DESPTITE LACK OF support from both Intel and AMD, it seems that USB 3.0 is set to be something of a hit. NEC has announced that it has so far shipped no less than 3 million of its USB 3.0 controllers and that it’s getting ready to ramp up production.
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NVIDIA HAS FINALLY taped out a Fermi GF100 derivative, but it is not what you might think. Contrary to its public bluster, Nvidia isn’t going for the high end this time.
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THE EARLY RUSH to place pre-orders for the iPad has slowed down to something more akin to a trickle only days after Apple opened up its US pre-order program. On Friday last week, Apple had as many pre-orders as 25,000 an hour, but by Sunday this had slowed to a much more reasonable estimate of 1,000 units per hour.
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WHAT DO YOU do if you are Intel, and your next next next generation part, Haswell, is thrown into a tizzy by the re-purposing of a major component? Easy, you smile and move on 1,394 miles to eastern Washington.
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IF YOU WANTED an iPad and haven’t placed your pre-order already, then it might be too late, as it seems like the iPad, despite plenty of criticism, is set to be yet another huge success for Apple, at least if estimated pre-order figures are anything to go by.
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IF YOU WANT to learn about Nvidia’s Tesla and GTX480 cards at GDC, don’t ask Nvidia, it has problems with the truth. The real story is found with the users, and they have interesting things to say about the upcoming card’s upward bound TDP.
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AMD IS FINALLY doing what we have all been waiting for, promoting its developer relations program to the masses. With that in mind, it introduced three new logos to go along with the program.
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SOLID STATE DRIVES or SSDs are one of the hottest topics and add-ons that you can get for your PC now, although there’s still a lot of confusion going on with regards to what to get, as there are vast differences between the various models and the cost per GB is fairly high.
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ONE QUESTION THAT a lot of the financial set are asking has to do with Nvidia and mobile. While the company is effectively out of mobile for 2010, there was at least one GTX480 based laptop at CeBIT.
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AH, BLUETOOTH THAT ubiquitous standard that we all use, or do we? Well, either which way, Bluetooth 4.0 is on its way and should arrive just in time for that cheerful gift buying season of the year. Yup, that’s right, another year, another Bluetooth standard.
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NOTEBOOKS HAVE ALWAYS involved a trade off between performance and battery life, but it looks like Intel will be getting close to finding a fine balance between the two later this month, when it’s set to launch its ULV version of the Calpella mobile platform.
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WHAT DO YOU get when you cross Apple, Siemens and Sisvel with the German police at CeBIT? Raids of course, with lots of police, lawyers, and people stripping booths clean of everything electronic.
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TRENDNET HAD TWO neat devices at CeBIT, a travel router and a 3G to WiFi router. While neither one is unique, both had features to set them apart from the pack.
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IS THIS THE final blow for the good old hard drive? Western Digital has as of today launched two SSD models, the SiliconEdge Blue which is a consumer model and the SiliconDrive N1x which targets data centers and various vertical markets.
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POKING AROUND CEBIT has it’s benefits, especially if you know what to look for. At the SuperTalent booth, it looks like we found a prototype SATA2 CF/CFast card.
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