Jan 5, 2011

Sapphire announces the Pure Fusion Mini E350

Returns to the motherboard market with Brazos

WE’VE BEEN EXPECTING this product from Sapphire for quite some time, although we didn’t quite know what to expect and it seems like the company has managed to churn out a pretty decent Brazos board that differ somewhat from its competitors. The Pure Fusion Mini E350 as the board is called is the first consumer Brazos board that we’ve seen so far that uses SO-DIMMs and it’s one of the few to offer a mini card PCI Express slot as well.
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Jan 5, 2011

Qualcomm goes on a spending spree, buys Atheros

Adds another missing link to its range of products

QUALCOMM APPEARS TO have blown its entire budget for this year already, as the company has announced that it has procured network chip specialist Atheros for the not so insignificant sum of $3.1 billion. Considering Atheros broad portfolio of networking products, this might very well be a fair sum paid, but we can’t help to wonder if Qualcomm couldn’t have gotten a better deal elsewhere.
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Jan 5, 2011

Samsung to unveil the Infuse 4G at CES

CES 2011: 1.2GHz Android phone exclusive to AT&T

WE’RE EXPECTING TABLETS to the most widely announced products at CES, but they’re set to be closely followed by smartphones and Samsung is readying its own announcement in co-operation with AT&T. The Infuse 4G is one of Samsung’s first 4G handsets on AT&T and one of AT&T’s first 4G handsets at that and it’s a pretty impressive looking handset at that.
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Jan 5, 2011

Seagate launches USM (Universal Storage Module) initiative

CES 2011: Yet more ways to store and move your pr0n about

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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Jan 5, 2011
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Toshiba shows off TVs with Skype integration

CES 2011: Getting closer to that Enterprise bridge view screen

Toshiba was showing off their latest and greatest in television technologies at CES, and among them was a set that had integrated Skype video calling functionality.  Time to start decorating your living room like your favorite starship bridge and practicing captains catch phrases.
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Jan 4, 2011

DisplayLink gets into portable monitors

Partners with Mobile Monitor Technologies

DISPLAYLINK IS AN interesting company and although we’re still waiting on its USB 3.0 enabled adapters, the company has in co-operation with Mobile Monitor Technologies or MMT for short, come up with what it calls a portable monitor. Now any old monitor is portable, but the Monitor2Go from MMT looks more like a notebook than a monitor.
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Jan 4, 2011
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HP and Lenovo announce AMD Fusion notebooks

Lands somewhere between a netbook and an ultra-portable

AMD’S FUSION HAS finally landed and despite some suggestions that AMD wouldn’t score any design wins with the big boys, it turns out that both HP and Lenovo are the first ones to announce products based on the new platform. We’re expecting many others to follow suit this week, least not Acer and Toshiba, as Brazos based products have already leaked from both companies.
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Jan 4, 2011

VIA announces the Nano X2

But will it make a difference for VIA?

IT’S EASY TO forget that there are three x86 CPU makers in the market and alongside AMD’s Fusion launch today, VIA has announced its first dual core processor, the VIA Nano X2. We should hopefully get more details about the new CPU at CES, as VIA has been very shy when it comes to sharing any actual specifications of the new processor family.
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Jan 3, 2011

Gigabyte launches its GA-E350N-USB3 Brazos mini-ITX board

We give you a quick tour of the new board

AMD’S BRAZOS PLATFORM has finally arrived, well, ok so AMD has already showed off what it has to offer, but the first retail products are launching today and one of the first out of the gate with a mini-ITX motherboard based on the new platform is Gigabyte. We headed over to Gigabyte’s HQ for a quick hands on with the board and to snap a few candid shots of it.
Updated: January 4, 2011 12pm, Added pricing information.
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Jan 3, 2011

Intel Core i7 2600K review

Performance increase doesn’t justify the price premium

YESTERDAY WE TOOK a look at Intel’s Core i5 2500K and today we’re going to take a closer look at the Core i7 2600K which is currently Intel’s flagship processor based on Sandy Bridge. The big feature difference is Hyper Threading support, although the Core i7’s also feature an additional 2MB L3 cache, slightly higher clock speed and a higher turbo frequency for the integrated graphics to set them apart from the Core i5 models.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way.  Overview, Benchmarks, Linux, Disappointment
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Jan 2, 2011
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An introduction to Sandy Bridge

Model names, chipsets and so on

DUE TO A LAST minute change by Intel, the expiration of the Sandy Bridge NDA has now, well, expired and as such we’re going to start off our coverage with a quick introduction of the various processors, chipsets and what not before we start digging into the tech and benchmarks. Much of what will be covered here contains information that leaked out ahead of the launch, but Intel still managed to hold on to plenty of details available now for your reading pleasure.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Benchmarks, Disappointment, Linux
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Jan 2, 2011
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Intel Core i5 2500K review

Impressive performance for the money, but not without its flaws

IN RECENT TIMES Intel’s biggest jump in performance was when the company moved from the Netburst architecture to the Core 2 architecture, a move that wasn’t repeated when the company moved to Nehalem. Today we’ll take a closer look at Sandy Bridge and without giving away too much; we can tell that it offers an impressive performance boost, although not in every single category.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way.  Overview, Disappointment, Linux

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