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DRAM contract prices drop 10 percent.

DRAM chipmakers anticipating stable February prices are in for a disappointment as contract prices are being negatively affected by a larger-than-expected drop in demand from international PC OEMs, and contract prices have fallen 10% since the latter part of January, sources said yesterday.

Iwill intros nForce Professional board.

Iwill announced a server board supporting dual AMD Opteron and PCI Express architecture, based on the NVIDIA nForceTM Professional 2200 media and communications processor. The DK8ES provides dual PCI-Express x16 slots (one with x2 bandwidth), dual Broadcom PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet controllers, AMD"s 8131 PCI-X chip, and an integrated graphics controller. The product is available immediately. (THG)

The Non-standard Powerline Networking Standard.

When is a standard not really standard? When itтЂ™s the proposed IEEE P1901 standard for powerline networking, which the IEEE Standards AssociationтЂ™s IEEE P1901 Working Group will once again take under consideration when it meets in San Francisco November 4 through 6.

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Samsung adopts ARM technology for Blu-ray player.

ARM on September 6 announced that Samsung Electronics has licensed ARM Jazelle software technology for deployment in the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc (BD) player. The ARM Jazelle Java Technology Enabling Kit (JTEK) software licensed by Samsung was originally developed for the mobile handset market.

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