AND HERE WE thought the CompuLab fit-PC range consisted of tiny computers and boy were we ever wrong, as CompuLab has announced an even smaller system with the introduction of its Trim Slice. It’s not exactly a PC though, as the tiny device is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC, but it’s still an interesting little machine.
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IT’S HARD TO be spot on when it comes to rumours about new technology coming from the various companies in the business, but nearly a year ago we wrote about Intel working on a USB 3.0 solution of its own, well, it seems like it didn’t quite work out the way we were told by our source back then, but Intel is finally getting ready to add native USB 3.0 support. That said, it won’t arrive until early 2012 alongside Intel’s next generation platform (didn’t that just launch?)
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EARLIER TODAY WE were invited to the grand opening of Thermaltake’s new offices in Taipei, Taiwan and to say that they’re something out of the ordinary in Taiwan would be to put it mildly. It’s much more open space than we’re used to seeing in Taiwan and the offices have plenty of unusual features, most of which you wouldn’t find in any office anywhere in the world.
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IBM SHOWED OFF a 20nm test wafer at the Common Platform conference last week. It is a Common Platform test chip, but exactly which one is not clear.
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THE FINAL KEYNOTE of the Common Platform conference was given by IBM’s Garry Patton, and he talked collaboration and tech. The list of new things thrown out was pretty dizzying, but what do you expect from someone who is in charge of semiconductor R&D?
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IT’S VERY POSSIBLE that tablets are finally getting to the stage where they’ll deliver what have been promised for so long and HP looks set to be close to front of the pack if details of its new tablets prove to hold true. Full specs of its 9.7-inch webOS tablet currently codenamed Topaz has leaked and it has just about everything a good tablet should have.
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAD the second keynote at the Common Platform alliance conference Tuesday, the topic was manufacturing. Chia Song Hwee, COO of Global Foundries went into more details about what the alliance is doing to make chips, and how they were planning to work together for the benefit of their customers.
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THE COMMON PLATFORM alliance, Global Foundries, IBM and Samsung had a conference Tuesday to announce their renewed alliance and show off their respective wares. Samsung’s NS Woo, President and GM of the LSI Division kicked it off in the first of three keynotes.
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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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THERE ISN’T MUCH that we didn’t already know about Sapphire’s new P67 after our brief encounter with the board at Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch in Taiwan, but the final version cleaned up pretty good and it got it’s retail name, Pure Black P67. The design remained mostly the same, although the final board has now been fitted with some slightly unusual cooling which makes the board stand out from the competition.
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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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IT’S LESS THAN two weeks since Intel officially unveiled its new Sandy Bridge range of processors and retail notebooks are already hitting the (online)stores en masse. However, it seems to be a bit of an odd launch, as we’re mostly seeing high-end 15.6-inch models with only a handful of smaller models being available so far.
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WE’D ALMOST FORGOTTEN about this one, but we scored some pictures of Gigabyte’s final revision of the GA-H67N-USB3 mini-ITX board which have been fitted with the same style heatsink as its other H67 and P67 boards. It’s also the first H67 board we’ve seen that sports twin HDMI ports, making for some interesting usage scenarios.
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SO FAR WE’VE looked a range of motherboards for Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors and the last of the boards this time around is the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 which is at least for the time being, Gigabyte’s top of the line model. It packs just about every feature you could possibly want and then some, although it has a price to match these features.
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AMD HAS MANAGED to drum up a lot of support for its Brazos platform and as of today Fujitsu and Sony has joined the growing group of notebook makers with Brazos powered machines, as both companies have announced 11.6-inch models in Japan. Neither model is available as of yet, but both companies will have their models in the shops within the next two to three weeks.
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