By Agam Shah, Jul 21, 2009
Intel has launched new solid-state drives that are cheaper and have faster write speeds than their predecessors, the company said Tuesday. Intel's X25-M SSDs, for laptop and desktop PCs, deliver close to double the write performance of their predecessors, according to Intel. A new manufacturing process helped keep prices down, while better software was used to speed up the SSDs, said Troy Winslow, director of marketing for Intel's NAND products. The flash chips used in the drives were manufactured using a 34-nanometer process, compared to 50 nanometers for Intel's earlier SSDs. "The 34-nm move specifically benefitted our SSDs by shrinking the die of the flash memory and therefore reduc[ing] the cost," Winslow said. This allows us to reduce the price of our SSDs by 60 percent from their introductory price three quarters ago."
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Mushkin's first ATI card pixellized
Two versions of the HD 4850
by Slobodan Simic Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Mushkin is apparently quite serious about its graphics business as it has just announced its first ATI-based graphics cards. Both of these HD 4850 cards are based on the same RV770 architecture, but they will work at different clocks. Both cards will apparently use the same Arctic Cooling cooler, and will have the same amount of memory. The new ATI UltimateFX graphics cards will be selling with a 484850 and 484851 article numbers and will have HDMI, D-Sub and DVI output. The one that should be interesting is the OC-version that will work at 700MHz for the core and 1010MHz for memory. Unfortunately, the recently announced graphics cards have still to show up in retail and we can only hope that Mushkin will start shipping them pretty soon.
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by Slobodan Simic Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Mushkin is apparently quite serious about its graphics business as it has just announced its first ATI-based graphics cards. Both of these HD 4850 cards are based on the same RV770 architecture, but they will work at different clocks. Both cards will apparently use the same Arctic Cooling cooler, and will have the same amount of memory. The new ATI UltimateFX graphics cards will be selling with a 484850 and 484851 article numbers and will have HDMI, D-Sub and DVI output. The one that should be interesting is the OC-version that will work at 700MHz for the core and 1010MHz for memory. Unfortunately, the recently announced graphics cards have still to show up in retail and we can only hope that Mushkin will start shipping them pretty soon.
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