Archive for February, 2010
Intel Xeon Hexacore chips: $999 and in short supply?
Share Further details on Intel’s upcoming hexacore Xeon processors have surfaced, suggesting that the chips will form their own flagship line rather than replacing the existing quadcore processors. Word out on the web is that the hexacore chips will initially be in short supply – kicking off with the 3.33GHz Core i7-980X in March 2010 [...]
Super Talent Introduces USB 3.0 Express™ Drive
Share Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced the new USB 3.0 Express™ Drive. Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, this new drive supports USB 3.0 speeds of up to 125MB/s. Downloading a 600MB movie takes only a mere 12 seconds with this new drive. And [...]
Kingston intros mainstream TRIM-equipped SSDNow V
Share Kingston introduced the new SSDNow V “Value” series of solid state disk with support for the TRIM command. Performance depends on the model, the 128GB version is the fastest one with read speeds of up to 200MB/s and write speeds of up to 160MB/s. The disks are sold as stand-alone, or in special notebook [...]
AMD’s 6-core Processors to Get Dynamic Speed Boost Technology
Share Much like Intel decided to go for the per core overclokcing feature ‘Turbo boost’ AMD apprantly also will follow that trend by enabling a new feature called Dynamic Performance Boost for the upcoming Thuban (hexacore) processors.
Intel Core vPro Processor Family and PCs Announced
Share Intel Corporation today unveiled its 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes for PCs with greater, more flexible performance, theft prevention and cost savings in a rapidly changing business computing environment. These and several other capabilities are at the heart of many new Intel-based business laptop [...]
Sunbeamtech Launches SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Ready Products
Share Sunbeamtech has announced three USB 3.0 products, available by the end of this February, 2010. Products to be introduced are a two-Port USB 3.0 expansion card, HDDPAL and Airbox.
Intel Core i7-980X expected on March 16th
Share OC Workbench stipulated some information about a couple of upcoming Intel processors that will be released later this year. This includes the Core i7-980X, a new six-core Gulftown processor with a 3.33GHz clockspeed.
Hitachi aiming for 10TB drives with hot plates
Share Hitachi research and development is working on a new storage technology that is expected to increase storage density to 2.5 terabit per square inch. That’s five times the capacity of the densest hard drives of today and thus could lead towards 10 TB HDDs. Incoming search terms:Thermally assisted recordingPerpendicular Magnetic Recording Methodhigh tech modular [...]