Feb 3, 2011

Intel’s Romley platform will be available for LGA-1356 and LGA-2011

Main difference will be memory support and PCI Express lane count

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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Feb 3, 2011
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IE9 gets H.264 and WebM support

Microsoft’s attempt at clawing back some of the browser market?

MICROSOFTS INTERNET EXPLORER web browser have been losing a lot of ground to its competitors for quite some time now, but IE9 has gained some favourable press and it seems like Microsoft is willing to add some features to make its browser more appealing. According to an MSDN blog post Microsoft has released details about future video support in IE9 and it might very well be the browser with the widest native video support when it goes out of beta.
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Feb 1, 2011

HighPoint launches RocketHybrid series HBAs

DIY hybrid drive solution

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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Feb 1, 2011

Jetway launches VIA Nano motherboard

Larger than mini ITX, not quite a mini DTX

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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Jan 31, 2011

Intel’s recall explanation doesn’t hold any water

Opinion: Too many implausible coincidences

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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Jan 31, 2011

AMD Brazos gains traction with the motherboard makers

Close to 20 different models coming

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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Jan 31, 2011

Jetway jumps the gun with pair of H61 boards

Chipset not set to launch as yet

JETWAY MIGHT NOT be the most popular motherboard brand out there, but the company does have some rather unusual solutions from time to time and now the company has unveiled a pair of Intel H61 chipset motherboards ahead of the chipset launch. It’s possible that the H61 chipset will launch earlier than anticipated, although it’s not something we’ve heard so far.
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Jan 31, 2011

Intel issues recall for all Sandy Bridge chipsets

Expects to take a profit hit on the back of it

INTEL HAS ISSUED a product recall today of all its Sandy Bridge chipsets, which is a huge deal for the company as the product recall is set to have a fairly significant if not huge impact on Intel’s profits this quarter. However, as the Chinese New Year is already in full swing in most of Asia, it’s unlikely that we’ll see any product recalls from Intel’s partners for at least another couple of weeks.
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Jan 28, 2011
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ASRock overtakes MSI and ECS

Becomes world’s third largest branded motherboard maker

THE MOTHERBOARD MARKET has changed in a pretty dramatic way, as Asus’once budget only brand ASRock, now a part of the Pegatron group has overtaken not only ECS, but also MSI in terms of motherboard shipments in 2010. This makes ASRock the third largest branded motherboard maker in the world which is no mean feat.
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Jan 26, 2011

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play is the PlayStation phone

Gets early hands on treatment

SONY ERICSSON’S PLAYSTATION phone is hardly a secret or a surprise at this stage after multiple leaks over the past few months; however, it has now been put through its paces in an early preview of close to final sample. The handset is likely to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in the middle of next month and it’s likely to quickly become one of the most popular Android phones.
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Jan 26, 2011

CompuLab announces Tegra 2 powered Trim Slice

Not quite a PC, but really really small

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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Jan 25, 2011

Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Receives very positive reviews

TODAY NVIDIA UNVEILED its latest addition to the GeForce 500 series of GPUs with the introduction of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. What we’re looking at is a $250 graphics card with performance figures that should make it a very appealing upper mid-range card, well, at least until AMD’s price cut takes effect in the retail market.
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Jan 25, 2011

Intel is finally getting ready to add native USB 3.0 support

Won’t happen until 2012 though

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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Jan 25, 2011
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Thermaltake opens its new offices

It’s red, red, red

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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