http://www.physorg.com/electronics-news/hardware/ en-us PhysOrg Team PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on consumer electronic hardware, electronic gadgets, hardware and electronics. 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. http://www.physorg.com/news177944567.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-11-20T13:20:02-07:00 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". http://www.physorg.com/news177617175.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-11-16T18:30:08-07:00 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 2009-11-16T16:30:02-07:00 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 hard disk drives. The new series delivers three models in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities, and will start mass production from December. http://www.physorg.com/news176629394.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-11-05T07:43:41-07:00 ASUS today announced a range of enhanced motherboard solutions that deliver true USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s data throughput performance. http://www.physorg.com/news175970134.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-28T18:00:01-07:00 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 2009-10-26T13:13:49-07:00 (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 2009-10-23T09:40:03-07:00 (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 2009-10-22T16:02:07-07:00 (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 2009-10-21T19:07:22-07:00 (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 2009-10-20T14:33:40-07:00 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 2009-10-16T14:10:01-07:00 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 2009-10-14T12:27:53-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sony today unveiled its new touch-enabled, multi-media machine - the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV. http://www.physorg.com/news174221052.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-08T21:50:02-07:00 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 petaflop, a landmark achievement that will greatly accelerate science and place Kraken among the top five computers in the world. http://www.physorg.com/news174245124.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-08T19:00:01-07:00 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. http://www.physorg.com/news174198828.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-08T07:10:01-07:00 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. http://www.physorg.com/news174157392.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-07T20:40:01-07:00 Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1. http://www.physorg.com/news173977157.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-05T16:20:07-07:00 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 units (GPUs), delivering breakthroughs in both graphics and GPU computing. http://www.physorg.com/news173631014.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-10-01T15:51:54-07:00 (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 as several initial science results demonstrated ground-breaking science, enhanced code performance, and some of the highest resolution, largest simulations ever run in their respective scientific field. http://www.physorg.com/news173548668.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-30T17:10:01-07:00 NXP Semiconductors today unveiled intelligent switches supporting the new HDMI 1.4 specification released in June 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news173543611.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-30T15:34:32-07:00 ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i. http://www.physorg.com/news173430426.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-29T09:10:02-07:00 (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 2009-09-25T13:44:25-07:00 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 to the mobile market. http://www.physorg.com/news172939083.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-23T15:39:44-07:00 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, one based on the new low-profile mini-SATA (mSATA) interface standard and the other a Half-Slim type, which uses a SATA connector. The drives are available in 30GB and 62GB modules. Volume production will start in October. http://www.physorg.com/news172773623.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-21T17:50:03-07:00 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 2009-09-18T12:00:01-07:00 Lenovo today is bringing business users a new way to work with multitouch screen technology on the versatile and portable ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC and slim and powerful ThinkPad T400s laptop. Lenovo is also introducing SimpleTap, an application that brings simplicity to the multitouch screen experience. http://www.physorg.com/news172251424.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-15T19:30:01-07:00 HP today introduced the world's thinnest full-performance notebook PC as well as a slim, stylish consumer notebook that delivers an optimal balance of mobility, performance and affordability. http://www.physorg.com/news172250779.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-15T16:30:02-07:00 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 2009-09-15T14:34:06-07:00 Asus today unveiled the brand new ultra-slim Designo MS Series LCD monitors MS246/ 236/ 227/ 226/ 202 to astound users with a perfect combination of exceptional style and picture quality. http://www.physorg.com/news171780185.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-10T05:43:43-07:00 Samsung Electronics today announced its new 640-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 internal hard disk drive. The new 640GB hard drive, now the top-density drive of the popular M7 family, has an areal density of 516-Gigabit per square inch for each 320GB platter, which is a 28 percent increase per platter over Samsung`s previous density-leading 500GB hard drive. Samsung`s new Spinpoint M7 model is designed for high-end mobile computing applications requiring greater shock resistance without a compromise in performance. http://www.physorg.com/news171737685.html Electronics - Hardware 2009-09-09T17:56:24-07:00