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Friday, December 31, 2004


Top Hardware Articles of the Year at X-bit labs.
[10:02 am]

A Glance Back to the Reviews

Top News-Stories of the Year at X-bit labs.
[9:44 am]

A Glance Back to the News

 

Thursday, December 30, 2004


AMD’s Dual-Core Opteron Processors May Reach 2.40GHz Speeds.
[3:28 pm]

AMD's Dual-Core Server Plans Sketched

Apple Reportedly Plans a Mac at the Price of an iPod.
[7:13 am]

Apple Preps $500 "Mac Barebone"

 

Wednesday, December 29, 2004


X-bit Watch: History of Microprocessors from the Dawn of Times, Till the Dawn of Dual-Core.
[10:56 pm]

Also: Sharp's 3D Monitor Reviewed, Intel Pentium M Functions Under Linux

TSMC Says 90nm Production Ramping Successfully.
[6:51 pm]

TSMC Ships 90nm Products to Altera, Qualcomm

Notebooks to Operate on Battery for One Day by 2010.
[9:57 am]

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.
[11:06 pm]

XGI's XG47 to Copy TurboCache, HyperMemory Approaches

PlayStation 3 GPU: NV40 and NV50 Hybrid with XDR DRAM, Says Report.
[1:04 pm]

Peculiarities of PlayStation 3 Graphics Chip Emerge

Majority of Enthusiasts Reject PCI Express-AGP Platforms, Says X-bit Poll.
[12:50 pm]

Computer Fans Prefer PCI Express-Only Platforms

ASUSTeK Preps Graphics Cards Shipments Breakthrough in 2005.
[7:11 am]

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.
[6:01 pm]

D-Link Targets Gamers with New Routers

Infinium Aims to Showcase its Phantom Game Service at CES.
[2:12 pm]

Infinium Plans to Demo its Console, Service in Early January

IWILL Set to Start Supplies of Dual-CPU Barebones.
[11:33 am]

IWILL's 2-Way Barebones to Emerge After Delay

AMD’s “Enhanced Virus Protection” Radio Ads Banned in The Netherlands.
[9:51 am]

AMD Asked to Reconsider Marketing Campaign

Presler – Intel’s Mainstream Dual-Core Desktop Chip.
[5:31 am]

Intel's 65nm Dual-Core Chip with Vanderpool, LaGrande Possibly Got its Name

 

Sunday, December 26, 2004


Merry Christmas!
[11:10 pm]

And a Happy New Year

X-bit Watch: Notebooks and Windows Go on a Diet.
[10:44 pm]

Also: Modern GPUs Compared, Extreme DDR2 SDRAM Reviewed

Intel's Mainstream Chips May be in Tight Supply.
[3:50 pm]

Intel's Pentium 4 Processors May be in Shortage

 

Thursday, December 23, 2004


ATI’s Rialto Bridge: “Over the Next Couple of Months”.
[5:17 pm]

ATI's AGP-to-PCI Express Bridge to be Ready Soon

IBM's, Apple's Computers to Get Virtualization in 2005.
[2:22 pm]

IBM to Incorporate Virtualization Technologies into Power Chips Next Year

Intel to Strengthen Concentration on Platform at Upcoming IDF.
[10:39 am]

Intel Developer Forum Puts Tomorrow's Platforms Center Stage

ATI and NVIDIA Proclaim Different Graphics Processors Architecture Goals.
[7:55 am]

ATI Says Unified Rendering Engine – the Way to Go, NVIDIA Disagrees

Intel to Remove DDR2 Support from Forthcoming Mainstream Chipsets.
[5:51 am]

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.
[1:39 pm]

Also: Foxconn Settles with Journalist, ATI CATALYST AI Examined

Taiwanese Chipset Designers Continue to Suffer from Declining Revenues.
[11:13 am]

SiS, VIA Report Unsatisfactory Monthly Sales

WD Ships New Large HDDs with Caching Enhancements.
[9:11 am]

WD Adds 320GB HDD into Lineup, Proclaims

NVIDIA’s PureVideo Accelerates Media on the PC.
[5:25 am]

NVIDIA Finally Delivers GeForce6 Video Engine

 

Tuesday, December 21, 2004


ABIT Keeps Supplying Mainboards Amid Accounting Scandal.
[2:30 pm]

