May 28, 2010

Gigabyte to launch 11.6-inch notebook at Computex

Convertible tablet with Core i processor

THE DAYS BEFORE Computex don’t tend to be as hectic as they’ve been this year, but it might have to do something with the local companies wanting as much attention as possible ahead of the show, as the past year hasn’t exactly been great for most of them. Gigabyte’s notebook division has unveiled a few details on its new 11.6-inch convertible notebook that will be launched at the show, alongside the first picture of the M1125.
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May 27, 2010

Acer announces new Revo line-up

Doesn’t divulge too many details

THE ORIGINAL ACER Revo was and might possibly still be the best selling ION nettop to date. Now it looks like Acer is getting ready to revamp its Revo product line and it looks like we’ll be seeing quite a lot of new additions that aren’t strictly PC’s as well. Acer has revealed some details about its new products at an event in Beijing, China today, although we’d expect that the nitty-gritty details will be divulged at Computex next week.
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May 27, 2010

Quantenna launches its third gen 4×4 MIMO Wi-Fi chipset

Designed for high-bandwidth video using the 5GHz band

WI-FI HAS BECOME something of a ubiquitous standard these days, as pretty much every notebook, smartphone and even a lot of consumer electronics feature Wi-Fi connectivity these days. However, Wi-Fi can’t really compare to wired Ethernet when it comes to performance, well, that’s unless you’re using a Quantenna Communications based product with 4×4 MIMO.
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May 27, 2010
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Larrabee alive and well

Mass misunderstandings of our time

I AM NOT sure why the technical world suddenly all came to the same misunderstanding that Intel’s Larrabee is dead, it most assuredly is not. In fact, if you actually read the not-an-anouncement from Intel yesterday, you will see that it simply does not put the knife in, but rather brings a lot of clarity to the chip’s position.
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May 26, 2010

TUL shows off DIY AIO PC at Pre-Computex event

Powered by AMD and Ubuntu

EVER WANTED TO build your own All-in-One PC? TUL might have the solution you’ve been waiting for if it’s the case, as the company was showing off its DIY All-in-One PC today at a Pre-Computex press conference. The system on show was running Ubuntu Linux and had an AMD processor and chipset.
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May 26, 2010

Acer shows off K11 project at pre-Computex event

Tiny, yet feature packed, although not HD capable

LOOKING FOR A really small projector? Well, Acer’s K11 might not be the smallest projector out there and despite Acer calling it a pocket projector, you’d need rather large pockets to actually fit it in one, but it does beat the competition in just about every sense when it comes to features. One drawback of LED projectors is the fairly low resolution, but Acer is still better than most here.
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May 26, 2010

First four port USB 3.0 host controller announced

Courtesy of VLI

IT LOOKS LIKE we’ll be seeing a lot of USB 3.0 hardware at Computex this year, although after yesterday’s competitive announcement by Fresco Logic, it now seems like we have the solution just about everyone has been waiting for, a four port USB 3.0 host controller and it’s about time too. The VL800 host controller comes from VLI, also known as VIA Labs, Inc, a subsidiary of VIA.
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May 25, 2010

Fermi goes mobile

The GeForce GTX 480M makes its first public appearance

NVIDIA HAS ANNOUNCED what it calls the world’s fastest notebook GPU and it might very possibly be the world’s fastest notebook GPU, but we also have a feeling that it’s the world’s hottest notebook GPU. It’s Nvidia’s first 400-series mobile part and dare we say, its largest mobile GPU to date.
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May 25, 2010

Fresco Logic announces 2-port USB 3.0 controller

Brings some competition to the market

FRESCO LOGIC’S FIRST attempt at a USB 3.0 controller was anything but impressive, as the FL1000 was a single port PCI Express Gen 1 solution. However, it seems like the company is now ready to give Renesas some serious competition with its second USB 3.0 controller, the FL1009 which offers two ports and a PCI Express Gen 2 interface.
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May 24, 2010

Seagate launches Solid State Hybrid Drives

The Momentus XT comes with 4GB of SLC NAND flash

WANT A FASTER hard drive but can’t afford a SSD? Well, it looks like Seagate might’ve just come up with the solution that all of us have been waiting for, hard drives with a built in SSD. It’s a tiny SSD though, well, at least compared to the kind you’d stick in your system as a hard drive replacement, but at 4GB it’s still big enough to work as a really fast cache which is still large enough to store just about any application you’re running.
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May 24, 2010

MSI shows off its P55A Fuzion board

Sticks in a GTX 470 and a HD 5750 for a laugh

EARLIER TODAY MSI hosted a pre Computex press conference intended to pique the interest of the local media, although yours truly also managed to sneak in to give you all a quick look at what MSI will be showing off at Computex. What caught our eye was the new P55A Fuzion motherboard featuring a Lucid Hydra 200 chip among its features.
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May 21, 2010
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Asus set to launch 12-inch Core i notebook at Computex

First Celeron U3400 notebook from Asus

NOTEBOOKS WITH INTEL’s Core i range of processors appear to be getting shrinking and Asus smallest model should be the 12-inch UL20FT which is set to launch at Computex. The chassis should be similar to the UL20A, but we don’t have the exact details so you’ll have to bear with us until Computex for the final list of features.
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May 21, 2010

Intel set to launch more LGA-1156 processors soon

Two quad cores, one dual core

INTEL SHOULD BE getting ready to out a few new LGA-1156 processors very soon, although we don’t have a precise date. The good news is that we’ll see two more quad cores as well as an additional dual core model. All three models are an evolutionary step and there isn’t all that much to get excited about with the possible exception being the Core i5 760.
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May 20, 2010

Google announces Google TV

Google search, new hardware and Flash support

NO, IT’S NOT April fools, Google really did announce Google TV at Google I/O today and although it might sound utterly daft to incorporate Google search into a TV, the demos shown were quite impressive, when they worked. It’s early days as yet, but it seems like Google has managed to drum up enough support from a wide range of key players to make it a success, a huge success at that.
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