Yet To Be Named Roundup
Bulldozer, Llano, and GTX 590
Give a warm welcome to the latest on our team Thomas Ryan. He’ll be doing a weekly roundup. Please suggest a name for the roundup on twitter @SemiAccurate. Thank you.
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Linpus gets MeeGo design win from Fujitsu
Lifebook MH330 goes where no Lifebook has gone before
We’re not going to see a ton of MeeGo phones, but it appears that MeeGo netbooks are a lot closer than we thought.
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Is the 12V-only motherboard upon us?
Fujitsu leads the way to 12V
Fujitsu (FJTSY) might not be the most prolific motherboard manufacturer, but they’ve taken over the business from Siemens (SI) and are producing a range of industrial level motherboards.
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Oracle guts HP’s high end by proxy
Opinion: Press releases, ulterior motives, and plausible deniability
It looks like Oracle (ORCL) is hell-bent on alienating all their friends and allies while protecting their own faltering hardware.
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Renesas experiencing USB 3.0 host controller shortage
Too many re-worked Sandy Bridge boards
Being the only company with a product in the market with high demand can sometimes be a serious problem and for Renesas (RNECF) things are starting to look bad, as the company is low on supply of its uPD720200 USB 3.0 host controllers and is expecting to run out sometime in May.
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AMD’s A75 and A70M FCH gains USB-IF approval
First USB 3.0 chipset implementation certified
We don’t have a lot of details at hand, nor has AMD (AMD) or the USB-IF issued a press release on the matter, but according to the USB-IF product database, AMD has gained USB-IF certification for both of its upcoming high-end Llano chipsets with integrated USB 3.0 support.
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Some thoughts on the USB-IF and USB certification
A rant about an industry standards organization
A couple of weeks ago, yours truly wrote a news story relating to Texas Instruments (TXN) gaining USB-IF certification for two of its upcoming USB 3.0 host controllers that reflected on the fact that none of its smaller competitors have achieved certification, yet all of them are already shipping silicon.
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Nvidia GTX590 can’t beat a HD6990
Silicon cherry picked, benchmarks more so
It looks like the Nvidia (NVDA) GTX590/dual GPU slides are starting to leak, and just as we said a year ago, Nvidia is bitten by their woeful power use.
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SuperTalent goes small with mSATA SSDs
The tiny JEDEC SSD standard
When it comes to various computer components standardisation is usually a fairly long and drawn out process and sometimes the industry uptake never ends up getting enough momentum so the standard never takes off.
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Toshiba launches 14-inch USB powered monitor
Faux leather clad portable display
For whatever reason there seems to be something of a drive in making portable displays this year and we’ve already seen a 15.4-inch model from Mobile Monitor Technologies that launched during CES.
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Anand Chandrasekher leaves Intel abruptly
Opinion: Atom is still dead, the exodus begins
It looks like an exodus of high level folk is starting at Intel (INTC) with Anand Chandrasekher leaving the company.
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Asus stealth launches its Bromolow server boards
Sandy Bridge for entry level servers
We’re all familiar with Mr Blurrycam, but now it seems like manufacturers have figured out that this is a good way to put your products out there without revealing too much detail.
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Intel’s Sandy Bridge Celerons video features fused off
Lower cost means fewer features
In as much as we appreciate that Intel (INTC) is selling a range of CPUs and some of them have had certain functions fused off in the manufacturing process to create a range of models, something that has been done for years, we’re none too impressed by Intel’s latest move.
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RSA gets hacked, writes letter to customers
The not so secure security company
You know it’s bad when a security company gets hacked, but when a company like RSA gets hacked, then it’s really bad.
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Western Digital goes large with 6TB external drive
You guessed it, it has two 3TB drives inside
Western Digital has launched a solution for those that don’t need a little bit of extra storage, although come to think about it, 6TB isn’t really all that much, is it?
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