850E Max (MS-6545 Ver 2.0): a new i850E board from MSI
SV-3 Instrument Viewer: wanna wear an oscilloscope?
New ó7000 and ó9000 color printer series from OKI
DRAM production: Koreans lead the way
850E Max (MS-6545 Ver 2.0): a new i850E board from MSI
MSI announced the release of new 850E Max (MS-6545 Ver 2.0) mobo, based on traditional Intel 850E + ICH2 bundle.
The board has ATX design, supports 1.6-2.53 GHz Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 with 400/533 MHz FSB, has an AGP 4x slot, 4 PCI slots, CNR slot, 4 RIMM sockets (up to 2GB RDRAM). Besides, the board has an integrated USB 2.0 controller (up to 4 ports along with 4 USB 1.1 ports), 10/100Mb/s LAN (Intel 82562ET), 6-channel audio (C-Media CMI8738).
SV-3 Instrument Viewer: wanna wear an oscilloscope?
MicroOptical, developing microdisplay systems, announced glasses with additional SV-3 Instrument Viewer system, designed for semiconductor product testers.
The package includes SV-3 Instrument Viewer, a couple of protective glasses (ANSI Z-87.1), two lithium batteries, charger. SV-3 operation is simple: it duplicates oscilloscope image, enabling worker to concentrate and view both the sample, and test results. At that, SV-3 image size is equal to a fullsize display viewed at 60 cm. SV-3 operation time makes 6-8 hours without recharging. The device is compatible with tools, featuring VGA output. SV-3 provides 640x480@60Hz image and up to 64 colors.
SV-3 Instrument Viewer kit costs $995, however the company plans to reduce it to several hundreds. MicroOptical potential Japanese partners are sure that the price can be reduced to 2-digit values in the near future.
New ó7000 and ó9000 color printer series from OKI
OKI Europe announced ten models of ó7000 and ó9000 new-generation series. ó9000 printers (á3) provide up to 30 color or up to 37 b/w á3 pages per minute at up to 1200x1200 dpi, ó7000 (á4) provide up to 20 and 24 á4 pages per minute, respectively. New printers utilize single pass Digital LED technology.
Main specifications and advantages:
- 1200x1200 dpi printing without speed losses
- Almost no limits for media type and thickness. Printers can be used for film, business card, banner (up to 1200 mm), á3+ printing.
- Automatic tray, media format and thickness recognition. The feature can be assigned highest priority against driver settings to avoid paper jam and other problems
- Automatic color calibration system, providing constant color rendition independently to printed pages, after toner or photoroll replacement, across all series
- Booklet printing, multipage preview and other driver advancements
- Possibility to set up maximum print volumes, enable/disable color printing access for each networked user
- Possibility to save printer settings and status to an Excel table, that can be accessed only by an admin
- Convenience Copier System (CCS C7000 / C9000) enables to create a total office document production system. Comprised of printer, scancopier and finisher (C9000 only), CCS eliminates the need for a separate photocopier and enables users to create printed, collated, stapled and hole-punched documents.
- The cost of mono printing on ó7000 and C9000 color printers doesn´t exceed the same value for usual mono printers
- At buying a set of color toners, black toner is provided free
All ten models of ó7000 and ó9000 series are expected for sale late in October 2002.
DRAM production: Koreans lead the way
According to online DRAM eXchange, currently Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor provide up to 49% DRAM shipments to the world market. In August their production volume made 167.7 million nominal 128 Mbit chips, that´s 4% more than July values.
Other makers can´t show similar volumes. So, Micron Technologies production volumes (North American fabs) increased by 14% and made 59 million nominal chips, however other company facilities reduced production by 1%. Totally Japanese August volumes made about 24 million nominal memory chips.
In August European DRAM production remained at the same level — about 42 million nominal chips. Taiwanese reduced DRAM production volumes by 8%, to 50 million nominal chips.
Source: Silicon Strategies
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