The NVIDIA G70 arrives Belinea VA 8 ms, TN 4 ms Olympus 8 MP, 459 € Intel abandon Netburst

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The NVIDIA G70 arrives   Posted on 13/05/2005 at 17:21 by Marc

	Rumors about the G70, the next NVIDIA high end GPU, are increasingly present this month. Yesterday, DigiTimes said that according to some motherboard manufacturers, the G70 would be unveiled during the Computex Taipei 2005 show from May 31 to June 4. This chip would be two times more efficient than the 110 nm GeForce 6800 series. Still according to DigiTimes, the G70 may begin volume shipments in the latter half of the third quarter at the earliest and will retail for US$549. During the report of the (good) financial results of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun Huang NVIDA president said that the next generation GPU was ready and that we would have a glimpse of this new product during the E3 which is about to take place next week. It isn’t however an announcement and only some of the technologies will be unveiled. The Sony PlayStation 3, presented during the E3, will be based on the G70. So it is because of the console release that we will maybe get some details about the G70 architecture.

Belinea VA 8 ms, TN 4 ms   Posted on 13/05/2005 at 14:56 by Vincent

	Belinea is about to release 11 new products during summer. Some of them have already been unveiled to us. Amongst all monitors released will be the: 10 19 20 (ref. 111919) : 19”, Premium MVA AU Optronics 8 ms panel. The panel will be the same as the one in the ViewSonic VP191b. It will be released end of June, will feature a DVI interface, a pivot mode, a black or silver bezel and will be vertically adjustable for an estimated street price of…399€ (VAT included). 10 19 25 (ref. 111924): 19” monitor still with an AU Optronics panel but TN this time. Response time is still 8 ms but the street price is reduced to 339€. The 10 19 02 new version (ref. 111923) will be released early August. The current version is already one of the cheapest 19” on the market, but the new one will be even cheaper with a street price under 299€. It will be a TN 8 ms monitor. We don’t have much detail on the next one also to be released early august except for one point: it will be a TN 4ms. The price is still unknown. So in a nutshell: TN Belinea 4 ms in August!

Olympus 8 MP, 459 €   Posted on 13/05/2005 at 09:20 by Vincent

	After Acer (see this news), it is now the turn of Olympus to announce the availability soon of a “cheap” 8 megapixels digital camera. The MJU 800 will be available in July for an estimated street price of 459€ (instead of 329€ for the Acer CR-8530). This camera includes a 19 MB of internal memory, a 3X optical zoom (38-114 mm, F2.8-F4.9), a 6.4 cm diagonal LCD monitor, 19 scene mode and a 4 fps continuous shooting.

Intel abandon Netburst   Posted on 13/05/2005 at 03:26 by Marc

	In an interview with Golem.de, Patrick P. Gelsinger, Intel CEO, confirmed the abandonment of the NetBurst architecture. Future Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest processors, the second dual core generation for laptops, desktops and servers will all share a common new architecture. The philosophy of this new architecture will be the same (but even more efficient) as the Pentium M: a relatively short pipeline which doesn’t reach very high frequencies but has a very high efficiency per MHz and per Watt. The Pentium 4 Netburst architecture long pipeline, which reaches high frequencies to the detriment of efficiency per cycles and which generates very power greedy CPUs should now be part of Intel past. This information confirms rumours published by The Inquirer…early 2004! The Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest should be released from now till end of 2006.