The Intel SSD 510 Review
It's been a long time coming but we finally have Intel's third generation SSD. Codenamed Elmcrest, this is not only the first 6Gbps SSD from Intel but it's also the first Intel drive to use a 3rd party controller. Why would Intel turn elsewhere for a controller design? And more importantly, how does it compare to the 2nd generation SandForce drives like the Vertex 3?
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AMD Teases Radeon HD 6990
AMD just sent over a bunch of shots of an upcoming product that we may or may not be presently benchmarking: the Radeon HD 6990. Check out the gallery for the pics.
Update: AMD accidentally gave us a shot of the Radeon HD 6990 without the fan shroud attached. Apparently that image reveals a bit too much about the product and AMD asked us to remove it. Sorry guys :)
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NEC PA301w: The Baddest 30-inch Display Around
Today NEC refreshed its 30-inch display offering with its latest and greatest, the MultiSync PA301w. We've been playing with and testing a production sample and have the full review ready to go. It's a serious P-IPS monitor aimed at professional use with a host of new features.
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Lucid's Virtu Enables Simultaneous Integrated/Discrete GPU on Sandy Bridge Platforms
We first met LucidLogix (now just Lucid) 2.5 years ago at IDF. The promise was vendor-agnostic multi-GPU setups with perfect performance scaling. The technology was announced at a very important time. Intel and NVIDIA were battling out support for SLI on Nehalem motherboards. NVIDIA didn't want SLI enabled on any non-NVIDIA chipsets, and Intel wasn't about to let NVIDIA build any chipsets for Nehalem. Lucid's Hydra technology seemed to be exactly what we needed to get around the legal holdup that kept Nehalem users from enjoying SLI.
Three things made Lucid's technology less interesting as time went on. Hydra took two years to come to market, NVIDIA enabled SLI on Intel platforms and single GPU performance got really, really good.
What made Lucid's Hydra tech possible was a software layer that intercepted OpenGL and DirectX calls from the CPU and directed them to a GPU of Lucid's choosing. While Hydra saw limited success, parts of the technology had another application.
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AVADirect's Clevo P170HM with GeForce GTX 485M: High-End You've Been Waiting For
When we reviewed the Clevo W880CU and, by extension, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480M, we were perplexed. Certainly NVIDIA had reclaimed the mobile graphics crown and no one could dispute that, but at what cost? The 480M was a cut-down mobile version of the already dire desktop GeForce GTX 465M. We even begged the question: "Wouldn't the prudent thing to do have been to let ATI have their cake for the time being and try and push GF104 into laptops?" Today we have a better answer. AVADirect has been kind enough to send us a Clevo P170HM notebook outfitted with NVIDIA's latest and greatest, the GF104-based GeForce GTX 485M.
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NVIDIA Announces CUDA 4.0
The last time we discussed CUDA and Tesla in depth was in September of 2010. At the time NVIDIA had just recently launched their lineup of Fermi-powered Tesla products, and was using the occasion to announce the 3.2 version of their CUDA GPGPU toolchain. And though when we’re discussing the fast pace of the GPU industry we’re normally referring to NVIDIA’s massive consumer GPU products arm, the Tesla and Quadro businesses are not to be underestimated. An aggressive 6 month refresh schedule is not just good for consumer products it seems, but it’s good for the professional side too. NVIDIA’s CUDA team seems to have taken this to heart, and so here we are just shy of 6 months later with NVIDIA preparing to launch the next version of CUDA: CUDA 4.0.
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Synology DS211+ SMB NAS Review
The SMB (Small to Medium Businesses) NAS market is a highly competitive one. A lot of things have changed since the last time we covered this market in a roundup. With storage becoming cheaper by the day, and HD videos (both user generated and commercial content) becoming more and more popular, it is difficult to find a SMB NAS which doesn't cater to the home consumer also. In 2006 (when we did our SMB NAS roundup), Synology was not one of the major players. In the last 4 years, though, they have taken giant strides and earned many plaudits.
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T-Mobile to End Sidekick Services May 31
Existing Sidekick users won't be able to use their devices
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A War of Words: Intel Calls ARM Cores Weak, Limited
Intel says that ARM cores may gain some ground in the laptop space but will not challenge it in servers
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Visual Cortex Processes Language, Changes Understanding of Brain's Boundaries
The visual cortex in the brain is capable of processing language in those who were born blind
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2/01/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
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Fixes for Problem Plagued F-35 Helmet in the Works
Fixes are in the works, but short term solutions might involve heads-down displays in the cockpit
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Apple Holds Secret Meeting at Retail Locations About New Service
New service "Joint Venture" will sell users Genius Bar work
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Seagate Unveils New Barracuda XT 3TB HDD
HDD has software to allow any PC to see all 3TB of storage
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Former Apple Employee Pleads Guilty to Selling Company Secrets
Paul Devine's actions may have cost the company over $2M USD
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Bulk Metallic Glasses Are Strong Like Steel, Mold Like Plastic
These moldable, yet strong metal alloys coupled with a new processing technique has created a time and energy-saving method for developing useful materials
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7-inch Xoom in the Works, More Motorola Devices to Get Webtop Capability
Motorola plans to roll out a number of different tablets by year's end
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NHTSA Requests Extension for 2014 Backup Camera Mandate
The new rules, if finalized, would cost the auto industry $1.9 billion to $2.7 billion per year, but would save approximately 100 lives
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Sneaky Trojan Gets Some Back Door Action in Apple's OS X
Malicious program still appears to be in "beta" form, unlike its Windows counterpart
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Windows Team Manager Talks of Employees' Privacy, Independence
Microsoft apparently runs a pretty friendly office, if you believe its employees blog
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Fast Voltage Regulator Could Add 20 Percent or More to Battery Life
Mobile devices including laptops and smart phones could all benefit
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Intel Officially Announces 510 Series 6Gbps SSDs
510 Series SSDs are available in 120GB and 250GB capacities
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Organism Secretes Renewable Fuels Using CO2, Water, Sun
Genetically-engineered cyanobacterium eliminates biomass step to produce ready-to-use diesel fuel or ethanol
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OS X 10.7 Features Revealed; Shaping up to be Bigger Release Than Usual
Apple looks to be attempting a major direction shift with OS X Lion
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First Production Lockheed F-35A Takes Flight in Texas
Maiden flight lasted about an hour
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GE, Siemens to Fight Startups in EV Charger Market
GE expects to deploy chargers this summer
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Survey Shows Lack of "Mobile Manners" on the Rise
Ninety-two percent of U.S. adults would like to see a change
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NY Senator Urges Increased Public Wi-Fi Security
Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) calls on popular websites to default to HTTPS
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2012 Ford Focus SFE to Post Highway Mileage of 40 MPG
Ford creates special trim level to play with the big boys in the compact sector
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