Archive for "Wednesday, June 1, 2011"

Asus WAVI Xtion Wireless Home Entertainment at Computex

Asus's latest achievements would be the Asus WAVI Xtion that was developed in collaboration with PrimeSense, resulting in the world’s first and only open-source, controller-free gesture-based device for the PC. The WAVI Xtion more or less offers unlimited enjoyment for consumers, letting one upscale what you see on the PC display onto the large screen TV. The Xtion Browser affords internet usage with hand and body movements for an interactive experience, expanding web ... »

AMD E-450 APU Preview at Computex 2011

Here is something new at PowerColor's booth, an E-450 motherboard. PowerColor's main business is graphics cards, but it seems they have decided to make some Fusion motherboards as well. This board looks like an early sample, and also appears to have either a mini PCIe or mSATA connector. The chip has a clock speed of 1.65 GHz, as well as the Turbo Core technology, which can boost the performance of one core by lowing down the other. Also, DDR3 memory is supported (fr ... »

MSI Wind Box DC100 & DC540 Mini PCs at Computex

MSI introduces two new mini PCs, the 1-liter Wind Box DC100 and the 4.7-liter Wind Box DC540. These new models add improved panel design to the slim, lightweight and visually attractive characteristics of earlier MSI desktop PCs. The compact DC100 is powered by AMD’s Fusion Brazos E-350 Application Processor (APU) that can handle Full HD video playback, while the DC540 will be powered by Intel’s new Cedar Trail-D platform processor. The Wind Box DC100 has a fashi ... »

Asus Eee PC 1025C 10.1-inch Cedar Trail-based Netbook

ASUS brought the Eee PC 1025C netbook to Computex 2011, essentially a fairly regular configuration, with the exception of the 32nm CPU. Instead of an existing Atom, the newcomer has, instead, a Cedar Trail unit at its heart, N2600 or N2800. New Asus Cedar Trail-based netbook has a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, DDR3 memory, and a hard drive (likely 250GB/320GB capacities). Asus Eee PC 1025C netbook packs a card reader, a 0.3MP webcam, 802.1 ... »

SanDisk U100 & i100 SSDs for Tablets

SanDisk announced two new solid state drives, the U100 and the i100, for mobile computing applications such as ultraportable notebooks and tablets. Both U100 and i100 use SATA III 6Gbps interfaceand is available in a variety of form factors, including Half-Slim SATA SSD, mSATA, mSATA mini, 2.5' cased, as well as customized modules. The U100 is the successor to the SanDisk P4 modular SSD, which delivers a flexible, cost-effective solution for ultra-thin notebooks; while ... »

Intel Ivy Bridge Processors With Configurable TDP

Intel at Computex 2011, has presented some of the technologies that will make upcoming Ivy Bridge architecture feature a configurable TDP. This means the chip will be able to increase the TDP by ramping up its frequency, depending on the load placed on the cores by the tasks run, until a certain critical temperature is reached. All this will happen automatically and it will be controlled by the CPU's Turbo Boost technology. The ultra configurable TDP will also have s ... »

Acer W4 Windows Phone 7 Mango Smartphone

Acer W4, the handset that might prove to be the first Windows Phone-powered mobile phone from this company, has made an appearance into the wild at the Computex 2011 show in Taipei. Windows Phone Mango, the next version of Microsoft's mobile operating system, is expected to arrive on shelves only sometime in fall, but the first mobile phone to run under it has been just spotted into the wild, the Acer W4. The mobile phone would include a 1GHz Qualcomm MSN8255 Snapdragon ... »

AMD 2012 Mobile Fusion APU Plans Leaked

AMD has officially unveiled its next-gen Fusion chip, Trinity, which will replace the current APU, Llano, in 2012. For the mainstream and performance sectors, AMD will unveil the Comal platform, which is comprised out of the same A70M and A60M Fusion controller hubs as those used by the Sabine platform and of three new APUs. The new APUs will also support the Hybrid CorssFireX mode and AMD allows its partners to pair the on-die graphics core with its upcoming HD 7000-se ... »

Duracell Extender For PS3 Slim with Memory Card Slots & USB Ports

Here is good news for all Sony PlayStation 3 Slim owners, Duracell has released a new accessory, Dubbed as the Duracell Extender. Extending it’s body, making room for three additional USB ports, both an SD and memory stick card slot, and a place to store two controllers. The device attaches to the PS3 Slim via a USB cable. The SD card slot and Sony Memory Stick slot are located on the front. This extension was made for the Slim model, so older fat PS3s need not app ... »

ASRock X79 Extreme4 Motherboard with Sandy Bridge-E CPUs

ASRock has also showcased, at this year's Computex, an X79 Express-based board that is compatible with Intel's upcoming LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. The chip is going to be huge, evinced by the size of the socket, and it's flanked by four memory slots that combine to offer quad-channel throughput. Outside of the four DIMM sockets, the X79 Extreme4 packs three PCI Express x16 slots, two PCI-E x1 slots and a pair of 32-bit legacy PCI slots and is compatible with bo ... »