The MOBILITY RADEON 7500 offers video feature enhancements never before seen on a mobile processor, including adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing technology, which dramatically improves vertical resolution and eliminates twitter and feathering artifacts during DVD playback. It also incorporates the following advanced feature set: 

• HydraVision, which affords the MOBILITY RADEON 7500 the most advanced multi-monitor management software in the industry. HydraVision allows users to define up to nine multi-monitor configurations. Work can be spread across the entire workspace or applications can be configured to one monitor or the other. Favorite features can be assigned hot keys for instant access;
• CHARISMA ENGINE, which combines the industry's fastest geometry engines with revolutionary techniques for bringing 3D characters to life. The geometry engine supports full transformation, clipping and lighting at 40 million triangles per second processing capability. CHARISMA ENGINE supports cutting-edge character animation features such as advanced vertex skinning and key frame interpolation;
• PIXEL TAPESTRY, which combines the industry's fastest rendering engines with an unprecedented set of 3D special effects. The chip's ability to process up to three textures concurrently means unsurpassed performance in accelerating the coming wave of multi-textured game content. Because of its rendering capability, MOBILITY RADEON 7500 enables full performance in 32-bit color, making 16-bit color obsolete; and
• VIDEO IMMERSION, which advances ATI's historic leadership in digital video with such features as on-chip motion compensation, iDCT and adaptive de-interlacing. The RADEON 7500 incorporates advanced video technology inherited from ATI's video-oriented set-top box and consumer electronics products. MOBILITY RADEON 7500 is capable of decoding and displaying MPEG-2 content in all HDTV (high definition television) formats, including 1280 X 720 pixels progressive and 1920 X 1080 pixels interlaced.
• HYPER Z technology, which boosts effective memory bandwidth by 20 percent. As a result, the MOBILITY RADEON 7500 can access up to 8.8GB/sec (gigabytes per second) of effective memory bandwidth. With memory bandwidth increasingly becoming the largest barrier to performance in today and tomorrow's most advanced applications, the combination of HYPERZ and high speed DDR memory is crucial to realizing the full potential of the graphics processor.

Tired of seeing GeForce3 after GeForce3 get exactly the same scores because so many of them follow the reference design? Well this card from OCZ breaks the pattern by coming clocked at higher speeds and featuring a Blue Orb HSF and copper memory heatsinks that will let you overclock it even further. Check out our full OCZ Titan 3 review here.

"Having less of a history to rely on in competing with companies like Guillemot/Hercules, Leadtek, and ELSA, OCZ knew it would have to set itself apart from the others if it wanted to wow anyone with its GeForce3 offering. And having evaluated and tested the card, we can say that we were sufficiently wowed. Choosing to cater to people who want to squeeze every last frame per second out of whatever video card they're using, and who are willing to void their warrantees to do so, OCZ has created a GeForce3 card built specifically with overclockers in mind, as this is the target market of most of their products."
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(Reuters) Toshiba Corp, Japan's biggest chipmaker, said Monday it will cut 18,800 jobs -- almost solely in Japan -- and streamline its sprawling industrial empire by March 2004 as it faces its worst net loss ever. The company, which now expects a net loss of 115 billion yen ($957 million) for the year to next March after projecting a 60 billion yen profit just four months ago, will also consolidate or close six of its 21 domestic plants over the same period. The job cut total represents 10 percent of the global workforce, the firm said.
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ZD Net has a new article discussing Fujitsu who is on the verge of breaking the 100-gigabit barrier on hard drive capacity. Several of the leading hard-drive manufacturers have been professing that they have been innovating technologies that will allow them to store more than 100 gigabits per square inch on a platter, the current ceiling for storage density. 
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ATI Technologies Inc. has unveiled POWERPLAY, a new technology that extends notebook battery life using a number of techniques, including scaling GPU (graphics processor unit) clock speeds and voltage settings. POWERPLAY technology will be featured in notebooks powered by ATI's new MOBILITY RADEON 7500 graphics processor.

Independent benchmark tests concluded that the POWERPLAY-enabled MOBILITY RADEON 7500 can extend DVD playback by 25 percent or more compared to competing solutions,'' said David Cummings, Group Product Manager, Mobile Business Unit, ATI Technologies Inc. ``On a typical system, this will extend battery life by more than 30 minutes, making it possible, for example, to watch a full-length feature movie on an air flight without running out of battery power.
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(Reuters) - Reaching a long-sought goal in computing research, scientists have created a computer circuit based on a single molecule, which could lead one day to far smaller and faster computer chips that use less power. International Business Machines Corp. said Sunday that its researchers have built a logic circuit -- a set of electronic components that performs a processing function -- based on a tiny cylindrical structure made up of carbon atoms that is about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. The breakthrough is IBM's second this year using the molecules called carbon nanotubes as semiconductors, making them an increasingly viable alternative to silicon, which forms the base of current chips, IBM said.
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