http://www.physorg.com/electronics-news/hardware/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on consumer electronic hardware, electronic gadgets, hardware and electronics. 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 the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems. The upgrade, funded with $19.9 million under the Recovery Act, will enable scientific simulations for exploring solutions to climate change and the development of new energy technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news177608722.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:30:02 EST news177608722 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 science projects. http://www.physorg.com/news175781501.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:13:49 EST news175781501 (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. Since their invention in the 1950s, magnetic-based hard disk drives (HDDs) have been the primary method of nonvolatile storage. However, researchers are currently developing several new and promising nonvolatile memory (NVM) technologies, but for one of them to replace HDDs within the next decade, it will be a challenge. http://www.physorg.com/news175505861.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:40:03 EST news175505861 (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 images, and several people can view the display simultaneously from multiple angles. http://www.physorg.com/news175446089.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:02:07 EST news175446089 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news175370805.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:22 EST news175370805 (PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family. http://www.physorg.com/news175267985.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:33:40 EST news175267985 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, twice as many as the cells in conventional multi-level cell (MLC) NAND (2-bits-per-cell) memory chips. http://www.physorg.com/news174919620.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:10:01 EST news174919620 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 energy efficient for data-intensive applications than the systems now used by major Internet services. http://www.physorg.com/news174741979.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:27:53 EST news174741979 (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 Internet content and other services to digital TVs, Blu-ray players and other entertainment devices. http://www.physorg.com/news173104820.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:44:25 EST news173104820 A friend whose iMac's hard drive had apparently died called recently, wondering how she might access the files on the failed drive. http://www.physorg.com/news172483185.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:00:01 EST news172483185 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. http://www.physorg.com/news172243811.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:34:06 EST news172243811 (PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has launched three new quad-core processors utilizing Intel's new Nehalem architecture. These processors, formerly codenamed Lynnfield, are aimed at desktop computers, as well as the new Xeon 3400 series processors which will be deployed in low-cost servers. http://www.physorg.com/news171623729.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:16:36 EST news171623729 Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding up medical imaging, which can be a lifesaving benefit. http://www.physorg.com/news171278830.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:00:01 EST news171278830 Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second supercomputer. http://www.physorg.com/news170073901.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:00:01 EST news170073901 Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of the world's first 64GB SDXC Memory Card with the world's fastest data transfer rate compliant with the new SD Memory Standard Ver. 3.00, UHS 104. http://www.physorg.com/news168622732.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:40:03 EST news168622732 What's next from Apple? According to various reports, the California-based company plans to come out later this year with a portable tablet-sized computer that can surf the Web and may also serve as an electronic book reader. http://www.physorg.com/news167921562.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:20:01 EST news167921562 The newest supercomputer in town is almost 15 times faster than its predecessor and ready to take on problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. The $21.4 million Chinook supercomputer was built by HP, tested by a variety of researchers, and has now been commissioned for use by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. http://www.physorg.com/news167912444.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:21:17 EST news167912444 Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, announced the launch of the world's first 256GB USB flash drive, the Kingston Technology DataTraveler 300. It allows users to carry around a whole digital world, from thousands of image files to a whole database of documents. Users will also benefit from quick transfer rates and the option to password protects their data. http://www.physorg.com/news167461888.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:00:01 EST news167461888 Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will help lower prices of the SSDs up to 60 percent for PC and laptop makers and consumers who buy them due to the reduced die size and advanced engineering design. http://www.physorg.com/news167406516.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:49:32 EST news167406516 Japan's Toshiba Corp. will enter the Blu-ray DVD market, more than a year after it gave up on its own next-generation format that failed to gain industry support, a report said. http://www.physorg.com/news167209843.html Electronics - Hardware Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:11:14 EST news167209843 Benny Villanueva recalls being in a Starbucks rushing to finish a college paper that was due when his laptop battery, which he'd been led to believe would last hours, conked out after only about 30 minutes. http://www.physorg.com/news166888331.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:10:01 EST news166888331 It's not yet lights-out for LCD and plasma, but OLED displays are finally ready to begin pushing those technologies out of the limelight. http://www.physorg.com/news165053969.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:20:22 EST news165053969 In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today`s cooling technologies. http://www.physorg.com/news164996567.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:23:27 EST news164996567 ARM is the chip design company that makes processors for smartphones like the Palm Pre and Apple iPhone 3G. By next year we can expect to see dual-core processors in smartphones, with quad-core to follow sometime in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news164386074.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:20:01 EST news164386074 Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips. http://www.physorg.com/news164300690.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:05:08 EST news164300690 (AP) -- Tiny, cheap laptops known as netbooks have been a big success. But not everyone likes their small screens and keyboards, and their processors aren't powerful enough for some common tasks, like playing high-quality Internet video. http://www.physorg.com/news163910672.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:44:49 EST news163910672 The world's two leading makers of mini laptops Tuesday introduced their latest computers at the opening of Asia's leading information technology trade fair. http://www.physorg.com/news163145512.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:12:20 EST news163145512 A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs -- the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide -- was unveiled on Tuesday in Germany. http://www.physorg.com/news162550144.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 26 May 2009 09:50:12 EST news162550144 (AP) -- Acer Inc. of Taiwan said Friday it plans solid growth in the previously hard-to-crack Japanese market with a new slim, lightweight laptop that boasts an eight-hour battery life and a cheap price. http://www.physorg.com/news162192740.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 22 May 2009 06:33:11 EST news162192740 (AP) -- Japanese computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. said Wednesday that it has successfully developed the world's fastest supercomputer processing unit with more than twice the speed of the current leader. http://www.physorg.com/news161600187.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 15 May 2009 09:56:53 EST news161600187