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Myth busted: Solid state disks use more power than HDDs
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by Thomas De Maesschalck july 03 2008
Tom's Hardware Guide has compared the power consumption of solid state disks and hard disk drives and came to a shocking conclusion: SSDs actually use more power than HDDs! This may come as a surprise as it's widely believed that SSDs improve battery life in notebooks but that's not true because, contrary to HDDs, these disks always operate at their maximum power level when in use. In contrast, flash SSDs only seem to know two states: active or idle. We don't have specific information on this, but we received confirmation from two vendors that many flash devices don't feature power saving mechanisms yet. On the one hand, the entire industry is looking to improve MLC flash to enable larger flash SSDs at sufficient performance levels. On the other hand, wear leveling algorithms are more important than power saving features, as durability may be an issue with SSD drives.
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AMD Unveils Three New Moderately Priced Phenom Quad-core CPUs
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AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is fastest Phenom part ever
By Shane McGlaun - July 1, 2008
AMD announced its highest performance quad core processor to date. The new CPU is called the AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition. Along with the new Black Edition processor AMD also unveiled the Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e processors. The high-end Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is a quad-core processor with an unlocked multiplier running stock at 2.6GHz. The 9950 Black Edition carries a retail price of $235 and consumes no more than 140 watts.The AMD Phenom X4 9350e runs at 2.0GHz and will retail for $195. The new AMD X4 9150e processor runs at 1.8 GHz and will retail for $175. Both of these CPUs consume no more than 65 watts of power under full load according to AMD.
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Nvidia cuts estimates, citing product delays and failures
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Nvidia's fortunes took a turn for the worse during the quarter, as slowing sales plus faulty products never add up to anything good.
by Tom Krazit July 2, 2008
The company announced Wednesday that revenue and gross margins for its second quarter will come in below its own projections, blaming a delay in the ramp of a new product, price cuts prompted by competitive pressures, and a general economic malaise. Analysts were expecting revenue of around $1.1 billion, but revenue now will be just $875 million to $900 million for its second quarter, which ends on July 27. And then on top of that, Nvidia will have to take a one-time charge between $150 million and $200 million to account for "a weak die/packaging material set" used with certain graphics processors and platforms in some notebooks that is causing system failures. The company claimed the problem was in the interaction between its products and the rest of the system, but said it would switch to a more sturdy material for its chip packages and work on improving the thermal management software of its products.
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XP is dead: No more dodging the Vista bullet?
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by Stevie Smith - Jun 30 2008
Bring out yer dead. Mark your calendars of doom in ominous blood-red scrawl, for today is the day that American software beast Microsoft Corp. chopped the retail head off its stalwart XP operating system and held aloft (the still unpopular) Windows Vista as its now unavoidable successor. Flatly ignoring the substantial pleas of its customer base, Redmond-based Microsoft has upheld its decision to stop selling the Windows XP operating system (OS) on June 30, which now means that computer vendors will not be able to directly offer anything other than Vista on their systems when it comes to supplying a Windows OS. However, those prospective computer buyers absolutely unwilling to embrace Vista -- and not keen on the thoroughly respectable delights of a Linux-based solution -- do still have a few 'last gasp' options open to them when it comes to legally taking receipt of Microsoft's seven-year-old operating system.
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Gainward launches two new cards, and they aren't from NVIDIA
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By Parm Mann Monday 30th June, 2008
Gainward today announced the arrival of its Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870. Yep, that's right, this long running NVIDIA-exclusive partner is now best buds with the Red team, and no doubt less popular with the Green team. The news might provoke a little grimace from the folks at NVIDIA, but it isn't all that surprising. Palit, who acquired Gainward a few years back, have been providing retail cards for both NVIDIA and AMD for as long as we can remember. It was always only a matter of time before Gainward began to do likewise, and the performance-per-pound of AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series is likely to have been the product that gave Gainward the required nudge.
