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Samsung Electronics unveils new 256GB solid state drive
May 26, 2008 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world’s fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface at the fifth annual ...
Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drives
Nov 21, 2008 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now ...
AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier
Jun 16, 2008 |
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At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD today introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance ...
World's first teraflop supercomputer decommissioned
Jun 30, 2006 |
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The world's first teraflop computer has been decommissioned by the U.S. government despite still being among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.
Samsung Develops 40nm 32 Gb NAND Flash
Sep 11, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed the industry’s first 40-nanometer memory device. The new 32 Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash device is the first memory to incorporate a Charge Trap Flash (CTF) ...
Epson Develops A6-Size Electronic Paper with World's Highest Resolution Using Plastic Substrate
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Seiko Epson Corp. has successfully developed A6-size (7.1 inches on the diagonal) electronic paper using a plastic substrate. Drawing on Epson's original SUFTLA technology, the new electronic paper achieves ...
'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops
Sep 04, 2007 |
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NEC has launched two new series of laptops with a unique security feature called "face pass" -- or, in Japanese, "kao pass."
What Comes After Hard Drives?
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(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. ...
No Power Use in Standby: New Zero-Watt Monitor
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode.
Miniaturized Full Color Laser Projector at the LASER 2007 show
May 30, 2007 |
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Fraunhofer IPMS shows a full color laser projection system based on its own two dimensional micro scanning mirror. The system contains an ultra compact projection head and a separate laser and signal processing ...
Foldable phone opens into large OLED screen
Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new cell phone developed by Samsung opens like a book to reveal a larger OLED screen, essentially turning the phone into a portable media player. Samsung recently demonstrated the prototype ...
Red Storm upgrade lifts Sandia supercomputer to 2nd in world, but 1st in scalability, say researchers
Nov 15, 2006 |
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A $15 million upgrade to Sandia’s Red Storm computer has increased its peak speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops in a computing terrain in which a single teraflop was a big deal only 6 years ago.
AMD Demonstrates Accelerated Computing Solution that Breaks Teraflop Barrier
Mar 01, 2007 |
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AMD today showcased a single-system, Accelerated Computing platform that breaks the teraflop computing barrier. Organizations are ultimately expected to be able to apply this technology to a wide range of scientific, ...
Epson Develops New High-Resolution 3D LCD Display
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a high-resolution (equivalent to QVGA) autostereoscopic 3D liquid-crystal display that affords extra freedom of viewing position compared to conventional ...
Samsung Launches World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk
May 23, 2006 |
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Samsung Electronics will release the world’s first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD). This marks the first time that NAND flash has moved into a commercial mobile computing ...
