Canyon motherboard CN-9I6PEA-L won a Strongly Recommended award in the group test of motherboards in April's issue of Personal Computer World magazine - Bulgaria.

Toshiba Corporation confirmed its leadership in the fast growing market for 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDD) with the announcement of the MK1031GAS, the highest capacity drive yet achieved in this increasingly important form factor.

The Mobile PC market became the fastest growing segment of the computer market due to consumers' desire for mobility. According to a recently released report from The NPD Group's point-of-sale tracking service, May 2003 marked the first time that the dollar sales of notebook computers sold, surpassed the sales of desktop computers in U.S. retailers. Gartner analysts say, that over the next three years a 40 percent increase is expected in the mobile PC business, and in 2007 mobile PC shipments will equal traditional desktop computers shipments worldwide.

Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the immediate availability of a 1 GB CompactFlash. Elite Pro. card featuring the latest in high-density flash components. Kingston’s newest 1 GB CompactFlash Elite Pro provides a low, price per megabyte solution of reliable, high-speed media.

Iomega Corporation began shipping the exciting new Iomega® REV™ 35GB/90GB drive, bringing proven hard drive reliability and performance to the world of removable storage. As an alternative to tape and other backup and archiving solutions, Iomega’s new REV drive and 35GB removable REV disks deliver state-of-the-art server and desktop backup, while also providing businesses and home users with the ideal portable storage device for sharing and archiving large files.

Intel Corporation announced a new family of processors based on Intel XScale® technology that can handle multiple forms of wireless broadband access with enough computing power to provide cell phones with full motion video conferencing capabilities and PDAs with DVD-quality video playback.

If you are in the market for a DVD burner, the Lite-On SOHW-812S DVD±R/RW is a great choice that will only get better when the faster –RW media shows up.

Seagate Technology revealed its latest industry-first demonstration showing interoperability between multiple Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) disc drives all running within the same storage array. With the ability to freely mix SAS and SATA drives in a shared SAS-based system, IT Managers will be able to use high-performance SAS drives for high-transaction and mission-critical data environments while simultaneously taking advantage of lower-cost-per-gigabyte SATA drives for the storage of non mission-critical reference data.

Intel Corporation introduced four processors for mobile PCs. The enhanced capabilities of these processors will enable end users to enjoy great mobile performance and extended battery life in thin-and-light notebooks.

LiteOn IT Corp. releases its latest ATAPI / E-IDE 8x DVD Dual Drive with all of the fastest DVD recordable media support: SOHW-832S. This DVD Dual Drive is able to write DVD+R & DVD-R media at 8x maximum, rewrite DVD+RW & DVD-RW media at 4x, and read DVD-ROM media at 12x maximum. It takes around 10 minutes to backup 4.7 GB data on a certified DVD+R / DVD-R media at 8x.

Emphasizing interoperability and an end-to-end product family strategy, LSI Logic Storage Standard Products division announced an expanded Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) product sampling program. The HBA SAS sampling extends the opportunity for system, server and workstation equipment manufacturers to test with the first fully functional SAS host bus adapter available in the market today. SAS technology extends SCSI interface solutions beyond Ultra320 allowing data-intensive applications and the Direct Attach Storage (DAS) markets to gain enhanced performance and scalability.

SAS and Intel Corporation announced the immediate availability of SAS®9 on Intel-based servers and clients. Intel's joint effort with SAS expands on years of collaboration between the two companies and will help users expand business intelligence throughout the enterprise by using SAS 9 running on Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based servers and Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology-based notebooks.

ASBIS takes an active part in a series of Intel Channel Conferences running throughout EMEA region. We are presenting our Complete Mobile Solution, a comprehensive set of products and services for mobile PC manufacturing. A special offer for IPIs is valid for the event's attendies: 10% DISCOUNT on the first mobile PC bare bone order placed at ASBIS. Please ask ASBIS local representatives for the details.