While HDD vendors are still pushing areal density limits, SSD manufacturers seem to be kicking back and soaking in the profits associated with a cutting edge technology. Unsatisfied with the lack of innovation in the space, a team from Keio University has developed an inductive coupling wireless communication technology, which is used within a solid state drive composed of “three-dimensionally layered 64 NAND flash memory chips.” The development is being highlighted at ISSCC 2009, and it’s bruited that drives constructed using this tech can operate with 50 percent less power compared to traditional SSDs.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Engadget
Inductive Coupling Slashes Ssd Power Consumption
Elgato EyeTV DTT Deluxe TV Tuner Review
Work, work, work, that’s probably all you do on your MacBook. Well Elgato want you to have some downtime with a tiny TV tuner that you can plug into a spare USB socket, allowing you to kick off your shoes and relax. But does it work? We get watching to find out.
As the MacBook doesn’t, like some PC laptops, have a TV tuner built-in, Elgato has stepped into the breach with the DTT Deluxe, a reworking of its DTT model just considerably smaller.
Instead of the big hunks of plastic you got at the turn of the century, the EyeTV DTT Deluxe TV tuner micro-stick is the size of a small USB drive no bigger than your thumb. With a device that small, understandably features on the hardware are kept to a minimum. There is an aerial out to fit one of three options in the box (small, large and house) and a light so you can see what is going on and that’s it.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ PocketLint
Lab Update - ASRock X58 Review
We had mentioned the ASRock X58 SuperComputer motherboard a couple of weeks ago and received numerous questions about it. We just wanted to provide a quick update today on our progress so far with the board. ASRock just released a new BIOS that has the board performing well. We have four NVIDIA GTX260-216 cards working on the board and performance is basically the same as boards with the NF200 bridge chipset in our test applications.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ AnandTech
Partners To Demo Several “New” Geforce Cards At Cebit
Nvidia’s AIC partners plan to unveil several “new” cards during CeBIT; GeForce GTX 260 card based on the revised P897 PCB, GeForce GTS 250 with a revised PCB, 9600GT and GSO “Green Edition”, GeForce 9800 GT “Green” Edition. Note that Nvidia will not be marketing those cards as Green Editions but will just be naming them as it is now. Probably, you will see the GeForce GTS 240 card too which is slated for April and the GT218 card if you are lucky. The above photo is the new Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 card using Freezer X2 cooler with DHT technology. Fudzilla said the card features a 6-phase power design and its cooler is based on 3 heatpipes that are in direct contact with the GPU cooled by 2 fans.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ VrZone
QNAP Unveils Intel Core 2 Duo, 8-Bay, 16TB iSCSI NAS - TS-809 Pro
Definitively made for PROs or any one owning a Server, tis 16TB Core 2 Duo iSCSI NAS from QNAP is a real little wonder. The TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS has 8 bay giving you the possibility to store up to 8 2TB HDDs, giving you a total of 16TB of Space. Power by a Core 2 Duo CPU a 2.4GHz with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, you will be capable to get amazing read and write speed of 126MB/s (read) and 111MB/s (write). Now the cherry on top of the cake is the iSCSI Capability of our NAS, it will give you real freedom and performance on where and how you want to use this little baby…
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ AkihabaraNews
Asus Eee Top Review
The Eee has evolved again into a neat Apple iMac-like desktop PC, but where the £200 Eee Box offered a barebones approach, the Eee Top is a PC/monitor combo with touchscreen input.
The original Eee netbook was impressive enough, but the Eee Top trumps it technologically: it’s a fully fledged and stylish desktop with a tiny footprint – perfect for the lounge or kitchen as a second PC.
We loved the system’s looks and build-quality, and were pleasantly surprised by the resilience of the chassis. However, the Eee Top is all about the screen and at this affordable price point it’s heartening to see that not only is it bright and clear, with an unusual resolution of 1,366 x 768, its touch capabilities are every bit as good as the best smartphones or tablet PCs around.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ TechRadar
MWC: LG At MWC 2009
Ok everyone, just a little warm-up here for the MWC in Spain, and here you are almost all LG’s Line-up in one shot JUST for you ! Now do not worry we will cover some Key announcement and product Live from the MWC, since our very own Cutkillavince is their along the event… So here you are the teaser, now we will have to wait for “Cut” to get us some live pictures of these babies (The phones, not the girls).
Source : AkihabaraNews
World’s First 32NM ARM Processor Announced
Approximately one week after Santa Clara, California-based Intel detailed its plans to accelerate the adoption of the 32nm manufacturing technology, chip maker ARM has just announced the introduction of the world’s first ARM processor designed on a 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology. The company’s first ever 32nm Cortex family processor core, built with an ARM Physical IP, will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company has also announced that its partners will be able to use the technology for upcoming devices slated for release in early 2010.
