by Kevin Parrish July 1, 2009
The July edition of Nikkei Electronics Asia is reporting that PCs featuring USB 3.0 may ship from Taiwanese manufacturers by the end of the year. The verdict stems from the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference recently held in Tokyo May 20-21, displaying numerous prototypes containing the upcoming technology that included PC hosts transferring data to connected external SSDs, and "mutual" interoperability between components from different vendors. NEA's Tadashi Nezu said it was clear that the industry is quickly pushing forward with compliant integrated circuits and more, and that the technology has actually matured since its earlier showings.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Dell accidentally sells 140,000 monitors for $15 a pop
And Taiwan demands they stay sold
By Austin Modine, 1st July 2009
Taiwan consumer regulators have ordered Dell to honor an online pricing error that offered 19-inch LCD monitors for only NT$500 (US$15, £9). News of the supposed bargain spread quickly over the internet when it was posted June 25 at 11pm. Within the eight hours before it was removed, more than 26,000 customers placed orders for nearly 140,000 monitors, according to Taiwan's Consumer Protection Commission. The agency said in a statement (in Chinese) it received 471 complaints after Dell corrected the listing to the intended price of NT$4,800 (US$148, £90). Dell has been ordered to make good on the erroneous price for customers who placed an order on one monitor and offer diminishing discounts on additional monitors ordered.
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By Austin Modine, 1st July 2009
Taiwan consumer regulators have ordered Dell to honor an online pricing error that offered 19-inch LCD monitors for only NT$500 (US$15, £9). News of the supposed bargain spread quickly over the internet when it was posted June 25 at 11pm. Within the eight hours before it was removed, more than 26,000 customers placed orders for nearly 140,000 monitors, according to Taiwan's Consumer Protection Commission. The agency said in a statement (in Chinese) it received 471 complaints after Dell corrected the listing to the intended price of NT$4,800 (US$148, £90). Dell has been ordered to make good on the erroneous price for customers who placed an order on one monitor and offer diminishing discounts on additional monitors ordered.
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HP debuts first workstation with six-core AMD Istanbul
by Thomas De Maesschalck July 01 2009
HP has introduced the xw9400, the first workstation to adopt the AMD Opteron 2400 six-core "Istanbul" processor. Prices start at $1,899. Ideal for high-end workstation applications in fields such as engineering, 3-D digital content creation, oil and gas, and science, the HP xw9400 Workstation taps the power of the new AMD Opteron processors to deliver higher productivity, especially for multi-threaded applications, multi-tasking and mega-tasking environments. With the built-in engineering advantages of HP�s highly tuned workstations, the HP xw9400 Workstation can accommodate up to two Six-Core AMD Opteron processors � for a total of 12 cores � each of which offers up to 34 percent more performance per watt(1) over the previous-generation quad-core processors.
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HP has introduced the xw9400, the first workstation to adopt the AMD Opteron 2400 six-core "Istanbul" processor. Prices start at $1,899. Ideal for high-end workstation applications in fields such as engineering, 3-D digital content creation, oil and gas, and science, the HP xw9400 Workstation taps the power of the new AMD Opteron processors to deliver higher productivity, especially for multi-threaded applications, multi-tasking and mega-tasking environments. With the built-in engineering advantages of HP�s highly tuned workstations, the HP xw9400 Workstation can accommodate up to two Six-Core AMD Opteron processors � for a total of 12 cores � each of which offers up to 34 percent more performance per watt(1) over the previous-generation quad-core processors.
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