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New MSI CrossFire motherboard to hit market in mid-November.

Micro-Star International (MSI) today introduced the RD480 Neo2, an AMD Socket-939 motherboard that supports ATI Technologies" CrossFire dual-graphics technology, with volume shipments slated for the middle of November. While Nvidia"s SLI requires two graphics card, ATI"s CrossFire uses the PCI Express (PCIe) bus to allow more flexibility and improve performance, according to MSI.

Lite-On IT said to ship 18x LightScribe DVD burners to HP in November.

While Lite-On IT is expected to start shipping 18x DVD burners to Hewlett-Packard (HP) this month, the growing tension in competition between Lite-On IT, Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) and Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) facilitated OEM prices to further drop, according to sources at Taiwan-based optical disk drive (ODD) makers. The sources detailed that this month, Lite-On IT starts shipping internal (940i) and external (model 940e) models of 18x DVD burners to HP.

Sun counts on AMD's Opteron to grow workstation business.

Santa Clara (CA) - Sun today launched three new workstation models: There are two AMD Opteron models, which, the company hopes, will increase its target market. The third new workstation is based on the Sparc processor and isn"t expected to reach many new customers: Instead, Sun believes the Ultra 45 will keep its existing 64-bit crowd happy.

Microsoft Officially Names Cloud-base Operating System "Windows Azure".

MicrosoftтЂ™s cloud-based operating system, originally referred to as тЂ˜Windows CloudтЂ™ has finally gotten is official name тЂ“ Azure. The Azure Services Platform is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, to provide an operating system and developer services that can be used individually or together.

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