According to 3dchips-fr.com we should see 1 Ghz GDDR3 memory chips with a clock of frequency of 700 MHz from Samsung by the end of the year.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at the TechReport

Hot on the heels of 3Dlabs' Wildcat Realizm announcement, NVIDIA has taken the wraps off its Quadro FX 4000. Though it carries the FX moniker, the Quadro FX 4000's support for high precision dynamic range lighting, shader model 3.0, and rotated-grid antialiasing suggest that the card is derived from the same NV40 GPU as NVIDIA's new GeForce 6800 Ultra.

When Nvidia briefed me on the nForce3 250Gb, the company claimed the chipset would perform better with GeForce FX graphics. The insinuation was not that the GeForce FX was necessarily faster than its graphics competition, but that NVIDIA had specifically optimized nForce3 and GeForce FX ForceWare drivers to work better together than apart. NVIDIA was quick to reassure me that they hadn't done anything to make competing graphics cards run slower on nForce3. They'd simply taken advantage of an opportunity to make their graphics cards run faster.

Uttar at Beyond3D suggests otherwise...

EUROCOM has released their AMD64 based notebook. Many tought this was Vapourware, but now it's available! More information and pics over at Amd64notebooks.com

Anandtech have snagged the latest Roadmap for ATi's line up of motherboard chipsets for 2004!

RS300 turned more than one head; cheap, reliable IGP performance for Intel processors. Small Form Factor PCs benifited the most from the alternative to Intel's 845G and 865G. With RS350 close to induction, today we take a look even further into the future for a glimpse at RS400 and the extremely exciting RS480

Just got word from our bro's over at Computerbase that there having a blow out Competition for their 5th Birthday with Gear from:

ABIT, AMD, Apromatec, Asus, Caseking, Casetek, Corsair, Creative, EPoX, Gigabyte, HAMA, Inno3D, Intel, KeySonic, Leadtek, Logitech, MemorySolution, MSI, NEC, Netgear, Network Associates, OCZ, PNY, QDI, Samsung, Sapphire, Sennheiser, Shuttle, Soyo, Tagan, TerraTec, Teufel, Thermaltake, Twinhan, TwinMOS and VIA,

Yesterday, Sony Corporation and TOPPAN Printing Co. LTD , a large japanese printing company, announced the successful development of 25GB paper disc based on Blu-ray Disc technology.

Further details about the revolutionary innovation will be announced at the Optical Data Storage 2004 conference to be held from April 18th to April 21st at Monterey, California.

Here's some articles that I spotted over at VRZone that are worth checking out!

New ABIT AA8-MAX, AG8, AS8, AV8 Boards LGA775 Prescotts, Grantsdale & Alderwood In June Intel Finalized High Definition Audio Specs NVIDIA Clearing GPU Inventory

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Nvnews.net

I have received a few e-mails asking about the operating temperatures of the GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU. I completed my final test this evening and have tabulated the results in the table below. The table lists the room temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius, humidity level, the GPU temperature at idle, and the highest GPU temperature recorded while playing back a demo from Enemy Territory in a 1024x768 window for 5 minutes.

HardwareOC have published three Pixel Shader 3 videos! 2 for Far Cry and 1 with the new Unreal engine.

VR-Zone have thrown up their GeForce 6800 Launch Report which was held in Taipei! did you know that Nvidia will be launching a third version of the GeForce 6800 series this summer equipped with 512MB GDDR3 and don't forget to Check out the card solutions from:

Albatron, AOpen, ASUS, Chaintech, Gainward, Gigabyte, Leadtek, MSI, Prolink and XFX...

www.frazpc.pl has snagged some photos of Asus V9999. The site is in polish but atleast the pictures translates well ;)

A while back some people discovered a "glitch" in the memory matrix of the nForce2 chipset; Running at CL2 2-2-11 gave better performance than CL2 2-2-5. When we turn over the page and apply the same rules on the A64 chipset, nForce3 150, does it still hold true? It is rumoured also that Cas Latency 2 vs 2.5 has little or no effect. Everything mentioned is put to test here.

Digital-Life have thrown up a new article called DX.Next:The near and nearest future of hardware graphic acceleration!! It's well worth the Read.

The article deals with new technologies (either developing or developed but not yet announced) and hence, is mostly based on unofficial information. The general picture is compiled from various more or less official sources (such as ATI and NVIDIA published presentations in GDC for developers), as well as from Internet media rumours.

Game Informer have thrown up their Preview of Nokia's N-Gage 2!

From the moment the N-Gage debuted, there have been an abundance of complaints about how the hardware was designed. From the ?side-talking? taco fest phone capabilities, to the fact that you had to basically dismantle the entire unit to just put a game in it, the public was not thrilled with the N-Gage ? which obviously resulted in less than positive sales. Nokia apparently listened to the complaints, and have created an all new unit, called the N-Gage QD (According to Nokia, the QD means absolutely nothing). Nokia stopped by our offices recently to give us the low-down on their new baby.

Digit-life and T-break have snagged Photo's and info for Gigabyte and Leadtek GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards! and boy that's a big ass fan on the Leadtek card! LOL

Looks like someone has leaked [H]ardOCP's benchies for their Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra review and it's not looking to good for Nvidia if these score's a right?

991060 over at Beyond3D forums have managed to snag 8 high-res photos of NV40.

Digital-Life has the scoop on nvidia's GeForce 6800!

It's time to officially introduce the new GPU generation from NVIDIA and shed the light on its architecture and features.