Intel “Light Peak” Super Cables
The processor giant Intel have recently shown a development in high speed optical cables to transfer data from your favourite computer or gadget appliances. “Light Peak” as it’s known works better than your standard copper wired cables due to the fact it uses fibre optic cables instead which can deliver 10Gb/s of bandwith with the…
Read MoreATI HD Radeon 5870 Launched
AMD has finally launched it’s highly anticipated its new 5800 range of GPUs which includes the current flagship ATI HD Radeon 5870. This new GPU packs 2.15 billion transistors into a tiny chip, offering outstanding performance, DirectX 11 support, and triple-monitor (or better) capability. If you compare the 5870 with AMDs previous flagship single GPU…
Read MoreBMW and Mercedes to use Intel Atom Infotainment Systems
While cars have use computer systems for quite a while it looks like the plan to integrate Intel’s consumer chip, the Atom, into cars such as the BMW and Mercedes is a sign of truly ubiquitous computing. BMW and Mercedes-Benz expect to get the units in cars sometime in 2012. Mercedes-Benz will make the systems…
Read MoreAMD Hexa-Core Thuban CPU
No doubt an attempt to keep up with Intel and its Gulftown i9 CPU, AMD have just confirmed their Hexa-Core Thuban CPU which will be released next year. What most people were not expecting though was the fact that the new CPU will be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. An AMD spokesman…
Read MoreUSB Blu-Ray Drive
Asus is about to release an external Blu-Ray drove sometime this month. The SBC-04D1S-U has a single USB 2.0 output, no HDMI, no power, everything goes through the USB. The drive itself reads Blu-Rays up to 4.8X, burns DVD-R and CD-R at 8X. Asus say the drive has a "Turbo Engine for enhanced USB Connectivity".…
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