GRAPHIC PROCESSOR NV 30 EXHIBITION AT COMDEX FALL 2002

GRAPHIC PROCESSOR NV 30 EXHIBITION AT COMDEX FALL 2002

Available online newspaper reviewers were Inquirer preliminary specifications of the new chip. According to the Inquirer, NV30, was manufactured on 0.13 micron technology, will operate with a clock frequency of 400 MHz or higher. Chip, which consists of 125 million transistors, the protocol provides a graphical AGP 8x, DDR video memory with 128-bit bus, and in the future - DDR II, running at 500 MHz or 1 GHz with a 256-bit bus. The chip has eight rendering pipelines, two texture units (one more than the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro) and is able to work with the 64 - and 128-bit color.

The processor supports API DirectX 9.0.


According to the Inquirer, the NV30 at work in a system with a powerful CPU, will be able to type in the test 3dmarks 2001 SE from 20,000 to 22,000 points. New chip rate when tested Quake 3 is 2.5 times higher than GeForce TI 4600, when tested in Doom 3 - 3.5 times higher. It is expected that the performance of the new processor will be about 30 percent higher than the Radeon 9700 Pro.

As reported by one of the correspondents online publication Warp2search.net, the new chip will be called GeForce FX.

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U.S. COMPUTER ON WRIST

USA: COMPUTER FOR WRIST

As soon as the news of the very cool miniature and lightweight handheld computer in its class (Dell Axim), the company broke Fossil announcement coming up in mid-2003 release to the market the Wrist PDA. It#39;s not a typo: not handheld, and most that neither is on the wrist computer, which does not differ in appearance from the clock. It#39;s called - WRIST PDA.

Watch a computer will be equipped with a processor Motorola DragonballVZ (33MHz), two megabytes of RAM, dvuhmegabaytnoy flash memory and an infrared port. The screen is, unfortunately, not a color - only 16 shades of gray and light. Inside - a common set of applications for the operating system Palm OS 4.1: notepad and address book, calendar and calculator.

However, in this computer will run any application under the Palm OS, but the manufacturer recommends to use only those that were created based on the small screen.

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MOTHERBOARD GIGABYTE GA7VAXP ULTRA BASED CHIPSET VIA KT400

MOTHERBOARD GIGABYTE GA7VAXP ULTRA based chipset VIA KT400

Main specifications of the motherboard:

- Supported Processors: AMD Athlon XP, Athlon and Duron processors for socket Socket A c System bus clocked at 333, 266 or 200 MHz - Chipset: North Bridge - VIA KT400, Southbridge - VIA 8235 - Three slots for memory modules type DDR200/266/333/400 up to 3 GB - Universal slot AGP 2x/4x/8x - Five slots PCI - onboard IDE-RAID Promise PDC20276 ATA/133 - onboard IEEE1394 (FireWire) VIA VT6306 - Integrated LAN controller Realtek 8100BL 10/100 Ethernet - Six-channel audio controller Realtek ALC650 - System Dual BIOS (Reserve chip BIOS) - Ports: PS / 2 mouse and keyboard ports, two USB 2.0, two serial ports, an Ethernet port, audio line output and input, microphone input, a game port - Form Factor: ATX - Dimensions: 23.5 x 30.4 cm

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NEW SHUTTLE MINICOMPUTER WITH PROCESSORS ATHLON

NEW SHUTTLE minicomputer with processors ATHLON

Since all produced Shuttle Mini-PCs have identical body, the new model is similar to the released in June SS51 XPC, which wrote Kompyulenta. The only difference is that in SK41G used FX41 motherboard chipset VIA KM266 (south bridge VIA 8235) for processors from AMD.

Main specifications Shutlle SFF SK41G:

- 2 slots for RAM DDR200/266

- ATA hard disk controller 133

- 1 AGP 4x

- 1 PCI

- integrated video system based on VIA ProSavage, using 8 to 32 MB of system memory

- sound system standard AC#39;97 2.2 audio with support for 5.1

- connectors on the front: 2 USB 2.0, audio line-out, microphone in, FireWire (IEEE 1394) digital output SPDIF, D-Sub connector to connect the monitor

- connectors on the rear panel: 2 serial ports, 2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) port, 2 USB 2.0, Ethernet, 1 optional parallel port

- Power Supply 200W

- Dimensions 300 x 200 x 185 mm

- weight 2.85 kg

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LAPTOPS SHARP BASED MOBILE PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON

LAPTOPS SHARP BASED MOBILE PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON

Model PC-FS2-C3M is equipped with 15-inch LCD display with a resolution of XGA (1024 x 768) and a hard drive capacity of 40 GB, and the model PC-FS2-C3E - 14-inch display with XGA resolution and a hard disk of 30 GB. Further technical specifications of the two models are identical: Mobile Processor AMD Athlon 1400 +, RAM 256 MB (expandable to 768 MB), a network controller, a slot for PC-card type 2, four x USB (two ports USB 1.1 standard and two-port standard USB 2.0), IEEE 1394 (FireWire), as well as TV-out S-Video.

Overall dimensions of the two models are identical: 330 x 282 x 39 mm. The notebook PC-FS2-C3M is about 3.5 kg, and the model PC-FS2-C3E is 100 grams lighter.

On laptops are pre-operating system Microsoft Windows XP Home and office suite Office XP Personal.

Laptops Sharp PC-FS2-C3M and PC-FS2-C3E will be on sale in Japan December 7, 2003 at an estimated retail price of $ 185,000 and 175,000 yen (about 1,508 and 1,427 U.S. dollars), respectively.

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TWO NEW 17DYUYMOVYH MONITOR OF PLANAR

TWO NEW 17-INCH MONITOR OF PLANAR

Monitors come in a series begun in the summer of Planar PL, featuring a very small width of the scope of the case. The main characteristics of the two new products are the same, but PL171M, being an older model, equipped with built-in speakers and has both digital and analog interface, while the PL170 - analogue only.

To prevent theft of monitors is protected by a Kensington Security Slot.

Specifications Planar PL170 and PL171M:

- 1280 x 1024 resolution

- element size 0,264 x 0,264 mm

- brightness of 250 cd/m2

- 350:1 contrast ratio

- reaction time of 25 ms

- angle 150 degree horizontal and 125 - Vertical

- maximum power consumption of 42 W, standby 3 W

- panel thickness 71 mm

- dimensions 401 x 394 x 18 mm

- weight 6 kg

The recommended retail price of the monitor PL170 - $ 519, PL171M - $ 559.

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INEXPENSIVE TABLET COMPUTER WITH LINDOWS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO TABLET PC

INEXPENSIVE TABLET COMPUTER WITH LINDOWS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO TABLET PC

Young company StepUp Computing, created by a group of former employees of the American eMashines, unveiled its first tablet computer operating system Linux Lindows.

DocuNote will be priced from $ 800, depending on the software installed. For comparison, the first Tablet PC, represented by HP, Nec, Fujitsu and other major brands are about 2 thousand dollars. To a large extent this was achieved by eliminating the purchase of licenses for Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition, using instead Lindows, which allows you to run Windows-based applications.

Main specifications DocuNote:

- Transmeta Crusoe processor with a frequency of 667 MHz

- 256 MB of RAM (modules so-DIMM SDRAM)

- 20 GB hard drive (form factor 2.5 )

- Touch LCD-display with a diagonal of 8.4 , 800 x 600

- 4 MB of video memory

- AC#39;97 audio standard

- Ethenet-port 10/100 Mbit / s built-in camera with 0.25 megapixel

- VGA connector for external monitor connector, PCMCIA, USB-port, IrDA

- Dimensions 253 x 187 x 26 mm

- Weight without battery 1 kg

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NEW SHARP POCKET COMPUTER RUNNING LINUX

NEW SHARP POCKET COMPUTER RUNNING LINUX

Externally PDA SL-5600 almost identical to the old model SL-5500. The main difference lies in its filling: in the new PDA is a processor Intel XScale PXA250, running at a clock frequency of 400 MHz. Moreover, unlike traditional Zaurus series circuit using the shared memory for storing applications, and as a memory, the novelty 32MB allocated exclusively for a system memory and 64 Mb flash memory intended for the operating system and applications.

Like its predecessor, the model SL-5600 is equipped with a slide-out keyboard. Furthermore, the PDA has a built-in microphone and loudspeaker. Novelty is equipped with an LCD display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 16-bit color.

One of the main disadvantages of SL-5500 was too short a time of continuous operation on one set of batteries, so developers SL-5600 PDA equipped with this built-in lithium-ion battery 1700 mAh - this battery has the largest capacity of all currently used in handheld computers. The computer has a slot for flash cards types of Compact Flash and Secure Digital. Overall dimensions of the unit - 74 x 138 x 25.3 mm, weight - about 223 grams.

Much more interesting model - Zaurus C700 - running the new version of the operating system Lineo Embeddix GNU / Linux-based kernel 2.4.18. This operating system supports the TCP / IP, and is used to synchronize the standard interface. In previous versions of the operating system, the timing was carried out on a complex protocol TCP / IP via USB, which, because of its artificiality often admitted failures. The computer is equipped with a software package Hancom Office and the browser Opera 6, which supports Flash files and Adobe Acrobat, and has a built-in Java-virtual machine.

The graphical user interface Qtopia UI has also undergone some changes.


C700 has an LCD display with a resolution of VGA (640 x 480 pixels) and a built-in keyboard. The PDA processor Intel XScale PXA250, system memory of 32 MB and a flash memory of 64 MB. The device is equipped with a slot for flash cards types of Compact Flash and Secure Digital, infrared port and USB.

Overall dimensions of the PDA are 120 x 83 x 18.6 mm, weight - about 225 grams.

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NEW LASER PRINTERS HEWLETTPACKARD

NEW LASER PRINTERS HEWLETT-PACKARD

Key Features LaserJet 4200 printer with minimal configuration:

- Maximum print speed of 35 pages per minute;

- CPU 300 MHz;

- memory of 48 MB (expandable to 416 MB through three slots DIMM);

- resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi;

- price of $ 1,099 U.S.

For LaserJet 4300 model similar characteristics are as follows:

- Maximum print speed of 45 pages per minute;

- CPU with a frequency of 350 MHz;

- RAM 64 MB (expandable to 416 MB);

- resolution of 1200 x 1220 dpi;

- price of $ 1,399 U.S.

In addition to the speed advantage over the LaserJet 4100, the new printer cartridges have increased volume. If in case LaserJet 4100 one filling was enough to print 10,000 pages, the LaserJet 4200 prints per cartridge to 12,000, and the LaserJet 4300 - up to 18,000 pages.

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QUALCOMM NEXT YEAR FOR THE PURPOSE CHIPSETS FOR DEVICES WITH SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL ROAMING

QUALCOMM NEXT YEAR FOR THE PURPOSE chipsets for devices with support for global roaming

MSM6500 Mobile Station Modem (MSM) - the full name of the chipset that will be managed by the system software - resource-intensive, high-speed mobile solution for wireless data transmission with a peak speed of 2.4 Mb / s. Supports standard CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, the conventional GSM / GPRS. In the MSM6500 integrated host controller such as USB On-The-Go (OTG), allowing you to connect to the mobile station wagon in such a variety of accessories, such as digital cameras, printers, keyboards, and CD-ROM. Based on the architecture of the MSM6100 QUALCOMM, MSM6500 includes an integrated ARM926EJ-S processor with the accelerator Java ARM Jazelle applications for J2ME, two high-performance DSP-processor QDSP4000 and stereo codec with high-bandwidth applications with advanced features for working with sound.

MSM6500 enables the device to operate in GSM and GPRS (data transfer class B), providing support for all major mobile standards, other than WCDMA.

Among other things, the developers promise to MPEG-4, MP3, 2D/3D games and for the Bluetooth chipset and support for the popular U.S. GPS-Service. The emergence of universal mobile terminals can be expected at the end of 2003 because the supply MSM6500 promise to begin in the second quarter of next year.

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COME UP WITH NEW SELF-DESTRUCTING DVD

Come up with new self-destructing DVD

The company started Atlantic Records in the southern states of the U.S. advertising campaign, in which buyers CD with recordings of the group Nappy Roots awarded free advertising DVD with audio and video track from the new DVD of the group. However, this is not an ordinary DVD: This disc can only listen for eight hours of opening the packaging. At the end of eight hours a layer of a special substance, soldered to DVD, because of the reactions of the air will make the disc unreadable.
The technology to create self-destructing Flexplay discs was developed by the American company of the same name. Maximum life DVD, manufactured using Flexplay, is 60 hours.

Initially, this technology was designed to protect against copying software, but then the developer proposed to use it to record companies.

Protected discs Flexplay, already in use in 2002: these are the one-off vehicles were distributed to the press at the MTV awards ceremony for the best Latin American music video in Miami. Such DVD and used to promote the new movie about the adventures of James Bond#39;s Die Another Day (in the Russian hire - Die Another Day Now), reports Kompyulenta.

As the executive director of Flexplay Alan Blaustein, self-destructing drives not only have found a niche in the market of advertising samples of musical production: they are able to increase sales of music DVD, for which demand is currently far behind the demand for conventional DVD.

However, some analysts believe that consumers may not approve the appearance on the market self-destructing discs, as all are accustomed to being able to repeat playback of optical media. Record companies, in turn, may not like the fact that these drives, there is no copy protection system: before the drive itself will become useless, its contents can be exactly copied to other media.

Apparently, these discs can be used in hotels or rental locations airports: they can get rid of all the complexities associated with the return of a rented movie or disc.

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MOSCOW FIRST SAW PENTIUM 4 MARCH 6 GHZ

MOSCOW FIRST SAW PENTIUM 4 3.06 GHz

As promised earlier this week, all over the world will be a presentation of the new Pentium 4 processor with a clock speed of 3.06 GHz. Moscow premiere of the new chip c participation Douglas Bush, vice president and CIO Intel, took place even before the U.S. - because of the time difference. As previously reported, the new model of the Pentium 4, made on 0.13-micron technology, for the first time allows the use of Hyper-Threading technology in desktop computers.

PCs based on the Intel Pentium 4 processor with HT Technology and a clock speed of 3.06 GHz is available today from leading computer manufacturers around the world, including the major cities of Russia and Ukraine. Distinguish these PCs can be on the logo of Intel Pentium 4 processor with HT. Intel also began shipping Intel Pentium 4 processors with clock speeds up to 3.06 GHz Boxed their authorized distributors for system integrators worldwide.

In batches of 1 million pieces price Intel Pentium 4 processor with a clock speed of 3.06 GHz is $ 637.

Recall that HT Technology allows users to improve PC performance in two cases: when working with software that uses multi-threaded processing, and for use in multi-tasking. A recent commissioned by Intel Corporation poll showed that more than 75% of users at least occasionally perform on their PCs several tasks simultaneously. According to the same survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, the most popular combination running on the PC at the same time tasks are computer games while recording a CD.

Almost 50% of PC owners surveyed said that their old computers, they would not have entrusted the implementation of more than one resource-intensive tasks simultaneously.

Applications written to simultaneously work with multiple fragments of code (the so-called flow - thread), will see a single physical processor Intel Pentium 4 processor at 3.06 GHz with HT as two logical processors. HT technology allows the processor to handle two independent data flow in turn and in the same time. Furthermore, when using the technology HT increases productivity applications in a multitasking environment, i.e. at a time when several programs are executed simultaneously, and PCs running operating systems such as Windows XP or Linux.

