AMD WAS SHOWING OFF its 6-core Thuban CPU at CeBIT along with its 890 chipset. The good news is the showing, the bad news is that it wasn’t saying anything about it.
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NORMALLY WE WOULDN’T bother posting news about a CPU cooler on its own, but this is pretty big news, as Intel appears to have gotten rid of its traditional round coolers that have shipped with its retail CPU’s for quite a few years by now. Although this only applied to the upcoming Core i7 980XE, it’s still a move in the right direction.
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CORSAIR HAS SOME new toys at CeBIT along the usual lines of flash, memory and power supplies. Nothing was revolutionary, but all were updated in some useful ways.
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IF YOU WANTED to see AMD’s upcoming Magny-Cours boards or 4 GPU compute platforms at CeBIT, SuperMicro was the place to be. That is only the short list though, there were a lot of other interesting bits all over its corner at Hannover.
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ONE PART that Thermaltake has been getting a lot of press for is the new Fermi GTX480 certified case, a variant of its mainstream Element V case. Other than the day-glo green trim, how does it differ from the normal ElementV? Let’s take a look.
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AH, BLUETOOTH THAT ubiquitous standard that we all use, or do we? Well, either which way, Bluetooth 4.0 is on its way and should arrive just in time for that cheerful gift buying season of the year. Yup, that’s right, another year, another Bluetooth standard.
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NOTEBOOKS HAVE ALWAYS involved a trade off between performance and battery life, but it looks like Intel will be getting close to finding a fine balance between the two later this month, when it’s set to launch its ULV version of the Calpella mobile platform.
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WHAT DO YOU get when you cross Apple, Siemens and Sisvel with the German police at CeBIT? Raids of course, with lots of police, lawyers, and people stripping booths clean of everything electronic.
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IT DIDN’T TAKE long before pictures of the GTX470 card without a heatsink appeared, following the tantalizing pictures of the GTX480 that came out on Tuesday. However, what’s even more interesting is that early benchmark figures have finally leaked and it’s not looking good for Nvidia.
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SOUTHERN TAIWAN was hit by a 6.4 earthquake this morning local time which led to all sorts of disruptions in the southern parts of the island. The good news is that no one was seriously hurt, but the quake cause a lot of damage to buildings and infrastructure.
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TRENDNET HAD TWO neat devices at CeBIT, a travel router and a 3G to WiFi router. While neither one is unique, both had features to set them apart from the pack.
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THERE ARE A lot of ‘green’ devices that pop up every day, most of which are about as green as an old coal power plant built on an environmentally sensitive wetland. At CeBIT, a small Korean company called HiSaver showed off a green power strip that actually makes a lot of sense.
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ALTHOUGH A BIT later than some of its competitors, Asus has announced its own AMD 890GX board, the M4A89GTD PRO. However, compared to just about everyone else, Asus claims to have one killer feature, CPU core unlocking.
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IS THIS THE final blow for the good old hard drive? Western Digital has as of today launched two SSD models, the SiliconEdge Blue which is a consumer model and the SiliconDrive N1x which targets data centers and various vertical markets.
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MOST PEOPLE were amazed by Nvidia’s Q409 results. How could it reap that much profit when it doesn’t have any competitive high-end GPU products on the market? The answer is right in Nvidia’s statements and the key is to understand what supply constraint means.
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