PLC 1, 3 Ethernet, many possibilities

TRENDnet has marketed a new PLC adapter, the TPL-305E. Behind this poetic name hides an adapter HomePlug AV 200 Mbps with not one but three Ethernet ports (10/100 Mbps). The TPL-305E is no router, but it nevertheless provides network access equipment located three loans from the same outlet. Ideal for example for a TV stand welcoming a connected TV, a Blu-ray and console games.

The TPL-305E also has the good taste to be cheap: it costs 50 €.

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• ColfaxDirect Serves up Chelsio T4 10Gb Ethernet Adapters (15/03/2011)
• Mellanox Takes 10 GigE Performance End-to-End (15/03/2011)
• the possibilites.. (23/01/2011)

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Galaxy and Zotac GTX 550 already grow their Ti

Just officially by NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is already overclocked by some manufacturers of graphics cards. Galaxy and Zotac are for example both to disclose factory overclocked versions to 1 GHz (2000 MHz for CUDA cores) of their GTX 550 Ti, against 900 MHz for the GPU versions of classics. Side-board memory, the Galaxy announced a frequency of 1150 MHz model, against "only" 1100 MHz for the Zotac model.

NVIDIA Enhances 3D glasses

NVIDIA has improved its 3D glasses used with 3D Vision. The new version is on IR - radio is reserved for professional models - but the autonomy of the new glasses is rising: it goes from 40 to 60 hours. Remember that NVIDIA's glasses are models called "active" glasses incorporate LCD screens that alternately darken so that each eye receives only a picture on both.

The technology requires a screen capable of working at 120 Hz (60 fps per eye), either 120 Hz or an LCD projector or CRT capable of working at this frequency refreshments. The glasses are synchronized with the public screen via a small box to plug in USB which is connected to the glasses via an infrared link.

GeForce GTX 550 Ti, custom solutions partners nVidia

We reported this news with the debut of the new video card GeForce GTX 550 Ti. In addition to Afoxé, nVidia partners have shown their own interpretations of this model, all with custom cooling system and in some cases with clock rates pushed beyond the specifications suggested by the house of Santa Clara.

Asus offers the GTX550 and GTX550 Direct-Ti Ti Top DirectCue respectively clocked GPU / SPs / Mem equal to 975/1950/4100 and 1015/2030/4200MHz: standard clock frequencies (900/1800/4100MHz) for GTX 550 Ti Sparkle: Two versions announced by Gainward: GeForce GTX 550 and GeForce GTX 550 1024MB Ti Ti 1024MB Golden Sample ", the first and second reference frequencies with factory overclocked to 1000/2000/4400 MHz Same thing for Palit, which has the standard GTX 550 Ti (900/1800/4100MHz) and the GTX 550 you drive to Sonic 1000/2000/4400 MHz:

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti offers mid-range grunt (15/03/2011)
• Beastly NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 release dated (09/03/2011)
• nVidia: Some Samsung Galaxy S II Indeed Powered By Tegra 2 (03/03/2011)
• nVidia CEO sees the MacBook Air as the future of laptop design (17/02/2011)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti unveiled: up to 46% faster than Radeon HD 6950 (25/01/2011)

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Apple's Tablet PC from the inside: Split: The Apple iPad 2 in its individual parts

Brave engineers have taken apart the iPad2 Apple and documented the procedure in detailed images. In the overview you can see, the individual parts comprising the new model of success - and how small some of the components actually are. The best example are the speakers that turn out not larger than the nail of a little finger.
And of course, the batteries must also have a special shape to fit in the flat unit. Another striking feature: the iPad 2 is really not meant that it is building apart. A major difficulty awaits anyone with Apple at the beginning when it comes to the opening of the device. Instead of screws or clips Apple is dear to a lot of glue to connect the frame of the screen to the housing.

Thames, Chelsea, Wimbledon Radeon Mobile 28 nm

Information on upcoming mobile chips from AMD are beginning to filter. Good news, the chips will increase from 40 nm at present, a fine engraving appeared on the Radeon 4000, 28 nm. The first chips will come into production in the third quarter of 2011. Thames, expected in the fourth quarter, will use a 128 bit bus and should provide twice the performance of "Seymour".

As a reminder, Seyamour is the codename of the current Radeon 64xxM, featuring 160 units of computation and a 64-bit bus. Chelsea, scheduled for the same date, replace "Whistler", which is used in chip family 66xxM (480 units of computation). Finally, Wimbledon will be a high-end chip, expected in the second quarter of 2012 and has a 128-bit memory bus.

Tom's Hardware: WiFi fun

Our colleagues and neighbors at Tom's Hardware just upload a folder devoted to WiFi "fun." The possibility of anything and everything as the name of the WiFi network gives effect to some funny ideas ...

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• iPod Touch Wi-Fi Grayed Out or No Wi-Fi (14/03/2011)
• Motorola XOOM WiFi priced and dated (14/03/2011)

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