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MSI Readies Latest N9800GT and N9500GT Series Graphics Cards

MSI proudly unveils its latest N9800GT and N9500GT series graphics cards. Both MSI N9800GT and N9500GT series are perfect combination of performance and price, either for graphics-hungry gaming or HD movie playback usage model. The SLI-Ready MSI N9800GT series comes with 112 processor cores and a 256-bit high speed frame buffer. You can enjoy industry-leading features such as NVIDIA PhysX technology that brings your games to real and HybridPower for optimal power management. And with MSI N9500GT Series goodness, you can enjoy the best 3D experience in Windows Vista and watch the finest high-definition movie with lowest power draw.

NVIDIA HybridPower and PhysX Ready

MSI N9800GT series supports the NVIDIA PhysX technology which enables a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience. With the power of the N9800GT GPUs’ unified architecture and NVIDIA’s new GPU PhysX technology, you can experience convincing facial animation, multiple ultra?high polygon characters in complex environments, and fully simulated physical effects such as weather and explosions that deliver a truly immersive and dynamic 3D gaming experience. MSI N9800GT series graphics card brings your 3D games to life.

NVIDIA HybridPower technology delivers graphics performance when you need it and low power operation when you don’t. HybridPower technology lets you switch from your MSI N9800GT series graphics card to your high quality MSI K9N2 series motherboard GPU when running less graphically intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience.

Up to 3X performance increase over last-gen

With MSI N9500GT series, playing the latest immersive PC games won’t cost you a bundle. Get the most gaming horsepower ever released in a graphics card and experience popular gaming titles with up to a 3X performance increase over the comparable 8 Series GPU – GeForce 8500GT.

Native HDMI interface built-in ready for extreme HD playback

MSI N9500GT series provides a premium 512MB and 1GB larger graphics frame buffer and also supports native HDMI interface. With MSI’s all new N9500GT-MD512 and N9500GT-MD1G series graphics cards, you can experience extremely high quality audio and video enjoyment without any hassle or installation.

Outstanding Omni-directional curving grooves

MSI N9500GT series applies the best air conducting heatsink design, the omni-directional curving grooves. Through precise calculation, the omni-directional curved grooves design extends air contacting surface than straight-line groove by an enhancing rate of 30%. Also, it makes airflow cover nearly all the components onboard and spread airstreams evenly in chassis, resulting to a much better heat balance effect than normal cooler.

Unisantis and Institute of Microelectronics to Jointly Develop Breakthrough Three-Dimensional Transistor in Singapore

World-class Japanese technologist Fujio Masuoka to spearhead team for developing Surrounding Gate Transistor

A breakthrough transistor – the fundamental building block of integrated circuit (IC) chips used in electronic devices – that promises a significant increase in computing power will be engineered in Singapore.

Leading technology research and development company Unisantis Electronics (Japan) Ltd and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) today announced a collaborative research agreement to develop the world’s first three-dimensional transistor locally.

A team of researchers will be assembled in Singapore to develop the device, known as the Surrounding Gate Transistor (SGT). The agreement represents a world coup for Singapore that puts the country firmly on the global stage for cutting-edge semiconductor research.

The team will be headed by Unisantis’ chief technology officer Fujio Masuoka. A world-renowned scientist, Prof Masuoka invented the flash memory storage format that allows handheld gadgets like digital cameras and MP3 players to retain stored information even after they are switched off. He has also been involved in the research and development into numerous types of computing memory devices, including programmable read-only memory and random access memory.

According to Prof Masuoka, the SGT comprises a vertical silicon pillar surrounded by memory cells, electrical contacts and other components. Such a design methodology greatly reduces the distance that electrons – which transmit information-bearing electrical signals – must travel within the SGT.

Next-generation IC chips fabricated with the SGT could be up to 10 times faster than existing chips built using conventional, two dimensional transistors with horizontally-arranged components. In addition, SGT-based chips could generate less heat and cost less to produce compared to existing ones.

“The SGT also allows further improvements in silicon-based semiconductors, in terms of transistor size and processing speed, for at least 30 more years before the theoretical limits are reached. Such improvements are necessary for new-generation IC chips to meet the computing power demanded by IT products and computing networks of ever-increasing functionality and complexity,” said Prof Masuoka, who has been awarded the prestigious 2007 Medal with Purple Ribbon by Emperor Akihito of Japan and the 2005 Innovation Award by The Economist.

With the Unisantis-IME collaboration, Prof Masuoka – who has been working on the SGT for 20 years – will bring his considerable expertise in semiconductor electronics and related fields to Singapore