by Thomas De Maesschalck july 03 2008
Tom's Hardware Guide has compared the power consumption of solid state disks and hard disk drives and came to a shocking conclusion: SSDs actually use more power than HDDs! This may come as a surprise as it's widely believed that SSDs improve battery life in notebooks but that's not true because, contrary to HDDs, these disks always operate at their maximum power level when in use. In contrast, flash SSDs only seem to know two states: active or idle. We don’t have specific information on this, but we received confirmation from two vendors that many flash devices don’t feature power saving mechanisms yet. On the one hand, the entire industry is looking to improve MLC flash to enable larger flash SSDs at sufficient performance levels. On the other hand, wear leveling algorithms are more important than power saving features, as durability may be an issue with SSD drives.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
AMD Unveils Three New Moderately Priced Phenom Quad-core CPUs
AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is fastest Phenom part ever
By Shane McGlaun - July 1, 2008
AMD announced its highest performance quad core processor to date. The new CPU is called the AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition. Along with the new Black Edition processor AMD also unveiled the Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e processors. The high-end Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is a quad-core processor with an unlocked multiplier running stock at 2.6GHz. The 9950 Black Edition carries a retail price of $235 and consumes no more than 140 watts.The AMD Phenom X4 9350e runs at 2.0GHz and will retail for $195. The new AMD X4 9150e processor runs at 1.8 GHz and will retail for $175. Both of these CPUs consume no more than 65 watts of power under full load according to AMD.
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By Shane McGlaun - July 1, 2008
AMD announced its highest performance quad core processor to date. The new CPU is called the AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition. Along with the new Black Edition processor AMD also unveiled the Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e processors. The high-end Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is a quad-core processor with an unlocked multiplier running stock at 2.6GHz. The 9950 Black Edition carries a retail price of $235 and consumes no more than 140 watts.The AMD Phenom X4 9350e runs at 2.0GHz and will retail for $195. The new AMD X4 9150e processor runs at 1.8 GHz and will retail for $175. Both of these CPUs consume no more than 65 watts of power under full load according to AMD.
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Nvidia cuts estimates, citing product delays and failures
Nvidia's fortunes took a turn for the worse during the quarter, as slowing sales plus faulty products never add up to anything good.
by Tom Krazit July 2, 2008
The company announced Wednesday that revenue and gross margins for its second quarter will come in below its own projections, blaming a delay in the ramp of a new product, price cuts prompted by competitive pressures, and a general economic malaise. Analysts were expecting revenue of around $1.1 billion, but revenue now will be just $875 million to $900 million for its second quarter, which ends on July 27. And then on top of that, Nvidia will have to take a one-time charge between $150 million and $200 million to account for "a weak die/packaging material set" used with certain graphics processors and platforms in some notebooks that is causing system failures. The company claimed the problem was in the interaction between its products and the rest of the system, but said it would switch to a more sturdy material for its chip packages and work on improving the thermal management software of its products.
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by Tom Krazit July 2, 2008
The company announced Wednesday that revenue and gross margins for its second quarter will come in below its own projections, blaming a delay in the ramp of a new product, price cuts prompted by competitive pressures, and a general economic malaise. Analysts were expecting revenue of around $1.1 billion, but revenue now will be just $875 million to $900 million for its second quarter, which ends on July 27. And then on top of that, Nvidia will have to take a one-time charge between $150 million and $200 million to account for "a weak die/packaging material set" used with certain graphics processors and platforms in some notebooks that is causing system failures. The company claimed the problem was in the interaction between its products and the rest of the system, but said it would switch to a more sturdy material for its chip packages and work on improving the thermal management software of its products.
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