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VIA Announces K8N800A Mobile Chipset:

VIA today announced the VIA K8N800A, a high-performance, low-power IGP chipset optimized for the upcoming AMD Turion™ 64 mobile technology, as well as the complete range of Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 and Mobile AMD Sempron™ processors. Delivering all the performance, connectivity and advanced power management needed for next generation thin and light, high-performance notebooks, the VIA K8N800A would be ideally suited to support notebook PCs powered by the forthcoming AMD Turion™ 64 mobile technology.

Intel To Acquire Oplus:

Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Oplus Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of video processing products and technologies for digital television and digital displays. The acquisition would provide Intel with access to valuable technology, expertise and products that complement the company's offerings of standards-based silicon and software for the growing consumer electronics market segment.

NVIDIA Unleashes 6800 Go Ultra:

NVIDIA Corporation, a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today introduced the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU. Available immediately, the Dell Inspiron™ XPS Gen2 is the first notebook with the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU and features unprecedented notebook gaming performance—achieving more than two times the performance of the previous Inspiron XPS, based on industry-standard benchmarks .