And in fact, and in another case, the result for the end user will increase productivity and reduce the waiting time, say experts.

The following diagram demonstrated the CPUs Intel Pentium 4 based on the results of tests SPEC.

At today#39;s press conference in Moscow, journalists were shown the benefits of using HT technology at work in multi-tasking environments, as well as in the processing of computer graphics, audio materials, and working with Office applications (Outlook Express, Power Point, Excel) and interactive games, even while performance-intensive tasks in the background.

Anti-virus scanning, encryption, compression, and other background applications can be run simultaneously without reducing the availability of systems and their effectiveness. Thus, when the compression folder in Outlook while the program WinZip HT Technology provides a performance boost of 35%. Adobe Photoshop while searching MacAfee virus program runs 21% faster.

Simultaneous processing and editing music videos from a PC with a processor Intel Pentium 4 processor at 3.06 GHz with HT is 21% faster than on the same PC without technology HT, demonstrated by representatives of Intel.

Source: own information and materials are CNews.ru Intel.

NEW DESKTOP COMPUTERS MILLENNIA 910 SERIES FROM MICRONPC

NEW DESKTOP COMPUTERS MILLENNIA 910 SERIES FROM MICRONPC

The main technical characteristics of the model Millennia 910i:

- Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz c technology Hyper-Threading, the system bus speed - 533 MHz

- RAM DDR 333 256MB

- Hard disk capacity of 40 GB

- Graphics Controller nVidia c 64 MB of video memory

- On-Board USB 2.0 and FireWire

- 48-speed CD-Recorder

- 15-inch LCD Monitor

- Built-in modem and Gigabit Ethernet LAN controller

- Microsoft Intellimouse Optical Mouse

- Keyboard Microsoft Office Keyboard

- Stereo speakers

- Pre-installed operating system is Microsoft Windows XP Professional

The main technical characteristics of the model Millennia 910a:

- AMD Athlon XP processor 2800 + c architecture QuantiSpeed

- NVidia nForce2 chipset

- Six-channel audio controller with support for Dolby Digital

- RAM DDR 333 512MB

- Hard disk capacity of 80 GB

- 48-speed CD-Recorder

- NVidia graphics processor with 64 MB of video memory

- 15-inch LCD Monitor

- Built-in modem and dual Ethernet Controller 10/100 Ethernet

- Microsoft Intellimouse Optical Mouse

- Keyboard Microsoft Office Keyboard

- Stereo speakers

- Pre-installed operating system is Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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IBM AND MAKE SHARP PDA WITH LINUX

IBM AND MAKE SHARP PDA with LINUX

IBM is not the first to actively support Linux. The company believes that openness and possibility of any modification of software to client needs will make this a very attractive platform to glazak business customers. However, there is still found in the IBM Linux more traditional applications.

IBM is not the first time trying to master the market of handheld computers. A few years produced handhelds Workpad. They were based on the Palm OS, and, moreover, represented a nearly complete copy of the Palm V. Subsequently, IBM refused to produce them. It seems that the second attempt will be made on the same lines. Develop your own pocket computer in IBM will not.

The basis for the new device will be one of the models Sharp Zaurus. In principle, the choice in such a situation, the natural: this is perhaps the most successful handheld computer with Linux at the moment. More information about the Zaurus is told here.

The main purpose of Enterprise Edition Zaurus will be to ensure constant communication workers with information systems and databases of the company, as well as acting as an email client and organizer scheduler.

It can be assumed that the new CPC will be equipped with wireless access - WLAN adapter and possibly cellular module supporting high-speed data transmission. The developers also promise to support voice recognition.

On the market for a new handheld must appear at the end of next year Cnachala with the U.S. and later in other regions. Interestingly, recently releasing a new model Zaurus, Sharp once said he was not going to deliver some of them outside Japan. Perhaps the reason for this was forthcoming agreement with IBM.

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