Just saw this @ Amdzone.com. According to their statement Nvidia will head right for nForce 2...

In our meeting today with Nvidia we learned that the 615 and 620 nForce chipsets will no longer come to market. These chipsets were to add DDR333 support as a feature. nForce 2 will become the focus for Nvidia's next Athlon chipset. Nvidia will provide us with an official statement soon.

Just saw this @ Digital-Silence.com.

Samsung announced that it will demonstrate the world's first 40-inch TFT-LCD panel for use in high-performance, wide-screen digital TVs at the Society of Information Display (SID) 2002 Conference, May 21-23 in Boston, Mass. This is the largest TFT-LCD panel ever produced.

I saw this @ nVNews and this is what they said: This is based on a 2 hour meeting with SiS this morning. We covered quite a few more subjects that I won't go into here. Note I have NOT installed the Xabre 400 yet. Click on Read More... to see the details on the upcoming SiS Xabre products.

VR-Zone has put up a list of SOYO boards that are going to be showcased at Computex Taipei. Interestingly, SOYO will be showcasing the P4S 648 DRAGON Ultra based on SiS648 chipset supporting DDR400/AGP 8x, P4X333 DRAGON Ultra based on VIA P4X333 chipset supporting DDR333/AGP8x and KT400 DRAGON Ultra based on VIA KT400 chipset supporting DDR400/AGP8x.

It can be expected that other motherboard manufacturers will be showcasing new boards based on these chipsets as well. VIA and SiS will of course be showcasing their reference boards based on K8HTA/B and SiS755 chipsets for AMD Hammer processors.

One drawback of harddrives are moving parts. Well, bitmicro is bringing us closer to solid state harddrives.

I was going to build a new PC using a AMD CPU and Abit motherboard but with this news I am going to wait a bit longer.

SYSTEM BUILDERS attending a Gartner summit in Monaco earlier this week went to a VIA presentation where they were told the firm would introduce three chipsets for AMD's Hammer microprocessors.

A system builder said VIA told him and a group of other integrators that one of these, called the K8UMA, would use integrated Zoetrope graphics with 800MHz Hypertransport links, while another VIA K8 chipset would provide similar functionality but without the integrated graphics. Source: TheInquirer

Just saw this @ TheInquirer.net:

Mark Tellez, AMD's server and workstation manager, also showed me a picture of the Opteron ? unfortunately this one was more than a little out of focus but it's worth noting that although you can't see it on the photograph, it's got the word Opteron printed on top of the CPU.

Just looking around and saw this over at Driver Heaven within the overclocking forum. Someone has got hold of a new Celeron and bumped the bus up a bit , not much, but not bad. :) Read more for more info.

Intel Corporation today announced two new Intel Celeron processors targeted for value PCs. These desktop processors represent Intel's fastest offering for the price-sensitive desktop value PC market segment. The Intel Celeron processor at 1.7 GHz is based on the 0.18-micron process technology and features a 400 MHz front side bus. The Intel Celeron processor at 1.4 GHz is based on the 0.13-micron process technology and features a 100 MHz front side bus.

Microsoft fired the second shot in the video game industry's growing price war, dropping its Xbox system from $299 to $199 in the United States, effective Wednesday (today actually). The drop was announced after Sony lowered the Playstation 2 retail price to the same value. Source: ZDNet

Here's a few sites that have done a preview of Matrox's new Parhelia 512 card. Unfortunately Matrox has not yet provided any test samples for reviewers so all info is based on Matrox in-house PR!

Digit-Life

Hot Hardware

HardOCP

AnandTech

Matrox has officially launched the Parhelia 512 site and the product itself.

The revolutionary new Matrox Parhelia-512 high-fidelity GPU delivers a new level of visual quality, excellent performance and a wide range of innovative technologies. Parhelia-512 is an 80 million transistor, 0.15µ, 2D, 3D and DVD/video GPU with a true 256-bit DDR memory interface providing over 20 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of raw memory bandwidth. This AGP device supports unified frame buffers up to 256MB in size and integrates two RAMDACs, a TV encoder and support for dual TMDS transmitters. Designed to surpass the expectations of the most demanding professional users and PC enthusiasts, Parhelia-512 has three major goals: to dramatically increase the quality of all aspects of visualization, to sustain high performance for the most complex and demanding graphics rendering and to deliver a number of innovative and substantive features.

Japanese site Watch Impress has a snapshot of Matrox upcoming Parhelia 512 pic which is to be announced tomorrow. It features a massive heatsink as well as 2 DVI connectors. A special adapter cable seems to be included in the retail package to wire up for TripleHead monitor support. Click on read more for the pics!

On this site you see comparision of the specs from the latest 3D cards against the new Matrox. And some information how the new features work and what they can do. The article covers - as it seems - official Matrox material showing off the GPU flowchart as well as detailed specs. Only one thing... it is in russian, but the pictures on the site say it all. Update: Digit-Life has almost the same review only in full english! (Click on Read More for link).

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I say possible because out of nowhere this week on the Matrox website the specs for a new G1000 chipset were published but quickly removed. Whether this was done as a hacker joke, or a mistake on the company's webmaster's part, you can find the specs here. Now some Matrox websites claim this is a fake but some sites claim it to be true. You be the judge, but dont say I didnt warn you. Watch out Nvidia and ATI, the old school guys are back.

Intel's first Celeron chips based on the Pentium 4 will come out next week in a move that will allow the company to cover the entire PC market with the same chip design. Intel plans to release 1.7HGz and 1.8GHz Celerons for desktop computers next Wednesday, according to sources. Some new PCs containing the chip will appear next week, but most major PC manufacturers will unfurl budget computers containing the chips for the consumer and corporate markets the following week. That's when a chipset with integrated graphics comes out, which will eliminate the need for a separate graphics chip. Source Link: Design Technica
Direct Link: Redesigned Celerons coming to market

Looks like Matrox has already blown the cover of their upcoming Parhelia GPU in China yesterday according to a chinese website. Not much information is available cause all attendees needed to sign a non disclosure agreement. Read on.

Fujitsu has developed revolutionary new read head and media technologies that will enable hard disk drive recording densities of up to 300 gigabits per square inch. The new technologies are expected to lead to the commercial introduction within two to four years of 2.5" hard disk drives with capacities up to six times the recording density available today. Read more...

In early 2001, we were caught by surprise when our server started going ballistic. As more and more users became aware of Neoseeker's existence, our traffic had slowly started to mount up - to the point where we were literally growing too fast for the server to keep up. We had already undergone several painful server transitions, and we were faced with the hard decision of HOW to alleviate the server load. We had been growing steadily without many problems, and then suddenly, a growth spurt caught us unawares and left us scrambling as the server crashed almost hourly. Rancho*: Somehow sounds familiar...