Eggie’s Hardware Blog

VR-Zone has learned that Nvidia is preparing to shrink G92 process technology from 65nm to 55nm to better compete against the upcoming RV770.

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According to a study made by Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA gained even more market shares in Q4, 2007. NVIDIA gained 7 percentages, from 64 to 71, leaving AMD with less than a third of the discrete graphics card market.

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IBM and Hitach announced that they have signed a two-year joint semiconductor research agreement in order to speed the pace of semiconductor innovation. The new collaboration will focus on 32-nm and beyond semiconductor research.

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ASUS is going to expand their ultra-portable Eee PC system lineup in the near future by adding a new model with 8.9-inch display and starting to ship systems with Microsoft Windows OS pre-installed. In April the company should start shipping their new 8.9-inch screen model (1024×600 pixel screen resolution) of the Eee PC. It will be available as a Windows XP version with an 8 GB SSD and 1 GB of main memory as well as Linux versions that include 12 or 20 GB of memory. It will be priced at $499. And In May 2008 Eee PC should start using Intel Atom (Diamondville) processors.

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At CeBIT, Clevo unveiled a sub-notebook called TN70M. It’s based on the Intel Atom platform. The 990g sub-notebook packs in a hyperthreaded Silverthorne 1.6GHz processor that runs off a 533MHz front-side bus, it has a 7in touchscreen WSVGA (1.024 x 600) display. Storage is catered for by a 1.8in drive and external wireless connectivity will range from traditional WiFi through to WiMAX.

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Intel is try to put G45 and a Quad CPU into a mini-ITX box. The mobo supports Intel Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors. The two memory slot supports up to 4GB DDR2 800MHz.
The mobo will hit the market before June.

EDIT (14/3/07) : We received new information concerning this board, This board only supports core 2 duo NOT core 2 Quad as originally stated.

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Patriot is the next memory manufacturer to jump onto the solid state train. It has unveiled a whole range of drives of both the 2.5″ and 3.5″ formfactors, with capacities up to 256GB.

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Now that AMD has released the Catalyst 8.3 drivers, CrossFireX is finally out in the wild. This means that you will be free to combine any cards of the Radeon HD 3800 series; 3850, 3870 and 3870X2, mix and match any way you want. If you want to run three or four cards doesn’t matter, but it’s only available in Windows Vista.

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The overclocker, gprhellas, has claimed the 3DMark 03 world record with a pair of overclocked 3870X2’s using stock coolers. The cards were overclocked to 980/1150MHz and the processor was operating at 5747MHz and scored 132021 points.

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Samsung is the first manufacturer to actually ship 500GB 2.5″ harddrives. Fujitsu and Hitachi have also announced the intention of launching 500GB 2.5″ harddrives, but none of them have actually delivered yet.

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