ATI MOBILITY FIREGL T2: new mobile workstation graphics

Samsung offers new 6-chip MCP memory "pie"

2.50GHz Intel Mobile Celeron officially announced

Syncmaster Magic CX710P and Syncmaster 177X — Samsung´s Premium

SimpleTech: Nitro — new memory for overclockers

ATI MOBILITY FIREGL T2: new mobile workstation graphics

Today ATI Technologies officially announced its new graphics for mobile workstations — MOBILITY FireGL T2.

The new ATI MOBILITY FireGL T2 GPU bases on FGL 9600 core and has the following features:

• Certified for CAD and DCC applications
• 128 MB DDR memory with 128-bit memory interface
• Hardware accelerated rendering
• Workstation features and functionality including dual monitor support, hardware accelerated antialiasing, overlay planes, etc.
• Fully programmable pixel and vertex shader support via ATI´s SMARTSHADER™ technology. Enables advanced per-pixel effects such as reflective bump mapping, anisotropic lighting and Phong shading
• ATI´s POWERPLAY™ technology
• POWER-ON-DEMAND — constantly monitors system activity, dynamically adjusts clocks and voltage based on user scenario
• Up to 6 textures per single rendering pass and 8 samples per pixel
• 16 programmable sample modes, selectable on a per pixel basis
• Workstation features and functionality including dual monitor support, hardware accelerated antialiasing, overlay planes and more
• Integrated dual-channel LVDS, with support for QXGA resolutions (2048x1536) with an integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter

Hewlett-Packard already scheduled shipments of its nw8000 mobile workstation on ATI MOBILITY FireGL T2 to early December. It features 1.60GHz Pentium M, 512MB DDR333, 40GB HDD, 15" SXGA+ WVA display, ATI MOBILITY FireGL T2, Microsoft Windows XP Pro. nw8000 mobile workstation will cost $2999.

Samsung offers new 6-chip MCP memory "pie"

Korean Samsung Electronics introduced its new MCP development – 6-chip memory solution designed for mobile handsets and other similar devices.

This time the "pie" consists of 256Mbit NAND Flash, 128Mbit NOR Flash, 64Mbit UtRAM, 16Mbit SRAM and 2 x 128Mbit mobile DRAM. As far back as in March the company released two MCP chips for 3G devices:

• RRNU6412864 – 2 x 64Mbit NOR Flash, 128Mbit NAND Flash and 64Mbit UtRAM
• NUUS128643208 – 128Mbit NAND Flash, 64Mbit UtRAM, 32Mbit UtRAM and 8Mbit SRAM

The above solutions were 1.4mm thick that was just 0.2mm over usual chips. However the company optimized the layout and actually reduced MCP design by 50%.

New chips are even smaller — 10.5x10.0x1.2mm.

Finally here´s a legend for the photo above:

1. UtRAM, data buffer
2. mobile DRAM, primary and buffer memory
3. NAND Flash, application data storage
4. mobile DRAM, primary and buffer memory
5. NOR Flash, instructions storage
6. SRAM, data buffer

2.50GHz Intel Mobile Celeron officially announced

Intel introduced another Mobile Celeron model — 2.50GHz — that becomes the most powerful in its class.

Similar to its 2.40GHz predecessor, new 2.50GHz Mobile Celeron is made using 0.13µm process. The chip supports 400MHz FSB, has 256KB L2 cache. The energy consumption remained about the same 35W.

The model is already shipping. In over 1,000-unit quantities 2.50GHz Mobile Celeron costs $149.

Syncmaster Magic CX710P and Syncmaster 177X — Samsung´s Premium

The latter monitor, 17" Syncmaster 177X, seems to be one of the first to feature just 12ms response time (vs. 25ms). Model MSRPs are $670 and $550, respectively. No shipments information has been disclosed yet.

SimpleTech: Nitro — new memory for overclockers

SimpleTech released two memory series at once: 256 and 512 MB SD ProX and desktop DRAM Nitro High Speed Memory.

According to the company, new cards achieve 10MB/s read/write speed that makes them suitable for digital cameras. Of course, ProX cards can also be used in PDAs, MP3 players, smartphones, voice recorders, etc.

SD cards are sized 24x32x2.1mm and weigh 3g; MSRP of 256MB model is about $160, MSRP of 512MB model is about $300.

As for memory modules, Nitro series covers almost all overclocker memory range featuring Nitro PC3500 (DDR433 SDRAM), Nitro PC3700 (DDR466 SDRAM), Nitro PC4000 (DDR500 SDRAM). Modules will be showcased at Comdex in Las Vegas (November 17-20) in Gigabyte´s systems.

DRAM series include 256MB to 1GB modules positioned for powerful gaming systems. According to the company, modules will be sold both separately, and in 512MB (2x256MB) and 1GB (2x512MB) kits for dual-channel systems. Depending on module MSRP ranges from $120 to $400.

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