Mark Hachman

Add-on cards based on all of the Nvidia GeForce 6800 family of graphics chips will begin shipping this month from multiple vendors, Nvidia officials said. Card vendors will begin taking preorders for cards based on all of the 6800 parts this month, Nvidia spokesman Derek Perez said this week. However, cards containing a Nvidia 6800 […]

IBM on Wednesday unveiled the S50 small-form-factor PC, which the company claims will be the smallest in its product line by a significant margin. The new PC line will be available this summer, with prices starting at about $600, IBM executives said. The S50 will be a full-featured PC, complete with a PCI slot to […]

TiVo Inc. said Tuesday that it is taking steps toward allowing its PVRs to access content from the Web. The personal-video-recorder company will also allow subscribers access to certain multimedia options it once reserved for premium customers. TiVos representatives confirmed that they are working toward a future that will allow their personal-video-recorder devices to access […]

Seagate Technology plans to release at least a dozen new products before years end in a bid to smother the available market, a top executive said Tuesday. Seagates plans include the companys first 1-inch drive as well as a massive 500GB drive designed for near-line storage. Almost all of Seagates new products will be released […]

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has developed a faster version of the wireless personal area networking technology. The prototype specification, known as Bluetooth EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), was announced on Tuesday at the 2004 Wireless Connectivity Show in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is expected to be finalized later this year, and will appear in products […]

Advanced Micro Devices plans to develop a new line of processors that will serve the needs of the basic PC market, the company said Monday. AMDs “Sempron” processor will be launched sometime in the second half of 2004, when the company will provide more details on the new processor. An AMD spokeswoman declined to disclose […]

Linux drivers for Intels mobile Centrino chipset are due in the second half of 2004, Intel officials said Wednesday. Intel Corp. posted the version 0.1 “pre-beta” Linux driver code for its 802.11b/g Wi-Fi on SourceForge last Friday, complementing the 802.11b Linux driver code that has already been made available. An Intel representative said the final […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday released the first 64-bit Athlon processors to use its “Socket 939” interface. Offering gains in HyperTransport performance, the updated chip comes with a new chipset and a substantial price delta over previous chips. AMD introduced four new processors: a new 939-pin variant of its Athlon FX family, the Athlon […]

Broadcoms ServerWorks division said Monday that the company is designing chipsets for Advanced Micro Devices Opteron microprocessor, an important endorsement for AMDs design. To date, Broadcom Corp.s ServerWorks has focused exclusively on Intel Corp.s Xeon family, competing with Intel in the enterprise chipset market. Now, the chipset maker says it will ship versions of its […]

The Computex show in Taiwan next week will showcase Intels “Grantsdale” and “Alderwood” chipsets, just a few weeks before their official launch. Computex, scheduled to run June 1 through June 5, has been scheduled about three weeks in advance of the Grantsdale launch, which industry sources have said is scheduled for June 21. Although Intel […]