ACER IS JUMPING back into the server market in a big way with the launch of six separate lines of products and a comprehensive support network. This is not just a simple launch, Acer is taking the server market very seriously, intending to mirror their success in laptops and desktops.
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AT CES, HITACHI GST was showing off some unique enterprise SSDs, both in terms of form factor and interface. Like most others at CES, Hitachi also showed off a 3TB 7200RPM Deskstar, proving that magnetic drives are still alive and kicking.
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APPLE HAS A business model for the iPad as lucrative as printers with abusively priced toner, something that you can only do with absolute control.Their 30% “tax” on apps actually makes sense, at least for Apple, but will it spread to their other products over the long term?
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WE’VE SEEN MOST, if not all, of Intel’s consumer chipsets for the LGA-1155 platform for this year, but Intel is planning three additional versions of Cougar Point for its E3-series of Xeon processors which shares the same socket. What we’re looking at is the Intel C202, C204 and C206 chipsets, all of which are similar, but quite different to what Intel is offering for its desktop consumer platform.
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LUCIDLOGIX HAS STARTED to ship its Virtu GPU virtualization software to motherboard partners that will enable automatic switching between the onboard graphics in Intel’s Sandy Bridge sorry, second generation Core processors and a discrete graphics card. Despite it having been nearly two months since the initial announcements, thanks to a little SATA bug, it seems like LucidLogix didn’t need to rush out its software, as currently there’s something of a shortage on suitable motherboards in the shops.
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INTEL IS FINALLY starting to talk about the upcoming Poulson chip, the first real update to the Itanium architecture in years. While the chip may be huge and technically complex, it is hard to see anyone other than die-hard HP big iron shops actually caring.
Update: Die size corrected
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ANYONE INTERESTED IN getting an SSD have been looking forward to more affordable 2Xnm Flash memory as it’s been promising lower prices for consumers for the same size drives, but now it seems like things might not be as rosy as first thought, at least not if Corsair is right. The company has posted a long statement on its blog explaining the difference between 34nm Flash and 25nm Flash and it suggests that the newer 25nm ICs aren’t as reliable as the older 34nm ICs.
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GIGABYTE IS ABOUT to launch what is the first motherboard that has been specifically designed by an overclocker for overclockers in the shape of the X58A-OC. This board is not intended for your average consumer, nor high-end users that want a lot of features as it has been purely designed to allow overclockers to reach as high clock speeds as possible.
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ST-ERICSSON MIGHT NOT be a name that many of us are affiliating with high-end SoC’s for mobile devices, but as of lately the company has changed gears and is getting ready to take on the big players such as Qualcomm and TI. The latest announcement from ST-Ericsson includes a wide range of new models, but the most interesting one is the upcoming Nova A9600 SoC which should be sampling towards the end of the year with PowerVR Series6 graphics.
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INTEL IS SET to upgrade its line of SSD drives come March the 1st and it’ll be Intel’s first entry into the SATA 6Gbps SSD market space. Although the new SSD’ will be using Intel’s first SATA 6Gbps SSD controller, they won’t get new NAND Flash quite yet, as these consumer focused 510 series drives will continue using older 34nm NAND Flash.
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The use of cell phones (and tablet PCs) for email and SMS services have raised data security concerns in many organizations, but nowhere moreso than among hardware designers and their various partners.
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ALTHOUGH THERE’S NO real problem as such with today’s micro HDMI connector found on many mobile devices, a better alternative has been co-developed by ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics which relies on the royalty free DisplayPort standard. This might seem as an odd move in a way, but let us explain the advantages of what the MYDP standard has to offer over HDMI.
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WE’VE ATTENDED A FEW, well, let’s call them briefings at the Mobile World Congress, all hosted by various industry leaders ranging from chip and device makers to service and content providers and some of what was said was very interesting while other parts were almost laughable. What became painstakingly clear though, mostly based on comments from the hardware makers, is the fact that the cost of wireless access isn’t where anyone but the network providers wants it to be.
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NVIDIA JUST FINISHED their fiscal Q4/2011 conference call, and it was mercifully short and content free. That said, there was one thing that stuck out, GPU margins.
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SEMIACCURATE’S MOLES TOLD us the dirty little secret of Windows Phone 7, no one pays for it. Yes, to compete with Google’s price for Android, free, MS is charging the same price, just not directly.
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