Nostalgeek 2001 (13) : 3dfx, Western Digital, Matrox

Although nothing interesting, if motherboards are legions at CeBIT, new are rare. Single point interesting: Intel shows a Pentium 4 2 GHz processor on its stand. And not a Northwood 130 nm but a "simple" Willamette 180 nm.In 2011, the race for the frequency has resumed, with processors approaching (again) the 4 GHz, while this limit was close in 2005 with a Pentium 4.



3dfx, it's really over. NVIDIA bought part of the assets, the rest disappears. Players are sad. During this time, Matrox Announces a new card: not a Parhelia 2, a Millennium G450... in PCI. The followers of the multiscreen love.


In 2011, the only thing which remains of 3dfx is the SLI name, reused by NVIDIA. And of course some players the time of the Glide Nostalgeek. And for those who like to install several screens, there are powerful cards to manage six screens. The PCI was replaced by PCI-Express x 1 for appoints graphics cards.Western Digital has announced a range of hard drives 7 200 rpm with a record density: 27 GB per platter. It is therefore possible to offer fast hard drives with a capacity of 80 GB, which is huge. After Sony, it is the turn of TDK to propose a technology increasing the capacity of the CD - R: ML discs can store 2 GB on a media 12 cm in diameter.


In 2011, high range hard drives are 3 To and announced at CeBIT 2011 trays are 1 To. In optical discs, DVD (4.7 then 8.5 GB) then the Blu - ray disc (25 and 50 GB) have replaced the CD and this type of media tends to disappear for the benefit of the flash memory or external hard drives.

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