“This silicon proof is a key step in our roadmap to demonstrate the technical synergy between leading ARM processors, ARM Physical IP and the Common Platform process technology that delivers best-in-class performance, lowest power consumption and rapid time-to-market,” said Ian Drew, EVP Marketing, ARM. “It also shows that we are fully committed to affording our Partners the earliest possible opportunity to deploy ARM technology, in particular the Cortex-A9 processor and future processors, on the 32/28nm process.”
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ SoftPedia
NVIDIA’s Ion Platform: Performance Preview
I called it an ugly looking reference machine. So NVIDIA came back and painted it white. It worked for Apple after all, right?
As much as I can appreciate beauty, what truly matters here is what’s on the inside and that’s what NVIDIA gave me the opportunity to do over this past week. If you haven’t already seen it, what I’m talking about is NVIDIA’s Ion reference platform. In a nutshell it’s Intel’s Atom processor paired with NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M chipset.
I first brought you news of Ion in the middle of December 2008. It was delivered in the ugly box mentioned above. It seemed cool, it worked, but I only spent a few hours with it and wasn’t able to benchmark it.
Our next encounter was at CES. NVIDIA called me up to its hotel room and offered the opportunity to benchmark an overly spec’d Ion box against a standard netbook boasting a much lighter config. That didn’t work out so well.
Silverstone Raven: A New Concept In Case Cooling Review
Silverstone has had some interesting innovations for its customers, for example the FT01 designed for optimal cooling using positive air pressure. Today we are looking at another new cooling concept from Silverstone. Just as positive air pressure is nothing revolutionary — search through any tech forums and you’re likely to see some discussions about the topic — the new concept with this case is that Silverstone change the direction the motherboard faces. Instead of having the I/O ports on the back, they will now be at the top of the case. If that immediately makes you worry about wires cluttering things up, don’t: Silverstone has a cover to help keep the look clean.
The case looks like it came directly from the Transformer factory, and that’s likely something you will either love or hate. Silverstone told us that the general feedback from customers so far is very good, and since the case is already available they apparently have sales to back up that statement
MSI Launch Its All-In-One Wind NetOn In Japan
Early January and for the CES, MSI announced its new All-In-One Desktop PC the Wind NetOn, powered by an ATOM CPU. And guess what, Now it seems that Japan will have the pleasure (figure of speech) to get this little baby too, the AE1900-WH.
With a price tag at around 60000 Yen (Around 500€) you will get a 19” Desktop with a 1366×768 resolution, 1GB of RAM, an Intel 945GC Express video chipset, an Atom 230, 160GB of HDD, DVD super multi and XP Home Edition.
Source : AkihabaraNews
Gigabyte Mainboards for Core i7 Processors: GA-EX58-UD5 and GA-EX58-Extreme Review
In November 2008 Intel started selling processors and chipsets for their new LGA1366 platform. WE have already posted a number of articles discussing the new systems and their peculiarities. This is definitely the article called First Look at Nehalem Microarchitecture with the theoretical discussion of the innovations in the new platform; then the article called New Hit from Remake King: Intel Core i7 Review that is devoted to the practical aspects of the new platform. At last, the article called Intel Core i7-920 Overclocking Guide tells you not only about the succession of actions during successful system overclocking, but also reveals the potential of its components in specific experiments. In particular, the article talks about ASUS P6T Deluxe mainboard.
I strongly recommend to check out these materials if you haven’t done it yet, because there is a lot of useful info in them. Anyway, I will refer to these articles multiple times throughout our today’s review. Our today’s article continues a series of reviews of the new platforms: we are going to talk about two new mainboards from Gigabyte: GA-EX58-UD5 and GA-EX58-Extreme. It makes perfect sense to combine these two mainboards within a single article because they have a lot of common traits and very few insignificant differences.
Corsair Dominator GT Review
Corsair officially announced the launch of their new Dominator GT line of ultra high-performance DDR3 memory modules for Intel’s Core i7-based systems yesterday.
The Dominator GT series features a new red and black color scheme that is actually attractive. The GT modules feature Corsair’s next-generation Dual-path Heat eXchange (DHX) technology. The revised DHX technology includes a single-piece heat-sink and removable cooling fins. The removable fins allow multiple cooling options for the Dominator GT modules, including water cooling, as well as a custom-designed thermoelectric cooling system to actively cool the modules to as low as 20C below ambient temperature for maximum overclockability. Corsair ships the kits with their Airflow fan systems at this time.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ AnandTech
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