Zoiah strikes again, dit keer heeft hij op M3DZone een lijst gepost met daarop de fabrikanten die van plan zijn om kaarten met Radeon chips uit te brengen. De lijst werd in een mailtje aan Europese distributeurs gestuurd en volgde op de eind mei genomen beslissing om losse chips te gaan verkopen. Eind juni was hij echter nog een stuk korter. Zo te zien zijn de kaartenbakkers dus niet zo trouw aan nVidia als voorheen werd aangenomen. Enkele bekende namen waaronder Creative Labs, Elsa, Gainward en Abit houden zich echter nog steeds afzijdig en kijken de kat uit de boom. Hieronder de lijst van fabrikanten, de namen en specificaties van de producten zullen waarschijnlijk nog even op zich laten wachten. Wellicht zullen enkelen tegelijk met de introductie van R200 iets van zich laten horen:
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Utilizing its superior latency characteristics and cheaper implementation costs, HyperTransport makes much more sense as a pervasive chip-to-chip interconnect, where it can exploit Arapahoe in the future for a point-to-point expansion device interface standard.
Those who are familiar with SONICblue's previous efforts in the portable MP3 market will not be surprised to learn that the Riovolt offers impeccable audio quality. Playback of WMA, MP3, and Audio CDs was superb. The stock earphones even sounded decent compared to 90% of the other stock headphone/earphones out there. We were more then happy with the sound quality, and to our surprise, we even made use of some of the preset EQ settings without major complaint. Along with the Rio500 and Rio600, this is one of the best sounding portable players we've heard.
The CEOs for the two companies--Steve Ballmer from Microsoft and Daniel Carp of Kodak--resolved many of their major differences last week, although some issues remain, sources close to the companies said. Kodak had accused Microsoft of foul play in how Windows XP handles digital photos, taking control of any digital camera attached to a PC and steering consumers to the software maker's online photo processing providers.
John Karidis, the IBM Distinguished Engineer responsible for the expanding keyboard on the ThinkPad 701C as well as the ThinkPad TransNote, doubts that the PC as we know it will go away in 20 years.
Certainly noise can damage hi-fi, as software suppliers frequently pointed out in the early days of CD-ROM technology. We recall a number of game CDs on which software was encoded as the first track, allowing in-game music, recorded as the remaining tracks, to be played on a regular CD player. Those discs warned users not to play the first track lest it damage amplifiers and/or speakers.