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Seagate Unveils DockStar For File Sharing
Seagate announced the DockStar, a network adapter that will allow users to plug in their FreeAgent external hard drives. The DockStar then plugs into a router, and allows anyone on the home network to access the files. In addition, the owner of the drive can allow access to people from any computer that has access to a web browser. Write permission can be denied, preventing others from inadvertently deleting your data. The DockStar will work with Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. Users can even set up an RSS feed to be notified of changes to drive content.
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MIT Making Next Advancement in CPU Design
A team of engineers and computer scientists from MIT have announced a new development in processor technology. The new method involves using two semiconductor materials instead of just one in the substrate layer. This is important as the current processor technology will hit a wall at some point due to current leakage among other things. The technique is currently in the early stages and cannot yet match the wafer dimensions of current technology. The researchers are working on this, and hope to have the technology ready for mainstream adoption within a few years.
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NVIDIA says DirectX 11 Won't Define Graphics Sales
A few years ago, NVIDIA was the first and only company to release DirectX 10 (DX 10) compliant hardware. At that time, the company said there was every reason to get a DX 10 compliant card to complete the Vista experience. But now, at a time when the company has no new DX 11 compliant cards on the horizon, while ATI is preparing to release the 5000 series which is DX 11 compatible, the company is switching tunes. At the Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference, NVIDIA's VP of investor relations said:
“DirectX 11 by itself is not going be the defining reason to buy a new GPU. It will be one of the reasons. This is why Microsoft is in work with the industry to allow more freedom and more creativity in how you build content, which is always good, and the new features in DirectX 11 are going to allow people to do that. But that no longer is the only reason, we believe, consumers would want to invest in a GPU.”
The company has also change position on what will drive the market forward. Whereas before, the company saw software that relies on the raw computational power of GPUs (eg: media transcoding software) as the future, it now sees advanced visual effects that a new generation API brings with it (in games and CGI applications) as what will the deciding factor in purchasing a graphics card, as seen by this quote:
“Graphics industry, I think, is on the point that microprocessor industry was several years ago, when AMD made the public confession that frequency does not matter anymore and it is more about performance per watt. I think we are the same crossroad with the graphics world: framerate and resolution are nice, but today they are very high and going from 120fps to 125fps is not going to fundamentally change end-user experience. But I think the things that we are doing with Stereo 3D Vision, PhysX, about making the games more immersive, more playable is beyond framerates and resolutions. Nvidia will show with the next-generation GPUs that the compute side is now becoming more important that the graphics side.”
Interesting to see that ATI has shaken things up so much, and should be interesting to see what comes...
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