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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:51 |
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 United Keys announces a strategic partnership with Foxconn to produce a ground-breaking keyboard for PC gaming, enabling high-volume orders and world-class quality.
What is it? Keys change dynamically and contextually, greatly simplifying usability and increasing productivity.
Exciting and engaging input technology used in products like the Apple® iPhone and Nintendo® Wii are changing the face of consumer electronics. United Keys offers patented and patent-pending image-based interactive input technology, but with significant advantages in terms of usability and cost.
A fundamental difference between this approach vs. touch screen is that the tactile feedback associated with pressing a button is retained. This promotes familiarity. A second important advantage is the ease of modifying existing form factors, reducing time to market and component costs.
United Keys provides intellectual property and related industrial design and engineering expertise to help companies quickly integrate display keys into their own devices.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:47 |
Based on the new Intel Core microarchitecture, the processors use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside these processors. The Intel Core 2 Extreme is also manufactured on the company's 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process, further boosting performance and lowering power consumption. Combining these two advancements with new processor features enables faster and more energy-efficient processors that are better for the environment. The technology improves performance on games like Half Life 2 Lost Coast and Quake 4 and gives gamers the extra power they need to play tomorrow's multithreaded games. The 45nm Hi-K Silicon metal gate technology represents a leap in technology with more transistors in a smaller space and a larger L2 cache for increased energy efficiency. |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:44 |
At the AMD Taiwan Embedded Forum this week, AMD announced a significant number of platform-stable, energy-efficient additions to its embedded roadmap. The high performance AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processors TL-56 and TL-62 can deliver the exceptional leading edge 64-bit application performance and low power requested by designers in the industrial control, digital signage and point-of-sale embedded markets, while the energy-efficient AMD Sempron™ processor 3700+ offers additional performance in a consistent and very low-power thermal envelope for value-based designs. Also, the use of advanced AMD manufacturing process technology improvements allows for a new version of the Mobile AMD Sempron processor 2100+ that achieves up to a 15% reduction in thermal design power. All of these new products feature a consistent Socket S1, allowing for quicker development and delivery times through socket consistency and platform longevity. |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:38 |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:36 |
 Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go. The device to make this happen may be familiar. Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. "Looking through a completed lens, you would see what the display is generating superimposed on the world outside," said Babak Parviz, a UW assistant professor of electrical engineering. "This is a very small step toward that goal, but I think it's extremely promising." The results were presented today at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' international conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems by Harvey Ho, a former graduate student of Parviz's now working at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif. Other co-authors are Ehsan Saeedi and Samuel Kim in the UW's electrical engineering department and Tueng Shen in the UW Medical Center's ophthalmology department. |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:34 |
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  Dell's 24-inch, Ultrasharp 2408WFP monitor is up and dancing on Dell's US page. $748 buys into a 1,910 x 1,200 resolution, 178-degree viewing angle, 1,300:1 contrast ratio, 400 cd/m2 brightness, 6-ms response, and 102% color gamut. Standard stuff until you get to the vast suite of jacks: HDMI, 2x DVI, DisplayPort, VGA, Composite, S-Video, Component, a single USB upstream, and 2x USB downstream. Just another reason why Round Rock, Tejas is the world's focal point for computer monitors. |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:32 |
If you own an ATi video card, head on over to our download section and download the new Catalyst 8.1 drivers for Windows Vista x86, Windows Vista x64, Windows XP, and Windows XP Pro x64. They offer new OpenGL multiview support and fixes for issues with a number of games, including BioShock, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, F.E.A.R., Oblivion, World In Conflict, Call of Juarez, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., TimeShift, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars (albeit version 1.2), and World of Warcraft. Meanwhile, AMD Customer Care is already offering a version 8.1 hot fix, which addresses issues with AGP cards and offers Crysis DirectX 10 Crossfire performance optimizations. |
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Written by Metal Ghost - Administrator
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:29 |
  It's a 8800 GS. Yet another suffix to keep track of while you're choosing your next graphics card upgrade. Nvidia did not really really launch this out loud, I mean we didn't even receive a press-release. But appearantly XFX has already announced two PCI-E 2.0 cards based on the new GPU.
Both cards come with 384MB of RAM and a 192-bit memory interface and, like a standard GeForce 8800 GT card, the GS cards will come with a single-slot cooler too. The GPU has 96 stream processors, although we haven't yet received any detail on their clock speed. However, the standard core clock will be 580MHz, and the GDDR3 memory clock will be 700MHz (1.4GHz effective).
In terms of performance, XFX claims that the GS will be capable of the 'same gaming feats of grandeur as a standard XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB graphics card.' XFX will also be introducing an overclocked XXX version of the GS, with a 680MHz core and 800MHz (1.6GHz effective) GDDR3 memory.
It's an interesting combination of specs, with fewer stream processors than the 8800 GT, but more memory than a cheaper 256MB GT.
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 10:40 |
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ELSA has unveiled a special edition of their 8800GT card and they called it Power Whale. Indeed, the cooler looks like a whale and is the made by ZEROtherm. ELSA claimed a hefty 26oC lower in temperature over the Nvidia reference cooler. The card is clocked at 650MHz core and 1GHz for the memory. Availability by end of January. |
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 10:35 |
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 With the ever-increasing popularity of low-priced compact notebooks and lightweight portable devices, the demand for solid-state disks (SSD) is greater than ever. Transcend is poised at the forefront of this new solid-state revolution, offering a full range of SSD products. Compared to traditional hard drives, SSDs are made of solid-state NAND flash memory with no moving parts, and are therefore not susceptible to mechanical failure resulting from vibration, sudden impact or power loss, heat, and other common factors that often cause irrecoverable data loss in portable devices that use regular hard drives.
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