A Western hard drive for laptops A PCI to AGP bridge at ATI? -17% on AMD’s prices the 15th ? Pentium 4 and Celeron J, Celeron S775 AMD revise their sales forecast 1 GB xD cards

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A Western hard drive for laptops   Posted on 05/10/2004 at 22:29 by Marc

	Western release for the first time on the hard drive market for laptops, a 2.5” hard drive named Scorpio. This market segment turnover is approximately 4.6 billion dollar. With a 5.400 RPM speed, these discs have a 12 ms access time, 20 dBA noise level in rotation and 21 dBA in access. The shock resistance is 250G for 2ms operating and 900 G for 1 ms non-operating. Their electrical consumption is 2.5 W reading/ writing and 2 W rotating. The 40, 60 and 80 GB are available with 2 or 8 MB of cache. All hard drives have a three years warranty. According to TrendFOCUS, this segment should reach 60 millions of units in 2004 instead of 47 millions last year. This tendency should continue until 2007, with 22% of annual average increase.

A PCI to AGP bridge at ATI?   Posted on 05/10/2004 at 22:16 by Marc

	X-bit labs has published a news released initially on this German website two weeks ago: ATI would release a similar chip to the NVIDIA HIS, the Rialto. The objective is to use their native PCI Express chips like the X700 on cards using an AGP bus. This chip production should start during the fourth quarter, but we don’t know the release date of cards using it. Now we have to check this information veracity, because ATI so far denied working on such a chip.

-17% on AMD’s prices the 15th ?   Posted on 05/10/2004 at 22:09 by Marc

	In their last Roadmaps, Intel hasn’t announced a price reduction before the release during the last quarter of their new Pentium 4 LGA775 series, the Pentium 4 6xx. These processors will use a FSB1066 and will be equipped with 2 MB of cache. According to our colleagues from The Inquirer, AMD intends to use Intel’s relative passivity on prices to increase their Athlon 64 range competitiveness. The following price table will be applicable next October 15th. The price fall depends on the processors, up to 17% for some of the models. The top of the line Athlon 64 3800+ and FX-53 remains at the same price even if the 4000+ and FX-55 are already included in the price list. As usual, the Athlon 64 FX is at the same price than its predecessor.

Pentium 4 and Celeron J, Celeron S775   Posted on 05/10/2004 at 21:56 by Marc

	Intel has officially released their Pentium 4 and Celeron « J » processors, and has included them on their price list. Intel has released these processors on schedule. At the time of their core Prescott « E0 » announcement early June, they mentioned the first shipments from October the 1rst. Additionally to an electrical consumption optimization for future frequency increases, this core makes possible to the Prescott and Celeron « J » to be compatible with the Execute Disable Bit like the Athlon 64 and other Itanium. Windows with the Execute Disable Bit is able to forbid the access of some areas to viruses. Only the Socket 775 processors have these functions and Intel used this improvement to introduce their Celeron D on this platform. Prices are identical between standard and “J” versions, like the Celeron Socket 478 and 775: Intel Pentium 4 560J (3.60 GHz) : $417 Intel Pentium 4 550J (3.40 GHz) : $278 Intel Pentium 4 540J (3.20 GHz) : $218 Intel Pentium 4 530J (3.00 GHz) : $178 Intel Pentium 4 520J (2.80 GHz) : $163 Intel Celeron D 340J (2.93 GHz) : $117 Intel Celeron D 335J (2.80 GHz) : $103 Intel Celeron D 330J (2.66 GHz) : $83 Intel Celeron D 325J (2.53 GHz) : $79

AMD revise their sales forecast   Posted on 05/10/2004 at 21:42 by Marc

	AMD has just revised their sales forecast for the third fiscal quarter ending last September 26th. Instead of a sight turnover increase compared to the $1.262 Billion turnover, it is a now a sight fall that should be announced. The profits should however be more important than expected. AMD specifically stated that this turnover reduction was connected to the flash memory and that the processor division was fine thanks to the AMD64 growing success.

1 GB xD cards   Posted on 05/10/2004 at 14:56 by Vincent

	Fuji Photo and Olympus have worked together for the development of the 1 GB version of their xD card. This card will be released early 2005. The price remains unknown yet, and we will have to wait until November to have more information on that subject. If Fujifilm and Olympus were the only one to use xD cards (for the last two years), Kodak has now joined them with the LS755 model.