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CeBIT: PCI Express TV Tuner in 2007   Posted on 20/03/2007 at 16:13 by Damien

	Even if TV tuners are finally available in PCI Express 1x versions, PCI products remain the most common. We interrogated several tuner manufactures about this and LifeView told us that 2007 will be an important step for the domination of PCI Express 1x and that the progressive disappearance of PCI tuners would take place from 2008. However PCI Express is already highly present since, according to LifeView, laptop manufacturers integrate mini-PCIe tuners. Anyway, the good news is that we will see the release of numerous PCI Express models in the month to come at reasonable prices. Tuner TV au format mini-PCIe pour ordinateur portable.

CeBIT: mobile GeForce 8   Posted on 20/03/2007 at 15:58 by Damien

	Even if they were very discreet, the GeForce 8 Go were present at CeBIT this year and were generally incognito or codenamed. Gigabyte and MSI presented laptops using these chips. We found out the existence of 3 lines of GeForce 8 Go: NB8-S, NB8-P and NB8-M. The NB8-M would be based on a G86 or a GeForce 8500/8400 and the NB8-P on the GeForce 8600. We don't know yet what the NB8-S refers to. If the commercial name of this chip will be GeForce 8800 Go, it is inconceivable that it would based on the desktop GeForce 8800 which requires much too much energy. This could be a new high end chip requiring less energy or a GeForce 8600 like the NB8-P; one with more units deactivated than the other for example. Future Gigabyte Santa Rosa laptop equipped with a NB8-M (GeForce 8500/8400) and MSI MXM module based on G84 (GeForce 8600) of

CeBIT: future AMD chipsets   Posted on 20/03/2007 at 15:47 by Damien

	AMD will release this summer two new chipsets supporting HyperTransport 3.0 and designed for the AM2+ platform. The RD790 will be an evolution of the RD580, the current high end chipset of AMD supporting two PCI Express 16x ports. Compared to the RD580, the RD790 would support 4 PCI Express 8x ports instead of two 16x and would be compatible with PCI Express 2.0. The RS740 will be an evolution of the recent AMD 690 to support the new platform of the manufacturer. Apparently, this would be the only modification. For evolutions, we will have to wait early 2008 and the RS780 which will have an integrated core compatible with DirectX 10 and UVD, the new video engine of ATI integrated to the Radeon X2000 and based on a MIPS processor clocked at 300 MHz. Early 2008 will also be the release date of the evolution of the current southbridge, the SB700. We do not know yet the detailed specifications of this new chip.