SUPERMICRO HAD FOUR neat items on display, ranging from the very low end to the insanely high. The servers and workstations ran from a half-U Atom based server to boxes with almost 1500 cores per rack.
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INTEL JUST DROPPED a bombshell on the embedded world, they bought Wind River Systems today. This means Intel now owns one of the better embedded Linux development platforms and VxWorks as well.
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CORSAIR HAS THE usual array of goodies on display, from RAM to water coolers, low end to high. The cases shown off at CeBIT are officially part of the line now too.
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THE COMPUTEX NEWS from the ATI partner camp was rather slim, no GPUs until October means no new cards. Sapphire did have some interesting updates to show off though.
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AMD DROPPED A bombshell on Computex today, showing off not only an Cypress (commonly mis-known as R870) wafer, but also working silicon. As we keep saying, the competition has yet to tape out a chip.
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YOU KNOW HOW the story goes, no sooner do you buy a laptop than the newer one is announced. The HP DV2 that we got last week was just supplanted by a dual core model.
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CERTAIN USEFUL TECHNOLOGIES are so hard to explain that they disappear into the background. Intel’s Cliffside PAN, now called My Wi-Fi is one of those.
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INTEL LAUNCHED FOUR new laptop processors today, three Core Number Numerals at the top, and a the long awaited Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) parts on the bottom. Ironically, the slowest of these is the one that will change the market.
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WHAT DO YOU get if you cross Nvidia and 40nm? A stinking mess, with chips delayed from the purported late June to August.
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THE THERMALTAKE LEVEL 10 is the most striking and beautiful case to come out in the last few years. After a sneak peek at CeBIT, it finally got an official unveiling today.
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I CAN’T SAY that I can remember seeing Pretec before this Computex, but they sure are leaving an impression. They had two flash memory widgets at the show that caught my eye, a card and a stick.
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JUST BEFORE NOON Taipei time on Wendesday, ATI is going to to drop a bombshell on the graphics world, showing off working 40nm DX11 silicon. Nvidia has yet to tape out a DX11 part or put a 40nm chip on the market.
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THERE WAS ONE thing that stood out at the Pretec stand at Computex, and it came in multiple flavors. They had NAS boxes that accepted 2.5″ disks.
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ON THE VERY day of the AMD Istanbul launch, what does the green team from Austin do? They show off not one but two Socket G34 boards for the next generation Magny Cours parts.
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THE WORD ON the grapevine at Computex is that Nvidia has been quietly shopping itself around for sale. A company that declined the privilege confirmed to SemiAccurate that the long whispered rumors were true.
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