December 13, 2005
Lite-On IT see DVD burners as percentage of total ODD shipments up
Lite-On’s monthly shipment volume of ODDs has remained steady at 3.5-4.0 million units but the proportion for DVD burners has risen from less than 30% in the first half of this year to over 30% this quarter and is expected to attain 40% in the first or second quarter of 2006, the company pointed out.
The increase in percentage of total ODD shipments for DVD burners was because prices of DVD burners have continually fallen to levels increasingly closer to those of Combo drives (CD-RW plus DVD-ROM) and CD-RW burners, Lite-On IT noted.
December 13, 2005
Microdrive 3K8 from Hitachi GST has received the prestigious “Innovations 2006 Honoree" award from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), in the Software/Embedded Technologies category. The Microdrive 3K8, nicknamed Mikey for its diminutive size, will be on display at CES as part of the Design and Engineering Showcase featuring outstanding consumer electronic devices.
December 05, 2005
ATI Technologies Inc. set a new visual standard in the performance thin notebook market, with the introduction of Mobility™ Radeon® X1600. The first mobile discrete graphics processor featuring ATI's revolutionary Avivo™ technology, Mobility Radeon X1600 delivers the ultimate digital entertainment solution for performance thin notebook designs through lightning-fast graphics, superior power management, and stunning visuals.
December 01, 2005
Certain types of Computers, or specialist data devices use a 44-pin IDE interface for data transfers. These types of computers require the use of small form factor data retention and a very high quality type of memory card. Transcend Information, Inc. has increased the capacity of its 44-pin IFM (IDE Flash Module) to an incredible 2GB, the highest capacity of any 44-pin IDE Flash Memory Module in the world.
December 01, 2005
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new “Ultimate” line of CompactFlash cards. With a sustained write speed rating of 100x, Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards offer the performance that high-end digital cameras and other fast capture and storage function devices need to perform at peak levels. The one, two and four-GB storage capacities of Kingston’s CompactFlash Ultimate cards meet the increased demands of today’s professional photographers by delivering reliability and dependability.
November 21, 2005
ATI Technologies Inc. announced All-In-Wonder® X1800 XL is now available in North America - European availability is anticipated for this autumn. ATI's newest offering joins All-In-Wonder® X800 XL and All-In-Wonder® 2006 Edition to round out the multimedia product family spanning nearly 10 years of market leadership. As ATI's fastest multimedia video card, All-In-Wonder X1800 XL provides amazing performance with the Radeon® X1800 XL graphics processor while enabling Avivo™ technologies for the best possible video and image quality.
November 20, 2005
Transcend has come out with the highest performance 1GB miniSD™ Card in the world, the 1GB 80X Ultra Performance miniSD™ Memory Card. Transcend’s 1GB 80X Ultra Performance miniSD™ card has extremely fast data transfer speeds of up to 12MB/sec, which is 70% faster than a normal miniSD™ card.
November 17, 2005
Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of its new Kingston® 15-in-1 Hi-Speed Reader - the perfect companion for professionals who demand high transfer rates with speed and reliability
November 15, 2005
Your earring is a flash drive? This mobile phone strap is a flash drive too? Scenarios that we once saw in movies are now an everyday sight. If you see your female colleague removes her earring and plug it into a PC USB port, do not be surprised, because it could very well happen with Kingmax's latest flash drive product – the Kingmax Super Stick. Measuring only 39mm by 12mm by 2mm, and weighing less than 5g, it is by far the lightest and thinnest storage product in the world.
November 14, 2005
NVIDIA Corporation delivered the answer with the immediate availability of the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 graphics processing unit (GPU). The Company’s award-winning GeForce 7800 GTX graphics chip already powers what many experts consider to be the fastest graphics cards around. With the new GeForce 7800 GTX 512, NVIDIA has released a new, supercharged version of the GPU that delivers tremendous performance in today’s PC games.