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1. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... to  CEO Jerry Shen, but Gigabyte vice president Richard Ma said that his company currently has no plans for either a smartbook or e-book reader. Both MSI and Gigabyte say they are optimistic about ...

2. New material increases storage capacity

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data,” says Dr Jagdish Narayan. Information storage is not the only area where advances could be made. By introducing ...

3. Microsoft recovers Danger data

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... “are you sure you wish to continue?” and then realize a few seconds after clicking ‘yes’ that perhaps the disk format now in progress wasn’t quite such a good idea after all as several Gigabytes of data ...

4. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... PC is the HP Elite 7000, equipped with Windows 7, DDR3 memory support, an Intel P55 Express chipset and a choice of either i5 or i7 CPUs. Up to eight gigabytes of memory can be installed, and the machines ...

5. GPU-based array processes 20TFLOP with just 20kW of power

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... the MWA requires an incredible amount of on-site compute power to process enormous amounts of data. "The MWA has [hundreds of gigabytes] a second feeding into an Nvidia GPU cluster in real-time. It computes ...

6. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... its competitor, Gigabyte, had borrowed ideas from its advert which depicted a slim notebook as a frisbee and replaced it with a picture of a man catching a notebook with his nether regions.Samsung’s building ...

7. Intel has ambitious plans for i5, i7 CPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Core i5 and Core i7 microprocessors by the end of this year, according to a report. Digitimes said, quoting unnamed industry sources, that both Asustek and Gigabyte will ship 400,000 motherboards each ...

8. Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ...  Intel Xeon (Nehalem) processors 600 GB SAS Disks at 6 Gigabits/second DDR3 memory 72 Gigabytes (memory) per database server 40 Gigabits/second InfiniBand Raw disk capacity of 100 TB (SAS) or 336 TB (SATA) ...

9. AMD unveils Vision technology for the masses

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... to understand what gigahertz and gigabytes mean. Vision technology from AMD reflects the maturation of marketing in the PC processing industry and communicates the technology in a more meaningful way." ...

10. Kingston introduces Lynnfield optimized memory kits

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... brings unsurpassed performance for mainstream and enthusiast users." Kingston's Mark Tekunoff expressed similar sentiments. "Kingston has worked with our terrific partners including Intel, Asus, Gigabyte ...

11. Futuremark, Gigabyte chase the AMD dragon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Hardware vendor Gigabyte and benchmark purveyor Futuremark have teamed up to announce a worldwide competition for overclockers for the "Gigabyte Dragon" title.Hardware vendor Gigabyte and benchmark purveyor ...

12. World + Dog licenses Nvidia SLI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... for inclusion in its P55 Express motherboards designed for the Core i7 and the upcoming Core i5 chips. Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have also licensed SLI for their LGA1156 socket mobos, enabling users ...

13. EA preps Warhammer MMORPG for the Mac

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac) and is not compatible with GMA 950 integrated video cards. In addition, the game requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher, 2 gigabytes of RAM and an ATI X1600 ...

14. Wal-Mart offers $298 laptop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Presario notebook computer that it developed in partnership with Hewlett-Packard for $298. This is nearly half the price of a similar unit. It will have three gigabytes of memory, a 160 gigabyte hard ...

15. Blue sky thinking leads to Azure cloud pricing

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... it will charge you for its Windows Azure cloud computing scheme later this year. Microsoft said it will charge between 10 cents and 15 cents per gigabyte for network bandwidth, 12 cents an hour for computing, ...

16. Archos takes an Atomic PC tablet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ...  The machine comes without a keyboard, will have one gigabyte of memory, an 8.9-inch touch screen and options for either a 120GB or 80GB hard drive. As well as supporting Ethernet, it also supports ...

17. AT&T and CDW pitch $199 3G netbooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... expensive – each additional domestic megabyte will cost about 49 cents and each additional domestic gigabyte $503. Internationally, these numbers increase to $19.97 per megabyte and $20,447 per gigabyte. ...

