStorm.
NVIDIA’s CEO Says the SoundStorm Comes in Unexpected Way
SiS' 656 Core-Logic Sports DDR2 667MHz, PCI Express
Vanderpool, LaGrande to Bring Big PC Revolution in 1.5 Years
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
X-bit Watch: Sony Says Game Development for PS3 - Easy.
Also: Intel 915P Mainboards Roudup, ABIT's RADEON X300 SE Reviewed, etc
Intel Says Mobile Dual-Core Chip Will Launch Only in 2006
Chinese Largest PC Makers Buys World’s No. 3 PC Supplier
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
ATI’s Next-Generation VPU on Track for Spring, Claims Research Firm.
Credit Suisse First Boston Does Not Think R520 and 90nm are a Big Risk
Taiwanese Sources Expect NVIDIA's C19 Core-Logic to Emerge in 1H 2005
Sony Asks NVIDIA to Help in PlayStation 3 GPU Development
ASUS Blames BIOS, Low Performance for Delay
Monday, December 6, 2004
AMD Cools Down Opteron Chips with PowerNow!
AMD Readies Server Processors with Mobile Roots
Samsung Confirms Production of FB-DIMMs in 1H 2005
Sunday, December 5, 2004
Half-Life 2 – World’s Top 2004 Game, Says X-bit Poll.
X-bit Poll: Half-Life 2 Leads FarCry and Doom III
VIA Licenses QSound’s Audio Technologies
Also: 32-bit and 64-bit Server Performance Compared, Modern Smartphones Tested, Digital Media Search Investigated
NVIDIA's NV48, NV50 Cancelled, Successors Unknown
ASUS: No VIA K8T890 Mainboard Planned, At Least for Now
Friday, December 3, 2004
Server Shipments Rise, But Not Significantly, Says Gartner.
Shipments of Servers Grew 16% in the Quarter – Gartner
Intel Corp. to Supply NVIDIA's Graphics Cards with its Mainboards
Thursday, December 2, 2004
X-bit Poll: Enthusiasts Eager to Buy Expensive Graphics Cards.
Hardware Consumers Prefer to Buy Luxurious Graphics Cards
SIA Says Sub-Nanometer Tech Researches Need a Link and Funds
Also: Massive 19" LCDs Reviews, How to Build Your Own Water-Cooler, etc
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
ATI Raises Performance Bar with New RADEON X850, X800 VPUs.
ATI Expands RADEON X8 Family with R430, R480 Chips
PC Market May Face Massive Hit in 2006 – 2008









