With an ambition to move into the high-end market, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) expects to start shipping high-end graphics cards with solutions from ATI Technologies by the end of this quarter, according to the company.

Iomega is getting back into the removable hard drive market, years after relegating its Jaz drive to its legacy product file.

The new release, as-yet unbranded and known for now as the Removable Rigid Disk (RRD) system, will offer 35GB per disk. Each 2.5in disk is housed in a cartridge "smaller than a deck of playing cards", Iomega claims. The RRD drive will fit into a standard 3.5in bay, the company said.

While NVIDIA executives at a conference call last week never let the phrase "IBM Microelectronics" pass their lips, it appears from a report today that the second source foundry still has a deal to make chips for it.

A report in the Economic News said that Big Blue will make NV36 and NV40 chips for NVIDIA, while TSMC will make RV360 and R420 graphics chips for ATI.

Taiwanese firm ASUS said it has introduced the P4P800S-E, a board that uses the Intel 848P chipset.

This supports not only Pentium 4s that use the 800MHz front side bus, but ASUS claims that it will also support future Prescott processors.

Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr sends word that after sneaking into a MSI technical forum that was held in Korea! they now have some photo's of slides that were shown at the forum for Nvidia's NV36 aka GeForce FX5700.

Olcay-Its.de have snagged the new Intel Roadmap.
It show´s Intels planings up to Intel Tejas Processor with 4 Ghz in Q4 2004.
We can not confirm if the roadmap is real.

Thx to WinFuture FYI.

MSI hat heute das erste Board mit i848P Chipsatz namens MSI 848P Neo vorgestellt. Der i848P bietet die Unterstützung von Single Channel PC3200 Speicher, FSB800 und ähnelt dem i865 in Architektur, Layout und vor allem den Features wie AGP 8x und Hyper-Threading Support. Der Chipsatz ist mit 32,00 $ nur einen Dollar billiger als der Vorgänger i865P (Dual Channel Support, FSB533), der nun allem Anschein nach ausläuft. Das MSI 848P Neo wird in veschiedenen Versionen und Ausstattungsklassen erhältlich sein und sich preislich an den Boards mit i865P Chipsatz orientieren. Mehr Infos und Details bei ForumDeluxx

Nachdem Transcend schon die schnellste 2 GB CompactFlash Karte - Transcend 2 GB 45X CF - high speed CompactFlash - Speicher mit Datenübertragungsraten von knapp 7 MByte/s - heraus brachte, folgt nun die mobile 2,5-Zoll Festplatte mit 40 GB.

Transcend ist ein taiwanischer Hardware-Hersteller. Die Transcend USB 2.0 Mobile Festplatte wird es in drei Ausführungen geben, 30 GB oder 40 GB mit einer maximalen Datentransferrate von bis zu 480 Mbit/sec oder nur als reines Festplatten-Leergehäuse im Metall-Design mit einem Gewicht von 105 Gramm.

Echte Schwarzweiß-Fotos mit acht Farben - die neuen HP Photosmart Drucker der 7000er Serie

Vier neue HP Photosmart Drucker: Modell 7260, 7660, 7760 und 7960.
Die Geräte sind mit elf verschiedenen Speicherkarten-Typen kompatibel und drucken Bilder in zwei Formaten: DIN A4 und im klassischen Fotoformat 10 x 15 Zentimeter. Die Druck-geschwindigkeit liegt bei Farbe zwischen 12 Seiten (HP Photosmart 7260) und 16 Seiten (HP Photosmart 7960) pro Minute. Bei Schwarzweiß sind es 16 bis 21 Seiten. Photosmarts 7660, 7760 und 7960 haben eine spezielle graue Fotopatrone und verbessern so bei Schwarzweiß-Fotografien die Schattierungen. Das Modell 7960 druckt als erster HP Drucker mit der neuen HP PhotoREt Pro Precision Technology und verfügt damit über acht Farben gleichzeitig. Die vier neuen Photosmarts sind mit der HP Photo & Imaging Software ausgestattet und ab September im Fachhandel erhältlich. Das Einsteigergerät HP Photosmart 7260 kostet 99,- Euro, der 7660 149,- Euro und der 7760 199,- Euro. Das High-end-Gerät HP Photosmart 7960 ist für 399,- Euro erhältlich (alle Preise sind unverbindliche Preisempfehlungen).

Both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have experienced continuous growth in 0.13-micron capacity utilization. While TSMC is already running at full capacity, UMC also expects to reach its full capacity in the fourth quarter of this year, sources said.

SiS today unwrapped its latest 400MHz Frontside Bus Chipset for AMD's Athlon XP, an integrated product based on the company's Real 256E graphics engine.

Tyan announced their new ATI based flagship graphics accelerator earlier this month. Tyan already introduced hardware monitoring with the predecessor but now adds fan speed control, advanced cooling system, and overclocking support. Utilizing the newest version of the Tyan Graphics Monitor (TGM v3.0), the Tachyon G9800 PRO-M is the only graphics card in the market which allows the advanced gamer such control and flexibility.

Troubled Korean DRAM maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said Monday (August 11, 2003) that it has developed a 1-Gbit synchronous DRAM that complies with the DDR2 (double data rate 2) standard.

Just got word that OCworkbench have snagged a high resolution photo of AMD's Athlon 64 3100+ Processor! Click here to have a look

Thanks to LSDsmurf for the Info .. It seems like there has been a new AMD Athlon XP 1800+ released in Korea for overclockers! So what's special about this CPU I hear you cry? the processor is running at a voltage of only 1.5V, the normal version requires 1.65V.

Just spotted this bit of news at The Inquirer.net.

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the cliche goes, so we will give you a picture and leave out the comments. Just for the record, this is a genuine picture of Athlon 64 CPU that works just fine. We scrubbed the numbers so our source didn't get burned.

Update: This should have you AMD fanboy's jumping for joy! if the latest rumour that AMD will announce the Athlon 64 CPU tomorrow Tuesday are true?

3DChips have thrown up their comparison of 14 CAD/DCC workstation graphic cards! well worth the read.

While NVIDIA released its Quadro FX 3000(G) of which PNY (www.pny.de) could send us a test sample just before the release of this review, ATI?s FireGL X2 and FireGL T2 took their time despite the fact that they were internally preannounced by ATI. Just one day before the official launch of the two cards the FireGL T2 reached us and one day later the FireGL X2 came with the needed certified ?common driver?, which was also used to test the remaining ATI cards

Just saw this at Bink'spage. Microsoft is reinventing the mouse wheel, adding Tilt Wheel Technology for horizontal scrolling and smoothing the vertical-scroll motion, the company said yesterday. The tilt wheel allows users to scroll left and right as well as up and down without having to use the on-screen navigation bars. This can be handy when working on a large spreadsheet or trying to view an unwieldy Web site, Microsoft said.

The Inquirer's mole has been a busy bee and has turned up some more rumours that Nvidia will be launching a Nforce 5 chipset for the Pentium 4?

AN ANALYST at Nvidia's conference call last night tried to get CEO Jen-Hsun Huang to answer a question about when the firm will license Pentium 4 technology.

Just spotted this bit of Info at Nvnews.net

As we all know, our Uttar has been a busy bee by keeping us all informed about the upcoming products from NVIDIA and ATI. There seems to be some more information about NV36, NV38 and NV40. You can get the scoop here: