| Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| Nvidia New SLI Driver for Vista |
Nvidia has release yet another beta series driver, ForceWare version 100.54, this driver enabling the latent SLI support lacking in earlier drivers. Now, GeForce 6, 7 and 8 series cards will be able to have SLI support in Vista, though as a beta driver Nvidia is not giving any guaranty as to functionality.
ForceWare version 100.54 includes the following support in Vista: DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available on January 31, 2007 in a new driver from NVIDIA
DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs and DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a future driver
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posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/01/2007 01:53:00 AM  
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| Motorola Confirmed MOTO RIZR Z8 |
Motorola has plans for releasing a handful of new handsets in 2007. Those include MOTO RIZR Z8, MOTO KRZR K3, MOTO Q2 HSDPA, MOTO Q GSM/EDGE plus the budget W360, W205, w510, W395 mobiles. The new handset confirmed in a presentation that Ron Garriques, Executive Vice President of Motorola, gave to investors.
The long expected Motorola RIZR Z8 which is an updated version of the Motorola RIZR Z6, already officially announced but isn’t yet available. Its front camera most clearly reveals that we are dealing with a 3G handset here. The next mobile, MOTOKRZR K3, is again an updated version - this time of the Motorola KRZR K1 clamshell. It would also boast 3G functionality with video calls as the pictures reveal. |
posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/01/2007 01:26:00 AM
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| Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| Intel Set Up A Digital Health Research Centre |
Intel is partnering with Irish universities to set up a $30m research hub digital health research centre that will investigate the challenges of independent living for the elderly.
"We have to invent a new way to care for our planet's aging population. Current healthcare systems are not equipped to face the epidemic of age-related illnesses and injuries that are coming," said Eric Dishman, general manager of Intel's Health Research and Innovation Group.
"Information and communication technologies offer us a means to prevent disease and injury, to detect problems earlier before they become catastrophes, to help older people better manage their own health conditions at home, and to personalise care to their unique needs and preferences. All of us will benefit from these kinds of technologies, first as caregivers for our own aging parents and, if we're lucky, for ourselves some day." |
posted by Forsaken Angel @ 1/31/2007 07:43:00 AM
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| Intel Prepares Core 2 Extreme for Laptop |
Intel has prepared to launch Core 2 Extreme for Laptop. Codenamed Merom XE , the two 65nm parts will contain the usual 4MB of shared L2 cache and operate over an 800MHz frontside bus. The first of the two, the Core 2 Extreme X7800 will be clocked at 2.6GHz, it's claimed; the second, the X7900, will run at 2.8GHz.Pricing for the X7900 hasn't been set yet, though the X7800 is expected to go for around $795. |
posted by Forsaken Angel @ 1/31/2007 07:12:00 AM
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| Saturday, February 18, 2006 |
| The Devious ATI: HDCP Secretly Removed |
ATI putting some sneaky scheme on his business practices. Apparently most products that are HDCP ready are silently removed from its HDCP features. Yet there were no press release or information regarding this.
According to the Microsoft specification, high-definition video content that is transported using a DVI signal must be encrypted with HDCP. If HDCP is not present, regardless of whether an attempt at copying is made or not, the video is scaled down to low resolution to deter copying. For a manufacturer that wishes to use HDCP technology on its products, a signup with Digital CP is required. Upon a signed agreement, the manufacturer must pay the committee an annual fee of $15,000 and a royalty fee of $0.005 per product sold. This allows a manufacturer to provide DVI/HDCP support, sufficient for high-resolution output. If a manufacturer wants to implement HDMI, a DVI-compatible connector, an additional $15,000 annual fee to HDMI is needed along with $0.04 per product. To actually implement HDCP protection, unique keys are required on a per product basis which is provided by the committee and requires implementation at the manufacturing level. According to NVIDIA, an extra chip is required that stores unique decoding keys.
Until now ATI still unreachable, Instead, ATI's website has been changing gradually to remove any previous mention of "HDCP-ready" and specifications have been replaced with a more generic "HDMI interoperable" spec.
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posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/18/2006 08:06:00 AM
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| Unfixed USB Bugs Will Drain Your Laptop Battery |
Again unfixed Windows XP Service Pack 2 confirmed by Microsoft. This time will drain your laptop battery when you plug a peripheral on USB slot. In a statement through its public relation firm, Waggener Edstrom Inc., Microsoft also admitted that the flaw, which lies in the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) driver of Windows XP SP 2, will remain without an easy-to-apply fix indefinitely. The ACPI is latest standard for USB peripheral ports on Laptop and part of the operating system's power management scheme for USB 2.0.
The bug will affect Intel-based Laptop. And the fix will still wait to be released to public since it required deep understanding of Operating System and there are also risk involved when apply the fix. Microsoft claim the fix is not for ordinary users because of the reason above.
"While there is a noticeable impact on battery life when USB 2.0 devices are plugged into some specific models of laptop computers, these systems are still fully functional and newer systems have significantly longer battery life than their predecessors, whether a USB 2.0 device is plugged in or not," Microsoft said in its statement.
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posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/18/2006 12:31:00 AM
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| Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| Sony New Vaio Core Duo Laptop |
Sony plan to release Vaio Core Duo this month on Japan yet maybe will be available internationally on spring. The new Vaio SZ series replaces the S series and will come with a 945GM Express or GeForce Go 7400 graphics card and a 13.3" WXGA screen that uses LED's on the high end models. the casing is made out of Carbon Black or Premium Carbon. The CPU's clock range from a T2300 (1.66GHz) to a T2600 (2.16GHz).
Besides SZ series they also launched F TV series, as the name imply this will focus for TV uses. Don’t worry it will include remote for your pleasure. This will have T2300 at 1.66 GHz, a 160GB HDD, a DL burner and a 945GX Xpress graphics card that offers a 1280x800 resolution.
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posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/17/2006 11:44:00 PM
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| nVidia Preparing to Launch its GeForce 7600 plus 7900GT and 7900GTX on March |
nVidia already preparing to release its upcoming weapon to defeat its one and only contender. The 90nm GeForce 7900 both GT and GTX will be launch at March 9 according to Taiwan source. Beside those two, nVidia also preparing to release G73 or known as GeForce 7600 by the end of next month.
nVidia seems responding to market by reducing the pricing of GeForce 7900GT and 7900GTX and also said that have more competitive price than its competitor’s product Radeon X1900 that are roughly between $500-650. I wonder how much will it be.
Nvidia Geforce 7xxx GPUs | | Series | GeForce 7800 GTX 512/GTX/GT/GS | GeForce 7300 GS/LE | GeForce 7900 GT/GTX* | GeForce 7600* | | Core name | G70 | G72 | G71 | G73 | | Memory | 256/512MB DDR3 | 256/512MB DDR2 | 256/512MB DDR3 | - | | Manufacturing node | 0.11-micron | 90nm | 90nm | 90nm | | Launch date | June 2005 | January 2006 | March 9 | End March |
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posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/17/2006 05:44:00 AM
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| Intel’s Averill Platform Revealed |
A new detail revealed regarding Intel’s plan to manufacture a Centrino-like PC platform with a codename ‘Averill’. It appears Averill will show up in two types, Pro and Fundamental. Both will be incorporate the upcoming Windows Vista and has been said that it will also integrate the future generation of Intel Active Management Technology plus LaGrande, a new security system that has been held up because of Windows Vista late release.
Averill Pro will be based on Intel's next-generation architecture desktop chip, the dual-core, 65nm 'Conroe' processor, due to ship in Q3. The specification will also include the upcoming Q965 'Broadwater' chipset. Averill Fundamental is based on the current generation Pentium D processor and the Q963 chipset. Both chipsets will support DDR 2 SDRAM, with the Q965 running memory clocked up to 800MHz, while the Q963 tops out at 667MHz. Both parts can host a 1066MHz frontside bus.
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posted by Forsaken Angel @ 2/17/2006 02:34:00 AM
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