The first microprocessor will be clocked at 1.4Ghz while the other model will be clocked at 1.6Ghz. Both models will feature the same amount of L2 cache. The 1.4Ghz processor will be available in the market right after the official announcement, sources said. This leads us to believe that the retailers might have already received the units. The 1.6Ghz model, however will be available in the market at the end of May, sources close to Intel confirmed.

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Anandtech have updated their little tidbit on the R420/423 to include "facts" about the pipelines on their new cards.

The french site Clubic.com has exclusive informations about ATI's next gen 3D chip, here's a small extract in english :

Reliable industry sources relatively close to ATI, told french website Clubic.com, ATI is going to have a sixteen pixel pipelines part starting this spring. Being part of the R420 familly this part is supposed to be a R420 and will likely be available in AGP 8x & PCI-Express 16x flavors.

This Mobile Phone is equipped with a digital camera, go figure, they even make 'em with cameras these days. More on this fun stuff later. The phone also has quite some funny gadgets such as Java games, voice dialing, polyphonic ringtones (a heap of them I can tell you) and quite some other fancy stuff. Oh did I mention it's a quad-band telephone, don't know when you'll use it, but it's future proof, that's for sure. Let's start the closer look.

On Tuesday, Intel Corp. announced a new design it will undertake to lower the costs of it's Itanium line processors. According to Intel, it's Xeon and Itanium chips will use the same socket. The enterprise and high-end consumers will be able to switch between Xeon and Itanium processor on the same motherboard.

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Ok, I take it everyone is aware that DriverHeaven is giving away a next gen. ATI card, well so is TrustedReviews over here And the question is almost too easy ;-)

Microsoft has launched three new special edition mice with an original design. Microsoft tells that these mice were created to help consumers to personalize their desktops. All these mice deliver a scroll wheel with the Tilt Wheel Technology, five programmable buttons and also an enhanced wireless optical technology which is claimed to deliver a battery life of more than six months.

The Polish site PCLabs.pl have snagged some photo's for MSI's soon to be available Retail Radeon graphics cards:

RADEON 9200 SE, 128 MB: RX9200SE-T128 RADEON 9600 SE, 128 MB: RX9600SE-TD128 RADEON 9800 PRO, 128 MB: RX9800 PRO Plus-TD128 SP

The French site X86-Secret have posted a rumour that AMD will launch their Socket 939 Athlon 64 3500+ CPU on 25th of May 2004? Here's a snip.

After several successive carryforwards, AMD recently informed its partners of the future date of launching of the platform Socket 939. Wishing to precede INTEL and its advertisement of the LGA775 in June, the launching of Athlon FX and Athlon 64 Socket 939 are now planned for Tuesday 25 May 2004.

AMD is set to release a new Mobile processor based on AMD's new 64-bit Mobile architecture, according to a document accidently publised on AMD's website. The 2700+ is a low-end Athlon64 based Mobile processor, which consumes less power to compete with Intel's Centrino chipset and the Pentium M processor.

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Canon has announced seven PowerShot digital cameras on Feb 9 2004. Equipped with 3.2 to 8 MegaPixels sensors, they are packed with more features to cater the needs of beginners to advanced shooters. On 26 March 2004, the first batch of these digicams has arrived in Singapore. HardwareZoom has already reviewed the top of the line PowerShot Pro1 with 8MP sensors, in this articles we will take a closer look at the rest of the series. They are:

The TechReport have thrown up a news article that suggests, Nvidia is working on a secret Athlon 64 processors core logic chipset code-named CK8-04/Pro with the return of NVIDIA's popular SoundStorm APU! and don't forget to check out their Dual Opteron workstation motherboards Review while your over there.

PCMag have thrown up their roundup of 9 Network laser printers from Dell , HP , IBM and Xerox just to name a few!

Despite the allure of the color laser, the network monochrome laser printer remains the leading choice for businesses. More precisely, it's the preferred choice for businesses that print thousands of pages per month and require one or more printers that have built-in Ethernet cards, duplexers, 35? to 50?page-per-minute ratings, and 1,000-page or better input capacity.

Thanks to Dark_Biene for the heads up on this article posted over at AnandTech!

Recently we received confirmation that the first retail samples of ATI's R420 (AGP Radeon X800) will debut April 26 as Radeon X800 Pro. NVIDIA's NV40 (GeForce 6800) officially launches April 13th, but retail availability will occur around April 26th. Notice the NV40 product to be released April 13th is GeForce 6800, not GeForceFX 6800. ATI's naming scheme for R420 has been closely guarded as well, but the open term we hear from vendors is "Radeon X800."

Creative announced a credit card sized portable audio player earlier today. The carefully thought out Slim MuVo features 256MB on-board memory.

This juts in from DriverHeaven ..... As you know we have just started running a competition to win an AMD Athlon FX-51, well how would you like to win a SPECIAL top of the range graphics card to go along with it?

It's been noted from various sources that Intel's upcoming LGA775 processors have pin problems. At CeBIT 2004, various motherboards were reported with having corrupted Sockets. It's a major problem that is currently facing motherboard manufacturers.

Just got word from my good mate Stuart "Veridian3" Davidson over at DriverHeaven that TuneXP Beta 2 is out! they also have an AMD FX-51 CPU up for grabs and not forget their UT2004 review has also been posted.

We?ve just published the 2nd public beta of TuneXP. TuneXP allows you to optimise your Windows XP install for better performance, it?s an excellent tool and you can read more about it here:

PS3 Insider reports that in an interview conducted by the official PlayStation website, SCEE president and COO, David Reeves, revealed that there may be two version of the PS3 available to consumers at launch.

Fido over at The Inquirer reports that john has obtained permission to distribute pictures of an Nforce 3 250 2 board he tested a little while ago, and has kindly sent them to us.