May 10, 2010

Opera talks HTML5, CSS3, wants us to be creative

Flash set to be replaced over time by open standards

EARLIER TODAY WE attended a presentation by Opera held in Taipei of all places. Opera’s CTO, Håkon Wium Lie and Opera’s co-founder, Jon S. Von Tetzchner were on location to talk to the media as well as partners in Taiwan about the future of the web. Well, at least the future of the web the way Opera envisages it. Mr Lie started and ended his presentation with a simple statement “There’s only one web. We must take good care of it, and use it creatively.” which really is something worth thinking about.
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May 7, 2010

Toshiba is set to launch the world’s lightest 13.3-inch notebook

With a super fast charging SCiB battery

RUMOURS ARE CIRCULATING about a Toshiba 13.3-inch notebook that is set to be the world’s lightest 13.3-incher at about 1kg when fitted with an SSD drive. But that isn’t all, as it will come with a secondary battery that uses Toshiba’s proprietary SCiB (Super Charged ion Battery) technology, which allows the battery to charge from empty to 90 percent charge in as little as 10 minutes.
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May 7, 2010
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Jetway is readying an Atom D525, Ion 2 combo nettop

Set to launch at Computex

IT APPEARS THAT Jetway is going to be one of the first companies to launch a nettop with Intel’s soon to launch Atom D525 and D425 processors in combination with Nvidia’s Ion 2. It’s by no means the first Ion 2 nettop, as that honour has already gone to Zotac and the Zbox, but it’s the first nettop to combine Ion 2 with DDR3 supporting Atom processors.
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May 6, 2010

Samsung announces 8 Gigabit OneNAND

Faster memory in your mobile devices

MOBILE DEVICES ARE starting to need more and more internal memory and as great as being able to fit a 16GB or even 32GB memory card into your mobile device is, there are still times when you need to install applications on the internal memory of your smartphone. There are two major issues related to this, cost and space inside the device. Samsung appears to be at least one step closer to solving the second of these problems with its new 8 Gigabit OneNAND Flash memory.
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May 6, 2010

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 500v-series sticks to DX10.1

A blast from the past with a new name

OVER THE PAST few day’s we’ve noticed several upcoming notebooks featuring ATI Mobility Radeon HD 500v GPUs in them, but it wasn’t quite clear as to what these were, apart from the fact that they weren’t DX11 GPU’s. AMD has clarified things to a degree by adding the 530v, 540v and 560v series to its website, just below the Mobility Radeon HD 5165 and 5145, both of which are also DX10.1 GPU’s.
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May 5, 2010

Nvidia downgrades Tesla again

About half the performance per watt promised

IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia is being it’s normal honest self with respect to the company’s high end Tesla compute cards. Yes, the specs on them dropped again, precipitously, and that is from the already castr^h^h^h^h^h downgraded specs released last fall.
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May 5, 2010

We’ve got the lowdown on AMD’s mobile Phenom II’s

As well as the Turion II’s and Athlon II’s too

WHILE WE WAIT for the official word from AMD, we’ve come across a lot of details on AMD’s upcoming mobile processors, be it Phenom II’s, Turion II’s or Athlon II’s. As you see, AMD is ready to refresh most of its mobile CPU range if these details prove to be accurate. We think this is set to take place very soon, especially with all of the product leaks and announcements.
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May 5, 2010

AMD forgets to announce new mobile CPU’s

HP does the job for them

OVER THE PAST couple of days we’ve seen both Dell and Acer notebooks featuring AMD’s upcoming mobile Phenom II X4 and X3 processors, but we’ve yet to see any official announcements. Well, that was until today when HP unveiled its range of AMD powered notebooks which also includes the yet to be announced by AMD Phenom II dual-core N620 processor. Things sure are starting to look a little bit strange, as AMD is keeping mum for now, despite all of its partners seemingly announcing new products featuring its chips left right and center.
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May 5, 2010

Intel announces Atom Z600-series for phones, tablets

New PCH, support for Android, Meego and Moblin

INTEL IS OBVIOUSLY taking its entry into the smartphone market very seriously with today’s introduction of the Moorestown platform, now formally known as the Atom Z600 family. Intel has implemented a wide range of changes compared to the Atom Z500-series, although interestingly, it hasn’t transitioned the Atom Z600-series to its 32nm manufacturing process, instead it remains at 45nm.
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May 4, 2010

AMD announces ATI FirePro RG220

Remote desktop card with multi-display support

AMD HAS ANNOUNCED a rather unusual graphics card for the workstation market today, namely the ATI FirePro RG220 with support for dual display remote desktop support. This is done with the help of a thin client and the PCoIP standard. The card also supports dual screens on the local system and can as such support multiple users on the system at once.
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May 4, 2010

Acer’s mobile Phenom II Aspire range leaks

Updated: With a little bit of help from Amazon.de

YESTERDAY IT WAS Dell; today it’s Acer’s turn to have its upcoming notebooks leaked ahead of the launch, although this time around it doesn’t appear to be any fault of Acer. Amazon.de has helpfully posted a couple of new mobile Phenom II powered models with various configuration options. The models we’re looking at are the Aspire 5551G, 5553G and 7551G.
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May 3, 2010

Dell leaks its Intel Core CPU notebook range

We can’t help but giggle

WE CAN’T HELP but to giggle a little bit when big companies like Dell manage to leak their own upcoming products ahead of the actual launch. It seems that Dell’s new Inspiron notebooks have tipped up on its website with just about all of the specs you’d need to make a purchasing decision, although with the slight caveat that the models aren’t actually on sale as yet.
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May 3, 2010

Chrontel launches DisplayPort to LVDS bridges

DisplayPort transition will speed up

WHAT DO YOU do when the next generation display interface refuses to become the standard, despite all its apparent advantages? Well, if you’re Chrontel, then you make bridge chips that allow for the new interface, in this case DisplayPort, to be fitted to the graphics card, while the panel manufacturers can continue to churn out panels with LVDS or mini-LVDS interfaces.
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Apr 30, 2010

AMD wants a slice of the tablet market with Fusion

APU is the key to success

2011 SHOULD HOPEFULLY prove to be a big year for AMD, as it’s the year when its Fusion platform will launch and it seems like the company is already having high hopes for its new platform, so let’s hope it delivers. We’re not sure that AMD is aiming for the right market though, as it seems like at least some forces within AMD want to stick Fusion in a slate, or rather, tablet device.
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