It takes a lot to attract attention with a new car in Monterey, where a Ferrari on the street rarely warrants a second glance. But Bugatti was able to do just that with its new super car.

The Veyron 16·4 is powered by a 1001-horsepower W16 quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter engine with all-wheel drive. Bugatti claims this new super car will reach a speed of 252 mph. Acceleration is also impressive?the Veyron can reach 180 mph in just 14 seconds!

Creative hat zwei neue Soundkarten angekündigt, mit der die erfolgreiche Audigy-2-Reihe weiter ausgebaut werden soll. Mit der Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS richtet man sich dabei vor allem an Spieler, die Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro mit ihrem externen I/O-Modul ist dagegen eher für versierte Anwender interessant, die die Karte zu Mehrspuraufnahmen nutzen möchten.

Dave Baumann at Beyond 3D sends word that they have posted a mini review which looks at PS2.0 DX9 functionality!

Reverend introduced a new benchmark to B3D recently, being Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness. The importance of this benchmark is that it is the first to full utilise PS2.0 DX9 functionality within a gaming environment.

VR-Zone has done up a roundup on the new VIA KT600 boards in the market from a total of 9 manufacturers! Here's a rip.

The boards that we will be looking today comprise of ABIT KV7, ASUS A7V600, AZZA KT600-ALX, EPoX 8KRA2+, FIC KT600 Pro, Gigabyte 7VT600 1394, MSI KT6 Delta, Soltek SL-KT600 and lastly SOYO KT600 Dragon Ultra. We have checked out which board delivers the best performance and which board will become the favorite among the overclockers.

AMD's upcoming Athlon 64 low-end variants, codenamed 'Paris' and 'Victoria', will not be offered as 64-bit processors but as 32-bit upgrades to the current Athlon XP line.

So claims Xbit Labs, having glanced at the chip maker's latest roadmaps.

Whichever way you cut the market, TSMC remained the world's biggest chip foundry during the first half of the year, well ahead of its nearest rival, UMC.

Proof - if it were needed - comes from market watcher IC Insights, which this week published its league charts for pure-play foundries and for foundries that also do their own chip development work. Put the two together and you have a picture of the overall foundry business.

A survey by market research firm iSuppli said that AMD lost market share in China, while both Intel and NVIDIA gained ground in what all three see as a lucrative future marketplace.

According to the figures, Intel stayed number one in China in 2002, NVIDIA moved from number four in 2001 to number two, while AMD fell from number eight in 2001 to number 12 in the following year.

Just spotted this bit of news over at Xbilabs.com

ATI?s new graphics monster will utilize a new type of VPU cooler, a more efficient one to cool down the powerful 0.15 micron R360 VPU running at astonishing 450MHz.. Other features of ATI graphics cards will remain untouched: the product will come equipped with D-Sub, DVI-I and TV-Out connectors.

The Firing Squad have thrown up their image quality comparison Showdown between NVIDIA and ATI high end graphics cards! Here's a snip.

Once upon a time, evaluating graphics hardware was a simple, straightforward process. You could get away with a couple of benchmarks, a bit about the card itself and a conclusion that compared the product in question to its competitors.

Intel's CEO Craig Barrett has warned everyone not to break open the Cristal champagne too soon, as it's too early to say whether the PC market is recovering.

In an interview with Dow Jones, Barrett described demand for PCs as spotty but Intel is buying 35,000 PCs for his own company. We presume they're not Athlon 64s.

Reports of problems with the 754 pin version of the Athlon 64 and of performance not being good are ill-founded, according to motherboard makers we've talked to.

At launch in late September, AMD will introduce a 754-pin and a 940 version of the Athlon 64 and that will be followed next year by a 939 pin version.

Chip firm VIA is set to fight back against NVIDIA's Nforce 2 success by releasing a dual channel DDR chipset for the Athlon, an Asian web site claims today.

According to OC Workbench, VIA will release a K7 chipset soon with similar specs to the Nforce 2, and which will support dual channel DDR 400 and Serial ATA.

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has won some foundry business from NVIDIA, in a move which may serve as a reminder to the graphics firm's best chip friend, TSMC.

According to the Economic News, David Roman, a vice president of corporate marketing, will use UMC to build Media Q portable device chips, following its acquisition last week.

TerraTec presents the 7th sound dimension: with the HomeArena TXR 884, the Nettetal-based (Germany) manufacturer of multimedia hardware lets users convert any computer into a powerful surround-sound home theater and gaming system that can hold its own with professional equipment. This 7.1 speaker system is also a compact and stylish surround-sound solution for multichannel DVD audio formats such as DTS, Dolby Digital or Dolby Pro Logic. The HomeArena TXR 884 will be available at the end of September.

NVIDIA believes that DirectX 9 will be a driving force behind near-term growth in the graphics chip industry, according to company vice president of sales and marketing David Roman.

Asustek Computer has introduced its P4S800D-Deluxe motherboard supporting SiS?s 655FX chipset, an 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) and dual-channel DDR400 memory, for bandwidth speeds of up to 6.4GB/sec.

AMD has confirmed the existence of the Applebred processor, and said that the Duron-branded core has already begun shipping.

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A press briefing held for British hardware hacks by memory company Corsair has cast some doubts on the performance of the future Athlon 64 microprocessor.

Company officials told the journalists that registered memory modules don't overclock that well on the AMD64 platform, and as the Athlon 64 is aimed at enthusiasts, that's a bit of the paradox.

NVIDIA has confirmed that it will support the PCI Express next-generation expansion bus at some point in the future.

That's not entirely surprising, and was always on the cards - even if roadmaps listing NVIDIA's PCI Express-enabled chips hadn't leaked out of the company.

AMD will shortly ship a new low-end processor, codenamed 'Appalbred', the successor to the Duron.

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