Expreview reports MSI is developing a new mATX motherboard based on the Intel H57 chipset.
The H57M-ED65 features an OC-Genie chip, and enables users to adjust BCLK conveniently. Besides, the board packs two PCI-e x16 slots, HDMI/DVI/D-Sub/DisplayPort connectivities, and supports MSI’s patented Super-Pipe technology. H57M-ED65 seems to be a nice offering, if it’s not too pricey.
PC Perspective received news from OCZ that the company will show off an external SSD with USB 3.0 interface at CES 2010.
While we don't have any other specifications at this time, this is exactly the kind of portable USB 3.0 device that we need to really push the speed limits of this new technology. It looks like CES 2010 will be as busy a year as any for CES - they typically have a LOT of new stuff to showcase.
Hynix announced Intel has validated its 40nm 2Gb DDR3 memory chips:
Hynix’s newly validated products are 2Gb DDR3 SDRAM component, 4GB (Gigabyte) DDR3 SODIMM (Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module) and 2GB DDR3 UDIMM (Un-buffered Dual In-line Memory Module) at the operating speed of 1333MHz with 1.5V power supply.
The products can offer the maximum data transfer speed of 1867MHz with 16-bit I/O and 3.7GB/s (Gigabytes per second) bandwidth. The productivity of Hynix’s 40nm class 2Gb DDR3 is increased by more than 60% over 50nm class process technology.
In addition, Hynix responds to the industry demand for ‘Green’ or ‘Eco-friendly’ products with this new 40nm class 2Gb DDR3 that reduces power consumption by 40% over the preceding products using 50nm class. This is about twice as much as the industry average of reduction in terms of power consumption.
“The current mainstream density has been rapidly transferring from 1Gb to 2Gb for the higher performance servers market. We expect to secure the industry’s best features of both 1Gb and 2Gb DDR3 products”, said Mr. J.B. Kim, Chief Marketing Officer of Hynix.
Hynix has begun mass producing this new 2Gb DDR3 using 40nm class. The Company also expects that the validation of RDIMM (Registered Dual In-line Memory Module) will be also completed within this year.
Elpida announced it has developed a 1Gb GDDR5 memory chip that operates at 6Gbps, this marks the company's entry into the graphics card memory market. The company acquired the technology in August from bankrupt German memory maker Qimonda.
Applications for GDDR memory devices used with GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) are found not only in such graphic processing equipment as game consoles and PC graphics cards but also in equipment that require high-performance computing for use in such areas as science and technology, physical simulation, digital image processing and video conversion.
In August Elpida announced plans to enter the graphics DRAM business based on its acquisition of GDDR design assets from the German company Qimonda AG. The successful development of the new GDDR product in only three months using these design assets was made possible by close cooperation between Elpida's new Munich Design Center in Germany, an Elpida Japan-based technology team and engineers at Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics Corporation.
After concluding an evaluation at the Munich Design Center, sample shipments will start in December and mass production is expected to begin in the second quarter (April-June) of CY 2010.
Elpida is now involved in all areas of the DRAM market – commodity DRAMs, GDDR for the graphics market, high-speed XDR™ DRAM and Mobile RAM™ for mobile equipment. By becoming one of the few full-range suppliers Elpida expects to play an increasingly important role in the DRAM market with its "total memory solutions" approach.
FUD Zilla heard Intel's "Cedar Trail" Atom processor will be made on a 32nm process. This chip is expected in 2011 and it will feature a DX10.1 graphics core with HD content support.
We have managed to confirm Cedarview is a 32nm CPU and that is has quite a few changes including a new memory controller that will be able to accommodate DDR3 memory. We are talking about DDR3 1066 support, something that matches Intel's Core i7 - Bloomfield memory support.
Intel will still stick with single channel memory but two DIMM support, at least for the desktop version, although we are pretty confident that netbook version should be the same.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told investors at the company's shareholder meeting that Windows 7 was off to a fantastic start. Ballmer revealed the new operating system already sold twice as many units as any OS in a comparable time frame.
"We've already sold twice as many units as any OS in a comparable time frame," Ballmer said. "Windows 7 is simply the best PC operating system that we or anyone else has ever built."
By last week, Windows 7 accounted for 4 percent of Web-accessing devices, according to Net Applications; it took Vista more than seven months to reach that level.
Addressing the overall economy, Ballmer reiterated that things seem to have stabilized.
"The economy has, at least for now, leveled off," he said.
TechCrunch reports a Google Chrome OS image for VMware has been published on BitTorrent. Instructions on where to download it and how to run it with VirtualBox can be found over here.
First, a few caveats: we didn’t create the Chrome OS build ourselves — it was downloaded from BitTorrent. In theory it could possibly have been tweaked by some malicious hacker to steal your Google account information (this is unlikely, but who knows). There’s an easy fix if you’re worried though: just go make a throwaway Gmail account, and use that to play around with the OS. Also note that because this is running in a virtual machine, you’re probably not going to be seeing great performance (like that 7 second boot time). But it’s more than good enough to get a feel for the OS for yourself.
OCZ's NIA already offers a crude form of controlling some actions in games with your brain waves, and it seems Intel scientists at the chip giant's research lab in Pittsburgh are developing a more advanced technology that will require sensors implanted in your brains. The researchers claim this technology will enable users to open documents and surf the Web, dial phones and change TV channels with nothing more than their brain waves. The technology is expected to be ready for commercialization by 2020.
The scientists say the plan is not a scene from a sci-fi movie -- Big Brother won't be planting chips in your brain against your will. Researchers expect that consumers will want the freedom they will gain by using the implant.
"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," said Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.' Now you can't get them to stop [carrying devices]. There are a lot of things that have to be done first but I think [implanting chips into human brains] is well within the scope of possibility."
Earlier this week a statement from a senior National Security Agency sparked rumors that there might be a NSA backdoor in Windows 7, but these concerns were quickly addressed by Microsoft. A Microsoft spokesperson responded that Microsoft has not and will not put backdoors into Windows.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronics Privacy Information Center, raised a red flag about the NSA's involvement in Windows 7. "When NSA offers to help the private sector on computer security, the obvious concern is that it will also build in backdoors that enables tracking users and intercepting user communications," Rotenberg told ComputerWorld, "And private sector firms are reluctant to oppose these 'suggestions' since the US government is also their biggest customer and opposition to the NSA could mean to loss of sales."
Microsoft responded to Rotenberg's concerns, categorically denying it would build a backdoor into Windows 7 at the NSA's request. "Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a Microsoft spokesperson told ComputerWorld in a statement.
