by Mathew Reuther on July 14, 2008
If you're looking for a large hard disk drive later this year you don't need to look much further than Seagate. The company has just announced the upcoming availability of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB, the largest consumer 3.5-inch drive ever released. As if that were not enough the company is also increasing the size of the Momentus 5400(.6) and 7200(.4) series drives to a full half a terrabyte, making them the notebook drives with the most capacity to date. The Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB uses PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) to boost capacity and as it offers 150% the storage of the previous top-end 1TB capacity drive it represents the largest capacity increase in hard disk history. The Momentus 7200.4 and 5400.6 half terrabyte drives also utilize PMR. The 5400RPM drive has an 8MB cache while the faster 7200RPM version offers 16MB. Both come in auto-locking versions using Seagate's G-Force Protection to maintain data integrity even in rough conditions. Until another company manages to unveil drives with comparable space Seagate will hold the capacity crown.
Read more here -->Link
Monday, July 14, 2008
AMD 4800-series mobile GPUs gain PCIe approval
By Tony Smith 14 Jul 2008
AMD's next-gen laptop graphics chips, the 'M96' and the 'M98-L', have been approved by the PCI SIG - the body that oversees the PCI Express bus. The parts follow on from M86 and M88, AMD's Radeon Mobility 3800 series GPUs, the most recent of which, the 3850, was only launched last month. M96 and M98-L will be mobile equivalents of the 'RV770' desktop GPU that (also) debuted last month, as the Radeon HD 4800 series.
Read more here -->Link
AMD's next-gen laptop graphics chips, the 'M96' and the 'M98-L', have been approved by the PCI SIG - the body that oversees the PCI Express bus. The parts follow on from M86 and M88, AMD's Radeon Mobility 3800 series GPUs, the most recent of which, the 3850, was only launched last month. M96 and M98-L will be mobile equivalents of the 'RV770' desktop GPU that (also) debuted last month, as the Radeon HD 4800 series.
Read more here -->Link
GPhone Rumor Mill Shifts into Overdrive: Move Over iPhone
by Ian Paul Monday, July 14, 2008
Call it a post-iPhone glow, but hopes are alive once again that Google make its own Google-branded cell phone. It all started on Friday when Dan Cox of the Hollywood Reporter posted a story about an impromptu press conference between Google founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt and a small group of journalists. In his wrap-up, Dan had this to say:
"The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone..." What? We've been expecting a cell phone to come out based on Google's Android platform for some time, but a 'branded mobile phone' is not the same thing as, say, an LG phone powered by Google. At first, this was written off as poor reporting since several other news organizations were there, and no one picked up on this news the same way that Dan did. But then TechCrunch came out on Sunday with news that electronics designer, the Ammunition Design Group, may actually be developing the gPhone. In his post, Michael Arrington claims to have an inside source at Ammunition who is adamant that his company is working for Google.
Read more here -->Link
Call it a post-iPhone glow, but hopes are alive once again that Google make its own Google-branded cell phone. It all started on Friday when Dan Cox of the Hollywood Reporter posted a story about an impromptu press conference between Google founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt and a small group of journalists. In his wrap-up, Dan had this to say:
"The trio of Google execs also used the opportunity to talk about the inroads the company is making with its own branded mobile phone as a replacement for the iPhone..." What? We've been expecting a cell phone to come out based on Google's Android platform for some time, but a 'branded mobile phone' is not the same thing as, say, an LG phone powered by Google. At first, this was written off as poor reporting since several other news organizations were there, and no one picked up on this news the same way that Dan did. But then TechCrunch came out on Sunday with news that electronics designer, the Ammunition Design Group, may actually be developing the gPhone. In his post, Michael Arrington claims to have an inside source at Ammunition who is adamant that his company is working for Google.
Read more here -->Link
Whoop-ass turns to groveling
NV Watch X58 gets SLI, Jen-Hsun gets egg on face
By Charlie Demerjian: Monday, 14 July 2008
JEN-HSUN'S CAN of Whoop-Ass was deflated pretty quickly as Nvidia kissed up to Intel and begged for SLI on x58. Without it, Nvidia loses, with it, users lose. To get SLI on the x58, you need the so-called nforce 200 SLI processor, otherwise known as a second rate PCIe bridge chip. This is the same part that took the excellent PCIe2 on Skulltrail and made it a mediocre higher latency PCIe1 implementation. It is the same part that the pretty broken 780i used to fake PCIe2 as well. According to Nvidia, it has "patented SLI technology for graphics bandwidth management and multi-GPU peer-to-peer communications, both required to optimize graphics performance." I am not sure how a simple almost-PCIe2 bridge chips does all this, but they sure charge a hell of a lot for it. The requirement part is easier, Nvidia breaks the drivers for those who don't pay up, and pay they do. Which brings us to the next part, NV is keen on extracting a pound of bills for everything that says SLI, and this is no exception. System makers will pay a bundle to put an inferior PCIe2 solution on their boards. In the end, the users get a vastly more expensive board that doesn't work as well, but has a sticker on it. This is progress?
Read more here -->Link
By Charlie Demerjian: Monday, 14 July 2008
JEN-HSUN'S CAN of Whoop-Ass was deflated pretty quickly as Nvidia kissed up to Intel and begged for SLI on x58. Without it, Nvidia loses, with it, users lose. To get SLI on the x58, you need the so-called nforce 200 SLI processor, otherwise known as a second rate PCIe bridge chip. This is the same part that took the excellent PCIe2 on Skulltrail and made it a mediocre higher latency PCIe1 implementation. It is the same part that the pretty broken 780i used to fake PCIe2 as well. According to Nvidia, it has "patented SLI technology for graphics bandwidth management and multi-GPU peer-to-peer communications, both required to optimize graphics performance." I am not sure how a simple almost-PCIe2 bridge chips does all this, but they sure charge a hell of a lot for it. The requirement part is easier, Nvidia breaks the drivers for those who don't pay up, and pay they do. Which brings us to the next part, NV is keen on extracting a pound of bills for everything that says SLI, and this is no exception. System makers will pay a bundle to put an inferior PCIe2 solution on their boards. In the end, the users get a vastly more expensive board that doesn't work as well, but has a sticker on it. This is progress?
Read more here -->Link
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)