VIA HAS INTRODUCED A NEW SERIES OF MOTHERBOARDS EPIA M PROCESSORS FOR VIA EDEN C3

VIA has introduced a new series of motherboards EPIA M PROCESSORS FOR VIA EDEN C3

Motherboard Series Epia M microprocessors are optimized for VIA Eden C3 and support DDR 266 memory up to 1 GB. Fees are based on the Apollo CLE266 chipset and equipped with ATA 133 controller, built-in decoder MPEG2, six-channel audio controller, TV-out S-Video and RCA (with support for PAL and NTSC), as well as USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) and built-in network controller, 10/100 Ethernet. The boards have established a single slot PCI.

According to representatives of VIA, Epia M Series board fully supports the operating systems Windows and Linux, and allows you to work with digital audio and video. Overall dimensions of a new series of motherboards are only 17 x 17 cm, so that they can be used in all types of housing mini-ITX, FlexATX or micro-ATX.


The estimated retail price of the first of a new series of motherboards - Epia M9000 and ME6000 - make less than $ 200. Deliveries of these boards have already begun.

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EXTERNAL MO DRIVES LOGITEC MOXSX640A A SCSI

EXTERNAL MO drives LOGITEC MOX-SX640A a SCSI

The new drive uses a magneto-optical disk of 640 MB. Rotational Speed - 5455 rpm. The device is equipped with a cache of 2 MB.

Aluminum housing with high thermal conductivity provides favorable temperature conditions of the drive. AC power adapter built into the stand of the drive.

The device is designed to be connected to personal computers running operating systems Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me, NT 3.5.1, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, MS-DOS 5.0 and Mac OS 7.6-9.2.

The magneto-optical disk IO Data MOX-SX640A go on sale in Japan in late November 2002 at an estimated retail price of 44,800 yen (about 368 U.S. dollars).

The package includes modifications MOX-SX640A/UN low-profile PCI-card controller Ultra SCSI, which, unfortunately, does not support or Mac OS. Overall dimensions are 61 x card 119.9 mm. The estimated retail price of this modification of the drive - 49,800 yen (about 409 dollars).

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ATI HAS FINALLY RELEASED A DRIVER FOR RADEON 9000 PRO AND 9000 FOR NT4

ATI, has finally released a driver for RADEON 9000 PRO AND 9000 FOR NT4

In early November 2002, Kompyulenta wrote that the Canadian company ATI Technologies are not included in the delivery of their video cards based on processors Radeon 9000 Pro and 9000 drivers for the operating system Microsoft Windows NT4. The intention of the company to release such drivers et spokesman said in June 2002, but before the end of fall, they have not been developed.

According to the online edition of the Inquirer, a driver finally showed up, and it can be downloaded from the official website of ATI.

Despite the fact that Microsoft has refused to support Windows NT4, guide ATI has decided to meet its customers and to release a driver designed for this operating system. The new driver will not be able to get certified Microsoft, but, apparently, for NT4 users this is not important.

MICROSOFT PRODUCES EQUIPMENT FOR WIFI

MICROSOFT LAUNCHES EQUIPMENT FOR WI-FI

Market Wi-Fi devices are attracted not only hardware vendors: Microsoft has started to produce its own line of wireless devices operating on standard Wi-Fi (802.11b). It includes a wireless USB-adapter (MN-510) - $ 79.95, a wireless PC card for laptops (MN-520) - $ 79.95, 10/100 Ethernet USB-Adapter (MN-110) - $ 29.95 10/100 Ethernet-Adapter for Laptop (MN-120) - $ 39.95, 10/100 5-port ethernet switch (MN-150) - $ 39.95.

The prices of all the equipment is much lower targeting Apple device series AirPort, the first aimed at the average user of wireless hubs, but a bit higher than competitors#39; products, such as Linksys and NetGear.

Security issues of wireless devices are on the agenda for a long time. To dispel the doubts of potential customers, Microsoft has equipped its products by means of encryption. The default device equipped with a 128-bit data encryption system WEP.

