Silicon Power Announces SDHC Class 10 16GB
Silicon Power SDHC Class 10
Silicon Power has launched its new line of speedy SDHC memory cards, targeted at photo enthusiasts who require adequate storage capacity for their pictures and fast write speeds for continuous photo shots. Fully compatible with todays digital handheld devices that support SDHC, they are backed by a lifetime warranty and available in 4Gb, 8Gb and 16Gb capacities. Pricing has not been announced yet but they should be available in stores by November.Read more...
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Arctic Cooling Unveils Arctic RC Pro
Arctic RC Pro
Swiss based Arctic Cooling has launched the Arctic RC Pro, its latest RAM cooler for both single and double sided DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM modules. Measuring 126 x 76 x 1.5mm and weighing 74g, the aluminium cooler features long fins extended to 5cm and pre-applied highly conductive thermal pads for efficient heat dissipation.
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Photo-realistic images rendered by Fermi
A forum member on Chinese website PCZilla has leaked some stunning images purpotedly rendered on a Fermi GPU.
The images are close enough to photo-realistic and feature raytracing. Lighting and depth of field effects are particularly impressive, as are the facial hair and features.
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AMD: "Nvidia is somewhat abandoning the gaming market"
AMD's senior manager of development relations, Richard Huddy, in a talk with Hexus, feels Nvidia is "somewhat abandoning the gaming market".
He did mention the importance of compute applications, and something AMD "put a lot of effort into" as well. However, with recent decisions by Nvidia have proved to be controversial and frustrated both gamers and game developers alike.
Nvidia, he said, is "selling pure compute" and the lack of gaming information on the Fermi announcement at GTC was alarming. However, in Nvidia's defence, GTC was a compute oriented conference. In a recent interview, Jen-Hsun Huang claimed Fermi holds many gaming related features and "secrets" which will be revealed in good time.
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Nvidia Geforce GT 240 to release on November 17th
Next up from Nvidia is the GT 240, based on the GT215. This is a 40nm, DX10.1, 96 SP product. We have discussed the GT 240 before, two weeks ago. While Expreview's benchmarks are not available any longer, we can expect the the GDDR5 version GT 240 to perform around 9600 GT levels, maybe a bit faster with driver improvements.
However, the underwhelming GT 220 is selling at $69 for the DDR2 version and $79 for the DDR3 version, and both already losing out on all counts to the $69 HD 4670, and even Nvidia's older 9600 GT/GSO cards. Now, we have the HD 4770 dropping in price, with bargain HD 4770s already available for ~$85. We are not sure if there is any room for this card on today's market. Much like the recent GT 220 release, it seems a case of too little, too late, too expensive.
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TSMC 40nm yield issues resurface
TSMC's troubled 40nm process has once again hit yield issues. When RV740 (HD 4770) first released in Q2 2009, availability remained poor due to troubled yields reported to be as low as 20-30%. By July, the 40nm yield had improved to a respectable 60%.
Today, the main 40nm products are AMD's Juniper and Cypress dies. Nvidia's GF100 is set to follow, reportedly to release in December. Unfortunately, due to "chamber matching issues", TSMC report a drop in yield rate from 60% in July to 40% now. The products which suffer most from this yield rate are not mentioned; the 40% value is a general overview of all 40nm products. Both AMD and Nvidia have claimed in the past that their 40nm processes are yielding just fine, though several rumours are afloat as to Nvidia's troubles with the 40nm process, for the current GT21x shrinks, as well as the upcoming GF100. Meanwhile, the HD 5800 series continues to remain in short supply.
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HTC launches Tattoo and new 'Quietly Brilliant' branding
Yesterday evening, HTC launched their new Andriod-powered Tattoo and also announced their global "Quietly Brilliant" branding campaign. There were two flash mobs in Singapore last weekend to roll out the manufacturer's first global advertising "YOU" campaign.
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[Rumour] AMD to release Evergreen Mobile chips in January 2010
Following Nvidia's leaks of its "next-gen" GT 300M series, Nordichardware reports that ATI's DX11 mobile cards are arriving in January 2010.
This is the same time frame as the release of the Cedar and Redwood desktop cards. It remains to be seen when the Evergreen mobile GPUs actually find their way into notebooks.
Previous reports suggested three mobile GPUs - Park, Madison and Broadway. Not much else is known about Evergreen mobile GPUs at this point.
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MSI Big Bang Trinergy offers 3-way SLI Support on P55 Chipset
With some misinformation on the web for the past few days, MSI today has officially unveiled the Big Bang Trinergy that supports 3-way SLI on Intel P55 Express chipset. This cool board sports other goodness like Creative EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0 support, 100% Hi-c Caps, OC Dashboard, DrMOS and the 1 second overclock utility OC Genie. Next in line is the Big Bang Fuzion that features the Lucid HYDRA chip supporting multiple and mixed GPUs. Of course, expect the Fuzion board to cost more.
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Buffalo Unveils LinkStation WXL-R1 NAS
Buffalo LinkStation WXL/R1 NAS
Buffalo Japan has launched its latest server product, the LinkStation WXL/R1 NAS server. Measuring 86 x 127 x 204mm, it features 2 bays with pre-installed drives with capacities of 1TB, 2TB and 3TB. With support for RAID 0 and RAID 1 modes, the LinkStation WXL/R1 has gigabit interface (supports transfer speeds of around 40 MB/s) for Ethernet connectivity and USB 2.0 for external connection with USB mass storage devices (e.g. flash drives, external HDDs etc) for additional storage capacity. Available in Japan now, the 1TB, 2TB and 3TB variants are selling at a MSRP of USD$350, USD$460 and USD$580 respectively.
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Noctua Launches NF-P14 140mm Premium Fan
Noctua NF-P14 FLX
Noctua had unveiled its 1st 140mm fan, the NF-P14 FLX, adding on to its lineup of high performance fans for enthusiasts. Like its 120mm cousin (NF-P12), the new NF-P14 FLX also sports a psycho-acoustically optimised nine blade impeller with Vortex-Control Notches for silent operation.
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