Comment: Story doesn't mesh with reality
By Charlie Demerjian: Monday, 07 July 2008
NVIDIA'S STOCK TOOK a long overdue beating the other day, more because Wall Street is collectively horrified that it has been lied to than any fundamentals that are public. That said, the 8K keeps up the firm's tradition of honesty and integrity. The root of the problem is, so far, HP notebooks, but likely others. You can see the HP page here, and at least one lawsuit about the same thing here. No mention of this in the Nvidia statement though. Why would they? If you look at what Nvidia says, it isn't their fault, it is those damn suppliers. The official line is: "While we have not been able to determine a root cause for these failures, testing suggests a weak material set of die/package combination, system thermal management designs, and customer use patterns are contributing factors". Parsing that, you see that they are blaming fabs and packaging suppliers first, OEMs second, and those damn users third, but they have no fault here, NV can do no wrong. This is really dangerous for three reasons: they are annoying suppliers, annoying OEMs and annoying users. Last we checked, they need all three to remain in business.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Pioneer unveils 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray disc
by Thomas De Maesschalck July 07 2008
Pioneer announced it has developed a 16-layer optical disc with a capacity of 400GB but unfortunately it looks like current Blu-ray players may not be compatible with this new disc. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which is the same as that of a Blu-ray Disc (BD). This multilayer technology will also be applicable to multilayer recordable discs. This development has bolstered Pioneer's confidence in the feasibility of a large-capacity optical disc, which is expected to become necessary in the near future. For multilayer optical discs, it has been difficult to obtain clear signals from each recording layer in a stable manner due to crosstalk from adjacent layers and transmission loss. Utilizing the optical disc production technology that it has developed in the DVD field, Pioneer solved these problems by, among other things, using a disc structure that can reduce crosstalk from adjacent layers, resulting in a 16-layer optical disc that can playback high-quality signals from every layer.
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Pioneer announced it has developed a 16-layer optical disc with a capacity of 400GB but unfortunately it looks like current Blu-ray players may not be compatible with this new disc. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes, which is the same as that of a Blu-ray Disc (BD). This multilayer technology will also be applicable to multilayer recordable discs. This development has bolstered Pioneer's confidence in the feasibility of a large-capacity optical disc, which is expected to become necessary in the near future. For multilayer optical discs, it has been difficult to obtain clear signals from each recording layer in a stable manner due to crosstalk from adjacent layers and transmission loss. Utilizing the optical disc production technology that it has developed in the DVD field, Pioneer solved these problems by, among other things, using a disc structure that can reduce crosstalk from adjacent layers, resulting in a 16-layer optical disc that can playback high-quality signals from every layer.
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XP SP3 to reach most users 'shortly,' says Microsoft
Vendor plans to flip the Automatic Updates switch soon on last XP upgrade
By Gregg Keizer July 7, 2008
Microsoft Corp. today said that it would begin pushing Windows XP Service Pack 3 to most users "shortly." The announcement, made by Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft's New Zealand operations, was not unexpected, since the company had previously said that it would release Windows XP SP3 to Automatic Updates sometime in the "early summer." "We would like to remind you that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be released to Automatic Updates shortly," said MacKechnie in a post to a company blog Monday. Windows XP SP3, which was released to the general public in late April, plagued some users with problems after they updated the venerable operating system.
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By Gregg Keizer July 7, 2008
Microsoft Corp. today said that it would begin pushing Windows XP Service Pack 3 to most users "shortly." The announcement, made by Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft's New Zealand operations, was not unexpected, since the company had previously said that it would release Windows XP SP3 to Automatic Updates sometime in the "early summer." "We would like to remind you that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be released to Automatic Updates shortly," said MacKechnie in a post to a company blog Monday. Windows XP SP3, which was released to the general public in late April, plagued some users with problems after they updated the venerable operating system.
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