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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… Read More

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… Read More

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,… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

"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… Read More

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… Read More

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. “While Hyper-Threading has typically been reserved for high-priced PCs, we've now brought it to  mainstream system… Read More