IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 01/02/2011
iPad market share drops to 75%
Strategy Analytics has said that the iPad has seen its tablet market share fall from almost 96 percent to 75 percent in the last few months, thanks to Android devices. Android tablets jumped to 21.6 percent while the rest of the share was taken by Windows and other tablet OS. While technically Android encompasses a large number of tablets released in 2010, most of the gains by the OS came from the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which shipped over 2 million tablets by the end of the year. Samsung did admit, however, that it believes hundreds of thousands of those shipped tablets still remain on retail shelves.
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PC graphics shipments down in Q4, Intel loses share to AMD and Nvidia
Jon Peddie Research has published its estimates for graphics chip shipments in Q4 and they are not pretty, as due to a slower PC demand and the tablet expansion, PC and thus GPU sales were lower than expected. Shipments of GPUs and GPU-equipped CPUs in Q4 were of 113 million units, which represents a drop of 7.8% compared to the same period of 2009. The PC graphics crown remained in Intel's possession but the company actually lost market share - going down from 55.2% in Q3 to 52.5% in Q4. Intel's loss was to both AMD and Nvidia's gain though as the former reached 24.2% (23% in Q3) and the latter topped 22.5% (21%).
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Latest PS3 firmware causes problems with upgraded HDDs
Despite Sony's close attention to closing jailbreaking hacks with the latest mandatory PS3 firmware update, users are voicing frustration over apparent problems with upgraded hard drives. A number of posts on the company's PlayStation Community forums point to a data corrupted error when users attempt to boot systems with upgraded storage.
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Android is now best selling smartphone OS
According to the market research company Canalys, shipments of Android smartphones reached 32.9 million in the Q4 2010, making it the best-selling smartphone operating system in the world. Symbian, long on top of the list, fell to second, at 31 million shipments. In terms of market share, Android grew 615 percent from 2009 to take 32.5 percent, while Symbian fell from 44.4 percent to 30.6 percent in the same period. Phone makers HTC and Samsung had notably strong years, accounting for 45 percent of the Android phone shipments.
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Hardware flaw found in Sandy Bridge chipset, Intel prepares replacement
Intel this morning warned of a serious bug with the Cougar Point chipset that would force it to delay desktop PCs using its Sandy Bridge processors. Those using the 6 series have a flaw that gradually degrades the performance of the SATA ports over time, eventually affecting the speed of hard drives and optical drives. The issue was in hardware and needed a reworking at the factory for a fix. Intel says that not all desktops were affected, as the flaw was limited to quad Core i5 and i7 chips. Notebooks use a different platform, Huron River, and shouldn't face the setback.
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AMD releases new FirePro professional cards
AMD has just introduced two more models to its FirePro line of professional graphics card, the entry-level and passively-cooled FirePro 2270 (on the left) and the mid-range, active-cooled FirePro V5800 DVI (on the right). Both cards have DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 support and can drive two monitors. The FirePro 2270 has a low-profile design, a DMS-59 connector (VGA, DVI, DisplayPort supported via adapter), 512MB of DDR3 memory, it consumed up to 15W, is backed by a three-year warranty, and is available from AMD's partners at $149.
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Windows Phone 7 update rumored due for February 7
According to unconfirmed rumors from around the Internet, the first software update for Windows Phone 7 handsets may be released on February 7, specifically in France. Among other features and performance improvements, the update is expected to bring with it the promised copy and paste text. The update was slated for a February release according to earlier reports, and February 7 would place it a week before the Mobile World Congress show, where new handsets are expected to be revealed.
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iPad 2 to have dual core processor
According to new reports from Taiwanese component makers, the Apple iPad 2 will have dual core 1.2GHz processors, alongside a plethora of upgrades. Furthermore, the company will produce 5 million units in the Q1, expecting strong sales of the device. Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the tablet will not have Retina Display, as previously rumored and will keep the same 1024x768 resolution as the original model.
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Alienware M17X10: A Close Encounter
This portable PC may not be all that portable - if you have a look at the charts, you’ll see that the monster we’re reviewing this time around weighs in at over five kilograms! This makes it clear from the ground up that we’re talking about a desktop replacement notebook, aimed at gamers. The desktop replacement category is intended for users that require portability from their PCs, whether it’s work at several places, data availability or simply gaming around, but don’t care much about the large size and weight that are a consequence of a strong system build or specific needs. For example, a notebook we’ve recently reviewed, ASUS’ NX90JQ (Reviews/Notebooks/ASUS-NX90JQ-A-New-Category-of-Infotainment-Notebook.html) with an 18” display, is about as portable as the old Sony TVs with Trinitron cathode tubes, but they still belong to the notebook category. Dell’s managed to make its Alienware brand synonymous with the best money can buy in the gaming department in recent years, and garnered quite a following among hardcore gamers that way. Well, after years of staring at their models at various fairs, we’ve finally had the chance to test one out for ourselves. The model that we’ve received is a 17” model, bearing the name M17X10.
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Gigabyte announces GreenMax 80Plus PSUs
Gigabyte Technology is launching a new line of power supplies, the GreenMax series. According to their maker, the units are all 80Plus Bronze certified and have an efficiency of up to 87%. The GreenMax family includes seven models (with 350W, 400W, 450W, 550W, 650W, 750W and 850W power outputs), all of which are ATX 12V v2.3 compliant and have long-life Japan made capacitors, sleeved cables (so they are apparently non-modular), multiple protection functions (OVP/OCP/OPP/OTP/SCP) and a mean time before failure of 120,000 hours.
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