Sep 22, 2009

Less completely wasted space

IDF 2009: New 2.5in SSD drive standard

EVERYONE KNOWS that Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are based on flash memory chip technology and have no moving parts, which makes them faster and more reliable than hard-disk drives (HDDs). SSDs can also be manufactured in physical formats that are much smaller and thinner than their old-fashioned HDD counterparts. Nevertheless, the shape of the connectors that SSDs use to interface with devices has remained the size and shape of the traditional HDD form-factors.
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Sep 16, 2009

AMD breaks the $100 barrier for quad cores

One of five new CPUs today

AMD JUST BROKE an important psychological barrier with a sub-$100 quad core CPU, one of five released today. Between this part and a 785G chipset, you can make a tolerable desktop PC for under $300, plus case and PSU.
Update: X2s are not new, just the X4s.
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Sep 10, 2009

ATI Eyefinity runs WoW at 7680 x 3200

AMD solves a fundamental GPU scaling problem

ATI JUST RELEASED a technology called Eyefinity, basically the ability to support up to six 30″ monitors from a single video card. That is the shiny part, the much more important thing is how it broke a fundamental barrier to future GPU adoption.
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Sep 9, 2009

Adaptec’s MaxIQ caches RAIDs with SSDs

Intel X25 makes the world go round

WHEN I FIRST saw the product that Adaptec is calling MaxIQ at CeBIT in March, it looked interesting, but was overwhelmed by the 5Z ultracapacitor backed RAID card. Now that Adaptec has let out all the details, the MaxIQ SSD RAID accelerator is by far the more interesting product.
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