‘Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)’ introduced an innovative, advanced ‘two-chip graphics card’ exclusively for the gamers on Monday. The company expects that the new graphics card would help it taking a lead both in price as well as the performance over its archrival ‘Nvidia’.

The new graphics card,” ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2” is a combination of two different graphic processors on one board. This innovative attempt has helped in achieving the double performance of the single chip, the ‘Radeon HD 3870’, which was launched by AMD in the month of November last year.

According to AMD, this “latest graphics card tops a Teraflop, or 1 trillion floating point operations per second.” Such a high ‘operation-speed’ is almost equal to the speed of performing nearly one trillion mathematical calculations per second, the company claims.

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“Nanochip Inc.”, a Fremont, California based chip manufacturing company is running the process of developing its first ‘terabyte memory chips’. The company intends to combine the ‘phase-change media’ to the ‘cantilever read or write heads’ that would be controlled with the help of a ‘micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)’.

Nanochip’s terabyte memory chips will be using the conventional, DRAM-like interfaces. These chips would be functioning internally just like a multiple-head hard drive. In this hard drive, the slaved MEMS cantilevers will move in unison over their array of bit cells to read and write phase-change media.’ Nanochip’ claims that the first prototypes of these terabyte memory chips will be rolled out sometime during the year 2009. Commercial production and open sale will begin in the year 2010, said Nanochip Inc.

“We are well on-track to meet our original schedule of reaching full commercialization of our first product offering by 2010“, said Gordon Knight, CEO of Nanochip Inc.
The size of the potential bit cell terabyte memory chips from ‘Nanochip’ would be measuring almost 2 by 3 nanometers. The company is accordingly accounting for its terabyte-per-chip goal. Initial prototypes of these terabyte memory chips will however be measuring about 15-by-15 nanometers for capacities around 100 Gbytes per chip in while rolling out in the year 2010.

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Popular U.S. wireless carrier, ‘Alltel Wireless’ introduced two new mobile phones this week. The “LG Scoop” and the “Samsung Muse” both will be the two in the line up. ‘Alltel Wireless’ also announced the addition of a ‘red BlackBerry Pearl 8130’ to its range of the ‘Smartphone’ lineups on the same occasion.

The ‘LG Scoop’ is a multi-tasking messaging-centric mobile phone with a ‘QWERTY keyboard’ that facilitates easier text input. This mobile device comes with a ‘chat-style instant messaging system’. This specific system will enable the ‘Alltel’ subscribers for using the mobile phone’s preloaded ‘AOL Instant Messenger’ and ‘Yahoo Messenger’. It will facilitate the users to have a chat with others exactly in the manner they would chat with others on a desktop. This mobile phone also supports the ‘Alltel Axcess Voice2TXT’ service that converts incoming voice mails in to text messages keeps them stored ‘text in-box’ of the phone.

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Top video-sharing web site “YouTube” announced its expansion plans and offered its latest mobile specific features for its users this week. These new features of ‘You Tube’ include an added access to a large catalog of mobile videos. Most of the features like this were available as the desktop versions only until recently.

Mobile devices users will find these new additions at ‘YouTube’ and would be able to choose from tens of millions of videos, according to the company. However, users are required to have a ‘streaming-capable mobile phone device with 3G technology’. This is a necessary requirement for matching the compatibility with the high-speed data access over cellular networks. Many of such popular cellular networks including the U.S. carriers Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless have all rolled out 3G networks capable of supporting ‘streaming capable multimedia phones’.

Users of the Apple iPhone have an added advantage with the in built facility of this type. Apple’s popular iPhone comes with a preloaded YouTube application. The iPhone on the other side has no support for the ‘3G Technology’. Because of this inability, the video-streaming experience can be sluggish at times for the iPhone users. However, the streaming becomes much faster over Wi-Fi connections.

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Nokia, the top mobile phone manufacturer launched two all new mobile phones targeting the growing and newly emerging mobile devices markets this week. Nokia’s new models, the “Nokia-2600 classic” and the “Nokia-1209” have been priced below $100.

Shipping of the “Nokia-2600 Classic” mobile phone has already been started. It will cost $95 to the consumer. This model will be available in the markets within this first quarter of the year only. This model would facilitate the consumers with all the key features that are normally present in modern mobile phones but “at an affordable price”, says Nokia.

‘Nokia- 2600 classic’ has some interesting features to attract the customers. It comes with a colorful and changeable Xpress-on cover, MP3 ring tones, an FM radio, and a built-in digital camera with a Video Graphics Array display.

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AT&T Inc. Announced its business plans for Apple iPhone. The company has focused the corporate customers of the iPhone Smartphone for the first time. Market specialists however, feel that the announced business plan, the ‘3est-cost plan‘, is still 2.5 times higher cost wise when compared to the other available market business plans for the Smartphone consumers.

IBM also confirmed the speculations that were traversing through the markets and consumers regarding its plans of supporting the iPhone with the ‘Lotus Notes Enterprise Messaging System‘. AT&T’s announcement comes just at the nick of the time.

AT&T’s new iPhone plans for businesses and other corporate organizations have been flashed in its website. According to that the plan will include a two-year’s service agreement .The company has combined the pre-existing plan with two parts. It will now have one billing system for both the voice and data modifying the existing consumer iPhone plans.

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Seagate Technology is almost on the verge of introducing an updated ‘Momentus laptop disk drive’ that will be a boost in the capacity of the drive from 160GB to 250GB.

Seagate’s new ‘2.5-inch Momentus 5400.4 version’ of the laptop disk drive will be having two disk platters along with an 8MB of cache. The speed of spinning will be 5,400 rpm, according to Seagate. The company has also started with shipping of this new version of the storage device for laptops.

This new version of the laptop disk drive is based upon the perpendicular magnetic recording technology. It also offers a 3Gbit per second interface. “It will be a sizeable jump from the Momentus 5400.3’s transfer rate of 1.5Gbit per second”, says Joni Clark, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Seagate. Seagate introduced its existing 160GB Momentus 5400.3 for the first time in the year 2006.

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