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• April 29
• • Intel nixes 2.8 GHz P4, renames "Pentium 4 with EM64T support"
  • Nanotechnology to improve quality, performance of thin displays
• April 28
• • Gateway updates LCD product line
  • Korea and Taiwan battle for TFT-LCD domination
  • SiS rides K8 chipset sales to higher margins in 1Q
  • Mixed feedback on Samsung forecast of drop in NAND flash prices
  • DFI goes industrial with growing ACP sales
  • Intel: Xeon to remain best performing chip in certain threaded apps
  • HP goes small with 2.5" harddrives
• April 27
• • Samsung ships Serial ATA II drives, shows hybrid harddrive
  • Excess semiconductor inventory lower than expected in Q1
  • IBM's Cell processor "impressive", but not an x86 killer - analyst
  • Samsung's Spinpoint P120 Hard Drive: Ready for the Big Leagues?
  • The Elitegroup PF88 Extreme: An Athlon 64 or Pentium 4 Motherboard
  • Wafer probing demand to rise 30 percent this month
  • Intel sees 65 nm transition on track, 450 mm wafers appear on horizon
  • Graphic chip shipments climb 41 percent
• April 26
• • Mobo shipments to drop 5-15 percent in 2Q
  • ATI top-end GPUs to win back 'channel leadership'
• April 25
• • LCD needs aggressive pricing strategy to compete with PDP
  • XGI supports AMD64 platform
  • Kingmax: DDR2 to be 20 percent of the DRAM this year
  • Chaintech launches GeForce 6800 Apogee with 2.5ns memory
• April 22
• • Sapphire Graphics Cards' Pick and Choose Game Bundles
  • S3 graphics cards return to US market
  • OCZ intros DDR2 Gold series memory
• April 21
• • US semiconductor industry blames offshoring on high taxes, lack of incentives
  • Elpida begins production of 90 nm DDR2 memory
  • Imation Disc Stakka: Automated CD, DVD Storage and Retrieval
  • The 2.5" vs. 3.5" RAID Challenge
  • AMD Athlon 64 Venice, San Diego set sale
  • D-Link: Demand for Gigabit Ethernet switches to surge by year-end 2005
  • VIA announces chipset support for AMD dual-core technology
  • AMD launches dual-core Opteron, announces X2 brand for desktop dual-core
  • Sony, Toshiba discussing DVD standard-source
  • ATI's Xpress 200M chipset aims at Intel notebooks
• April 20
• • Great Design: 2 New 17" LCDs from LG
  • Kingston dominates DRAM third-party market
  • Samsung develops 4 Gigabit Flash memory for cellphones
  • Nvidia ships 750,000 nForce 4 SLI chipsets
  • DDR2 price premium narrows to 5-10 percent in contract market
• April 19
• • Seagate increases harddrive shipments to 24.9 million
  • Samsung-Sony joint-venture intros amorphous TFT displays
  • Gigabyte intros dual-core mobo, supports DDR2-1066
  • Inphase promises 300 GByte holographic disc for 2006
  • LGE aims to ship 100,000 LCD monitors this year
  • Clairvoyante talks about brightening the panel
  • Entry level dual-core Opterons to be priced same as high-end single-cores
• April 18
• • Toshiba offers flat 3D screens without goggles
  • Why untested DRAMs are getting into more and more products
  • Seagate ups mobile storage to 120 GByte
  • Intel dual-core PCs hit the market
  • Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 A Jewel Reviewed
  • ATI RS482 and RC410 to arrive in June
  • DisplayBank: Global PDP shipments reached 1.3 million panels in 1Q05
• April 16
• • First Intel dual-core PCs to ship on Monday
• April 15
• • 4 AMD Socket 754 MicroATX Motherboards: Getting the Job Done on the Cheap
  • AMD Turion 64 to lead as Intel decides to hold Yonah launch until 2Q06
• April 14
• • Intel to develop notebook platform for Chinese students
  • NEC in DDR2 license deal with Rambus
  • AMD intros Mobile Athlon 64 3700+
  • Supply of 15" LCD monitor panels running short of demand
  • AMD dual-core desktop processor to be named Athlon 64 X2
• April 13
• • Efficient manufacturing cuts LCD production cost in half
  • Sony 'open' to Blu-ray Disc/HD DVD bonding talks
  • Video Projectors: Evolving Towards High Definition
  • Intel first to ship dual-core processors - report
• April 12
• • Via releases Linux source for Unichrome and Savage graphics chips
  • External Storage With RAID: Proware DP-405CI
  • Altec Lansing GT 5051R: 5.1 Sound Without the Clutter?
