Soon we will be able to see Radeon HD 3830 on the market. This is a budget card that will start on 99 American dollars. In May a much more powerful card will be available in May, which is the Radeon HD 3850 X2. The price on this card will be on 300-400 dollars, and it will have even better performance than the new Geforce 8800 GTS. AMD expects great success on the graphic card market with the new RV670-chipset. Let’s see if ATI is able to take over the graphic card market again with their low priced high-end cards. What do you think?

After a few hard years Abit is back with new main boards with the Abit logo and now they are also coming with graphic cards. The company have not made any graphic cards for years, but they used to produce both ATI and Nvidia based cards. The company will now start developing Nvidia cards so let’s see if Abit can get back into the graphic card market again. The market for Nvidia cards is however very strong already with established producers like Asus, XFX and MSI. Abit has to make themselves unique somehow. The company does however have a good name and they are known for great main boards.

Do you think Abit will be able to get bavk into the graphic card market now?

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), on Thursday shipped triple-core desktop processors that the company hopes to slip in a price-performance slot between dual-core and quad-core available from rivalIntel (NSDQ: INTC).

While not as powerful as the quad-core processors, AMD Phenom X3 series 8000 should provide a significant improvement compared to dual-core chips in the games and playing high-definition content in the PC. Accordingly, the chips may be good enough for fans who do not want to pay more for a product quad-core.

AMD is first shipment X3 8400 and 8600 makers X3 computer processors, AMD Jake Whitman, a spokesman said. The chips will be available to individuals through retailers at the end of April. Pricing will be around $ 150 for the 2.1 GHz-8400 and about $ 175 for 2.3 GHz-8600. The lowest price AMD quad-core processors Phenom, the 2.2-GHz 9500 and 9550, sell for $ 209. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Q6600 quad-core sells for about $ 250 at retail.

“(X3) fits really well between two and four hearts,” said Whitman.

AMD has linked the X3 8400 and 8600 processors X3 with its 780G chipset series. Together, the platform provides smooth HD display movies in Blu-ray format, AMD said. Supported video include standards relating to the H.264 video compression, MPEG-2 for generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information, and VC-1, a video codec standard originally developed by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT).

In addition, the platform supports DirectX 10, the latest 3-D graphics technology from Microsoft. DirectX 10 is exclusive to Windows Vista. The players seek to increase the performance of the triple-core AMD platform can add a graphics card ATI discrete AMD’s division.

The first system with a processor Phenom X3 will be an office Affinity ZT Systems. The computer will feature a team of processor 8400 and the first March 31 on QVC Computer Shop during the television broadcast, AMD said.

With the shipment of its products triple-core, AMD has launched four high-end X4 Phenom quad-core processors, led by the 2.5 GHz Black Edition 9850, which will be sold for $ 235. Others include the 2.4 GHz-9750, $ 215; 2.3 GHz-9650, $ 215, and 2.2 GHz-9550, $ 209. With the exception of 9550, prices take effect on April 7.

If paired with AMD in the series of 790 chipsets, processors support up to four ATI Radeon 3800 series HD graphics cards.
Finally, on Thursday, AMD shipped to makers desktop energy efficient four processor cores, the 9100th Phenom X4. While the four quad-core chips listed above consume 95 watts to 125 watts, the 9100th uses 65 watts of power. The processor is coupled with an AMD 780 chipset series for playing Blu-ray and delivery graphic enough for casual gamers and multimedia enthusiasts, AMD said.

Intel (NSDQ: INTC), the largest manufacturer of computer chip, said Wednesday that the distribution of low-cost educational designed for laptops, developing markets will soon extend to the United States and Europe .

Computer makers will start selling Intel designed Classmate PC on the market for about $ 250 to $ 350, making it the last super-laptops at low cost to go on sale in the developed world, said Lila Abraham, CEO of ‘Intel platform emerging market group. She refused to identify the PC manufacturers, saying these companies had asked Intel to keep their names quiet until they prepared to unveil the models.

The chipmaker has conducted pilot tests of these devices in the United States and Australia, “she said, but he declined to name the schools where they are being tested. She said that manufacturers in India, Mexico and Indonesia have already begun to sell Classmate notebook PCs in the retail market. To date, Intel has sold fewer than 100000 of the Classmate PC, but plans for an increase in production in 2008.

She developed a second model, the Classmate 2, and has already started working on a third, the Classmate 3, Abraham said in a conference call with journalists from Reuters. “With the second generation, there will be more choices for manufacturers going into detail,” she says.

This will give them the flexibility to build a range of laptop computers with different configurations of memory, screen sizes and different devices, including cameras, “she said.

The Classmate key rivals in the super-laptop low market prices are $ 399 Eee PC from Taiwan’s Asustek Computer and XO laptop, which costs $ 188 to make and is sold by the non-profit association One Laptop Per Child Foundation. Asustek is the largest manufacturer of computer motherboards.

Inventor Mary Lou Jepsen, a scientist who has developed the XO Laptop, resigned from the foundation at the end of last year and has started his own company Pixel Qi with the aim of building a laptop $ 75 in 2010. (Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston and Duncan Martell in San Francisco, editing by Carol Bishopric)

The second line of defence to prevent the Blu-ray disc to be copied was raped: SlySoft, a software company based in Antigua, West Indies, said last week that its HD AnyDVD 6.4.0.0 Copy program can now ” make back-up copies of safety Blu-ray BD + protected. ”

The first line of defence for Blu-ray, Advance Access Content System (AACS) System copy protection, was rejected in late 2006. Efforts to keep the 32-bit processing AACS key grounded off the Internet dramatically in 2007, when opponents of regimes copy protection has posted significant number in a variety of forms on Digg and other Web sites .

The technology behind BD + was developed by Cryptography Research and sold to Macrovision in November 2007. BD + is supposed to serve as a second layer of protection to prevent Blu-ray content to be copied. In July 8, 2007 issue of Home Media magazine, Richard Doherty, a media analyst for the Envisioneering Group, said BD +, unlike AACS, are unlikely to be breached for 10 years.

SlySoft, in a press release on March 19, repetition and the prediction of Doherty noted that it had managed to circumvent BD +, only eight months after his statement.

“We are rather proud of having brought down to earth and highly praised as” unbreakable “BD +,” said Peer van Heuen, head of the high-definition technologies to SlySoft, last week. “However, we must also recognize that the Blu-ray titles released so far have not yet fully exploited the possibilities of BD +. Upcoming versions will undoubtedly have a more polished and protection BD +, but we well prepared for this, and await the coming developments rather relaxed. ”
BD + is designed to respond to attempts to circumvent this, it is likely that Macrovision will be able to take steps to re-lock compromised Blu-ray titles. Indeed, Macrovision offers such action is yet to come.

“Macrovision does not comment on the procedures and specific techniques that can have a direct impact on security technology BD +,” said Eric Rodli, executive vice president and general manager of Macrovision entertainment, in a letter sent by post. “BD + is a security response system designed to respond to security attacks, not prevent them entirely. Under this system, the updated BD + security code is continuously developed so that customers get BD + current utility of the use of this technology.