INTEL HELD RESEARCH@INTEL DAY at the Computer Museum in MountainView, California last week. They presented a TLS replacement technology that could make it easier to deploy very large numbers of secure connections across the internet.
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NVIDIA IS STILL not talking to us, and competition in the graphics world means you the reader win. They have five new 40nm mobile parts launching tomorrow, luckily we can bring you the specs now at discount prices.
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INTEL TALKED MOSTLY about mobile solutions at Computex, but desktop and consumer electronics were far from neglected. New were two i7 CPUs, talk of Lynnfield, Pinetrail, and even flash based accelerators.
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FOR THE LAST year or two, Zalman has had some interesting products, but nothing that really made you stand up and say wow. The flair that redefined the look of fans and cases was absent, until the 2009 Computex.
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DFI ALWAYS HAS an interesting new piece of technology or three to show off at Computex, and they usually make overclockers smile. This year they showed off one called BIOSeSecure.
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INTEL HAD TWO keynotes at Computex, with both Sean Maloney and Mooly Eden talking mostly about mobility. The main product launched was Montevina Plus, and there is a lot to like there.
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THE PROGRAM FOR Hot Chips 21 was just released, and it is, umm, hot. The show will have speakers from Chuck Moore to Jen-Hsun Huang, and will cover chips from Atom to Power 7.
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SANDISK HAS UPPED the ante on their newest generation of SSDs, not just faster, but also smarter. Some of this is also trickling down to their lines of netbook SSDs as well.
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LIFE IS A DOUBLE edged sword, when you find something cool and take pics of it, like the upcoming OCZ 1TB SSD, your pictures inevitably disappear. The up side is that it is easy enough to describe, and there are other things from the company that didn’t sneak off.
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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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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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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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THERE IS NOTHING new under the sun when it comes to USB memory sticks in odd looking cases, but every once in a while some company does something silly that grabs your attention. This time it was Supertalent and their terracotta warriors.
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES WAS showing off the goodies today, with three wafers of unreleased parts. Not only did they have the tried and true 45nm SOI process, but 32nm SOI and the long awaited 28nm bulk as well.
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