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LG Display claims world's thinnest TV panel

Electronics / Hardware

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (11) | 8

South Korea's LG Display said Monday it has developed the world's thinnest LCD television panel, measuring 2.6 millimetres (0.1 inches).

Intel Announces Next-Generation Atom Platform (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

Dec 21, 2009 | 2.6 / 5 (5) | 3

Intel Corporation announced new Intel Atom processors today that feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU, enabling improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation ...

Next-generation Intel products to be launched in January; Include first 32-nm Core i3, i5 processors

Electronics / Hardware

Dec 18, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (13) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has announced it will launch over two dozen new products next month, including new processors, chipsets, and a number of wireless components.

More than powerful: German research computer QPACE is the most energy efficient in the world

Electronics / Hardware

Nov 20, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

At the 2009 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon, the high-performance computer QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell) was recognized today as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest

Electronics / Hardware

Nov 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 2

An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

Electronics / Hardware

Nov 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 1

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".

Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

Electronics / Hardware

Nov 05, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

Toshiba Corporation today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external ...

ASUS Unveils First Motherboards to Feature USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s Performance

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1

ASUS today announced a range of enhanced motherboard solutions that deliver true USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s data throughput performance.

Science at the petascale: Roadrunner supercomputer results unveiled

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 26, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental ...

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 23, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (36) | 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...

Sony Unveils 360-Degree 3D Display (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 22, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (20) | 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at the DC Expo in Tokyo, Sony has introduced a new 3D display that can be viewed from any direction. Unlike many 3D displays, the new display does not require glasses to view the 3D ...

Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 21, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(AP) -- With the launch of Windows 7 this week, PC makers are trying some new things, including laptops with touch screens. Acer Inc. is going further - introducing a laptop with a 3-D screen.

AMD Announces Eight New Athlon II Processors

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 20, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (16) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family.

SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (10) | 0

SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, ...

Researchers save electricity with low-power processors and flash memory

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 14, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (8) | 0

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more ...

Mobile device makers want common earphone plugs

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Oct 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

An international trade group representing wireless device makers has announced it was backing a drive to standardize audio and USB plugs for laptops and other mobile gadgets.

Sony Intros New Touch-Screen HD PC/TV

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 08, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony today unveiled its new touch-enabled, multi-media machine— the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV.

Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 08, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputer—Kraken—has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one ...