The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 3 Feb 2011
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In today's news roundup: NVIDIA draws praise from researchers for attempting to create their own MPUs in the hardware industry; a Californian firm known as MicroUnity has attempted to sue the entire IT industry over patent infringements; Google officially launches a dedicated website for desktop access to the Android Market and announces built-in support for data encryption in its upcoming Honeycomb build for its mobile OS; our sister site takes Little Big PLanet 2 out for a spin and mobile gamers are now facing the biggest decision of 2011 of choosing between Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's NGP
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Dell Venue Android smartphone priced at US$499, available for purchase
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The long-waited Dell Venue, also known as the Thunder in its early development stages, has been given a price tag of US$499. Similar to the Venue Pro, the Venue offers a 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 (Snapdragon) CPU and a large 4.1-inch WVGA AMOLED capactive multi-touch screen, but drops the slide-out keypad and runs on Google's Android 2.2 platform.
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Intel X18-M, X25-M and X25-V solid state drives have a new 02M3 firmware
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Intel has released a new firmware (
02M3) for its X18-M, X25-M and X25-V solid state drives (SSD) on 34nm NAND flash. The new firmware fixes slow-boot issues on SATA 6Gb/s controllers, drive hangs when reading S.M.A.R.T. logs, and improves NCQ capability among others.
No new firmware for the early 50nm SSDs though; the current version is still 8850 for the X25-E and 8820 for the X18-M and X25-M.
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GIGABYTE acknowledges Intel 6 Series chipset problem, will deliver updated boards once chipsets ...
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GIGABYTE has acknowledged Intel's alert regarding the 6 Series chipset SATA port degradation problem. In a short press release, the motherboard manufacturer stated that they will deliver new motherboards with updated chipsets once the new chipsets become available.
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Enermax Debuts New Aeolus Premium Cooling Pad
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Enermax has expanded its Aeolus series of cooling pads for notebooks/ netbooks with the introduction of the Aeolus Premium notebook coolers (CP003-B/ G).
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Team Group Announces New USB 3.0 Flash Drives
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Taiwan-based Team Group Inc has released a trio of new USB 3.0 flash drives (C101, Color Turn & F108), adding on to its extensive line of USB flash-based storage devices. The flash drives are covered by lifetime warranty and are expected to hit store shelves soon.
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StarTech unveils 4-Drive external HDD/ SSD docking station
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StarTech.com, manufacturer of various "hard-to-find" computer cables, parts, peripheral sharing and networking products, has announced the SATDOCK4U3E and SATDOCK4U2E docking stations.
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QNAP Launches Trio of NAS Servers
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Looking to share your digital contents among PCs/ Macs on your home network with ease? Fret not as QNAP Systems has the perfect solution for you.
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TSMC 28nm on schedule for Second Half 2011
vr-zone.com - Owing to the cancellation of 32nm and delays in 28nm, TSMC's 40nm has had an unusually long lifespan. Confined to this restriction, the overall GPU performance hasn't moved forward by much, and for everyone involved, including customers, 28nm can't come sooner. Thankfully TSMC Chairman and CEO, Morris Chang, confirms that there will be no further delays, with tape-outs starting in Q3 2011, and production in Q4 2011. Chang expects 28nm revenue to account for 2% - 3% in Q4 2011, which is an impressive ramp up.
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Ivy Bridge to have 20 percent performance advantage over Sandy Bridge
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Although Intel's Sandy Bridge processors have only just launched, early details of Intel's next generation platform codenamed Ivy Bridge are already starting to trickle out. According to early roadmap details we've seen, Intel is estimating that Ivy Bridge will offer a 20 percent performance advantage over Sandy Bridge which is slightly more than what Sandy Bridge offered over Intel's first generation of Core i processors.
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MSI responds to Intel 6 series chipset issues; offers temporary solution, swap or return for ...
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MSI has responded with regards to the Intel 6 series, announcing that shipments have been stopped. In addition, the Taiwanese hardware manufacturer has also announced temporary solution as well as offer swap or return for affected models.
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The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 2 Feb 2011
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In today's news: review of the Muskin Callisto Deluxe Solid State Drive and G.Skill RipjawsX Sandy Bridge F3-12800 CL7 1600MHz; Asrock cans notebook PCs in favour of Tablets; Apple iPad 2 display leaked; China government introduced a new Gaming Addiction law; and check out the new Resistance 3 Video Preview.
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AMD slashes Phenom II prices
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Intel's release of Sandy Bridge CPUs was widely expected to trigger a fall in prices across the AMD CPU product range. While two new CPUs were introduced - Phenom II X4 840 and 975BE - much of the pricing remained unchanged. The expected price cuts are now coming in, nearly one month later - hot on the heels of
Intel's recall for 6 series chipsets. The biggest price cuts are dished out to the two top Phenom II X6 CPUs. The 1090T BE is now down to a very reasonable $209, with the flagship 1100T BE falling to $239.
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