ABIT Faces Accounting Scandal, but Says No Partners Affected

Elpida Supplies FB-DIMM Samples for Server Partners.
[10:53 am]

Elpida Samples Fully Buffered DIMMs with Partners

 

Monday, December 20, 2004


Gigabyte Plugs Two Graphics Processors on One Graphics Card.
[10:43 pm]

Gigabyte 3D1 with Two GeForce 6600 GT Outperforms Top VPUs

ATI Technologies Proclaims DTV Breakthrough.
[6:29 pm]

Graphics Company Claims 85% ATSC/OpenCable Market Share

Who Is the Best? – Asks X-bit labs.
[12:48 pm]

X-bit labs Kicks Off Year 2004 Poll

NVIDIA’s NV48 to be Made at TSMC, Says Article.
[3:13 am]

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.
[11:26 pm]

Also: GeForce 6200 TurboCache Tested, Extreme PC Systems on Xeon, Athlon 64 Compared

Media and Communication Processor to Become System-on-Chip, Says NVIDIA.
[1:39 pm]

NVIDIA Aims to Integrate Microprocessors into its MCPs

Intel Discontinues Own-Brand i925X Mainboards.
[10:08 am]

Intel Corp. Hastily Removes i925X from Own Lineup

NVIDIA Plans to Make Desktop, Server, Mobile Chipsets for Intel Chips – CEO.
[7:57 am]

NVIDIA Discloses Some Intel Chipset-Related Plans

 

Thursday, December 16, 2004


ASUSTeK Asks Rival Foxconn for Help.
[10:05 pm]

Foxconn Reportedly Makes Notebook Chassis for ASUS

HP Spins Off Itanium Development Lab.
[4:18 pm]

Intel Hires HP's Itanium Engineers

PCI Express Transfer Rate Set to Double.
[3:59 am]

PCI Express to Get 5GHz Speed in 2007

 

Wednesday, December 15, 2004


AMD Quietly Ships Server 90nm Processors.
[11:51 pm]

AMD Produces Opteron Chips at 90nm

ATI Technologies Unleash Graphics Cards Price War.
[11:11 pm]

ATI’s RADEON X800 XL, X800 More Affordable than Expected

Industry Welcomes NVIDIA’s New Low-End Graphics Cards.
[3:22 pm]

NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 with TurboCache Set to Redefine Entry-Level

 

Tuesday, December 14, 2004


AMD Targets Industrial Computing with New System-on-Module.
[10:13 pm]

AMD Ships AMD Geode GX SOM-144 Reference Design Kit for Industrial Computing

IBM ThinkPad Development Will Maintain in Japan, Says Local Rep.
[6:43 pm]

Lenovo Will Continue to Develop Laptops in Yamamoto Lab

ASUSTeK Ships VIA K8T890 Mainboards.
[4:47 pm]

Retail Partners of ASUS Sell A8V-E Deluxe Mainboards

SiS Reportedly to Ship PCI Express Chipsets in Days.
[9:22 am]

Taiwanese Chip Designers Jump on PCI Express Bandwagon

 

Monday, December 13, 2004


Fujitsu Intros Innovative 100GB HDD for Mobiles.
[10:19 pm]

Fujitsu Catches Up with Rivals for Large Mobile HDDs

AMD, IBM Unveil Strained-Silicon Technology.
[6:29 pm]

AMD's Future Chips to Use Dual Stress Liner Tech

 

Sunday, December 12, 2004


X-bit Watch: Best Mainstream PCI Express Graphics Chosen.
[4:39 pm]

Also: Intel Matrix RAID Reviewed, FIC SFF Tested, etc

NVIDIA Corp. Expands Fab Partner List – Reports.
[1:24 pm]

NVIDIA Transits Xbox Products to UMC, Seeks Deals with Chartered

ASUS’ NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Mainboard Debuts in Retail.
[12:03 pm]

ASUSTeK Debuts World's First Dual PCI Express AMD64 Platform

VIA Shows Off Mainboard with Native PCI Express, AGP Interconnections.
[3:05 am]

VIA Links Past and Future: AGP and PCI Express on a Single Platform

Matrox Graphics Transplants Parhelia to PCI Express.
[2:03 am]

Matrox Graphics Unveils Parhelia APVe

 

Friday, December 10, 2004


ATI Shuffles Mainstream VPUs: X700 XT Gets Replaced by X800.
[11:56 pm]

