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Memory prices   Posted on 02/08/2006 at 17:21 by Marc

	Last month, DDR memory prices continued to increase. If early July, the price of a 64 MB DDR-400 chip was $4.87, it is now of 5.23% (7.4% increase). DDR2 memory prices however decreases, -2.4% for DDR2-533 and – 2.3% for DDR2-667 which are now respectively at $4.6 and $4.72. DDR2-667 is now cheaper than DDR-400.

Q2 2006 computer sales   Posted on 02/08/2006 at 17:04 by Marc - source: La Tribune

	According to a new study published today by Gartner, Q2 2006 computer sales would have been disappointing with only 2.4% increase compared to the second quarter 2005. Since 2001, the annual growth rate has never been under 10%. HP is still the market leader with 19.9% market shares despite a 5.1% reduction. Acer increased market shares by 36.8% to reach 17.1% and is followed by Dell 15.6% (+10.6%), NEC (11.4%) and Lenovo (5%). The laptop market, which progressed by 19.5% compared to last year, is dominated by Acer with 23% market shares. The annual market growth rate is 9.7%, but is clearly lower in Western European countries: +2.4% France, +0.7 England and even - 4.3% Germany.

Nvidia releases the Quadro Plex   Posted on 02/08/2006 at 04:33 by Damien

	NVIDIA unveiled at SIGGRAPH a new product that takes the graphic sub-system outside of the computer. If we knew that NVIDIA was working on such a system since the company has taken a patent a few months ago, the details were up to this date unknown. The Quadro Plex 1000 is dedicated to image professionals and consist in an external 3D and video processing unit. The format chosen by NVIDIA allow you to place two graphic cards in an external unit that connects to the computer via a cable and a small card placed in the graphic PCI Express slot. It is roughly a PCI Express extension that allows the use of an external graphic card. They are of course equipped with their own power supply (520W) and cooling system. If the configuration includes a SLI motherboard, it will be possible to connect two Quadro Plex 1000. Two Quadro Plex 1000 can fit in a 3U rack. 3 models are announced and equipped with Quadro FX 5500 or Quadro FX 4500 X2. With 2 Quadro Flex 1000 model II, it is possible to benefit from the power of 8 GPUs! The Quadro Flex 1000 will be available in September. We don't know yet the price but we fell that, because of the market targeted, it will probably be very high