Arctic Cooling has released its latest CPU cooler, the Freezer 11 LP. The Freezer 11 LP (low-profile) is designed for compact systems where silence is paramount. The new cooler measures 115x106x53mm (LxWxH) and weighs in at 255g, resulting in a low-profile footprint suitable for a variety of situations. Other features such as a 92mm PWM fan, two 6mm copper heatpipes and 50 aluminium pins enable a maximum cooling capacity of 90W. The Freezer 11 LP also includes a push-pin mounting system and pre-applied ARCTIC MX-2 thermal paste for clean and quick installation. The cooler supports Intel sockets 1155, 1156 and 775. The Freezer 11 LP will retail for US$19.90 (excluding VAT).
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Micron Embeds Error Correction on Flash Memory Chips
Typically what makes up a good solid state drive is the controller it is running. Companies like SandForce make some of the best controllers and are often times drives using one are the only ones to consider. Controllers ensure the SSD can last a long time and that any bad cells are easily taken care of, among other things. Micron seems to be wanting to take away some of the responsibility from controllers by embedding error correction directly on the flash memory chips. The new chips are called ClearNAND and each one has a 24-bit error correction engine built right in. This means each chip will be able to focus on error correction which will leave the controller able to do other things, like delivering even more speed.
Micron says the new ClearNAND chips are available now in 25nm sizes and come in 8 to 32GB packages for Standard ClearNAND and 16 to 64GB for Enhanced ClearNAND. The difference between the two is that Standard ClearNAND is aimed at portable media players while Enhanced will see usage in computers.
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FCC Reports Finds Over Half the Nation's Broadband Connections are Not Broadband
The FCC has just published findings from a recent report which are pretty interesting. In that report, the FCC found out that over half of the nation's broadband connections are not actually broadband. The report discovered that 68% of all the broadband connections in the US fall below the minimum of 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up which the FCC constitutes as being broadband. This means that the majority of the people in the US who have broadband really don't, at least by the FCC's standard. Looks like it is high time to get a national broadband plan in effect which gets everyone at least 4Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Also in the report are the group's findings on mobile broadband usage. In that, the FCC found that mobile wireless service subscribers and data plans with full internet access grew 48% in the second half of 2009. When you factor in all the connections with speeds over 200kbps, mobile wireless leads everything at 39.4%. Cable modems come in second at 32.4% while ADSL comes in third at 23.3%. However, connections over 3Mbps have cable modems squarely in the lead with a share of over 70%.
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