Thursday, May 21, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 5/22/2015





Wednesday Shortbread
The Pick 6
  1. Video at Gamasutra: John Carmack shares his vision for the future of mobile VR
  2. PCGH on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980 Ti (GM200) alleged launch (in German)
  3. Ars Technica UK: AMD confirms 4GB limit for first HBM graphics card
  4. Fudzilla: AMD Fiji aims at $849 retail price
  5. HBM explained at Ars Technica UK: Can

    stacked memory give AMD the edge it needs?
  6. Reddit: How to run Hairworks on AMD cards without crippling performance
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Zotac serves up Zbox R mini-PCs with RAID support
It seems like we've been showered with mini-PCs of late, and Zotac is adding another couple to the pile—albeit with a unique twist. Each Zbox R can run a pair of 2.5" drives in RAID 0 or 1 configurations for extra performance or greater fault-tolerance.
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Imagination's OmniShield tech secures SoCs, IoT devices
As more and more non-traditional computing devices connect to the Internet—the so-called Internet of Things—each networked device brings with it a potential security threat. To help secure this increasingly diverse range of devices, Imagination Technologies has created a full-stack secure computing solution called OmniShield for its system-on-a-chip IP. OmniShield allows operating systems and applications to be segregated into secure and non-secure operating environments through hardware-supported, multi-domain virtualization.

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OCZ's latest Z-Drive has 16 flash channels laced with NVMe goodness
There's a new NVM Express SSD in town. OCZ's enterprise-oriented Z-Drive 6000 Series supports version 1.1b of the low-overhead protocol designed to replace AHCI. Rather than using an in-house controller, the drive taps a PMC Sierra chip with 16 NAND channels. This controller is tied to four PCIe Gen3 lanes via a cabled SFF-8639 interface.

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LG demos OLED TV less than a millimeter thick
The future of TVs (and perhaps other displays) might be practically no TV at all if LG Display's vision plays out. As part of an event held to demonstrate its OLED manufacturing prowess, the firm showed off a concept for a 55" OLED TV that's only 0.03 inches (0.97 mm) thick and weighs only 4.2 lbs (1.9 kg). This flexible, ultra-thin display can be stuck to a wall using a magnetic mat.

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Braswell quad powers passively-cooled ASRock Mini-ITX board
Another Braswell-based motherboard has quietly made its way onto the web. ASRock's website now lists the IMB-154, a passively-cooled Mini-ITX model with Intel's latest low-power SoC under the hood. The specific Braswell variant is the Celeron N3150, a quad-core chip that's also been spotted on boards from Asus and MSI. Here's how it's deployed in the IMB-154:

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