Nvidia leaving chipset business
Due to the ongoing lawsuit over its licensing agreement with Intel, Nvidia has decided, or better yet, has been forced to freeze work on new chipsets for Intel-made processors. Back in February Intel sued Nvidia claiming that their contract does no give the GeForce maker the right to develop and sell chipsets for CPUs with integrated memory controllers. That pretty much means Nvidia won't have chipsets for Core i3, i5 or i7 (or i9 for that matter) CPUs.
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E-Ink in HDD business
Western Digital have released a new set of external hard drives that include e-ink displays on the front to inform you of how much storage space you have available and how much you have used. Technology in use is similar to e-paper used in Kindle devices. The great thing about e-ink is that it requires no power to stay in-state which means that when you switch the drive off, the e-ink label will still tell you how much drive space is available. E-Ink only requires a very small amount of power when changing state, so it makes an ideal display for an external hard drive.
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PowerColor uses LCS for new 5870
TUL Corporation, PowerColor's parent company announced the collaboration with award-winning liquid cooling solution provider, EK. Water blocks will be used for a liquid cooling solution for the most powerful single GPU on the market today, the HD5870 series. EK cooling offers exceptional thermal performance and enhances gaming performance in a cool and stable operating environment.
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NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Netbooks
At Adobe MAX, Adobe’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe and NVIDIA announced that both companies are bringing uncompromising browsing of rich Web content to netbooks, smartphones and smartbooks built with NVIDIA GPUs. The companies have been working closely together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and dramatically improve performance of Flash Player 10.1 by taking advantage of GPU video and graphics acceleration on wide range of mobile Internet devices.
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Verbatim MediaStation HD DVR
Predecessor of this device we reviewed in January and mentioned it few times since it was, at that time, one of the best of its kind. We are of course talking about Verbatim MediaStation Pro (Reviews/Multimedia/Verbatim-MediaStation-Pro.html) . At this year’s IFA (News/Hardware/IFA-Day-4-Home-Entertainment-joy.html) we saw new MediaStation HD and had high hopes, as it looked like we got improved successor of already very good MediaStation Pro. Well, new MediaStation HD has arrived in our test lab, but this time we have mixed feelings about it.
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Sony destroys competition
There was many rumors around new VAIO X offering from Sony, most of them negative concentrating on charging premium price for atom based notebook. Tonight, Sony explained why they charge premium, and boy did they explain. How about a weight of just 655g for start?
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USB 3.0 HDD this month
After few announcements of USB 3.0 external HDDs coming until end of the year, Buffalo surprised us with HD-HU3. This nice looking drive should be available at the end of the month with 1 TB and 1.5TB capacities priced at $225 and $285. If you asked yourself same thing as we do “What good is USB drive without controller?” Buffalo answered that one. Together with a drive, they ship NEC USB 3.0 controller to make real use of stated 125MBps speed.
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Silver or gold USB Men
There are so many different types of USB drives out there that even maker of luxury ones need extra effort to make something good. These little USB Men manage to look refined, making that extra effort well placed. With their stature, they are definitely a higher end USB drives, without diamonds or other shine stones. These little guys bend so that you can have them sit patiently at the edge of your desk, just waiting for their chance to be useful once again.
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Three good news
Good news for people outside US: Kindle's coming! And here's another one: it'll be cheaper! And another one, but regarding only people connected to Amazon: company shares just rose 4 percent, after this news.
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Is Dell starting smartphone business?
Very loud rumors say in couple of months Dell will launch its Android based smartphone on AT T network, and maybe other carriers. For now we only know that it will be in „early 2010, it'll be touchscreen, and will have small camera, but nothing else.
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