HATS OFF TO Intel for pulling one of the most devious PR spin and coverups of the year with their chipset problems explanation. While it may be a desperate and masterful obfuscation job, if you poke a little under the surface, you can see how badly they screwed up, and how little of the truth actually came out.
Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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IT’S COME TO our attention that several of the big retail brand DIMM manufacturers are struggling, as memory modules just don’t have enough margins these days. Many are now trying to find ways to branch out and create other product categories, something we saw the start of last year, but it’s not easy to find a market with high margins these days.
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VIA WAS SHOWING off two USB3 goodies at CES, an optical zero client board and a USB3 flash controller. Both look to be really big sellers in their respective fields, but you will probably never know you are using them.
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TOSHIBA HAD SOME innovative flash products on display at CES, from large capacities to small form factors. Visiting them also solved one of the biggest head scratching questions of the show.
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SONY HAD TWO rather hideous laptops on display at CES that caught my attention, one was hideously ugly, the other was a Brazos box. In a stunning turn of events, neither caught fire while we were in attendance.
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CRUCIAL IS STEPPING out from Micron in the branding world, and is doing so by introducing a new drive. Welcome to the new Crucial M4 SSD, it is not the same as the Micron C400.
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EYE-FI MAY NOT have new cards to show off, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t showing off worthwhile new features. At CES, they added background dumping to the cloud via cell phones, amazingly handy if done right.
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A FEW MORE tidbits about Sandisk and their single chip SATA SSD, plus another toy. Nothing major, just fleshing out their lineup.
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File this one in the WTF folder. Toshiba managed to pique our interest with an ingenious, yet slightly crazy/useless display gimmick. An SSD board was mounted inside of a fish bowl, mostly submerged in ordinary water (made slightly alcoholic once everyone’s back was turned,) and was booted from on a computer next to the tank. Utterly useless? Yes. Attention getting? Yes. Can you do this at home? Yes (just don’t send us the repair bill.)
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LACIE IS DOING a USB3 flash drive that is really a SATA SSD in a small box. On top of that, they are re-doing their entire line to add USB3 support.
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Kingston Technology is generally known among the community as a solid provider of all things memory. From desktop DIMMs to SD cards, they’ve got you covered and now they are putting the finishing touches on a nifty piece of kit that is bound to turn some heads and make its competitors stand up and take notice.
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Seagate is spearheading a new initiative in conjunction with the SATA IO Commission to bring sanity to the SATA interface and allow for mass storage devices that can be quickly swapped between devices such as PCs, DVRs, or docking stations. This initiative is called USM, or Universal Storage Module, and Seagate hopes to make this acronym as ubiquitous as USB in the near future.
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SANDISK WAS SHOWING off a very unique product at CES, a SATA SSD on a chip. No, not a flash chip, but a full flash chip plus SATA interface on a single piece of silicon.
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REMEMBER HOW EVERYONE applauded Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching technology? Well, it seems like there’s a new sheriff in town, as LucidLogix has just announced its brand new dynamic graphics switching solution called Virtu, which is all done in software and which will work with any discrete GPU, not just Nvidia’s.
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PIRACY, AN ISSUE that isn’t easy to resolve and that is currently causing a lot of commotion with the various governments in Europe at the moment, with some countries going as far as imposing bans on individual’s internet connections if they’re caught downloading illegal content. In Sweden an organization called Copyswede handles copy right licensing in most cases and they are suggesting a new “tax” that could be in affect from the 1st of April next year, for all kind of external storage devices.
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