Again beating out the likes of Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi as it did with its 320GBer is Buffalo which has become the first company to release a half terabyte (500GB) ultra portable hard drive.Visually identical to the rest of the MiniStation TurboUSB line, the ‘HD-PS500U2′ is none the less something of a technological marvel cramming [...]
AMD worked with Samsung, Hynix, and Qimonda to develop its implementation of GDDR5. It is the German-based Qimonda, however, who will be supplying the GDDR5 to AMD for the launch of the new Radeon graphics cards. Qimonda claims to have “already started mass production and the volume shipping of GDDR5 512Mbit components with a speed [...]
New Drives Combine Advanced Performance, Reliability and Energy Efficiency for Business Critical and Industrial Applications
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions, today announced the release of its 2.5″ hard disk drive (HDD) series line up that offers support for 24-hour [...]
Soon after Western Digital made a fool of itself by introducing an external hard drive “certified” for use with DISH Network HD DVRs, along comes Seagate to further fuel the hype machine. Announced at this year’s Cable Show (after being mentioned at CES), the Showcase storage solution is “designed” to extend storage capacity of [...]
Creative took the UK/EU Qualifier of the Champion Gaming Series as its cue to launch a new version of its SoundBlaster X-Fi audio card. The Titanium Fatal1ty range sports native PCI Express, but with a few extra enhancements.
Most welcome is the ability to encode surround sound to Dolby Digital, for sending over S/PDIF to an [...]
ASUS on Friday released details on its P5Q motherboard, which the company says sports five exclusive features. Key among them is Linux-based Express Gate technology that is basically a simplified OS and loads up only the programs that are needed to access the Internet. Instead of waiting for Windows to load up, users are able [...]
VIA today announced the VIA EPIA PX5000EG Pico-ITX board that features the extremely power efficient 500MHz VIA Eden ULV processor, offering embedded developers an uncompromisingly compact, highly integrated board. Building on the success of the VIA EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX board, the VIA EPIA PX5000EG adds the incredible heat and power efficiency of the 500MHz [...]
The Emulex LPe12002-E HBA is a dual-ported host bus adapter. It provides servers with limited PCI slots, greater port capacity and performance for virtualized data center environments, Critical information applications, and high bandwidth applications such as backup, data replication and disaster recovery implementations.It is capable of delivering outstanding performance by leveraging a single ASIC design [...]
Hitachi announced that it was now shipping its TravelStar 7K320 2.5-inch notebook HDD. The drive has 320GB of storage space without sacrificing the faster 7200 RMP rotational speed. Hitachi says that the new drive delivers 60% higher capacity than the drive before it and application performance is improved by 12%.
A version of the drive [...]
GECUBE has introduced a single GPU HD3870 graphics accelerator with Unified Shader architecture and 2GByte high speed 256-bit GDDR3 memory. The design offers a complete, High Definition gaming and HD entertainment solution for the PC offering the highest resolution with the highest graphics performance for the most bandwidth hungry HD games and intensive 3D [...]
