At the same time with Intel’s IDF, AMD is hosting its own press event meant to showcase the company’s latest technologies and chips, and one of the most interesting demonstrations to take place over there is a comparison between a yet-unreleased FX-Series processor and some Intel Core CPUs. AMD hasn’t disclosed the specs of...
Expected to arrive in the fourth quarter of this year, Intel’s first PCI Express solid state drive, known under the code name of Ramsdale, was just spotted at the IDF 2011 event where it promised to deliver transfer speeds up to 2.2GB/s. The SSD was first uncovered at the end of April, and form...
iBuyPower has decided to make some profit from the recent world record achieved by AMD with its 8429MHz running Bulldozer-based FX-8150 CPU that made a lot headlines yesterday, and partnered with the Sunnyvale-based company to build a desktop system that uses the same core hardware components as the record holder. The machine was showcased...
Gigabyte has brought quite a few LGA 2011 solutions powered by Intel’s X79 chipset at this year’s IDF gathering, including the second version of the gaming-oriented G1.Assassin motherboard, which features the same advanced specs as its predecessors but now gets support for Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. Gigabyte’s latest creation borrows from its predecessors just the...
After it announced at the beginning of June that it has developed a special all-in-one version of the GTX 580 that uses water cooling in order to keep the temperatures of the GPU in check, PNY has now finally made official this liquid cooled graphics card to its European customers. This solution was developed...
While SATA based solid state drives are going strong in the desktop and server market, embbeded solution developers still rely on the traditional PATA interface for many of their devices, so Apacer has just released two new series of industrial modular PATA SSD for embedded and thin client applications. The new solid state drives...
Even though Ivy Bridge isn’t supposed to arrive until the second quarter of 2012, Intel has already started to share some info with the press regarding the performance of these CPUs, as the company expects their integrated graphics to be up to 60% faster then the Sandy Bridge GPU. More information about Ivy Bridge...
Nvidia has high hopes for its Kal-El+ system-on-a-chip that is supposed to improve on the specs of the first iteration of Kal-El, since it expects the SoCs to be used not only in tablet computers, but also in entry-level notebooks. This way, Nvidia hopes that it will be able to capitalize on the launch...
