According to AMD and nVIDIA, Intel is not sharing their specs for the USB 3.0 open host controller. It is officially expected to appear on the market in 2009 and comes with a lot of bandwidth upgrade when compared with the USB 2.0 so we are dealing with something special here. The possibility of going ahead in this market could lead to a lot of money and there is a big chance that both AMD and nVIDIA think that Intel is trying to do this.

USB-IF was founded in 1995 by Intel in collaboration with others like HP, Microsoft, NEC, NXP Semiconductors and Texs Instruments. USB-IF is now working together to bring USB 3.0 to life (it is also being called “PCI Express over cable” so you might also find it under this name). Bandwidth will be increased 10 times as compared with USB 2.0 and transfer will be at around 5 gigabits per second. A lot of the intellectual property behind this new technology was not created by Intel but nVIDIA and AMD think that the company is currently holding a lot of information to itself. They claim that Intel is working silicon so the open host controller is working but they are not giving specifications to chipset and processor Read more »

A lot of sources in the hard drive industry claim that Western Digital is currently working on a Raptor Hard Drive that would come at 20,000 RPM. This is linked with the fact that analysts consider that SSDs will soon become affordable in around 1 year and SSD manufacturers are working hard on toping each other. Also, hard drive manufacturers are currently worrying about the impact that SSDs can have on their business because performance is becoming more linked with other aspects than storage capacity. This is where the Raptor line has an advantage.

The new Western Digital hard drive line is sure to be highly popular although it is quite similar to the new VelociRaptor. It will share similarities in the 2.5 in drive and the 3.5 inch housing. We do not have a lot of details about the topic as everything is still in development and no time frame has been released. According to some sources the hard drive is supposed to be silent and will feature an incredible platter spinning speed of 20,000 RPM. It seems that Western Digital did not manage to get this silent part well done yet and progress aimed to be achieved through an improvement in housing.

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Everybody that has a Blu-Ray burner probably loves it and the biggest mistery that existed so far linked with this topic is how come burners appeared first. Well, this just changed as Sony finally announced a Blu-Ray reader only that is available for both PCs and laptops. We are talking about the new BDU-X10S, which comes at a MSRP of $200. If you are thinking about purchasing one you should know that with the Blu-Ray reader you will also receive CyberLink’s PowerDVD BD Edition. Both drives (the one of laptop and personal computer) come with a SATA interface. Before you jump to any conclusion you need to think about the fact that SATA is the right choice as it is the interface chosen by new personal computers, which will actually come with enough power to play high definition in a proper way. Well, if anyone gets a Sony BDU-X10S before me, make sure that you comment.

There is no question about the fact that the mobile phone world suffered a great impact by the appearance of the iPhone and everybody is starting to think about touchscreen as a needed feature in cell phones. Of course there are also others that will not agree with this but the one thing that people do not realize is that other mobile phone makers did offer touchscreen devices before the appearance of the iPhone. Well, let us leave history as history and focus on this piece of technology news that shows us Nokia trying to hit Apple where it hurts: the lack of tactile feedback from the onscreen keyboard. It seems there is some new technology that can do this and it is named Haptikos technology.

The special aspect we can notice in Nokia’s Haptikos is that it will not only vibrate upon touching but will come with feeling and clicking just as you would push a real key. This would be perfect for pleasing both users that want touchscreen and those that love the old feeling of mobile phones. On the other hand we are dealing with one technology that does sound very similar to a patent recently filed by Apple in which a touchscreen would use a special screen with 2 elements that will move in order to create a feeling of clicking. On the other hand, we are dealing with a touchy subject here, one that could lead to a war between Nokia and Apple if patent is somehow the case. According to Roope Takala, Senior Program Manager at Nokia, the basics for the Haptikos technology is easy and everything is done by putting in 2 small piezo sensor pads located under the screen and “engineered in a 0.1 mm. movement in the screen itself”.

Reports show that the new Nokia technology is working great and we hear rumors that the first Nokia mobile phone to see benefits from the new touchscreen is the Nokia S60 Touch phone that was seen in Nokia demos. The company also announced that they are aiming towards getting a new type of sensation when the user is using programs similar to Paint or scrolling.

People who were capricious owners of car subwoofers and loud huge dvd players until yesterday, have something to be proud of today. With their free satellite tv plugged in, there are the proud owners of home theater systems now.

There have been reports in the past concerning Intel’s Skulltrail but they are now outdated. We are now dealing with a beautiful Skulltrail prototype motherboard that is almost ready and should be a hit among those that love overclocking. We can notice a Seaburg chipset and two 771-pin Xeon sockets and according to reports we can say that this baby reached 5.0 GHz in a stable overclocked state and also 5.2 in an almost stable state. We are dealing with a system that utilizes vapor cooling and there are some silicon add-ons on some special parts of the motherboard in order to stop condensation from coming into play. During Fall IDF we noticed that a similar model only reached 4 GHz and this is because of the BIOS limitations that were present at the moment. There was simply no way of getting higher.Intel knows that overclocking is a reality and it does look that they think it should be done right if it is still done against company recommendations. It does look like Skulltrail comes with enough on it to make it almost impossible to getting damaged in overclocking (if it is done correctly of course).

Intel’s Skulltrail does seem to come with a big improvement when compared with their V8. We are dealing with a quad-core machine but it is one that was design while thinking flexibility in overclocking. A lot of regulators were added to the mix and this makes it possible to allow voltage adjustments with higher amperage (around 90 amps on each processor at just over 1 volt). We are also dealing with a special overclocking BIOS that is not found on regular Xeon boards and on the whole we are dealing with a motherboard that will portray a rock solid voltage in any conditions according to Francois Piednoel, Intel senior performance analyst. The Skulltrail model that was overclocked also comes with dual input power ports in order to deal with the increased power needed.

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Few people know that Hitachi was the first manufacturer to break the 1 TB hard disk barrier. Well, they are a force in this field of activity and they come now with something else that is definitely amazing. Hitachi steps up with a claim that they will release a 4TB 3.5 inch hard disk drive and a 1TB laptop 2.5 inch hard disk drive in the next 4 years. It looks like the new recording heads will be around 2,000 times smaller than human hair. Ain’t that something? It will be interesting to see whether or not this will appear sooner and it will definitely bring in a need for other manufacturers to improve personal computer and laptop specs in the near future. Technology is evolving at an incredible rate. Soon my personal laptop will be out of date, although I just purchased it!

Intel has constantly taunted us recently with the launch of their 45 nanometer chips but I am sure they did not expect Panasonic to be a contender in this race. It might be possible that the company is going to beat Intel at its own game with a release that is scheduled one week earlier. It looks like the new Blu Ray recorders presented at CEATEC will use the company’s new UniPhier system LSI, all based on the 45 nanometer process technology. The units will be released in Japan (again Japan, Jesus) no the 1st of November. This is actually 10 days before Intel’s Yorkfield launch. Nobody expected this but it might be interesting to see how things develop.