NVIDIA announced their latest laptop GPUs: the GeForce 8800 GTS and GeForce 8800 GTX, which are the base of Alienware systems. Those are the fastest GPUs for notebooks, as it is said. The 8800M GTX has 96 processors, while the GTS has only 64. Although this is a big difference between them, they are almost identical. This GPUs have the full support of DirectX 10, an HD decoding engine, Pure Video, a memory of 512MB and the PowerMizer technology, which creates a balance between the life of the battery and …

After AMD has announced the new quad core Phenom processors, Intel is introducing the new 3.2Ghz QX9770 Core 2 Extreme processor. It seems it will be the fastest processor on the market, featuring the 45nm Yorkfield class silicon, a 12MB L2 cache and a 1,600Mhz FSB. Until now, Intel’s fastest processor was the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, but the QX9770 is 5 to 8% faster than it, so there should be some improvements in speed. The processor should be available in Q1 2008 for a price of about $1,200.

Finally, Phenom, the expected AMD quad core processor is now official and along with it, a new platform has been introduced. Spider PC, the new platform puts together it’s technologies with software that should brinf the “Ultimate visual experience.”,as they state. The technologies and software we are talking about are the new AMD Phenom quad core processors, AMD 7-series chipsets, ATI Radeon HD 3800-series, CrossFireX and AMD OverDrive.Unfortunately, AMD still has low clock speeds, at least compared to Intel’s quad core processors. Here’s what AMD is offering: 2.2Ghz for $251 …

AMD made available the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series GPUs earlier than announce. Those are the first to support DirectX 10.1, triple and quad multi-GPU support with ATI CrossFireX and 55nm process tehnology. Starting today you can buy the Radeon HD 3850 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory for $179 and the Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB of GDDR4 memory for  $219.
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Most of the current devices are Flash and RAM-based, like cellphones, computers, pocket PCs, PMPs and many more. Wouldn’t it be great if you could store data ten times faster than on a Flash memory and also it would last for more than 10 years ? Well, Dr. Shin Young-han states that he figured out how to deal with ferroelectrics and we might use FeRAM in the future that will have the capabilities i was talking about. But currently nothing is for sure, so we can only wait and see …

What would you say if I told you that thanks to the US Air Force Research Laboratory we could have laptop batteries that would last for 30 years without the need of a recharge? You would say I am crazy but this is exactly what we need to talk about now. They invented a special betavolic power cell that is built from semiconductors with the use of radioisotopes as energy sources. Radioactive material ends up decaying over time and as a result it emits beta particles. They transform into electric …

Tranquil is back on the map! We thought they were extinct since there was no news from the company in a long long time. They are back on the scene now and it seems that their T7-HSA server is ready to be shipped to shops around the world. It will come with a not so powerful but strong enough 1.5 GHz Central processing unit, it bares a fan less design and to top it all off, Microsoft Windows Home Server will be pre-installed on it. OK, the OS piece of …

Some time in the past nVidia released SLI Memory and Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP). They were based on the fact that by coupling the right memory on the right chipset and motherboard you could overclock the RAM you have without knowing how to do this. Now we have something similar launched by Intel with the release of the X38 chipset. It will be called Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP). Justl like EMP, XMP will include extra info on memory modules thanks to regular SPD data. Now the user will not …

Toshiba recently launched a prototype hard disk that uses special Discrete Track Recording (DTR) technology in order to create a 120 GB storage space system on one 1.8 inch platter. This is the first ever use of DTR. The entire technology is based on increasing areal density of PMR by 50%. Mass production of these hard disks should start in 2009.
Up until now all 1.8 inch hard disks were only able to get up to 160 GB. This was available through two 80 GB platters. With the above mentioned prototype …

Alienware is the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and professional systems and they are standing up to that title through the launch of the new Alienware HD Media Server at CEDIA EXPO 2007. Hangar18: HD Entertainment Center, now with added Blu-Ray Disc, will also be launched at the same event during the following days. Marc Diana, Product Marketing Manger at Alienware declared:
“CEDIA attendees have the privilege of witnessing firsthand the newest entry to Alienware’s digital home line: the HD Media Server, which fulfills the demand for an easy-to-use, high …

The Microsoft Windows Home Server Press Preview in Berlin saw Medion launching their new MD 90110 Home Server. Without further ado, here are the specs:

AMD RS-690/Intel 945GC chipset
AMD Sempron 64 (AM2) or Intel P4 LGA 775 processors
MicroATX motherboard
1 GB GDR 2 at 533 MHz
eSata HDD
2Tb of maximum storage with 4 X 500 GB plus Raid Support
Slots: 1 X eSATA, 4 X USB 2.0 and 1 X Gigabit Ethernet
Internal hard drive bays that are screwless for easy expansion
Server Re-installation recovery button
4 Hard Drive LEDs plus 1 LAN LED
Easy media streaming through …

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) recently announced the creation of code-reducing technology that is to be used for the company’s next generation microprocessor, which is expected in 2009. The new extension offered for the x86 instructions set is named SSE5. This specification maximizes the efficiency of applications running because it reduces the number of instructions needed to get to a given result.
1999 was the first year in which SSE was introduced and stands for streamind SIMD extension. SIMD (single instruction multiple data) is the instruction set for the x86 architecture. …

The Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD war is still going on and each side is continuously trying to attack the other. With this in mind we find ourselves in a race for exclusive deals that might determine the winner. The end is still to come and the regular user is the one that feels the pressure the most so a solution was bound to appear. How about a DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player, all linked in one package? It does sound like a great solution and it is offered by two Japanese …

Sony USA made an interesting announcement. Three new DVD burners are to be released on the market. What is interesting is that 2 of them are external. This comes as a paradox as there is a much bigger need of such devices in Japan because of the fact that most laptops come with a flash-based hard drive disk that leaves no place for a DVD or CD drive. In USA, flash-based hard drives are a rarity and just few companies provide machines with this option. The market is just to …

Wireless LAN supplier Aruba Networks has enjoyed a lot of success since going public in march. Now it stands in direct competition with Cisco Cystems. Both are quickly gaining market shares, this leading to the belief that soon the wireless networking competition will become a close fight between the two companies.
Last week Aruba signed a contract with Prudential Fox & Roach, USA’s largest single-market real estate agency. They ended up choosing between Cisco and Aruba and Aruba won. This comes after the current no.2 most important company in the …