WHEN I FIRST saw the product that Adaptec is calling MaxIQ at CeBIT in March, it looked interesting, but was overwhelmed by the 5Z ultracapacitor backed RAID card. Now that Adaptec has let out all the details, the MaxIQ SSD RAID accelerator is by far the more interesting product.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the old saying, “management gets the union it deserves” is coming to pass at Best Buy, or at least beginning to in parts of its Geek Squad division. We hear that some of them just voted by an overwhelming margin to go union.
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AS WE SAID a few days ago, Intel is launching the new Lynnfield CPUs and the P55 chipset that goes with them. The CPU comes in three desktop flavors and six server variants.
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THINGS ARE pretty tame right now as ATI and Nvidia gear up for Windows 7 and DirectX 11 SKU launches – or re-launches, in certain cases (*cough*).
GPUs still dominate the reviews as the market is currently flooded with custom, i.e., non-reference, graphics cards with unusual cooling solutions.
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IT LOOKS LIKE ATIC, one of the parents of GlobalFoundries, made a bid to buy Chartered Semiconductor. The deal has been rumored for some time, and it is now official.
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INTEL IS GOING to have a big day next Tuesday, launching three product families at once. Lynnfield, the attendant P55 chipset, and the category shaking CULV parts will all happen at the same time.
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WHEN WE HEARD the specs of Evergreen, the scene was one of jaws hanging down and people almost falling backwards into the snowy ground. The only question at that point was, could TSMC make them on the 40nm process?
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THE BATTLE FOR GPU SUPREMACY this coming winter solstice holiday season is looking like Nvidia is bringing a dull butter knife and a blindfold to a howitzer fight. At least that is the impression its latest round of roadmaps is giving.
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THIS WEEK’S hardware roundup has suffered a bit of a delay, so we’ll try and make up for lost time by putting some extra ‘oomph’ into it.
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AMD RELEASED THE last member of the Istanbul family this morning, the 40W EE version. For a six core, 1.8GHz chip, this is a pretty low power draw.
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NVIDIA IS DOING what it knows how to do best once again – not making chips, but renaming old parts into the new ‘GT300’ series. Yes, it is funny, but there is a good reason for the renaming.
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SUPER TALENT just announced a line of DIMMs it is calling ‘green’ because they use less raw materials and packaging. It’s a good idea with an attractive marketing spin for the company, but the truly important ramifications are more subtle.
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FROM THE GUYS who brought us the iPhone nudie pics and who made the unremovable MacBook battery removable, now comes the PS3 Slim tear-down.
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INTEL HAS TALKED about Becton, now called Nehalem EX, without going into many technical details. At Hot Chips 21, it is starting to talk about the guts of the chip, and it is very different from the EX-free Nehalems.
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AMD FINALLY STARTED to publicly talk about Magny-Cours and socket G34 during the Hot Chips 21 conference. The socket has a lot of complexities, so for now, we will only take a look at the interconnects, both on chip and off.
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