AMD has countered Intel and its latest Mobile Pentium III offering with SpeedStep technology with its new mobile 550MHz and 533MHz K6-2+ processors that sport new PowerNow! technology. While the AMD based mobile speeds are nowhere near Intel�s, AMD has …
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LSI Logic UNLEASHES Ultra320 SCSI Controller!
LSI Logic has beat the rest of the industry by announcing its next-generation Ultra320 SCSI controller based on its Fusion MPT (Message Passing Technology) architecture. Ultra320 is the next generation UltraSCSI technology that doubles the overall throughput of the latest …
Ricoh Announces 12X/10X/32X CD-R/RW Drive and Package
Ricoh Disc Media and Systems-Center division (DMS-C) has released a 10x rewritable in the form of the MediaMaster 12X writer, 10X Rewriter, and 32X reader. Thanks to the new Orange Book Part III, Volume 2, v1.0 standard released in May …
TDK Releases veloCD 12X/10X/32X Rewriter
TDK has released its own 12X writer, 10X rewriter, and 32X reader in the form of the veloCD Rewriter. TDK bills its drive as a master of digital audio ripping with extraction speeds of 24X (3.6 megabytes per second) and …
PCExtremist Offline? Not EVEN Close!
We understand that news and reviews havent been posted here in quite awhile. While we realize this can be the harbinger of WWW doom for a site, this is not the case here. We have recently lost our Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Sean …
NVIDIA Unleashes The GeForce2 Ultra
In their tireless 6 month upgrade cycle NVIDIA has announced their latest monster, the GeForce2 Ultra, bringing us 1billion pixels and 31 million triangles per second. Simultaneously they have posted their Detonator 3 drivers. Running a memory clock that runs …
AMD To Ship 1.1GHz Athlon Processors
One year after the fist Athlons were introduced, a press release from AMD announces the release, and shipment of the 1.1GHz AMD Athlon processor. The first customers, of course, will be the big system builders, but should be hitting the …
Tyan Announces The Trinity KT
Tyan , a company with a reputation for stability and performance, has added the Trinity KT , their first Socket A motherboard, to their lineup. Supporting both the Athlon and Duron processors, a 200MHz FSB, 6 PCI slots, and support …
Rumor Mill: AMD-Transmeta Collaboration?
AMD , and Transmeta are expected to announce a collaborative association soon, according to AMD chairman and CEO Jerry Sanders. Though details are currently sketchy, the most probable course of action would be AMD and Transmeta will share patents much …
Seagate Serial ATA Demo AT IDF
Seagate Technology , APT Technologies, Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation demonstrated the first Serial ATA disk at the Intel Developers Forum today. The demo was run using a Seagate disk drive with its Serial ATA board, APTs Serial ATA Link …