ONE OF THE things that have been holding the development of USB 3.0 peripherals back to a degree, at least beyond various storage devices, have been down to lack of a what would be considered a fairly simple component, namely a peripheral controller.
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In a bit of good news from the Japanese earthquake, the DRAM maker Elpida seems to have escaped damage with only power loss related shutdowns. Given the overwhelming scope of the tragedy, this is about as good an outcome as you could hope for.
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TWITTER MIGHT VERY well just have p’d off a large chunk of its developer network by issuing a statement today telling developers to stop developing custom Twitter clients.
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IT LOOKS LIKE LucidLogix is getting close to the final version of its Virtu GPU virtualization software as the company has not only announced further refinements to Virtu today, but also a download-able trial version for those that want to get a taste of things to come.
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Nvidia’s problem with honesty has cropped up again, and once again, Jen-Hsun Huang showed off something that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
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AMD’s Antilles dual GPU card, now known as the HD6990 is finally here, and it is the fastest card money can buy, period. There is only one problem, and unfortunately it is a showstopper.
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VLI DIDN’T TELL us too much about future products in our Q&A with them last year, but now we’ve gotten our hands on some details covering three upcoming products from the company of which all are rather interesting.
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RUMOURS ABOUT HP looking at selling its PC business have been circulating for the past few days, although the company has finally responded to the rumours and are calling them “Irresponsible reporting by Taiwan’s Commercial Times”.
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WE’RE STILL WAITING for details of AMD’s upcoming high-end APUs and CPUs to leak, but details of AMD’s upcoming E-series processors have appeared on the interweb.
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BACK IN OCTOBER we reported that Renesas was readying a pair of new USB 3.0 host controllers and the company announced both of the new models today.
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WE’VE SEEN ALL sorts of DisplayLink implementations over the past few years ranging from simple USB to display interface adapters to monitors and docking stations.
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NO WONDER NOKIA’S CEO Stephen Elop was so excited at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona where he spoke about billions of dollars coming Nokia’s way from Microsoft thanks to Windows Phone 7, as it turns out that Microsoft is giving Nokia in excess of $1 billion in what is being said to be promotional and product development funds.
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THE FIRST LOT of Sandy Bridge notebooks with dual core processors are finally starting to trickle out and Lenovo’s range of 12.5-inch ThinkPad’s has made a semi-official appearance today thanks to a couple of PDFs that Lenovo has posted on its website, despite an obvious lack of products on its website.
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THERE’S NO SECRET that Western Digital have been on the lookout to buy one of its competitors for quite some time and it has now happened, as the company has made an agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, also known as HGST.
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GOOGLE’S VP8 VIDEO codec has stirred things up quite a bit already, but it seems like the US Justice Department took a dim view to the MPEG LA snooping around in the VP8 codec to see if it’s breeching any of their patents and have now launched an antitrust probe against the MPEG LA.
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