WD Green: Green is Fashionable
As the title itself says, if you’ve followed the development of IT industry at all lately, you’ve certainly noticed that “green technologies” are gaining significant popularity. The conscience of constant Earth pollution is slowly seeping into all of our minds, perhaps a few hundred years too late, but better late than never. Components made of recyclable material, lower energy consumption, zero toxic materials in the production process, all of these are features which we are likely to see more and more on our products. This approach couldn’t have missed hard disks on the way, so we’ve received four “green” Western Digital hard disks for testing, in order to round up the story about AFT.
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PowerColor readies Radeon HD 5870 PCS++
PowerColor has designed a PCS++ version of the AMD Radeon HD 5870, with 1600 Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory interface, a GPU clock of 950 MHz (850 MHz stock), 1GB of GDDR5 memory at 4800 MHz, dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, and a dual-slot fansink with one 92mm (<30dba) href="http://www.insidehw.com/News/Hardware/PowerColor-readies-Radeon-HD-5870-PCS.html">
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AMD shipped over 6 million DirectX 11 GPUs
AMD revealed that it has managed to ship in excess of 6 million DirectX 11 capable GPUs in the past two quarters. The company introduced the HD 5800 series in late September and the cards started shipping in volume in early October. A month later AMD launched the HD 5700 series, which was followed by entry level parts and mobile GPUs.
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Sony's first 3D HDTV goes retail in June
Sony has announced that their first Bravia 3D HDTV for British market will go on sale in June and the company will be bundling four 3D games for early adopters. The TV, the Bravia HX803 has 200 Hz high frame rate technology and a simulated 3D feature which converts standard 2D pictures into simulated 3D. The TV will also feature high speed precision technology, which reduces the mixing of 3D images assigned to each eye.
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Intel skips USB 3.0, heads straight to Light Peak
Intel's lack of USB 3.0 support in new chipsets has signaled to observers that the company may be bypassing USB 3.0 in favor of optical technology. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen, but Intel has been promoting its Light Peak technology which promises transmission speeds of between 10Gbps and 100Gbps. Light Peak technology was unveiled in 2009 and is expected to become available for manufacturers later in 2010. Devices containing the technology are expected to reach the market by early 2011.
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