18. Nvidia’s boss aims for computing hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... architecture of the microprocessor is no longer adequate. There are sensors everywhere collecting world data that is coming in in gigabytes, moving to terabytes. We need to make something of that data."He ...

19. IBM teams with Swedes in 'space weather' study

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... and analyzed on the fly. Over the next year, the project is expected to perform analytics on at least six gigabytes a second or 21,600 gigabytes per hour - equivalent to processing all the data on the ...

20. Digital content doubles every 18 months

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    If you feel you're drowning in a sea of data, you're right. The world's total store of digital data now amounts to  487 billion gigabytes, or the equivalent of 19 billion fully-loaded Blu-ray DVDs, ...

21. Kopin releases "golden" Bluetooth gizmo

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... ARM Cortex 8, 400MHz DSP, a 10 million polygon/second graphics accelerator with high performance POP (package on package) memory reaching several gigabytes. Our current testing suggests Golden-i will achieve ...

22. Memory prices set to rise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... DRAM contract prices will move to between $9 - $10 a GB from $8 to $8.50 last month, a 15 percent increase. Some DRAM makers are reportedly looking at a target of $12 - $13 a gigabyte by the end of this ...

23. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - The concept of the Netbook was originally based on the idea of a connected device with a few gigabytes of flash memory, a screen in the 7" range, and a price target of $100.  ...

24. Time Warner pitches $150 per month unlimited Internet

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... intention of the post was to calm concerns about TWC’s “punitive” charges for its tiered bandwidth pricing plans, which added $1 for every gigabyte that was not included in a certain plan. Those start ...

25. Couple sues over their slow Vista PC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... graphics chip set, which grabs some of the system memory for its own use.” The Wolphs argued that there were “serious problems” with the device and they had to spend $157 for another gigabyte of RAM to ...

26. Fusion-io announces fastest 640 GB server SSD, 1.3 TB version soon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of up to 640 GB of data storage at a 1.5 Gigabytes per second sustained throughput using 8 Kilobyte packets, and multiple devices have performance which scales linearly up to 6 Gigabytes per second using ...

27. Samsung releases an EcoGreen 1.5 TB HDD, uses 45% less power

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to operate, and one extra for power. To hear about 1.5 TB hard drives costing only $149 is just unreal. Not only does it reduce power consumption by nearly 50%, but it also has a price per Gigabyte of ...

28. Blu-ray gets simplified licensing

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... for any of us would be to stop buying Blu-ray products and insist that they release something that makes sense, especially in light of the low cost of modern day multi-gigabyte memory cards and huge capacity ...

29. DRAM vendor revenue down 40%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    DRAM quarterly average spot and contract prices both dropped over 40%, according to a new report released by DRAMeXchange. DRAM can be scooped up for about $8 per Gigabyte (GB), the market research firm ...

30. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, and Toshiba all ship exciting innovations created by NVIDIA as a result of its agreement with Intel." Nvidia states they have been attempting to resolve this disagreement ...

31. MobileMe: File sharing finally arrives

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... you can't revoke access to the shared file to individual contacts. Still, even the basic features provide a satisfactory way of sharing large files and will finally put all this gigabytes of unused storage ...

32. Micron ships 16 GB flash chips for high-end cellphones

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 16 Gigabytes (GB). Boise (ID) – Micron said it's begun shipping what the company claims is the highest density all-in-one multi-chip NAND flash package (MCP). The 32 Gigabit (Gb) 34 nm devices are ...

33. More new OS X Snow Leopard features emerge

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... came with several gigabytes of printer drivers. While users could deselect their installation during the OS install, most average users just accept the recommended setting which ultimately populated their ...

34. Taking SSDs beyond half a terabyte: Sandisk's 32 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... byte, meaning single 32 Gb (gigabit) chips are actually 4 GB (gigabyte) storage devices. ...

