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News Glance: The Essential Commentary on the Week’s Hottest News

Category: Editorial

by Anton Shilov

[ 06/14/2004 | 08:04 AM ]

We are probing a possibility to create overviews of the week’s hottest events featuring commentary from official representatives and industry experts. This is X-bit labs’ pilot issue with the in-depth look into the most significant recent happenings in the personal computer industry in the recent week. Today we are covering the latest stories about AMD Sempron, NVIDIA NV45, dual-core Pentium 4 chips, dispute between NVIDIA and ATI in regards trilinear filtering optimizations, AMD’s plans to supply low-power chips and ABIT’s claims about instability of the NVIDIA nForce3 250-series.

Table of contents:

• Introduction
  
• AMD Sempron – The New Duron Hits the Scene
  
• Enthusiasts Confirm: RADEON X800 PRO – Transformable
  
• Dual-Core Pentium 4 "Prescott" Chips – Something Apple Has Now?
  
• NVIDIA and ATI Fight for Better Trilinear Filtering Quality
  
• ABIT Claims nForce3 250 “Unstable”
  
• AMD Aims at Centrino’s Laurel Wreath
  
• Graphics Card Maker Exposes NV45 Product: HSI-Enabled GeForce 6800 Ultra
  

Introduction

Because of Computex Taipei 2004 the week has not been very rich with really important events and, as a result, comments from official and unofficial sources. Still, there have been some very hot topics that definitely worth discussing.

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In the particular article X-bit labs does not plan to unveil any astonishingly precise details about the news happened during the week, but is concentrated on brief overview and the review of causes and consequences of everything that happens. We try to offer readers something that is always left behind when reporting the stories by the media – comments from industry experts, officials as well as our own.

Sometimes it is pretty hard or impossible to get comments from officials because of marketing reasons and their resistance to talk about certain products or topics. Nevertheless, end-users should be aware about short-term or long-term directions of the personal computer industry and have a form of discussion prior to official introduction of certain projects. With that said, one of the intentions of X-bit labs’ overviews of the week’s most significant events becomes the initiation of discussions on the level of our readers.