Scheme of Network Address Translation (NAT) and firewall built to provide the necessary level of security.

According to Microsoft, end users avoid buying equipment designed for wireless networks, fearing difficulties configuration. In order to solve this problem, Microsoft has organized in the United States technical support to buyers of its products - service runs around the clock, 7 days a week.

SPECIAL FOR AMERICAN PDA POSTMAN

SPECIAL FOR AMERICAN PDA Postman

Motorola is preparing to release a special handheld device for the employees of the U.S. FedEx, one of the world#39;s largest transportation companies.

The handheld, called the FedEx PowerPad, built the platform Microsoft Pocket PC. It will replace the manual barcode scanner SuperTracker (his last modification work on the Motorola 68307). The disadvantage of this device was a lack of radio communication.

The courier was necessary each time to transfer data from SuperTracker on a computer located in the car, and use is in her radio.

New PDA equipped with a module GPRS cellular third generation and will work with GSM-AT T network in the U.S.. The agreement entered into with her FedEx in the spring, as the use of its own network, established 20 years ago, it became too expensive.

One of the features of the new PDA will be something that the recipient will sign directly on the touch screen device.

Currently PowerPad being tested in early 2003, will come into service 40000th State Courier FedEx.

MEGABIT INTERNET ACCESS WITH CELLULAR NETWORKS THIRD GENERATION

9-Mbit INTERNET NETWORKS WITH THIRD GENERATION MOBILE PHONE

A joint British-American company IPWireless standard based third generation mobile communication technology has developed UMTS wireless data transmission at a speed of 9 Mbit / s. For comparison, in cellular networks UMTS maximum incoming speed to date is limited to 384 kbit / s.

IPWireless technology uses a temporary separation of the spectrum (time-division duplex, TTD) and is intended for ranges of 1.9 and 2.5 GHz. As said in the company system designed for data transmission only, using ether is more efficient than general purpose systems with frequency division spectral (frequency-division duplex, FDD). They allow you to pass through one channel, both inbound and outbound traffic.

IPWireless has successfully tested its system in conjunction with several European mobile operators and is about to begin commercial deployment of technology in the next year. As a client device users need to purchase a special modem, whose release will major OEM-manufacturer Solcetron.

NVIDIA HAS RELEASED NEW CHIPSET DRIVERS NFORCE FOR LINUX

NVIDIA has released new chipset drivers NFORCE FOR LINUX

The Taiwanese company nVidia has released new drivers for its family of nForce chipsets for the operating system Linux.

New drivers are optimized for the chipset nVidia nForce 2. According to the developer, in the driver supports PCI ID i810_audio.c audio controller chipset nForce2 (Southbridge MCP2-T and MCP2-A), as well as the support of the LAN controller chipset nForce2. In addition, new drivers have been fixed all known bugs.

According to representatives of nVidia, new drivers for Linux can fully realize the potential of the built-in chipset nForce2 IDE-controller, sound and network controllers and controller USB. Unfortunately, the driver does not support the win-modem.

Drivers are designed to work with the distributions of Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0, Red Hat 7.3 and 8.0, and SuSE 8.1. Download these drivers from the official website nVidia.

IN 2003 RAM WILL BE PRODUCED BY THE NEW TECHNOLOGY

IN 2003 RAM will be produced by the new technology

In early 2003, Taiwan-based memory are planning to upgrade to a more modern process. Four major Taiwanese companies Powerchip Semiconductor (PSC), Nanya Technology, Winbond Electronics and ProMOS Technologies announced plans to start next year with the release of chips the size of the conductors from 0.11 to 0.13 microns.

The company Powerchip Semiconductor, which now uses a 0.15-micron process technology, is going to go to the 0.13-micron technology in December 2002. Mass production for this technology will begin in the first quarter of 2003, and moving most of its lines to use this process guide PSC plans to implement in the second quarter of 2003. The company says that for the 0.13-micron technology will be used the same masks that the production of chips for 0.15-micron technology, which will as soon as possible after the change process to achieve profitability.