ATI's Performance Mainstream VPU May be Canned in Favour of New Product

Toshiba, Memory-Tech Tout Dual-Format HD DVD/DVD Discs.
[11:22 pm]

HD DVD Promoters Fuse HD DVD with DVD

AMD Tips Next-Generation Microprocessors Features.
[2:58 pm]

AMD Says Multi-Core, DDR3, HyperTransport 3, PCI Express Gen 2 – Future

Samsung Tests Memory for 512MB Graphics Cards.
[8:31 am]

Samsung Samples 512Mb GDDR3 Chips

 

Thursday, December 9, 2004


NVIDIA Aims to Create Another SoundStorm.
[11:15 pm]

NVIDIA’s CEO Says the SoundStorm Comes in Unexpected Way

SiS Validates Top Chipset with PCI-SIG, Memory Makers.
[4:21 pm]

SiS' 656 Core-Logic Sports DDR2 667MHz, PCI Express

Intel Confirms Virtualization and Security Technologies in 2006.
[2:26 pm]

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.
[11:36 pm]

Also: Intel 915P Mainboards Roudup, ABIT's RADEON X300 SE Reviewed, etc

Intel’s Mobile Dual-Core Chip Showcased, but Delayed to 2006.
[6:05 pm]

Intel Says Mobile Dual-Core Chip Will Launch Only in 2006

IBM and Lenovo Deal Finalized, IBM’s PC Unit Acquired by Lenovo.
[11:27 am]

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.
[11:00 pm]

Credit Suisse First Boston Does Not Think R520 and 90nm are a Big Risk

NVIDIA May Launch Chipset for Intel Pentium 4 in Q1, Q2 2005 – Rumours.
[6:43 pm]

Taiwanese Sources Expect NVIDIA's C19 Core-Logic to Emerge in 1H 2005

NVIDIA and Sony Collaborate Over GPU for PlayStation 3.
[10:56 am]

Sony Asks NVIDIA to Help in PlayStation 3 GPU Development

ASUS Denies VIA K8T890 Mainboard Cancellation.
[6:31 am]

ASUS Blames BIOS, Low Performance for Delay

 

Monday, December 6, 2004


AMD Cools Down Opteron Chips with PowerNow!
[11:20 pm]

AMD Readies Server Processors with Mobile Roots

Samsung Works on FB-DIMM Products.
[9:16 pm]

Samsung Confirms Production of FB-DIMMs in 1H 2005

IBM Set to Sell PC Business to Chinese Lenovo Group.
[5:25 pm]

IBM Goes Out of the PC Business

 

Sunday, December 5, 2004


Half-Life 2 – World’s Top 2004 Game, Says X-bit Poll.
[3:19 pm]

X-bit Poll: Half-Life 2 Leads FarCry and Doom III

VIA Vows to Bring More Advanced Audio.
[9:59 am]

VIA Licenses QSound’s Audio Technologies

X-bit Watch: Half-Life 2 Deathmatch Explored.
[9:50 am]

Also: 32-bit and 64-bit Server Performance Compared, Modern Smartphones Tested, Digital Media Search Investigated

NVIDIA Reportedly Scraps Two Major Projects.
[3:57 am]

NVIDIA's NV48, NV50 Cancelled, Successors Unknown

World’s Top Mainboard Maker Reportedly Cancels Plans for VIA’s AMD64 Chipset Use.
[2:32 am]

ASUS: No VIA K8T890 Mainboard Planned, At Least for Now

 

Friday, December 3, 2004


Server Shipments Rise, But Not Significantly, Says Gartner.
[9:48 pm]

Shipments of Servers Grew 16% in the Quarter – Gartner

NVIDIA Strikes PCI Express Graphics Cards Promotion Deal with Intel.
[7:17 am]

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.
[4:51 pm]

Hardware Consumers Prefer to Buy Luxurious Graphics Cards

Semiconductor Industry Association Calls for Govt Aid for Sub-10nm Tech.
[1:26 pm]

SIA Says Sub-Nanometer Tech Researches Need a Link and Funds

X-bit Watch: RADEON X850 XT PE Reviewed.
[12:35 pm]

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.
[6:00 pm]

ATI Expands RADEON X8 Family with R430, R480 Chips

Major IT Industry Downturn Ahead, Gartner Reports.
[3:46 pm]

PC Market May Face Massive Hit in 2006 – 2008