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Sendo unveils Sendo X smartphone

A table of Gigabyte´s graphics cards on NVIDIA GPUs

GT2 Radeon 9800 Pro — GeiL enters the graphics cards market as a maker

Broadcom unveils the first Gigabit Ethernet controllers supporting PCI Express

Sony DSC-U40: 2Mp digital still camera with Memory Stick PRO Duo support

Speed Strip Model SSA-1: Athlon XP hardware multiplier unlocker



Sendo unveils Sendo X smartphone

Today Sendo officially unveiled its new GSM/GPRS tri-band multimedia smartphone — Sendo X — working under Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60 software.


Sendo X brief specs:

  • Volume: 108cm³
  • Weight: 120 g
  • LCD: 176x220 65K colors
  • GraphiX mobile technology for smooth video playback
  • RealOne Player supporting H.263, MPEG 4 and RealVideo
  • Bluetooth, IrDA, USB
  • Browser supporting HTML 4.2, WAP 2.0, XHTML MP, SSL, WTLS
  • 14.4 Kbps fax-modem
  • 64Mb flash, 32 free for use
  • MMC and SD slots
  • Voice dialling and recording
  • Built-in digital still and video camera for over 30-min movies with sound; VGA image resolution, 4x digital zoom
  • 64-tone polyphony
  • J2ME MIDP CLDC Java
  • Sendo Pinball and Funny Farmer games; Symbian OS games support
  • Accessories: desktop USB Sync Station, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, etc.
  • Shipments are to start before the end of 2003

A table of Gigabyte´s graphics cards on NVIDIA GPUs

So, the production of NVIDIA-based graphics cards has finally been confirmed by Gigabyte Technology itself: you can see a list of them at the company website (without photos though). Besides, Jeff Fisher confirmed this form NVIDIA´s side as well.

Gigabyte hasn´t shown any of such cards yet, but, according to Taiwanese sources and company´s website, Gigabyte should start shipping GF FX5900, GF FX5600, GF FX5200 and GF 4 MX440-8X, while GF FX5950 and GF FX5700 solutions will arrive early next year.

Gigabyte´s graphics cards on NVIDIA GPUs
Model GPU RAM, Mb RAMDAC, MHz DVI TV-out Bus DX Shipments
GV-N595U256V FX5950 (NV38) 256 Q1 2004
GV-N57U128D FX5700 (NV36) 128 Q1 2004
GV-N57128D GF FX5700 (NV36) 128 Q1 2004
GV-N59128D-P FX5900 (NV35) 128 400 + + AGP 8X 9 November 2003
GV-N56X128-P FX5600XT (NV31) 128 400 + + AGP 8X 9 November 2003
GV-N52128D FX5200 (NV34) 128 350 + + AGP 8X 9 November 2003
GV-N52128T-P FX5200 (NV34) 128 350 + AGP 8X 9 November 2003
GV-N4464D GF 4 MX440-8X (NV18) 64 350 + + AGP 8X 8.x November 2003
GV-N4464T-P GF 4 MX440-8X (NV18) 64 350 + AGP 8X 8.x November 2003

Source: The DigiTimes

GT2 Radeon 9800 Pro — GeiL enters the graphics cards market as a maker

Habits are hard to forget. GeiL known by its overclocker memory started making graphics cards, and through habit they turned out to be overclocker as well.


The first product — GeiL GT2 Radeon 9800 Pro on ATI Radeon 9800 Pro GPU – has considerably higher clock speeds comparing to the serial models — 445/740MHz vs. 380/680 MHz. It´s also interesting that GeiL will also ship BIOS reworked to support changed memory timings.

The card has 128Mb of 256-bit 2.8ns Samsung DDR (BGA) memory, and is shipped with ThermalTake´s cooling system. The company has recently sent GeiL GT2 Radeon 9800 Pro samples to the first testers. For more details on this novelty you can visit our colleagues at ModLabs.net — GeiL GT2 Radeon 9800 Pro.

Source: ModLabs.net

Broadcom unveils the first Gigabit Ethernet controllers supporting PCI Express

Broadcom started shipping its new Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) controllers supporting PCI Express bus. BCM5721, BCM5751 and BCM5751M chips respectively designed for server, desktop, and mobile systems, are one of the first GbE solutions with PCI Express support.

Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5721 GbE for servers supports PCI Express 1x, IPMI 1.5, and Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP).

Desktop and workstation BCM5751 supports ASF 2.0 (Alerting Standards Forum).

BCM5751M is power-optimized for mobile applications. Besides, BCM5751M supports Trusted Computing Group 1.1b specs providing enterprise authentification and protection from attacks.

All three are based on 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet MACs; have built-in buffers and PHY tranceivers; all three are made using 0.13µm CMOS. Each chip is encased into 196-pin 15x15mm housing. BCM5721, BCM5751, and BCM5751M are already sampling.

Sony DSC-U40: 2Mp digital still camera with Memory Stick PRO Duo support

In mid-November Sony plans to launch shipments of its new DSC-U40 cameras that belong to Cybershot U series. The novelty is based on the previous DSC-U30 model, and differs only by the Memory Stick PRO Duo support.



The new camera has fixed-focus lens (F2.8, 33mm in 35mm equiv.), 1/2.7" 2Mp Super HAD CCD. Focusing range is 10cm to infinity. Supported resolutions include 1632x1224 or 640x480. MPEG-1 movie resolution is 320x240 (w/o sound).

Sized 82.8x26x39mm, the camera weighs 114g with battery and media card. DSC-U40 will be shipped in silvery, black, dark blue or red bodies. It´s estimated price in Japan will be about $220.

Source: PC Watch

Speed Strip Model SSA-1: Athlon XP hardware multiplier unlocker

Speed Strip introduced such an interesting product — Speed Strip Model SSA-1 – a strip with holes designed for Athlon XP overclockers that do not want to solder pins manually.


Speed Strip Model SSA-1 works with AMD Athlon XP with Thoroughbred and Barton cores. It actually doesn´t require any comments: just set the strip on specific processor pins. Now you can forget soldering the 5th pin in L3 bridge. Of course, to make Speed Strip SSA-1 work, you will need a motherboard supporting custom multipliers and FSB. Finally, this accessory costs $15, so if you can´t use your hands, you will have to use your wallet :)



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