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Addonics USB to NAS Adapter

Addonics Announces their Network Attached Storage Adapter

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created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today Addonics announced their NAS (network attached storage) adapter, a low-cost way to add USB storage devices onto a local area network. The NAS adapter will permit USB storage devices ...


Freescale i.MX515 Processor

Intel May Be Facing Competition in the Netbook Processor Arena

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Right now Intel dominates the netbook market with its Atom processors which can be found in netbooks costing around $299. This may all change with the introduction of Freescale's i.MX515 processor ...


Sandisk Launches Next-Generation Solid-State Drives for Netbooks

Sandisk Launches Next-Generation Solid-State Drives for Netbooks

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

SanDisk Corporation today unveiled its next-generation of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSD) to support the evolving needs of designers, manufacturers and users in the exploding netbook market - SanDisk ...


Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

Toshiba Introduces 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 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 ...


AMD Athlon X2 7750 CPU

AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition 2.7GHz CPU

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created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has introduced a new dual-core desktop processors aimed at the value end of the consumer market. The new Athlon X2 7000 series, which is available now, are the company's first dual core ...


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Oak Ridge supercomputer is the world's fastest for science

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created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1

A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The annual ranking of the world's top 500 computers ...


Verbatim TUFF-'N'-TINY USB drive

Tiny flash drive is also durable

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Just the other day, my son was looking for his flash drive that is a requirement for all college freshmen. His mom was the one who found it due to the loud clanging noise coming from the automatic dryer. ...


An international trade group representing wireless device makers is backing a drive to standardize audio and USB plugs

Mobile device makers want common earphone plugs

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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.


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

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

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 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, ...


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

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

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created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 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 ...


The tablet PC could be Apple's next big thing

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Figuring out what Apple Inc. has in store for its next big product launch has become as popular a game as gathering to pick fantasy football drafts every fall.


Blu-ray drives seeing limited growth within PCs

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The sharp video quality of Blu-ray disc players, increases in the devices' technical capabilities and growth in the number of high-definition video titles has made the devices one of the most-popular consumer-electronics ...


Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 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 ...


DOE's Oak Ridge supercomputer now world's fastest for open science

DOE's Oak Ridge supercomputer now world's fastest for open science

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created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 "petaflops," or ...


SDSC dashes forward with new flash memory computer system

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, ...