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Hi-MD: the new format and media from Sony LaCie unveils new USB 2.0/FireWire hard drives Macworld 2004: new 4GB Apple iPod mini player Elpida announces 64Mbit SDR Mobile RAM chips CES 2004: Pretec introduces 1GB MMC card Toshiba introduces a HD DVD player prototype compatible with existing DVD media ABIT and NVIDIA break off partnership... ATI IMAGEON 2300: 3D graphics for mobile handsets Hi-MD: the new format and media from Sony Sony developed a new format, Hi-MD, positioned as a universal format for music recording. According to the press release, it can also be used to store various data and is supported by existing MD solutions.
  The key specs of new media are:
Key media specs:
 More light on this is shed at the forum of MiniDisc Station with links to devices that would support the new media. In order: Sony MZ-NH1 — portable Hi-MD recorder, $400:
Sony MZ-NH600D downloader, $200:
Sony MZ-NH900 recorder, $300:
Sony MZ-NHF800 Hi-MD/AM/FM recorder, $250:
All devices are supplied with SonicStage 2.0 and SimpleBurner software
LaCie unveils new USB 2.0/FireWire hard drives LaCie unveiled its new external USB 2.0 and FireWire hard drives designed by Porsche Design GmbH design studio.
 Drives should arrive to retail in the nearest future, prices are to be:
Macworld 2004: new 4GB Apple iPod mini player Apple´s iPod multimedia player family was updated with the second iPod mini model. The novelty is smaller than iPod and features silvery, golden, pink, blue, or green body.
  iPod mini brief specs:
Besides, Apple also introduced miniature earphones for $39.
 Elpida announces 64Mbit SDR Mobile RAM chips Elpida Memory announced 64Mbit SDR Mobile RAM chips designed for 2.5G/3G mobile handsets that togather with application processors can be packed into MCP/SIP housings.
 The new EDL6416CABH, ECL6416CACN, EDL6416BABH, ECL6416BACN chips are organized as 1Ü words x 16-bits x 4 bank. Requiring 1.8/2.5 V voltage, 2.5V chips work at 133MHz, 1.8V chips — at 100MHz, and feature CL = 2, 3. The novelties are available in 54-pin FBGA packages (8x8 mm).
CES 2004: Pretec introduces 1GB MMC card 
Pretec Electronics, a maker of record capacity cards, at CES 2004 introduced its new 1GB MultiMediaCard (MMC). These novelties meet the MMC standard version 4.0 and require 1.8V or 3.3V voltage. According to the company, card throughput is double the typical throughput of usual SD media. The new 1GB MMC cards are already sampling. The retail version will be introduced in Q2 2004.
Toshiba introduces a HD DVD player prototype compatible with existing DVD media Toshiba Corporation introduced a prototype of a new-generation DVD player supporting the new HD DVD and existing DVD media. For the first time the model will be showcased at CES 2004.
 As for the HD DVD format, it was first offered by Toshiba and NEC at DVD Forum in August 2003. In November 2003 they approved HD DVD-ROM specs version 0.9 as the base for developing the future DVD technologies. HD DVD is based on using the blue laser and 12cm discs. A dual-layer single-sided 1x HD DVD will have 30GB capacity, while a single-layer single-sided disc should have capacity of about 20GB. At the same time, HD DVD will be backward compatible with the current DVD media due to similar production technologies that enable to use the same optics with variable laser wavelength control system. Besides the original pick-up, Toshiba´s HD DVD prototype has special core logic combining engine controls, DSP chip and ATAPI interface. No commercialization information has been disclosed yet.
ABIT and NVIDIA break off partnership... A brief, but capacious news confirmed by undisclosed sources in NVIDIA: ABIT is no longer a partner of NVIDIA in both graphics cards, and motherboards fields. It´s separately stressed that this severance doesn´t mean ABIT is to become an adherent of ATI, but the reason is "irreconcilable management differences". We´ll leave this without comments not to boost the situation further. It would be better to wait for official comments from both companies.
ATI IMAGEON 2300: 3D graphics for mobile handsets On the threshold of International CES 2004 that is to take place in Las Vegas, NV on January 8-11, ATI Technologies announced its new IMAGEON 2300 GPU providing 3D graphics for gaming for the future mobile handsets.
 IMAGEON 2300 features:
For the first time ATI IMAGEON 2300 will be introduced at CES 2004, volume shipments should start already in Q1 2004.
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