In addition, the company intends to PSC in the fourth quarter of 2003 to 0.12-micron technology their primary process, and in the fourth quarter of 2004 - go to the 0.11 micron technology.

Nanya Technology has acquired a license for 0.11-micron technology, the company IBM. Pilot production based on this technology will begin in the first quarter of 2003 and the start of mass production of chips on the process technology is planned for the third quarter of 2003. Nanya company also plans to begin pilot production of chips on 0.12-micron technology of its own design, but in the case of the successful introduction of 0.11-micron technology, mass production of chips with a wire width of 12 microns will not start.

In the first quarter of 2003, about 70 percent of all Winbond Electronics products will be based on 0.13-micron technology, and in the second quarter of next year will begin pilot production of chips on 0.11-micron technology. ProMOS Technologies company also announced it is planning to move to the 0.14-micron to 0.13 - and 0.12-micron technology. Pilot production on the basis of new technological processes begin in the first quarter of 2003.

THIRD GENERATION WILL ITANIUM RUNNING AT 1 5GHZ

THIRD GENERATION WILL BE ITANIUM at 1.5 GHz

At the conference, Solid-State Circuits Conference (SSCS) Institute of IEEE, which will be held from 9 to 13 February next year in San Francisco, California, Intel is going to formally introduce the third generation of its server processors Itanium. Some information about them has already appeared on the site ZDNet.

Releasing today the core Itanium c McKinley have frequencies of 900 MHz and 1 GHz and a cache in the third level (on-chip) of 1.5 or 3 MB, the core of a double Madison cache to 6 MB and increase the operating frequency of 1.5 GHz. The number will reach 410 million transistors in chip area of 374 mm2 vs. 220 million and 421 mm2 at McKinley.

Produced the new processor will be the 0.13-micron process technology, while in Itaium 2 used 0.18 micron.

Like its predecessors, the new Itanium will be built on the architecture of EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing). This means it will be compatible with all applications not designed for 32-bit instruction set processors with x86. In particular, it need Windows XP 64-bit Edition and 64-bit Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition 2002.

According to ZDNet, the third generation of Itanium can get another brand.

EARLY DELIVERY VIDEO CARD ATI RADEON 9500 PRO

EARLY DELIVERY VIDEO CARD ATI RADEON 9500 PRO

The Canadian company ATI Technologies announced the world#39;s supply of graphics cards based on the Radeon 9500 Pro.

Radeon 9500 Pro is based on the Radeon 9700 Pro, and differs reduced frequencies of the chip and memory and 128-bit memory bus. Low-end model, like the Radeon 9700 Pro, has eight rendering pipelines. GPU clock frequency is 275 MHz, and memory - 540 MHz.

The chip is fully supported programming interface (API) Microsoft DirectX 9.0 graphics protocol and AGP 8x.

According to ATI, in addition to the Canadian company, graphics cards based on Radeon 9500 Pro will be producing and trading partners, including the Connect 3D, CP Technologies, FIC, Gigabyte, Hercules, Hightech, Sapphire, Wistron and Yuan.

HP MICROSOFT AND DEVELOP NEW KONTSEPTPK

HP MICROSOFT AND DEVELOP A NEW CONCEPT PC

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have joined forces to create a device designed to simplify the process of online communication in real-time voice and video data. The purpose of the project - to provide users, including corporate events, a more efficient exchange of information.

Joint development companies - a prototype of the product, code-named Agora, named after the ancient Greek places of public assembly, was introduced at Comdex last week. HP will produce hardware devices, including liquid crystal display with built-in speakers and a port for connecting the USB-peripherals. Agora will be equipped with a radio module, allows you to connect wireless devices in the first place, the mouse, keyboard and headset.

Microsoft will provide software to a new PC.

