Hardware Post

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Of DDR3 Plug and Play At Kingston

The catalog of Kingston grew with the arrival of several new HyperX memory kits. Certified to work with platforms Sandy Bridge (which of course does not you can use them on other platforms), these kits are advertised as "Plug and Play" by the manufacturer, indicating that simply strips that make up these kits comply with JEDEC recommendations.

Either. So we find two kits of 2 x 2 x 2 GB and 4 GB of DDR3-1600 (DIMM) running with timings of 9-9-9, all with a voltage of 1.5 V. The 4 GB kit is available at $ 67, against 122 dollars for the kit's side 8 GB kits for laptops (and therefore the format SO-DIMM), Kingston offers kits of 4 and 8 GB of DDR3 memory -1600 (9-9-9) and DDR3-1866 (11-11-11), all here as well with a voltage of 1.5 V.

LG wants its own processor

LG has announced have dismissed the ARM technology, prior to propose its own SoC for its aircraft. The Korean company will use the Cortex A9 and Cortex CPU and GPU A15 T604 Mali in its SoC. What is the benefit to its own SoC (System on a Chip)? First the price. When buying an LG chip in NVIDIA Tegra 2, there is room for NVIDIA and that of depth.

When LG produces its own SoC, there is only one of the caster, reducing the price. And companies like Samsung, able to burn the chips, further reducing the price. The second advantage comes from the ability to create a specialized chip. In most SoC, there are functions that are not used: ATA, MMC interface, management of I / O, etc..

Gigabyte launches its alims PoweRock EX

Gigabyte has announced the launch of its power PoweRock EX models 80Plus certified and available in powers from 300W, 350W, 400W, 450W and 500W. Complying with the standard ATX 12V V2.0, these supplies have various protections against overvoltage and under. They have a 120mm fan and feature a MTBF of 100,000 hours.

Models of 400W or less have a single +12 V rail while the 450 and 500W versions have two of them. Unfortunately the manufacturer has not yet indicated the price and availability date of these new power supplies.

Sony: dual screen tablet in Honeycomb

Sony has announced two tablets Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). Under the code names S1 and S2, the company offers two different visions of the shelves. The S1 is a fairly standard tablet: a screen of 9.4 inches, a Tegra chip 2, a USB port. The shape of the tablet is atypical, with a center of gravity shifted "up" and a slight upward incline, with a cavity to place a finger.

This format seems pretty convenient to use, remains to be seen if the weight shifts to one side is not embarrassing. The big advantage of the shelf ecosystem is Sony. Like Apple with its "digital hub", Sony will install its services: Qriocity, PlayStation Suite, DLNA compatibility, sharing of content between 3 and PlayStation boards, etc.

A standard for circuits assembled in 3D

Si2 consortium comprising the leading names in the semiconductor industry, announced work on Open3D Project, a standard to facilitate the design and manufacture chips that have dies stacked on each other. The list of members belonging to Si2 is long and includes the 95 major semiconductor companies in the world.

Of these, six have agreed to work on this new project (Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc.. (ESA), Altera Corp.. Analog Devices Inc.. (ADI), LSI Corp.., On Semiconductor Corp.. And Qualcomm Inc.). They join Globalfoundries, Hewlett Packard, Hynix, IBM, Intel, Samsung, and UMC, which are already in the game.

Three cards from ASRock Z68

As already made some of its competitors, ASRock has unveiled several models of motherboards based on Intel chipset Z68: The Z68 Extreme4, Z68 and Z68 Pro3 Pro3-M. The first two are the ATX format while the latter is the micro ATX format. Designed for Sandy Bridge processors, these motherboards has four DDR3-2133 connectors, two (or four on Extreme4) 6 Gbps SATA ports, four SATA 3Gbps ports and Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1 audio and USB 3.0.

Kingmax: 64 GB who are not afraid of water

The manufacturer Kingmax has announced the launch of a memory card SDXC fearing neither dust nor water (without specifying if it is resistant to immersion, or just splash). With a capacity of 64 GB, this card is certified and UHS Class 10-I is according to Kingmax capable of reaching speeds of around 65 MB / s read and 40MB / s write.

ExFAT formatted, it also supports technologies ECC (Error Correction Code) and CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media). Unfortunately the manufacturer has not yet indicated the price of this card.