35. Time Warner expanding Internet caps and trials

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... user's billings correctly. Time Warner had set a relatively low maximum monthly bandwidth usage of 5 Gigabytes for their $30/month service. For each additional Gigabyte, Time Warner would charge $1 more. ...

36. Prior German police raids affect CeBIT 2009 booths

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Companies such as Gigabyte Technology, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Albatron Technology will not be officially attending the CeBIT 2009 show by way of an official booth, though they will still ...

37. Rambus taking another shot at mainstream memory technology

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... memory will be able to deliver data throughput rates of 17 Gigabytes/s from a single mobile DRAM device. A prototype of the hardware will be on display at DesignCon 2009. What is interesting about this ...

38. Intel's CFO says Havendale on track for 2H'2009

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... it was recently noted that Intel will be delaying Lynnfield slightly on weak global demand for CPUs, chipsets and in an effort to give Asustek and Gigabyte the opportunity to clear out over $300 million ...

39. Report: NAND, DDR2 memory prices heading back up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... CPU for low-cost, ultra-thin notebooks with additional netbooks based on Intel's N280 Atom seen in 2Q and 3Q. Asustek and Gigabyte are currently sitting on an excessive inventory of Intel's 4-series chipsets. ...

40. AMD targets consumer apps with new lidless BGA Sempron packaging

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... embedded design into new smaller, flatter form factors without having to sacrifice any computing performance." AMD says they've lined up Wyse, iBASE, aValeu, EVOC, Gigabyte and Invetec as embedded system ...

41. DDR3 product roadmaps adjust for channel and economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Santa Clara (CA) - DigiTimes is reporting that Intel will delay making the switchover to DDR3-exclusive products until sometime in 2010. This news comes just two days after learning Asustek and Gigabyte ...

42. Netbooks with Intel's N280 Atom between 2Q09 and 3Q09

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Santa Clara (CA) - DigiTimes is reporting "a number of 10-inch netbooks based on Intel's single-core Atom N280 processor" are expected from Asustek, Acer and Gigabyte sometime between June and September, ...

43. Overstock inventories affecting Asustek and Gigabyte

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Taipei (Taiwan) - Citing lower-than-expected shipments of Intel's 4-series chipsets have caught Asustek and Gigabyte off guard, according to DigiTimes. The current oversupply is causing unsold inventory ...

44. Gigabyte plans to launch three 10-inch netbooks in Q2 2009

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Gigabyte Technology is still optimistic about the potential of the notebook market despite the economic crisis and is planning to launch three 10-inch netbooks in the second quarter this year along ...

45. A top-four motherboard maker will drop out of the market beyond three years, says MSI VP

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    One of the top-four motherboard makers, Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Elite group Computer Systems (ECS) and Micro-Star International (MSI), will drop out of the market within the next few ...

46. CES 2009: HP to launch series of low cost computers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... notebook category. The HP Pavilion dv2 has a 12.1 inch screen and weighs 3.8 pounds. At less than an inch thick, it is packed with a 500-gigabyte hard drive and has a new single-core Advanced Micro Devices ...

47. Nano-magnetic sensors could pave the way for massive data storage capacity

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... most advanced perpendicular storage techniques allow up to around 200 Gb of data per square inch (25 Gigabytes). Hard drives on the order of 10 nm per bit would allow upwards of 10 Petabits (Pb) per square ...

48. Hynix announces development of 2 Gb mobile DRAM

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... processes up to 1.6 gigabytes per second with a 32-bit I/O. More here at Digitimes.  ...

49. Gigabyte discusses performance in 2008, to launch 3.5G netbooks next year

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Although Gigabyte Technology recently reduced its annual motherboard shipments goal from 20 million to 19 million units, shipments from the company's branded segment will still reach 16.5 million ...

50. Dark fiber optics increases bandwidth 19200%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... miles away, it means the difference between 7 days of data transfer using copper wire, and less than one hour using dark fiber. 8,000 Gigabytes per hour The Translational Genomics Research Institute ...