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The CPU x86 market shares?   Posted on 04/10/2004 at 16:51 by Marc

	According to the figures published by our colleagues from OCWorkbench, 175 Millions of x86 CPU should be sold in 2004. The repartition would be: Intel (85.1%) : - 60 million of P4, Celeron Mobile and Pentium-M - 40 million of P4 and Xeon with HT - 49 million of P4 Celeron AMD (12.8%) : - 20 million of processors based on the K7 architecture - 2.5 million of processors based on the K8 architecture Unfortunately we don’t think that these figures are accurate. The final market share would be 85.1% for Intel and 12.8% for AMD and it doesn’t correspond to the last serious studies with clearly identifiable sources. The final market shares should probably be 15% for AMD and 83% pour Intel.

Closer to the DVD+RW 8X   Posted on 04/10/2004 at 16:17 by Marc - source: EET

	At a time when the DVD Forum approved ten days ago the DVD-RW 6X norm specifications, the DVD+RW Alliance was already working on the 8X version of the DVD+RW. The final version of the specification project has been finalized last week and only necessitates now the consortium final approval. This type of media should be available before the end of the year.

Hercules XPS Black Series   Posted on 04/10/2004 at 11:06 by Marc

	Hercules has announced the release of two new speaker set for their XPS range: - The XPS 2.101 Black - The XPS 5.101 Black The first set is a 2.1 and the second one a 5.1. The XPS 2.101 Black is currently available and is equipped with a wooden subwoofer announced at 35 Watts RMS and two satellites of 12.5 Watts each. The XPS 5.101 Black should be release early November. An infrared remote control to adjust volume, bass level, mute mode and with a switch on/off control is also provided. The infrared reception is made on a docking station equipped with a headphone output, an additional stereo input and a space for the remote control.

Athlon 64 90nm and electrical consumption   Posted on 04/10/2004 at 10:31 by Marc

	After HKEPC, The Tech Report team has received an AMD Athlon 64 90 nm. And this time, they also have tested the electrical consumption. In use, a computer equipped with an Athlon 64 3500+ 90nm use 151 W instead of 179W for the same configuration with a standard Athlon 64 3500+ 130nm. Other measure, the temperature made via the processor probe. The A8V Deluxe motherboard reports: 61°C with a 130nm, and 55°C with a 90nm. This time, the Athlon 64 90nm temperature is less important the previous processor generation. This result is in contradiction with HKEPC’s tests. It is hard to tell who is right or wrong in this situation, and we hope that we will be able to test one of these processors soon.