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Hardware

01 Jul
Hardware
Aureal Multimedia Speaker Products Announced

Aureal a leader in digital audio imaging, says it plans a Fall 1999 introduction of high-quality speaker products.

June 1999
28 Jun
Hardware
AMD-K6-2E processor Shipped

AMD-K6-2E processor is now moving into players' hands.

28 Jun
Hardware
3dfx Voodoo3 Best-Selling Retail Boards

3dfx Interactive today announced its Voodoo3 family of graphics accelerator boards continue to rank as the hottest selling video cards in retail stores throughout North America.

28 Jun
Hardware
Matrox sales of $550 million in 1998/99

The privately held Matrox group of companies. Of that total, Matrox Graphics accounts for US$473 million and Matrox Electronic Systems for US$77 million.

25 Jun
Hardware
Intel CA810 Motherboard Announced

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel CA810 motherboard, a wide and cost-effective solution for systems integrators that supports the Intel Celeron processor and brings both high-quality 3-D graphics and on-board audio to the value PC segment.

24 Jun
Hardware
Rio 500 Shipping

Rio 500 is now moving into players' hands. The next generation in portable Internet audio players has arrived.

23 Jun
Hardware
AMD Athlon Processor Shipped

AMD announced it has commenced shipments of its new seventh-generation microprocessor, the AMD Athlon processor, to computer manufacturers.

22 Jun
Hardware
Gravis Destroyer Joystick Announced

Gravis, a world leader in game controllers, now arms the novice with an easy-to-use, high-quality yet value-priced joystick for beginners, Destroyer PC joystick.

21 Jun
Hardware
Yamaha XG-Quad Digital Sound Card Announced

The XG-Quad Digital sound card from Yamaha takes PC audio to new levels of excellence. The XG-Quad features 4-channel sound, with 64 XG voices in hardware.