According to the operating units of desktop computers HP Rich Dodds, companies want to push the evolution of the PC, transforming it from a business-oriented computing device into a powerful tool of communication and information exchange. Agora project is designed to make high-priced video conferencing facilities available to the average user. Dodds added that the wireless module Agora in combination with a specially developed software allows this device to easily interact with ordinary PC.

Currently the project is in the early stages of development, in the market Agora is scheduled no earlier than 2004.

FUJITSU F12D FOR THE ELDERLY

FUJITSU F-12D FOR THE ELDERLY

The Japanese company Fujitsu has announced a new smartphone designed for the elderly, the device features a touch screen and a special type of simplified interface operating system Android, running on this mobile phone. Smartphone has a model index F-12D, the product belongs to the range RakuRaku, which can be translated from Japanese as #39;easy#39; or #39;easy#39;.

As representatives of Fujitsu, the design of the product the company has worked directly with Google, which helped to develop a smartphone with that older people do not get lost in the wilds of the menu and did not confuse. The simplified interface is represented by increased control blocks with large symbols and scrolling is carried out only in the vertical direction, resulting in the user space has turned extremely simple and intuitive.

Of particular note is a touch screen, it is designed specifically for users who have not yet had the opportunity to meet with the interfaces of this kind. As shown by research specialists Fujitsu, elderly people experience when working with touchscreens some difficulties, so F-12D does not respond to light touch, the interface elements are responding only with some pressing as usual physical buttons. This model will go on sale in early August, the Japanese network operator NTT DoCoMo, but Fujitsu representatives said they would release the F-12D and other markets.

THE LARGEST PRODUCER OF CPC NOT HURRY TRANSFER OF PRODUCTION TO CHINA

The largest producer of CPC NOT HURRY Transfer of production to China

The world#39;s largest manufacturer of handheld computers, the Taiwanese company High Tech Computer (HTC) is going to consider moving production facilities to China only after the volumes PDAs reached four to five million pieces a year.

President of High Tech Computer XTCho told the online newspaper DigiTimes, that his company will be able to achieve such production volumes not before 2004 or 2005. It is planned to produce about two million handhelds. Cho said that in the case of moving production to China, HTC factory will be built close to Shanghai, where the company most Taiwanese notebook manufacturers.

In addition, Cho denied reports that HTC#39;s own share in the Chinese firm Dopod Communication, commissioned by which it produces communicators Dopod 686. According to Cho, the owners of the company are Dopod chairman HTC Chezhu Wang and the Chinese state-owned enterprise Chinese Electronics Corporation (CEC). Dopod 686 smartphone went on sale in China in August 2002.

According to the forecast HTC, only during the first year of production of this device production volume reached 100,000 units.

LINKSYS AND SYMANTEC JOIN FORCES

LINKSYS AND SYMANTEC JOIN FORCES

Purchasers of routers Linksys, will receive a free program Symantec#39;s Norton Internet Security 2003, according to a joint statement distributed by the company. Produces a line of popular Linksys routers aimed at casual users and small businesses that use a broadband connection to the Internet via DSL and cable modem.

A set of programs Norton Internet Security 2003 includes antivirus and firewall application firewall, and also means Parental Control, and spam filtering tools. The agreement between Symantec and Linksys should strengthen the position of the companies in the market, said Mike Wagner, Director of Sales for Linksys.

Norton Internet Security 2003 will come with a DSL / cable routers EtherFast and HomeLink, as well as wireless access points available in the U.S.. The product is distributed on a separate disk, and in the near future to integrate the software package installation wizard hardware Linksys. Although users will receive a free version of the program sells for $ 70, the subscription service for Symantec#39;s LiveUpdate, which provides the ability to update Norton Internet Security 2003 will be limited to sixty days.

The cost of an annual subscription to this service is U.S. $ 34.95.

It is interesting that the bundled software is a single user license, while buyers of products Linksys, tend to use routers to connect two or more computers. Thus, customers will have to purchase additional licenses to install Norton Internet Security 2003 to other machines on the network.