They may not be the most exciting products on the planet, but if you're
a business you don't want to suffer the pain of brown outs that make
you black out.
Kingston has announced 4GB DDR3 memory kits optimized for Intel's LGA1156 Core i5 and Core i7 systems. The HyperX kit - which runs at a low 1.65 volts - is reportedly designed to faciliate smooth overclocking performance for 1333, 1600, 2000 and 2133MHz frequencies.
The first ever calculation has been performed by an optical computer. It wasn't a really hard sum - finding the prime factors of 15 - but it's a huge step towards the creation of a quantum computer.
Posted by Rob Enderle, principal analyst, Enderle Group
Column IFA is the big consumer electronics conference in Europe and it
is vastly better timed than CES coming before the holiday season so you
can get excited about stuff to buy rather than right after when you are
trying to hide from your credit card bill.
AU Optronics unit SiPix is drawing ahead in the race to get color e-paper to the market, with the announcement that it plans to launch a small number of displays by the end of next year.
Three-D televisions could be about to take off, following the announcement that the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is to support the format. Meanwhile, Sony is expected to announce a range of 3D products later today.
The USB Implementers Forum said that it is making available the USB 3.0
(Superspeed) Compliance and Certification program today. And we can
expect to see some devices using USB 3.0 later this year.
Two engineers have rewritten Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics to make them more appropriate. While they aren't quite as snappy as the originals, the engineers say they are a safer and more realistic version.
Veteran IT commentator, Jack Schofield of the Manchester Guardian, claims that future chip development could be slowed because fabs will become so expensive to build, their costs could never be recouped.
India's peripherals sector slumped over the last year, according to the body representing the country's IT hardware, training and R&D services sectors, MAIT.