  • Ritek, CMC poised to produce blue-laser HD-DVD discs
  • Prices for 17" panels may rise in May
  • Dual-core Pentium D headed for May launch
  • Intel debuts 854 chipset for consumer electronics
  • Investor firm acquires TDK Semiconductor
• April 11
• • New material structure produces world's fastest transistor
  • XGI shows PCI Express graphics card, releases source code for Linux
  • Intel preps second generation dual-core: Pentium D 900 series
  • Midi Towers: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
  • Asustek only first-tier mobo maker to see 1Q on-year shipment growth
• April 9
• • Are You Key-Bored? Maybe It's Time For Something New
• April 8
• • New NEC display improves LCD readability in direct sunlight
  • Multifunction Inkjet Printers: Are You Ready for a Printer that Does More?
  • AMD advances launch date for dual core Opteron
  • AMD runs silicon in 300-mm wafer fab, preps 65-nm process
  • Gigabyte readies performance SLI board for Intel PCs
  • Taiwan unveils first self-developed blue-laser DVD pick-up head
  • Second-tier mobo makers 1Q shipments down on-year
  • Intel Q&A: Homework for motherboard makers
  • The world's fastest DDR2 memory
• April 7
• • The world's fastest nano-optical shutter
  • Intel increases NOR Flash density
  • Samsung leads organic display market
  • I/O Magic increases capacity of mini storage device to 6 GByte
  • AOpen Powermaster: The Motherboard of All CPU Power-Saving Solutions?
  • Nvidia's Intel nForce4 SLI 60 percent more expensive than Intel's chipset
• April 6
• • ASUS introduces P5ND2-SLI motherboard
  • OCZ launches PC-5000 memory series for DFI mobos
  • Infineon intros 2 GByte notebook memory, hints to 1 GByte graphic cards
  • NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition Sets Its Sights on Intel 925XE
  • Global chip sales up 15.8 percent in February
  • Taiwan second-tier makers unable to raise OEM prices of optical discs
• April 5
• • NAND Flash market to triple until 2009 - report
  • Tom's Hardware Guide reviews dual-core Pentiums
  • The Pentium D: Intel's Dual Core Silver Bullet Previewed
  • Nvidia unleashes nForce 4 SLI for Intel platform
  • Despite rising DRAM prices, players remain cautious
  • Intel ready to ship dual-core processors
• April 4
• • Hitachi sees 5 TByte harddrives and 60 GByte microdrives
  • Rambus unveils multi-threaded DRAM tech
  • Good 3D Performance at a Middling Price: GeForce 6600 Shootout
  • Samsung slashes 512 MByte DDR2-533 module quotes 20 percent
  • Nvidia bundles GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache-based graphics cards with mobos
  • Asustek, Gigabyte and Leadtek to increase graphics-card shipments
• April 2
• • Storage virtualization tools refined
• April 1
• • Ramtron intros 1 Mbit FRAM
  • NEC-Mitsubishi renamed to NEC Display Solutions
  • Really Cool and Quiet Power Supplies?
  • IBM sees Cell chip for industry, not just gamers
  • Nvidia's nForce4 for Intel to arrive on April 6
  • AMD may advance dual-core Opteron processor launch
  • Transmeta to provide LongRun2 for Sony's Cell processor

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