Sep 2, 2010

Samsung breathes life into dying wireless USB standard

Announces new high-speed, low-power chipset

AH YES, WIRELESS USB, hands up everyone that’s using it – right, never mind then. Well, it seems like Samsung is trying to breathe new life into what so far has been a mostly useless extension of the USB standard by introducing a new chipset which is set to boost speed and lower power usage. Hopefully it also features a built in microscopic nuclear reactor so the remote device doesn’t need any additional power.
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Sep 2, 2010

GeForce GTS 450 benchmarks slips out early

Full set available for your viewing pleasure

MOST WEBSITES TEND to stick to NDAs they sign, but from time to time people slip up and this seems to be the case of some early Nvidia GTS 450 benchmarks that were posted over at Xtreme Systems. It’s not clear where the details come from, although some of the pictures of the card are watermarked with the word overclock, but we’re fairly certain that Nvidia are none too happy with this leak.
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Sep 1, 2010

IBM launching world’s fastest microprocessor

5.2GHz chip dubbed z196 will drink your milkshake

Big Blue says that the shiny new System z10 you just installed in your basement yesterday is officially obsolete and should be relegated to household media streaming/torrent duty in the wake of its replacement.  Behold the zEnterprise System, and its central compute server the zEnterprise 196, capable of processing more instructions than your puny humanoid mind could ever dream of issuing.  Don’t look now, but your girly-man netbook just peed itself.
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Sep 1, 2010

Your next car security system might include an antivirus app

S|A recommends bicycles and tin-foil hats instead

Back in the good old days paint chips contained healthy quantities of lead, cars ran on leaded gasoline, and a lead foot directly pulled open the throttle of your hot-pink ’59 Cadillac without any pesky computers interfering.  It also meant that ‘hackers’ were limited to methods such as bricks and slim jims to steal your music.  Well, the times, they are changing.
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Aug 31, 2010

Intel’s mobile Sandy Bridge details revealed

Alongside roadmap

THOSE OF YOU that have been waiting for more details on Intel’s mobile Sandy Bridge processor are in luck, as thanks to Anandtech we now have quite a few additional details of what will be on offer. One of the main missing pieces of the puzzle was the clock speeds of the integrated graphics, but it turns out that there’s another surprise on store for us that had yet to be revealed.
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Aug 30, 2010

Lucid Hydra gets official on graphics cards

With some help from PowerColor

LUCID’S HYDRA HAS yet to prove itself as a replacement for either CrossFire or SLI, but today Lucid announced a new solution which might see the company gaining some more ground. Lucid’s new Unity graphics card design looks set to change the way that the Hydra chips have been used so far, as by moving the Hydra chips to the graphics card, the motherboard is no longer a limiting factor.
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Aug 27, 2010

Sandy Bridge gets thoroughly benchmarked

Clears up some of the confusion, wows in the graphics department

THE FIRST IN-DEPTH benchmarks of Sandy Bridge have appeared courtesy of Anandtech and it looks like Intel has done more than just a few tweaks to Clarkdale and has managed to come up with something quite impressive. Not only is the new CPU core a big improvement over Clarkdale, but Intel has really delivered on its promise to boost the graphics performance by two times that of Clarkdale. Some explanations as to how Sandy Bridge will overclock is also provided, but this is unlikely to make everyone happy.
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