NO SOONER DOES NVIDIA announce new mobile graphics chips than ATI is jumping in to do the same thing. The world has gone laptop crazy, we tell you! The new ATI chips are all part of the Mobility Radeon 9600 series.
It seems like only a few minutes ago that this keyboard was tapping out the news that Nvidia might well have the fastest mobile graphics chips [it was almost an hour ago, type faster. Ed.] and now ATI might have the fastest. We'll just have to wait for the benchmarks to come through before a winner can be named.
The new ATI chip comes in four versions. One uses external memory and the other three use on-chip memory of up to 128MB. ATI claims it is the first chip to use GDDR2-M, a version of DDR2 designed especially with mobile graphics in mind.
ATI also makes several other claims in its press release about being first in this or best at that. But Nvidia makes most of the same claims about its Geforce FX Go5600 and Go5200 so it's difficult to tell who is right. We're sure they both deserve a pat on the back
News source: The Inq
It seems like only a few minutes ago that this keyboard was tapping out the news that Nvidia might well have the fastest mobile graphics chips [it was almost an hour ago, type faster. Ed.] and now ATI might have the fastest. We'll just have to wait for the benchmarks to come through before a winner can be named.
The new ATI chip comes in four versions. One uses external memory and the other three use on-chip memory of up to 128MB. ATI claims it is the first chip to use GDDR2-M, a version of DDR2 designed especially with mobile graphics in mind.
ATI also makes several other claims in its press release about being first in this or best at that. But Nvidia makes most of the same claims about its Geforce FX Go5600 and Go5200 so it's difficult to tell who is right. We're sure they both deserve a pat on the back
News source: The Inq
Shipments of flat panel monitors has been approximately doubling every year since 2000, leading to shortages in early 2002. Toward the middle of that year, however, supplies began to creep up and prices began to drop again.
The shift from CRTs to LCDs will likely benefit the established companies, like Samsung, NEC and Mitsubishi, who participate in both markets, she added. Monitor sizes will on average also increase. The most common LCD monitors today come with 15-inch screens. In 2005, 17-inch screens will become the norm.
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