ESS is hoping to broaden its market into higher priced markets with the addition of SACD support for its DVD products and by offering a development platform built by consumer electronics manufacturer Linn. The Linn Silver Disc Engine debuted at CES 2002. It combined Sony’s SACD capabilities with the ESS Vibratto. The SACD format, an alternative high quality audio format … Read more
Nvidia has indeed lost a few fractious partner to ATI’s new open platform strategy. And, we have been assured by ATI’s representatives that there are plenty more deals going on. In addition, ATI announced at Cebit a renewed effort at developing relationships with System Integrators, OEMs, and VARs. ATI is offering marketing dollar incentives to companies who work with ATI’s … Read more
We know you where worrying about this, but relax, the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4s are shipping. The chips codenamed Northwood are Intel’s first chips to be built using the .13-process and 200mm wafers but next month Intel plans to start releasing chips built using the .13-process and the new 300mm wafers. This means more chips to the wafer and more … Read more
Apple has introduced the latest version of its DVD Studio Pro, the 1.5 version has been optimized for Max OS X. The OS X advantage gives the program the ability to do MPEG encoding and other work in background. Other new features include integration with Final Cut Pro that lets users set chapter markers in in Final Cut Pro that … Read more
AMD is building an environment for its new Opteron—their first chip to be introduced using the Hammer technology. Obviously, a hunky chip like this needs graphics, and AMD announced that 3DLabs, ATI, Matrox and SiS have committed to developing products for the Opteron chip. The Opteron will support AGP-8X graphics as well as use AMD’s own HyperTransport and x86-64 technology … Read more
Sometimes, all you have to do is speculate a little and suddenly the answers are handed to you. (It really works when you go out on a limb and speculate in public.) Recently, when writing about the potential of ATI’s Imageon chip for handhelds we noted that the first announcement of a win was for a PocketPC-based device by Toshiba. … Read more
Toshiba’s brand new RD-X2 recorder is a DVD-R/RAM product that enables users to record up to six hours of content on a single disk. The way this works out on formats is that users can record to the DVD-Video format on DVD-R disks and be assured their content will probably (that’s a very strong probably) play on most machines. If … Read more
Reduced shipment numbers are consistent
Reduced shipment numbers are consistent with seasonal trends.
Market sees surprising increase in new product shipments.
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There’s a lot of gnashing of teeth and general wailing in response to the FCC’s announcement that TV manufacturers will be required to add digital TV tuners to their large screen TVs by July 2004 and all TVs by July 2007. But ATI says hey, we’ll be happy to do business with you we just happen to have a very … Read more
With their customary audaciousness, Apple has introduced a new line of PowerMacs which feature dual Power PC processors at speeds from 867 MHz, 1 GHz or 1.4 GHz. The new G4 machines feature XServe, Apple’s server architecture supporting up to 42 1U stacks with up to 630 Gflops processing power and support for storage up to half a terabyte machine … Read more
