Hardware
AMD releases B3 Phenom’s, Tricore 8000 series
AMD today announced that it’s new B3 stepping 4x core (Quad) and B2 stepping 3x core (Tri) Phenom has begun shipping. The B3 stepping is a replacement for the B2 stepping Phenom which had the TLB bug.
Fujitsu to Release World’s First 7200-RPM 320 GB 2.5″ HDD
Fujitsu Limited today announced its new MHZ2 BJ series of 2.5″ hard disk drives that feature a rotational speed of 7200 RPM and capacities up to 320 GB Sales of the new series will begin at the end of June 2008.
Intel to Ship Six-Core Proc in Second Half of ‘08
Intel announced Monday that it expects to ship a six-core processor to OEMs in the second half of this year. With 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of L3 cache, the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel’s new 45 nanometer (nm) technology, according to Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and general manager [...]
Kingston Achieves Unprecedented Memory Speeds with DDR3
Kinston Technology, a leading supplier of memory modules, demonstrated on Thursday its ability to overclock its HyperX DDR3 memory modules to unprecedented clock-speed with the help of a mainboard running Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation core-logic that supports DDR3 memory.
Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive
Laptop computer storage is racing fast towards the 500G-byte level with Fujitsu becoming the third hard-disk drive maker to announce a drive at that capacity.
Fujitsu is accomplishing this capacity by combining three disk platters — the magnetically-coated disks on which data is stored — each with a 170G-byte capacity inside the drive.
Intel CSI Nehalem and Dunnington details leak
ACE’S HARDWARE has pointed to details of Intel’s forthcoming “Nehalem” architecture.It also points to information about Dunnington, apparently based on an Intel presentation, including its launch date, slated for the second half of this year.
Solid state drives still ‘far from practical’
The widespread use of Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) could be as far off as five years, according to one analyst. Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, believes that the chip-based drives may not see significant use in notebook computers for three to five years. “We remain sceptical in our outlook for rapid adoption of Flash-based SSDs,” [...]
