Intel wants Atom in every NAS

For the SMB market

INTEL IS PUSHING its Atom processor heavily into every conceivable market and the company is doing a big push towards the small business storage market space with its Bandon platform. Some of these NAS devices can do more than just back up your data which should prove to be a neat bonus to smaller companies.
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Intel expects 10Gbit Ethernet to kick off in 2011

Gets integrated on the server motherboards

DURING THE INTEL Storage Solution Forums yesterday, the company was keen to point out that from next year we’ll see widespread adoption of 10Gbit Ethernet in the server environment. The main reason for this coming uptake in 10Gbit Ethernet according to Intel is that it will launch a transceiver that will be implemented on server motherboards, rather than needing an add-on card.
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First Jasper Forest SBB 2.0 motherboard pictured

Compact solution for storage servers

DURING THE INTEL Storage Solutions Forums we spotted a company that we weren’t familiar with displaying its products during the showcase and it just so happens that this company had one of the first Jasper Forest motherboards on display.
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Jasper Forest is first Nehalem with integrated PCIe controller

Also offers storage centric features and a DMI interface

EARLIER TODAY WE attended the Intel Storage Solutions Forum 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan where Intel was presenting various technologies that it has or is developing that are meant to improve the way we deal with large amounts of data. The products range from home users to small business and all the way to the corporate sector.
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AMD’s 880G chipset doesn’t impress

780G and SB850 in a nutshell

BIT-TECH HAS POSTED some early impressions of AMD’s upcoming entry level 880G chipset and the word unimpressed springs to mind. Although the IGP has been renamed Radeon HD 4250, it’s said to offer no performance advantages over the older Radeon HD 3200 IGP of the 780G.
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VIA launches its first DDR3 mobile chipset

Single chip solution with 1080p video and more

IT’S BEEN JUST over three months since VIA announced a new chipset and today we’re looking at yet another new chipset from the company, although this time it’s for mobile devices rather than desktops. It’s a shame that the new VX900 chipset didn’t get the full feature set of the VN1000, but it’s not all bad news, as VIA finally has a mobile solution that should kick the Atom’s ass.
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Nintendo to announce 3D handheld at E3

Backwards compatible with current games

NINTENDO DOESN’T EVEN have an HD capable console as yet, but the company has today announced its intention to launch a 3D capable handheld gaming device that doesn’t require you to wear any glasses. The 3DS as Nintendo is calling it for now is set to be unveiled at E3 which kicks off on the 15th of June.
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Final revision pictures of MSI’s 890FX board

Quad CrossFireX support and more

MSI WAS SHOWING off its 890FX board at CeBIT a couple of weeks ago, but we’ve now managed to score the first official pictures of the 890FXA-GD70 board. All we can say is that it looks like MSI has a winner on its hands and this should be worth a look for anyone that’s considering getting one of AMD’s upcoming Phenom II X6 processors.
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LGA-1156 to get unlocked CPUs

Not Extreme Editions

THE ONE DOWNSIDE of Intel’s Extreme Edition CPUs that makes most people shy away from them is the sky high price tag, but it looks like Intel is getting ready to take a leaf out of AMD’s book by releasing what will hopefully be more cost conscious overclocking CPUs with unlocked multiplier carrying the K suffix.
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Intel sells more chipsets than CPUs

Motherboard makers overenthusiastic

INTEL IS SAID to be shipping 20 percent more chipsets than CPUs which makes for a fairly skewed ratio, as most users would upgrade their CPU, not their motherboard. In this case though it turns out that it’s the motherboard manufacturers that are hoping for better times and are placing large chipset orders with Intel.
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Intel will launch its own USB 3.0 controller later this year

Won’t find its way into chipsets for now

ACCORDING TO NEC, it has been six months since the launch of its USB 3.0 controller and we’ve yet to see a single competitor, but we’re now hearing that Intel is getting ready to enter the market with its own device.It won’t be part of Intel’s chipsets for now and it seems like there are several reasons for this.
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Gigabyte readies H55 mini-ITX motherboard

For those that are in need of a really tiny computer with clout

TINY MOTHERBOARDS SEEM to have become all the rage these days, and we’re not talking underpowered, feature derelict things either. Instead it seems like most of the motherboard manufacturers are pushing out some pretty serious hardware in the mini-ITX form factor, which has yet to take off in the consumer space outside of Atom systems.
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PowerColor launches 5770 Eyefinity 5 card

But can you afford the displays to go with it?

FOR THOSE OF you that are looking for an affordable card to power five displays, look no further, as PowerColor has announced its new Eyefinity 5 HD5770 graphics card which as the name suggests, will handle five displays, unlike the Eyefinity 6 cards which work with six.
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