A FEW MORE tidbits about Sandisk and their single chip SATA SSD, plus another toy. Nothing major, just fleshing out their lineup.
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GIGABYTE HAS TWO more boards in their G1.Killer line, both below the G1.Assassin. They are called the G1.Sniper and the G1.Guerilla.
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AMD IS SHOWING how to do wireless displays right, unlike the broken WiDi from Intel. ViVu, software from a company with the same name, seems to have none of the badly broken bits of WiDi, and a lot more benefits.
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FOR THE BOMBSHELL of the day, how about a big new player in the mobo business? Who? Pegatron. What? A Brazos/Ontario/Zacate/Snooki motherboard.
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LACIE IS DOING a USB3 flash drive that is really a SATA SSD in a small box. On top of that, they are re-doing their entire line to add USB3 support.
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MOTION HAD THE first production Oak Trail tablet at CES, and it shows a lot of potential. Barring one crippling flaw, it looks head and shoulders above the ARM field.
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SAPPHIRE WAS SHOWING off the first of their new breed of Brazos mobos. Remember the team that they poached from EVGA? Now you know what they have been up to.
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CAVIUM WAS SHOWING off their wireless video codecs at CES, basically a low latency video streaming technology. It uses a fairly unique way of encrypting frames to minimize latency.
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SANDISK WAS SHOWING off a very unique product at CES, a SATA SSD on a chip. No, not a flash chip, but a full flash chip plus SATA interface on a single piece of silicon.
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QUANTENNA WAS SHOWING off their latest silicon pre-CES, a 4×4 MIMO 802.11n chip. If you are into high bandwidth, interference resistance, and beamforming, you might want to take a look at their silicon.
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AMD PUT OUT the new 6000M line of mobile GPUs today, half of which are all new Northern Islands based parts. The other half are 5000M/Evergreen chips with a shiny new name badge.
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SANDY BRIDGE WAS shaping up to be the killer CPU of the year, a huge step forward in the ‘uncore’, decent graphics and big gains in the core as well. Instead, we got broken graphics, non-working feature sets, and a showstopper bug. What a shattering disappointment.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux
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A FEW DAYS ago, GloFo’s Ian McNaughton has left the high tech world to spend time with his family. While this is normally code for “I got fired before I had a new job lined up”, this is one occasion where we actually believe that he means it.
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INTEL’S SANDY BRIDGE is days away from launch, but the big news this week is the massive changes to the next generation Ivy Bridge. If Intel manages to get their drivers in order, it could destroy the entire low end GPU market.
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TRUST ME WHEN I say that things catching on fire, like your laptop while you are in bed, are much funnier when they happen to someone else. I say trust me because my Sony Vaio laptop did catch fire while I was in bed about a week ago.
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