Given how well Intel’s mainstream and enterprise solid-state drives are doing, you wouldn’t think they’d need to partner up with anybody to move forward. Still, there have to be benefits from getting cosy with Hitachi, the world’s third-largest hard-drive manufacturer. The two companies have announced a partnership to jointly-develop SSDs.
Under the terms of the agreement, Intel will manufacture SSDs that the pair have designed while Hitachi will sell them. The first shipments are expected in 2010, and will be targeted at business use such as servers and storage systems.
Hitachi will still continue to develop traditional platter-based hard-drives, which it maintains are more suited to large-volume data applications. It’s unclear whether Intel will continue to develop and market its own SSD range.
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Written by Chris Davies on December 2nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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ASUS are planning a Celeron version of their Eee Box nettop, which will be cheaper than the current Intel Atom N270 model. According to DigiTimes, poor sales of the Eee Box - which packs hardware usually found in the company’s Eee PC netbook into a slender desktop form-factor - has prompted the new entry-level machine, which will go on sale alongside the existing nettop.
The new Eee Box will be based on a Celeron 220 processor running at 1.2GHz, paired with a 120GB hard-drive, and be available either on its own or together with a 19-inch LCD display. That’s a slower CPU than the Atom version, but more storage; the original Eee Box has an 80GB hard-drive.
According to the latest pricing information, the new Celeron 220 Eee Box will be priced at NT$7,988 ($239) standalone or NT$11,900 ($355) with the 19-inch display. The existing Atom N270 Eee Box, with 80GB storage, keyboard, mouse and Eee Stick wireless controller, remains at NT$9,999 ($299). ASUS plan on shipping 100,000 to 200,000 Eee Box nettops this year, and in excess of one million in 2009.
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Written by Chris Davies on December 2nd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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AMD’s new Opteron ‘Shanghai’ workstation processors are already being picked up by manufacturers, and there are plenty of boasts littering the spec sheets. The Tech Report has had several Shanghai systems on their test bench, together with a few Intel Xeon rivals, to put the claims to the test; turns out, the 45nm chips are a significant improvement on the older, 65nm Opterons, but still lag behind Intel’s processors in real-world performance.
With the right memory and general setup, the Shanghai chips are impressive, particularly in power-efficiency when running FB-DIMMS. Power consumption is lower both under load and at standby.
“The Opteron does best when it’s able to take advantage of its superior system architecture and native quad-core design, and it suffers most by comparison in applications that are more purely compute-bound, where the Xeons generally have both the IPC and clock frequency edge” The Tech Report
However in tests intended to model real-world workstation and HPC tasks, the 2.7GHz Shanghai Opteron fell behind a 2.66GHz Xeon L5430. AMD’s best hope, it seems, is to concentrate on getting the HyperTransport 3-enabled versions of Shanghai out as soon as possible next year, before Intel’s 2P Xeon processors emerge to corral the market.
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Written by Chris Davies on December 1st, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Given the usual refrain that accompanies any new netbook announcement - “under the hood there’s Intel’s N270 1.6GHz Atom processor…” - you’d think the silicon company would be happy with their lot in life. However it looks as though they’re not so sure; Stu Pann, vice president in the sales and marketing group at Intel, has described netbooks as “not something you’re going to use day in and day out.”
The issue, according to Pann, is of positioning in the marketplace and the intended buyer. What was perhaps intended to open up new segments - such as developing markets, where traditional notebooks are too expensive and over-complicated - has instead begun cannibalizing entry-level laptops in existing markets.
“We originally thought Netbooks would be for emerging markets and younger kids, and there is some of that. It turns out the bulk of the Netbooks sold today are Western Europe, North America, and for people who just want to grab and go with a notebook. We view the Netbook as mostly incremental to our total available market” Stu Pann, VP of sales and marketing group, Intel
Pann went on to criticise the netbook form-factor as unsuitable for regular use, claiming: ”if you’ve ever used a Netbook and used a 10-inch screen size, it’s fine for an hour. It’s not something you’re going to use day in and day out.” The Intel VP was speaking at an IT supply chain conference.
