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Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 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

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Oct 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 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

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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 ...

Researchers save electricity with low-power processors and flash memory

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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

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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

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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 ...

There's no perfect way to back up your hard drive

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 07, 2009 | 1 / 5 (4) | 3

If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died.

Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine

Electronics / Hardware

Oct 05, 2009 | 1.5 / 5 (2) | 1

Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.

NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'

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Oct 01, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 0

NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...

Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

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Sep 30, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful ...

NXP Introduces Intelligent Switches Supporting HDMI 1.4

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Sep 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NXP Semiconductors today unveiled intelligent switches supporting the new HDMI 1.4 specification released in June 2009.

ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard

Electronics / Hardware

Sep 29, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (7) | 2

ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i.

Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)

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Sep 25, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...

Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor

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Sep 23, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 1

Intel Corporation introduced its revolutionary Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor and Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition today, bringing Intel’s award-winning and super-fast Nehalem microarchitecture ...

Toshiba Adds 32nm mSATA And Half-Slim Solid State Drive Modules

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Sep 21, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Toshiba today announced a series of solid state drive (SSD) modules using the latest generation Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND flash, at Intel Developers Forum 2009. The Toshiba SG2 modules are offered in two types, ...

Getting files from a failed hard drive

Electronics / Hardware

Sep 18, 2009 | 2.7 / 5 (18) | 10

A friend whose iMac's hard drive had apparently died called recently, wondering how she might access the files on the failed drive.

IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs

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Sep 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.