VIA WAS SHOWING off two USB3 goodies at CES, an optical zero client board and a USB3 flash controller. Both look to be really big sellers in their respective fields, but you will probably never know you are using them.
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WHEN IT RAINS, it seems to pour, only this is January in Minnesota, so it is snowing and we are talking about leaks. This time, here is a much closer shot of Orochi/Bulldozer than has been released elsewhere.
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TOSHIBA HAD SOME innovative flash products on display at CES, from large capacities to small form factors. Visiting them also solved one of the biggest head scratching questions of the show.
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IT LOOKS LIKE things are heating up on the AMD front after a long period of quiet. This time around, someone sent us a picture of a Llano wafer, and we thought we would share.
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SONY HAD TWO rather hideous laptops on display at CES that caught my attention, one was hideously ugly, the other was a Brazos box. In a stunning turn of events, neither caught fire while we were in attendance.
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THE PHONE CALL came in out of the blue from a friend that works at a fruity themed company, “You at CES? Want to see something interesting?”. With those words, one of the biggest questions about the iPhone 5 was on the road to being answered.
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CRUCIAL IS STEPPING out from Micron in the branding world, and is doing so by introducing a new drive. Welcome to the new Crucial M4 SSD, it is not the same as the Micron C400.
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ABOUT TWO MONTHS ago, we said that Intel and Nvidia had settled their patent suit, and it was going to end up with about $1 billion going to Nvidia. Yesterday it was officially announced with the tab rising to around $1.5 billion.
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DIRK MEYER’S DEPARTURE from AMD is being touted as a mutual understanding and a gracious parting of the ways. That may be the official reasoning, Dirk wasn’t exploiting opportunities, doesn’t pass the sniff test.
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EYE-FI MAY NOT have new cards to show off, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t showing off worthwhile new features. At CES, they added background dumping to the cloud via cell phones, amazingly handy if done right.
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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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