YOU PROBABLY ARE not too familiar with Giada if you live in the US, but they are starting to make some pretty interesting products. At CES this year, they had the only finished ultra-slim Brazos HTPC that we ran across. …
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AT CES, AMD partners weren’t showing any new GPUs, mainly because the only ones that came out were mobile parts. Sapphire did have a few interesting pieces to show off though, including a full HTPC. The first one is a …
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A PRINTER COMPANY called Memjet looks like they could change the way printing is done, or at the very least how fast it is done. Their technology looks like it achieves one of the holy grails of inkjet printing, full …
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(NASDAQ: INTC) INTEL SCREWED UP the best thing about Light Peak, the name, calling it by the marketing name ‘Thunderbolt’. Other than that, the only thing that changed is they lost the optical part, leaving nothing more than an expensive …
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ACER IS JUMPING back into the server market in a big way with the launch of six separate lines of products and a comprehensive support network. This is not just a simple launch, Acer is taking the server market very seriously, intending to mirror their success in laptops and desktops.
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AT CES, HITACHI GST was showing off some unique enterprise SSDs, both in terms of form factor and interface. Like most others at CES, Hitachi also showed off a 3TB 7200RPM Deskstar, proving that magnetic drives are still alive and kicking.
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GIGABYTE IS ABOUT to launch what is the first motherboard that has been specifically designed by an overclocker for overclockers in the shape of the X58A-OC. This board is not intended for your average consumer, nor high-end users that want a lot of features as it has been purely designed to allow overclockers to reach as high clock speeds as possible.
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NVIDIA JUST FINISHED their fiscal Q4/2011 conference call, and it was mercifully short and content free. That said, there was one thing that stuck out, GPU margins.
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DELL HAS REFRESHED 24 computers in it’s Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex lines, adding Sandy Bridge CPUs, a bunch of new features, a new look, and a lot of subtleties. The only real question remaining is when they will ship, but that isn’t really in Dell’s hands now.
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THE INSANELY FEATURE packed Big Bang Marshal motherboard from MSI is nearly ready, at least judging by pictures of what should be the final revision of the board that we got our hands on. However, thanks to Intel’s SATA snafu we’re fairly certain that MSI will sit on this model until it can get its hands on the B3 stepping of the P67 chipset to avoid any returns of what is likely going to be a very expensive motherboard.
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GIVEN THE PROBLEMS that Intel’s Cougar Point chipset had this week, it is no surprise that some across the internet are taking pot-shots at the company. Usually these come in rant form, but this time, we get one as a song.
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INTEL’S ROMLEY PLATFORM is set to launch sometime in the second half of this year and it will bring with it a world of confusion in the Xeon market space as Intel will be offering both LGA-1356 and LGA-2011 solutions to its partners. The main difference is that the LGA-1356 platform will support triple channel memory while the LGA-2011 platform will support quad channel memory, but it doesn’t stop there.
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HYBRID DRIVES HAVE as yet to really take off and we’ve seen a few DIY solutions to date from various smaller industry players, but now HighPoint has come up with a couple of solutions of its own that might have some appeal. The company has announced a pair of host bus adapters (HBAs) called the RocketHybrid that will allow users to create their own DIY hybrid drive.
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JETWAY IS A COMPANY that likes to create unusual boards and its latest addition, the MVB-VX9GSM stands out not only because it uses a VIA Nano CPU and the VX900 chipset, but also because it uses a rather unusual form factor. At 190x170mm this board is what we could only describe as an extended mini ITX board, as it doesn’t quite fit AMD’s now defunct mini DTX standard despite having two expansion slots.
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IF THERE WAS any doubt that AMD’s Brazos platform was going to become popular with the board partners or not, then the news that AMD has at least eight retail motherboard partners with a current total of 18 board designs on the way, should put that doubt to rest. The interesting thing here is that we’re just talking motherboard design wins here, it doesn’t include various small form factor barebone and system design wins.
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