Intel's 2011 SSD roadmap leaked
These first four months of 2011 have already seen Intel release the 510 Series and 320 Series solid state drives but this is just the tip of the iceberg as the chip company is planning to roll out even more SSDs this year, targeting both the consumer and enterprise segments. As revealed by a leaked roadmap, later this quarter Intel will at last introduce its awaited Lyndonville drives, which will be known as the 710 Series and will act as successors of the X25-E family. These 2.5-inch drives will come in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities, feature a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, and will make use of 25nm high-grade multi-level cell NAND Flash memory.
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Phone shipments up 19.8% in Q1
A new Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker report has been compiled and published by IDC and it paints a very rosy picture of the first quarter of 2011 which saw phone shipments reach 371.8 million units, up 19.8% compared to the same period of 2010. According to IDC, the growth can be attributed to healthy smartphone performance, especially that observed in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Latin America.
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MSI soon to launch Wind Top AE2070 all-in-one
MSI introduced a new Wind Top series unit, one AE2070 which comes with a sleek, white casing with a transparent frame, and makes use of the proprietary Wind Touch 4 user interface. It also runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, it measures 513.2 x 392.1 x 87.7 mm and has a 20-inch (1600 x 900) touchscreen, an Intel Pentium G620 or Core i3-2100 processor, up to 8GB of RAM, Intel HD 2000 integrated graphics or GeForce GT 540M discrete graphics, a 500GB hard drive and a DVD writer.
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OCZ releases VeloDrive PCIe x8 SSD
OCZ has announced a new storage solution that utilizes a PCI-Express x8 interface, the SandForce-powered VeloDrive which contains four SF-1565 controllers in hardware or software RAID and targets small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), enterprise clients and system integrators.
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Ubuntu 11.04 stable released
Sticking to its 6-month cycle, the Ubuntu team has released Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal , the latest version of popular open source Linux distribution. This release comes has the Unity interface replacing GNOME, as well as other goodies, all that for free.
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NVIDIA enables SLI on AMD 990FX, 990X and 970 boards
NVIDIA has (seriously) announced that it has licensed its multi-GPU technology (SLI) to companies building motherboards based on AMD's AM3+ supporting 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets.
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AMD rebrands Radeons HD 5750 and 5770 as HD 6750 and 6770
After introducing it to OEM market, AMD has extended the Juniper-based Radeon HD 6700 family to retail, giving customers something old, with a touch of new. The Radeon HD 6770 and HD 6750 are identical to the Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750, respectively, in terms of performance since they have the same specs and clocks. There is a difference though, and it's not just the name, the Radeon HD 6700s have been added support for HDMI 1.4a and can decode Blu-Ray 3D content. This latter function comes courtesy of the UVD 2.2 update while the former is just a BIOS tweak.
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