Triplex announces Millennium Silver TX680 on GF4 MX440-8X

Sun Microsystems quarter financial results

JEDEX Beijing to bring DDR-II server platform from Micron

IC Insights: bright semiconductor industry forecasts for 2003 grow dim

IBM PowerPC 405EP: new low-power comm processor

NEC adds to VersaPro and VersaPro R series

Gainward announces new graphics cards on NVIDIA NV28 (GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8x)

3Dlabs announces one entry level and two AGP 8x Wildcat4 cards

Triplex announces Millennium Silver TX680 on GF4 MX440-8X

The card has 64MB of 2.8 ns 128-bit DDR SGRAM in MicroBGA packaging (DDR 8x16-2.8), operating at 600 MHz. GF4 MX440-8X clock is 300 MHz. The card features VIVO (TV-in/TV-out) functionality, analog and DVI out. Coated with silver like other Triplex novelties, TX-680 is also supplied with S-Video cable.

Sun Microsystems quarter financial results

Sales volumes made $2.7 billion, 4% lower than $2.9 billion of the previous quarter. The dead loss (GAAP) made $111 million, or $0.04 per stock, that´s lower than $180 million or $0.06 per stock year ago. Excluding $31 million for stocks purchase, $24 million restructuring expenses, and $22 million taxes, the loss made $78 million, or $0.02 per stock.

Next year Sun plans to continue restructuring and cut staff by 11%, resulting about $300 million additional expenses. R&D investment cut is not planned.

JEDEX Beijing to bring DDR-II server platform from Micron

It is made using proprietary memory controllers and features special analysis software. Micron will also announce other prototypes supporting DDR-II, DDR400, and DDR333. I hope more info to follow from the Peking conference.

IC Insights: bright semiconductor industry forecasts for 2003 grow dim

According to IC Insights´ data, chip market(except for discrete) will make $119.8 billion in 2002, that´s not much higher than $118.5 billion of 2001. Analysts believe the main reason of industry growth forecast reduction to be international gross revenues forecast decrease. IC Insights thinks that in 2002 electronic sales volumes will grow just 6% over 2001 volumes; 2003 growth will make just 5%.

Regional market activity is interesting as well. In 2002 American, European and Japanese semiconductor markets will decrease by 12%, 10%, 8%, respectively. Remaining markets will grow by 29%.

Source: Silicon Strategies

IBM PowerPC 405EP: new low-power comm processor

PowerPC 405EP bases on IBM PowerPC 405 core and features 133, 200, 266 MHz clocks. At that 200 MHz model requries 1W. IBM PowerPC 405EP also includes dual-port 10/100 Ethernet, enabling 802.11a/b access point developers to cut cost prices.

The chip also includes PCI, SDRAM controller, 64-bit CoreConnect bus and support various peripherals.

PowerPC 405EP is made at IBM facilities using 0.18-micron copper SA-27e process. 133, 200, 266 MHz samples will be announced this month. 133 MHz PowerPC 405EP will cost $17 in over 10,000-unit quantities. Volume production is scheduled to November.

NEC adds to VersaPro and VersaPro R series

VersaPro VA20S/RF features 2 GHz Mobile Pentium 4-M (integrated RADEON IGP 340M), 15-inch 1024x768 LCD, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 24x CD-ROM. Depending on OS (Windows 2000, XP Home Edition, XP Professional) the price varies in $1900 — $2000 range.

Other VersaPro models: VA11J/RF, VA11J/RX, VA12H/RF, etc., differ mainly by CPUs — Mobile Pentium III or Mobile Celeron.

VA20S/AE is the most interesting in VersaPro series, featuring 15-inch LCD with very high 2048x1536 (QXGA) resolution, 2.2 GHz Mobile Pentium 4-M, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, 24x CD-ROM, and floppy. The novelty will cost about $3700. Other models, including all-in-one VA13J/DG on 1.33 GHz Mobile Pentium III ($2900), etc., have more humble features.

Source: PC Watch

Gainward announces new graphics cards on NVIDIA NV28 (GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8x)

Annoucement included Ultra/750-8X XP "Golden Sample", Ultra/700-8X XP "Golden Sample", and Ultra/650-8X XP "Golden Sample". All of them are based on NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8x VIVO. First two cards feature 8-layer PCB and have 128MB of 2.8ns "Ultra DDR", the third has 6-layer PCB and 128 MB of 3.3 ns "Fast DDR".

The performance of 399 euro Ultra/750-8X XP "Golden Sample" will be higher than standard by 40%, according to the press release. The cards also supports FireWire and is supplied with 3D Shutter Glasses.

Ultra/700-8X XP "Golden Sample" (349 euro) and Ultra/650-8X XP "Golden Sample" (249 euro) will outperform reference cards by 30% and 20%, respectively.

3Dlabs announces one entry level and two AGP 8x Wildcat4 cards

Wildcat4 7210 and Wildcat4 7110, to appear in November mainly in Windows 2000/XP systems from leading OEM makers, support AGP 8È / AGP Pro 50, feature 2 È DVI-I, 2 È 10-bit 320 MHz RAMDAC, are supplied with AutoCAD, 3ds max, and also Linux drivers. Wildcat4 7210 has 384MB RAM (128MB frame, 256MB texture), Wildcat4 7110 — 256MB (128MB frame, 128MB texture). The approximate price will be over $1200.

Wildcat VP560 has 64MB DDR, 2 x DVI-I. European and North American shipments have already started. The suggested price of Wildcat VP560 is $249.

Besides, 3Dlabs announced 3Dlabs Acuity Driver Suite — unified driver suite for Wildcat VP series, already supplied with Wildcat VP560. The suite includes optimized and certified OpenGL/Direct3D drivers for professional apps, 3ds max R4 driver, and Acuity Window Manager utility for dual-monitor optimizations. The additional info about 3Dlabs Acuity is provided here.

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