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Hitachi, Intel Partner on High-End SSDs

Storage giant Hitachi and chipmaker Intel have announced plans to develop enterprise-class solid-state drives for use in servers and workstations, using high-performance Serial-Attached SCSI and Fiber Channel interfaces. The companies expect to ship their first products in early 2010…and, if nothing else, the announcement signals both that SSDs are getting closer to the mainstream in storage technology, and hint at what may be coming down the pike for consumer-oriented systems in a year or two.

"The new solid-state drives for the enterprise include a number of architectural breakthroughs and improve performance and energy usage models that will change enterprise computing," said Intel NAND Solutions Group president and general manager Randy Wilhelm, in a statement.

Intel to Offer Solid-State Flash Drives

Intel to Offer Solid-State Flash Drives

Chipmaker Intel announced today that it plans to enter the solid-state drive market with its Z-U130 flash-based drives. Although these devices aren’t aimed at consumers—sorry, no thumb drives with “Leap Ahead” emblazoned on the side—Intel plans to offer the systems to computer manufacturers and embedded systems makers as a way to offer low-power, high-speed storage and let them achieve better performance than they would with traditional hard disk systems.

NVIDIA Announces PCI Express Products

From NVIDIA’s press release:

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the industry’s first top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphics processing units (GPUs), all designed to take full advantage of the additional bandwidth and features that this new I/O interconnection standard delivers. By using an innovative PCI Express (PCX) high-speed interconnect (HSI), a complex piece of networking technology that performs seamless, bi-directional interconnect protocol conversion at incredible speed lines, NVIDIA can transform its current award-winning GeForce FX series into a full-family of PCI Express GPUs.

The new family includes:

  • NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950– based on the DX9 GeForce architecture, this new GPU delivers extreme graphics power and performance for extreme gamers.

Nvidia Announces PCI Express GPU’s

This new GPU family is all designed to take full advantage of the additional bandwidth and features that this new I/O interconnection standard delivers. By using an innovative PCI Express (PCX)high-speed interconnect (HSI), a complex piece of networking technology that performs seamless, bi-directional interconnect protocol conversion at incredible speed lines, NVIDIA can transform itscurrent award-winning GeForce FX series into a full-family of PCI Express GPUs.

The new family includes:

  • NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5950– based on the DX9 GeForce architecture, this new GPU delivers extreme graphics power and performance for extreme gamers.

ATI demonstrates PCI Express GPU

ATI has designed, developed and validated in tests with Intel, the industry’s first visual processor using the brand-new PCI Express bus to accelerate the movement of information between the visual processor and the central processor.

“PCI Express is the most significant transition the PC industry has undergone in the past decade. We already have working silicon that uses PCI Express natively,” said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President of Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. “As the industry transitions to PCI Express and as chipset and motherboard companies make this new interconnect available to customers, ATI will be ready with visual processors that can take advantage of the advanced capabilities.”

NVIDIA accelerates PCI Express adoption

“Bandwidth has always been a gating factor for 3D graphics and the PCI Express architecture addresses that issue with high frequency, scalable data paths,” said Dan Vivoli, executive vice presidentof marketing at NVIDIA Corporation. “PCI Express will be a key enabler of cinematic computing because it delivers the high-speed data transfer rates that NVIDIA needs to push 3D graphic technology tothe next-level.”

“The adoption of PCI Express by NVIDIA for its graphics processing units illustrates the benefits that the PCI Express standard provides for graphics applications,” said Randy Wilhelm, vice president of the Client Platform Division at Intel Corporation. “Through working with Intel, on their PCI Express product development, NVIDIA will help ensure that their devices work effectively on Intel’s platforms.”

Gateway launches new desktop systems

The new desktops, designed for small- and medium-sized businesses, corporations, government agencies and educational institutions, take advantage of the growing number of multi-threaded applications on the market today, including Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat and Autodesk AutoCAD 2004.  They also help boost employee productivity by minimizing the impact of background services such as encryption, virus scanning and file compression.
   
Employees currently using an Intel(R) Pentium(R) III processor will enjoya 500 percent performance gain by switching to new Gateway desktops with Intel Pentium 4 processors and Hyper-Threading, according to SYSmark 2002 benchmarks.  And workers already using Pentium 4 chipsets can also expect a more than 20 percent performance bump due to Hyper-Threading.  Ultimately, this means Gateway PCs for businesses deliver the system performance employees need to be more efficient at work.
   
“In these days of tight budgets and limited resources, employees are constantly multi-tasking, so the last thing they need is a PC that slows down their productivity,” said Gateway’s John Engel, senior vice president and general manager of desktop products.  “Gateway’s line of business desktop PCs with Hyper-Threading takes business PC users to the next level of performance to help them be more productive and save valuable time.”
   
“Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology provides immediate benefits for how employees are working today,” said Randy Wilhelm, vice president of Intel’s Desktop Platforms Group.  “Gateway PCs give businesses a high performance, reliable platform for busy workers who run multiple applications today, with headroom for tomorrow’s software environments.”

Gateway debuts 500 series desktop computers

The first sub-$1,000 PC available in retail with the new Intel 865G-based system board and fast Pentium 4 processors, the Gateway 500S delivers cutting-edge technology usually only seen in high-end PCs.  The Gateway 500S will be available in stock at Gateway(R) stores in time for the Memorial Day weekend.

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