TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.

The electronics conglomerate's 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders.

Toshiba, whose 1.8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc's hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 2004

Gamespot has thrown up 2 movies of Sony's PSP in action.

This footage, shot at GDC 2004, shows off some of the graphical capabilities of the Sony PSP.

Don't know how true this is? but this was posted over at Beyond 3D's Forum by SpellSinger.

When visiting Epics meeting room at GDC I got the chance to see their new engine on NV40 and R420.

It looked like they were showing NV40 at 640x480 and it was very choppy with very low detail.

The chinese site GZeasy have scooped some details for ATi's mid range card the soon to be released Radeon 9550 based on the RV360 Core.

Update: XBit Labs have posted a bit more info on the card ..... ATI Technologies Unwraps RADEON 9550

Just noticed that VolariGamers has posted an article with pictures of ABIT's presentations at CeBIT as well as XGI's booth.
What I find most interesting is the fact they also managed to snag some pictures of the next generation PCI Express Volari graphics cards.

Fido over at The Inquirer has some more info on Nvidia's NV40 infamous pipelines!

What Nvidia said more then once to its loyal NDA (non disclosure agreement) press is that its chip uses 16x1, 32x0 approach. This is why all of them have the general feeling that Nvidia will win this round of the graphics wars. This means that Nvidia can officially claim that its NV40 chip has 16 pipelines that can process one texture per clock which would pretty much mean that it will beat the R420 12x1 design.

ALTHOUGH motherboards and core logic chips with PCI Express support aren't due out for weeks, ATI and NVIDIA have already announced plans to make current generation Radeon and GeForce FX parts compatible with the new interconnect technology. ATI and NVIDIA agree that PCI Express is the next big interface for graphics, but the two companies are initially supporting PCI Express in very different ways: ATI will provide PCI Express compatibility with a new line of GPUs that offer native PCI-E support, while NVIDIA's first PCI Express efforts will use a bridge chip to graft AGP GPUs to the PCI-E interface.

Although we have had some strong evidence that AMD will not adopt DDR2 soon, today we received official word that AMD will not adopt DDR2 in 2004, and certainly not well into 2005.

Turtle Beach today announced two new multi-channel sound cards?Catalina? and Riviera?-?rounding out the product line started with its wildly successful Santa Cruz?. Click here to read the full press release.

The chinese site GZeasy have scooped some spec's for Creative's Sound Blaster Audigy 3 sound card!

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As the launch of next-generation video cards from 'the big two' comes ever closer upon us, the rumour-mill is reaching new levels of frenzy. Almost every day a new rumour sees the light of day, only to be contradicted the next.

TrustedReviews is running a competition where you can win a brand new Sony VAIO PCG-TR2MP, but it's only open to EU residents.

The chinese site GZeasy have snagged the latest Nvidia and ATI Roadmaps that shows us some of the naming schemes they have in store for us! and not long before we see Nvidia's NV44 either.

nVidia held a conference call for Asia Pacific media today where they talked to TweakTown about their plans and intentions for their HSI technology and PCI Express. They have the full conference call documentation for your viewing pleasure as well as short commentary

TrustedReviews.com has plenty of news from CeBit and got pic's of some cool new Kiss DivX/WMV9 players and loads more, check it out.

Beyond3D recently attended the CeBit computer fair in Hannover, Germany to take a look at what?s new from the graphics vendors. While the industry is waiting to transition to PCI-Express and many in the graphics world are waiting for ATI and NVIDIA?s new 3D chips neither are fully ready yet so many vendors are in a sort of holding pattern at this show.

So many GPUs, so little time. With both ATI and nVidia having such a variety of GPUs on the market at any given time, finding price/performance gems can be a tall order. We sifted through a whole lot of rocks to find the diamonds. We present those, plus a boatload of test data for your surfing pleasure.

Computer Base have thrown up some numbers for AMD's upcoming Athlon64 3400+ Socket 939 CPU using Sandra 2003!

The Korean site bodnara.co.kr have what they claim are the first photo's of Nvidia's upcoming NV40 GPU!

Update: Seems that bodnara.co.kr have moved the pics but fear not as PCInpact also have posted the same pics.