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Blizzard snubs Nvidia with Diablo 3
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Better the devil you know
By Wily Ferret: Monday, 30 June 2008
THE MAKER OF WORLD-CONQUERING MMORPG World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, has finally announced the long-awaited third installment of the Diablo games series - currently named Diablo 3, with stunning originality. Unlike WoW, Diablo will be a much more straight offline experience, but with the multiplayer dungeon quest elements that made Diablo 2 one of the stalwarts of the LAN gaming scene. More interesting, however, is the development platform Blizzard is going for. Within the official FAQ, there are a few interesting nuggets that will make Nvidia sit up and take note. First off: the game will run on XP as well as Vista, with DirectX 10 being recommended but not required. As if that wasn't bad enough for the green team, which is working hard to shift new DX10 cards, the Direct X 10 included will be of the 10.1 variety - supported by AMD but not the boys in green. This means that the best graphical experience might just be on ATI hardware.
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AMD Releases ATI All-In-Wonder HD Card
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by Wolfgang Gruener June 26, 2008
It has been a while since ATI offered a new version of its All-in-Wonder graphics/TV tuner. AMD revived the product series with the ATI All-In-Wonder HD, which replaces the still offered AiW X1900 with a faster graphics core a much improved TV tuner chip and HDTV capabilities. I had to think a bit about the last AiW card and ATI's struggles with HDTV at the time. Just for the record, the X1900 version was released in January 2006, a few months before the ATI's acquisition through AMD was announced. 30 months later, there is a new generation that hopes to build on successful AiW cards and maybe not so much on the lukewarm reception the X1900 received back then. The All-In-Wonder HD has been updated with a PCIe 2.0 interface and upgraded to deal with the high-definition era. The card is now based on the Theater Pro 650 chip (the X1900 was based on the 200 version) and supports free over-the-air HDTV playback as well as HDTV and analog TV recording.
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The State of the PSP
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A Sony director and four editors discuss where the portable platform is and where it is headed.
by IGN PlayStation Team June 23, 2008
Three years ago, the PlayStation Portable landed in the collective laps of gamers and the general public, and the reaction was mixed. Quality games rolled out but a perception that there was nothing to play on the platform dominated. UMD movies flooded the marketplace but few people were building up libraries. The system was selling but the Nintendo DS dominated the charts and made the Sony install base look tiny. The system continued on its way with games and applications, but it wouldn't be until Sony President and CEO Jack Tretton took the stage at last year's E3 and held up the PSP Slim that stores would see a boom in interest. Suddenly, folks were scooping up the system as fast as they could to play classics such as Daxter alongside new titles such as Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and God of War: Chains of Olympus. Yet, here we are thundering towards E3 2008, and the Interwebs have been abuzz with PSP commentary. There aren't that many games announced for the show, there haven't been that many games released this year, and the outlook past E3 is foggy at best. Is the PSP dying?
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Is that a laptop in your pocket?
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Expert notes that by 2010, smartphones will likely have eight times the CPU power they do now, rendering the bulky laptop obsolete
By Sharon Machlis, June 25, 2008
Your laptop is likely to soon go the way of 5.25-in. floppy disks, made obsolete by smaller, more useful technology: the smart phone. Based on current trends for low-power chips used in devices like cell phones and iPods , we're likely to see eight times the CPU power in handheld devices by 2010 that we have today, computer architecture enthusiast Adrian Cockcroft told the Usenix '08 technical conference this afternoon. "I wouldn't need a laptop if I had that kind of performance," said Cockcroft, formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems who now works for Netflix and is a member of the Homebrew Mobile Club that designs open-source mobile phones. Instead, Cockcroft envisions an always-on device that can connect wirelessly (and seamlessly) to your car while you're driving, a desktop monitor and keyboard when you're working, and other devices such as a projection system at meetings or a 3-D portable display, no matter where you are.
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Windows XP Support Extended until 2014
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By Techtree News Staff Jun 25, 2008
Microsoft has finally given in to public demand. The company has decided to offer technical support for Windows XP with updates and security patches for an extended period until April 2014. However, it will not go back on its decision to discontinue Windows XP sales after June 30. This means that after June 30, Microsoft will stop distributing Windows XP as a stand-alone product, as well as stop licensing it to PC manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others. However, it doesn't mean that XP will disappear overnight. Consumers may still find copies of the software or computers pre-loaded with it for months, as stores and PC makers typically work through their inventories. Also, as per an announcement made at Computex earlier this month, the software giant said that 'nettops' better defined as PCs with limited hardware or ultra-low cost PCs will be available with Windows XP until January 2009.
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