by Michael Brown November 26, 2008
With USB 2.0 ports becoming a common as dirt—you’ll find them in everything from mobile phones to DVD players these days—you know the time has come to move on to a new version. And that’s just what the USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced today. USB 3.0 will support data rates as high as 5.0 Gb/sec—rendering the new standard 10 times faster than USB 2.0. Having already dubbed USB 2.0 as “Hi-Speed USB,” however, the group had to come up with a brand-new superlative for USB 3.0. After much discussion, they finally settled on “SuperSpeed USB” (perhaps holding “Ludicrous Speed” in reserve for USB 4.0). “SuperSpeed USB is the next advancement in ubiquitous technology,” said Jeff Ravencraft, USB-IF president and chairman. “Today’s consumers are using rich media and large digital files that need to be easily and quickly transferred from PCs to devices and vice versa. SuperSpeed USB meets the needs of everyone from the tech-savvy executive to the average home user.”
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Hynix Announces World's Fastest, First 1 Gb GDDR5 Memory
by Steve Seguin November 25, 2008
Hynix Semiconductor has announced the world’s first 1 Gigabit GDDR5 graphics DRAM. The chips are also the fastest yet, which should help to enable a new generation of high performance graphics cards. The new graphics memory is built on a 54 nm process technology and is capable of operating at a record setting speed of 7 Gb/s. When used along with a 32-bit memory bus, the memory can process up to 28 Gigabytes of data per second and when used along with a 512-bit memory bus, a bandwidth of up to 448 GB/s should be possible. For comparison, Qimonda had announced volume production of 512 Mb GDDR5 memory rated at up to 4.5 Gb/s back in May 2008 and Samsung had announced 512 Mb GDDR5 memory rated at 6 Gb/s late last year. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card series of products were the first to ship using GDDR5 memory, which used Qimonda’s 512 Mb GDDR5 memory running at 3.6 Gb/s.
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Hynix Semiconductor has announced the world’s first 1 Gigabit GDDR5 graphics DRAM. The chips are also the fastest yet, which should help to enable a new generation of high performance graphics cards. The new graphics memory is built on a 54 nm process technology and is capable of operating at a record setting speed of 7 Gb/s. When used along with a 32-bit memory bus, the memory can process up to 28 Gigabytes of data per second and when used along with a 512-bit memory bus, a bandwidth of up to 448 GB/s should be possible. For comparison, Qimonda had announced volume production of 512 Mb GDDR5 memory rated at up to 4.5 Gb/s back in May 2008 and Samsung had announced 512 Mb GDDR5 memory rated at 6 Gb/s late last year. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics card series of products were the first to ship using GDDR5 memory, which used Qimonda’s 512 Mb GDDR5 memory running at 3.6 Gb/s.
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Intel counter-attacks against European Commission
By AFP Nov. 26,2008
Intel has accused the European Commission of abusing procedures in its probe of allegations the US chip giant sought to gain an unfair advantage over its main rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and asked that the charges be dropped. European regulators filed fresh anti-trust charges against the world's largest computer chip-maker in July, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the market to try to squeeze out AMD. In reply, Intel asked that the Commission "annul the decisions" on the basis they "contain errors in law" and that the Commission pay the costs the US chip company has incurred to defend itself. Intel's demands were published this week in the online edition of the EU's official journal. Intel's move was met with criticism by the head of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). "We are disappointed that Intel has apparently chosen to attack the law enforcement organization that is investigating it," CCIA president Ed Black said in a statement. "This is a tactic we have seen before by other companies when they have concluded they cannot effectively argue the merits of their wrongdoing. "The European Commission's credibility is strong and as the historical record demonstrates it has consistently struck the right balance in antitrust action," he said.
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Intel has accused the European Commission of abusing procedures in its probe of allegations the US chip giant sought to gain an unfair advantage over its main rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and asked that the charges be dropped. European regulators filed fresh anti-trust charges against the world's largest computer chip-maker in July, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the market to try to squeeze out AMD. In reply, Intel asked that the Commission "annul the decisions" on the basis they "contain errors in law" and that the Commission pay the costs the US chip company has incurred to defend itself. Intel's demands were published this week in the online edition of the EU's official journal. Intel's move was met with criticism by the head of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). "We are disappointed that Intel has apparently chosen to attack the law enforcement organization that is investigating it," CCIA president Ed Black said in a statement. "This is a tactic we have seen before by other companies when they have concluded they cannot effectively argue the merits of their wrongdoing. "The European Commission's credibility is strong and as the historical record demonstrates it has consistently struck the right balance in antitrust action," he said.
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Apple claiming iPhone 3G is 'really fast' deemed false by UK regulators
By Tim Conneally, November 26, 2008
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority determined today that an Apple TV ad's claims about its iPhone 3G's relative download speeds is misleading and exaggerative, and must be pulled. The ASA received 17 complaints from television viewers who believed Apple's "So what's so great about 3G?" ad for the company's latest iPhone inaccurately portrayed the speed of the iPhone 3G. In the ad, Web pages are loaded in a fraction of a second with a voice-over stating (four times) that news, directions, and the Internet are each "really fast." According to the ASA, this ad violates three sections of the BCAP TV Advertising Code.
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The UK's Advertising Standards Authority determined today that an Apple TV ad's claims about its iPhone 3G's relative download speeds is misleading and exaggerative, and must be pulled. The ASA received 17 complaints from television viewers who believed Apple's "So what's so great about 3G?" ad for the company's latest iPhone inaccurately portrayed the speed of the iPhone 3G. In the ad, Web pages are loaded in a fraction of a second with a voice-over stating (four times) that news, directions, and the Internet are each "really fast." According to the ASA, this ad violates three sections of the BCAP TV Advertising Code.
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