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SiS Graphics Spin-Off To Drop Xabre Brand

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SiS' recently spun off graphics chip operation, XGI, will drop the Xabre brand that gave it its name when it launches its first product next month.

The company's first graphics chip was expected to be called the Xabre II, the successor to SiS' Xabre 400 and Xabre 600 parts. XGI hasn't said what it will call the chip, which it has already said will be announced next month.
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DRAM Market Recovery Based On Shortages

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A report from the excellent Dataquest arm of Gartner said there are clear signs a recovery in the memory market is on the way. But it's being pushed by shortages and if the memory makers get greedy, they could well upset the applecart.
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ATI Is A Great Competitor, NVIDIA Says

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A woman called Marvine D Buckett, who is NVIDIA's Chief Financial Officer has lavished praise on her company's chief competitor.

In a recent NVIDIA investor conference call, the chief beancounter made a most interesting statement about ATI's integrated graphics.
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ATI RV360 Specifications Unveiled

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Xbitlabs have snagged what they claim are the Spec's for ATI's upcoming RV360 GPU's? Here's a byte.

While we still are not sure about the official brand-names of ATI RV360-based products, X-bit labs now can share the specifications of RV360 graphics cards suggested by ATI Technologies.
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Mysterious Leadtek WinFast A350lx-tdh

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Just got word from 3dchips-fr.com that a Mysterious GeForce FX 5900 has hit the streets from Leadtek, which is clocked at slower speeds! here's a rip from goggle translation services.

according to the shop which proposes it, if it is equipped with 128 Mo of memory, this memory posts an access time of 2.8 NS instead of 2.2 NS, and the chart is not given rhythm which 400/700 MHz have against 400/850 MHz for GeForce FX 5900 standards.
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Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Coming Soon

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Just got word that PC Watch have snagged a scoop on Creative's new line of Sound Blaster Audigy 2 cards called ZS, which come in three different packages: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Digital Audio, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro. All of these cards should arrive in retail channels in late August with MSRP of $157, $233 and $292, respectively.
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Second-Tier Motherboard Makers See Mixed July Revenues

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July revenue growth varied considerably among Taiwan?s second-tier motherboard makers, with Jetway Information enjoying a 39.6% increase while ABIT Computer suffered a 19.2% plunge compared to the previous month.

Jetway Information generated NT$305 million in revenues for July, up 39.6% from June, due to increased shipments of both motherboards and graphics cards, according to the company. It projects similar revenues for August.
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ECS To Launch Radeon 7000 And Radeon 9200SE Graphics Cards

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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) will start marketing graphics cards based on the entry-level Radeon 7000 and Radeon 9200SE chips from ATI Technologies, said ATI Taiwan agent AMI Technologies.

ECS will only target the Asia-Pacific and Latin American markets, added AMI.
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IBM's NVIDIA, Apple Chip Timetable Hit By Blackout

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IBM's 300m wafer fabrication plant in East Fishkill, New York was shut down for a two days last week in the wake of Thursday's massive blackout.

The plant's production line cycled into what IBM call "maintenance mode" after the mains power failed. Emergency back-up generators took over immediately, allowing wafers passing through the production line to be completed, a company spokesman told EBN on Friday.
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Chip Biz Recovery Shuffling Forward

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Having had a chance to ponder the numbers, market researchers are cautiously forecasting continued recovery for the chip industry.

"Noteworthy improvements in market conditions during the last few weeks confirm that the industry is continuing its recovery as expected and is about to enter a more accelerated growth phase," said Gartner today.
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Intel Document Confirms Prescott Dissipates 103 W

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Documents from Intel that The Inquirer has seen confirm that the future 90 nano chip will dissipate over 103 watts.

According to the documents, Prescott taped out in late May and it had originally estimated the original power requirements lower than the reality.
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Duron Revived In Shape Of 256K Barton?

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Distributors claim today that AMD will release Barton processors with 256K cache to PC manufacturers but the chips won't be sold through the channel.

And the same sources reckon that AMD will revive the Duron name, and rate them at 1.4GHz, 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz, rather than use a PR rating.
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Gigabyte Announces Intel 865PE-Based Motherboards

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Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology on August 13 announced its new Pentium 4 Titan GT platform series.

Based on Intel?s 865PE chipset, the Titan GT series support up to 800Mhz FSB (front-side-bus) and Hyper-Threading Technology Pentium 4 processors and feature dual-channel DDR400 memory, the AGP 8x graphic interface, Serial ATA (SATA) interface and Intel?s Pro Gigabit LAN controller.
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Mobo Makers Report Lukewarm Sales Of 848P Boards

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Sales of motherboards using Intel?s 848P chipset have faced a lukewarm market response under anticipation of pricing pressure from Taiwanese IC designers, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers.
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Athlon 64 Supply To Be Limited Until 2004 - Report

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AMD Athlon 64 processors are going to be hard to come by in the months following the chips launch on 23 September.

So claim unnamed Taiwanese mobo-maker sources cited by a DigiTimes story on chipsets today. Said sources claim the chip will be made available in limited quantities but should enter volume production early next year.
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DRAM Sales To Rise 35% This Quarter

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DRAM sales will be 35 per cent higher in Q3 than Q2, market watcher Gartner Dataquest has forecast.

Memory sales traditionally rise in the third quarter - the 'back to school' season - but there are indications that the increase will be higher than usual, driven by growing demand for DDR SDRAM, largely due to the adoption of Intel's i875, i865 and, more recently, i848 chipsets.
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NVIDIA Market Share Hammered By ATI

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A report from Mercury Research on the third quarter 2003 graphics market, indicates that ATI has gained market share at the expense of its fierce enemy, NVIDIA.

The report forecasts that 48.9 million graphics chips were shipped in Q2, a figure that's down five per cent from the previous quarter but 16% up year on year.
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Intel Chipset Roadmap Emerges

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The integrated version of Intel's Grantsdale chipset will tape out during the week commencing 29 September, if a development schedule posted on the web today is accurate.
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NVIDIA Drivers Reveal GeForce FX SE Parts

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NVIDIA's Detonator 45.23 drivers reveal something the company might not have wanted us to know yet: The names of three new graphics chips it has yet to launch.

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