Taiwan-based Tul, which specializes in ATI-based graphic cards, on October 3 announced that its PowerColor X1650 PRO has been selected by the World Cyber Games (WCG) to be the official graphics card for the finals from October 18-22. Top gamers from 70 countries will be at the Autodromo Nazionale of Monza, in Italy, to compete for titles in FIFA Soccer 06...

Toshiba on October 2 unveiled a slim HD DVD drive for notebooks, the SD-L902A, that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs with sample shipments of the new drive scheduled to start by year-end.

Optoma recently introduced four new DLP (digital light processing) business-use front projectors in the Taiwan market with three of the new models featuring XGA resolution (1,024×768), according to the company.

Panasonic has unveiled what it claims is the world's first Blu-ray Disc (BD) recorders that can play back BD-Video discs. The Blu-ray DIGA DMR-BW200 and DMR-BR100 can record high-definition (HD) imagery on BD-RE rewritable discs and dub from the built-in hard-disk drive (HDD) to BD discs at 4x speed without compromising video or audio quality, according to the company...

Micro Star International (MSI) on September 19 unveiled its P965 Platinum motherboard, which the company claims is the industry's first motherboard based on Intel's P965 chipsets supporting ATI Technologies' CrossFire dual-card graphics technology for the gaming market.

LG.Philips LCD announced on September 14 that it has developed what it claims is the industry's first TFT LCD panel for next-generation mobile phones.

Pioneer on September 14 announced the introduction of a series of new digital tuner-supported DVD recorders for the Japanese market. These new DVD recorders with built-in hard disk drives (HDDs) are slated to launch in Japan during mid-October to November, according to the company.

Leading display vendors such as Hitachi, Sharp, Sony and Envision are highlighting a full range of new LCD TVs, PDP (plasma display panel) TVs and front projectors that support full high-definition TV (HDTV) signals at CEDIA EXPO 2006 in Denver, Colorado, US (September 14-17, 2006).

Samsung Electronics today announced it has developed what it claims is the industry's first 40nm memory device. The new 32Gbit NAND flash device is the first memory to incorporate a charge trap flash (CTF) architecture, a new approach to further increase manufacturing efficiency while greatly improving performance, according to Samsung.

High Tech Computer (HTC) on September 7 unveiled four new smart devices for worldwide sale starting in the fourth quarter of this year.