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Gigabyte announces ATI Radeon X1800-based graphics card.

Gigabyte Technology today introduced two versions of its flagship 90nm GV-RX18 series graphics card, the GV-RX18T512VB with 512 MB of memory and the GV-RX18L256VB with 256 MB, based on the ATI Radeon X1800 (codenamed R520) graphics processing unit (GPU).

Demand for DirectX 10-compliant graphics cards may not pick up until Vista launch.

Despite Nvidia"s launch of its DirectX 10-compliant GeForce 8800 GPU last week, demand for high-end graphics cards supporting DirectX 10 may not pick up until Microsoft"s Vista operating system (OS) hits the market, according to industry sources. The sources claimed that despite Nvidia"s head-start, it may not be too late for ATI to launch its R600 that supports DirectX 10 in the first quarter of 2007 because insufficient software support currently is hampering demand.

Falling WiMax Chipset Prices Spell Good News For Adoption Rates.

Micron Technology introduces two megapixel cameraphone sensor.

Micron Technology has released a quarter-inch 2.2 megapixel sensor to mobile phone manufacturers. The new sensor has both a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) standards serial interface and a parallel interface which give phone makers flexibility with traditional designs and future models that require high bandwidth. Pictures of up to 1600 by 1200 pixels can be taken, while videos of up to 15 frames per second can be recorded at maximum resolution.

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