PLEXTOR MIGHT NOT be one of the big players in the SSD market space, but the company is now readying its first SATA 6Gbps SSD and we’ve got some early benchmark figures to share with you, as well as some details of the new drive family.
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YOU MIGHT VERY well own, or at least have owned, a graphics card with memory from Etron Technology, or even some low cost DDR2 memory modules. However, the company has now started to move away from making DRAM and decided to start making USB 3.0 host controllers. By now you might start to say “not another one” but bear with us and you’ll see that these guys mean serious business.
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WE HAVE IT on very good authority; in fact we heard it from the horse’s mouth so to say, that EVGA has run into a bit of a problem, as its motherboard team has decided to depart. This is not good news when you’re a company that design your own motherboards, especially when you consider how few motherboard design companies that are left standing today.
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AMD SHOWED OFF working Fusion silicon at Computex today. Here is some raw video of the live demo at the AMD press conference.
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WHAT DO YOU get if you supply 1500W to a CPU, encrypt everything with removable keys, and control the whole thing with your phone? That is easy, the new Gigabyte motherboards.
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SINCE LAST COMPUTEX, Corsair has become a much more serious player in the case market and its latest addition, the Graphite series 600T, should really give the established players a good run for their money. Also on show was a new range of power supplies, some new CPU coolers and Corsair’s new AirFlow Pro memory cooling solution with activity LEDs.
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A YEAR AGO, AMD showed off the first Evergreen part, it was a Juniper wafer and a card behind the scenes. Tomorrow morning, Taiwan time, a few birds told us that AMD will be showing off Fusion silicon.
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MINI-ITX IS WITHOUT a doubt a hugely popular form factor these days and we spotted three new boards at the Asus booth. Two of them have an Atom processor, one uses ION 2 for graphics and the third is based on AMD’s 880G chipset. All have some rather unique features and selling points, depending on your needs.
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GLOBAL FOUNDRIES HAD a press conference today that not only announced a two huge fab expansions, but also explained why they chose the term global. ATIC, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi is thinking long term, and that is what you need in the foundry business.
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COMPUTEX IS ALWAYS full of surprises, but Asus’s new Immensity motherboard which is part of its R.O.G. series of boards is something that we didn’t expect to see. It’s based on Intel’s X58 chipset and has all the usual trimmings you’d expect on such a board, with two unusual additions – Lucid’s Hydra and an onboard ATI GPU with dedicated graphics memory.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the GTX480M notebooks are floating, just like we said at CeBIT, and at Computex, they are the highlight of the Clevo booth. While the performance may not impress many enthusiasts, several of their other designs just might.
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