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GeForce 9600 GT: launch on 2/21   Posted on 23/01/2008 at 18:15 by Nicolas

	Nvidia has officially delayed the release of the GeForce 9600 GT from the February 14 to the 21st. You may recall, this card is equipped with a G94 engraved in 65nm with 64 scalar processors and a 256 bit memory controller. This will be an improvement over the G84 which was found in the GeForce 8600. Nvidia readily claims that this is in order to have sufficient supplies of the card upon its release; however, there are rumors that some sort of problem is the cause of the delay without any other details. While it is currently difficult to know the real reason, it will be easy to observe in the last week of February if there are sufficient quantities corresponding to the manufacturer’s recommended price.

Memory prices rebound   Posted on 23/01/2008 at 10:57 by Marc

	After having been divided by eight throughout 2007, the price of memory now seems to be rising. From $6.36 in January 2007 to $0.78 in mid-December, the price of a 64 MB chip of DDR2-667 increased in the last month of the year no less than 40%! Since the beginning of January this increase has been 17% on both 64 MB and 128 MB chips. At $1.09 for 64 MB and $2.22 for 128 MB, this is still a price that doesn’t enable manufacturers to clear a profit and we can only expect this trend to continue.

Radeons for automated teller machines   Posted on 23/01/2008 at 01:48 by Nicolas

	While ATI is already very present on the vast market of embedded graphic circuits thanks to the sale of licenses to ST, Freescale, Qualcomm but also with the Imageon and Xilleon, it plans on expanding this even more with the launch of the Radeon E2400. As its name suggests, this solution is destined for uses as diverse as automatic Point-of-Sales, automated teller machines, information displays, patient monitoring systems, gambling machines, or even arcade games. Moreover, it is based on the RV610 which is already found in the Radeon HD 2400 and therefore DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support are guaranteed. This could almost seem excessive for a product of this type ; however, given its commercial life of 5 years this may not be the case. Announced as being low power and compact, there are two versions of the Radeon E2400. The first (above) is 31 x 31 mm and has 128 MB of GDDR3 directly on the packaging. The second is based on an MXM-II module and has 256 MB of GDDR3.