[via CNET]
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Written by Chris Davies on November 28th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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If you’re into computer animation, then you might want to check out Mass Animation – the “first collaborative, worldwide effort to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release.” Kicked off by Intel, Mass Animation allows you to animate shots of “Live Music” - a 5 minute CGI-animated short film produced and directed by Yair Landau, the former president of Sony Pictures Digital. The collaboration is made possible via an application built on the Facebook Platform and will run through January 30th. Anyone can work on the project now and community voting will take place starting on November 24th. To jazz things up a bit, Dell will be awarding a Dell Studio XPS desktop PC powered by the new Intel Core i7 processor to animators whose creation was rated the best by the community on a weekly basis. Check out the following press release for additional information.
Intel Kicks Off Mass Animation Project
Animators and Animation Fans to Create First Community-Driven Short Film on the Facebook Platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif. –(Business Wire)– Nov 17, 2008 “And the award for Best Animated Short Film goes to … an Internet community?”
Intel Corporation today announced the start of Mass Animation, the first collaborative, worldwide effort to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release.
Starting today, artists around the world are invited to animate the shots of a 5-minute, CGI-animated short film titled “Live Music,” which is produced and directed by Yair Landau, former president of Sony Pictures Digital. The collaboration, through a unique application built on the Facebook Platform, will run through Jan. 30. Animators, regardless of experience, may begin work immediately, and community voting will open Nov. 24 at www.facebook.com/massanimation.
“Live Music” is inspired by Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and early CGI films. Set in a musical instrument store, the story follows Riff, a rock ‘n’ roll guitar, who, as Landau describes it, “falls in love to the wrong song but ends up with Vanessa, the classical violin of his dreams.” The story is conveyed through the universal language of music, allowing the expressions and actions of the characters to be instantly relatable globally. The instruments are brought to life through original compositions and familiar rock tunes played principally by legendary guitarist Steve Vai as Riff and acclaimed violinist Ann Marie Calhoun as Vanessa.
“Mass Animation’s first project, ‘Live Music’ is a great story that we are excited to tell through a breakthrough Facebook application,” Landau said. “This new method of creating films draws upon a global community and social technology to allow people to come together in a whole new type of creative collaboration. Animators around the world will get a chance to showcase their talent and imagination in the film; animation fans will have a say in which shots best convey the story and characters, and therefore deserve to make the final cut.”
“This project is about the magic that can happen when thousands of artistic people all over the world put powerful computing tools to use in the spirit of collaboration,” said John Cooney, online programs manager with Intel’s Partner Marketing Group. “The power of the Intel® Core™ i7 processor technology, introduced today and part of the project’s prize package, makes it possible for content creators to design, animate and innovate.”
The tools and 3-D models that animators will need to collaborate on this project including a limited duration version of Autodesk Maya* 3D Animation software** are provided, and can be accessed through the Mass Animation application on Facebook built by Aniboom.
Dell will be awarding a Dell Studio XPS* desktop PC powered by an Intel Core i7 processor to animators whose creation is rated the best by the community on a weekly basis. An international jury of animation experts will select the shots to be considered for the film. As director, Landau will have the final say as to which submissions make the final cut. Animators whose work makes it into the finished product will receive on-screen credit and US$500 in compensation.
In addition to Intel and thousands of participants in the project, Mass Animation’s partners in making “Live Music” include Dell, Autodesk, Reel FX Entertainment and Aniboom.
Visit www.facebook.com/massanimation to start collaborating today.
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Written by flung on November 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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If you’re interested in getting a new camera, then you might want to take a moment to consider the Matrox Iris GT “smart camera.” That is, if you require a bit more from your digital imaging device than the norm. As the name suggests, this camera is not your ordinary device and actually has an Intel Atom processor inside!
In case you thought Atom processors were reserved for netbooks, think again. This Matrox camera has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 256MB of RAM, 1GB of flash storage and many a connection port. It really takes the whole idea of a camera up a notch, huh?
Interestingly enough, this is actually one of the first devices an Atom processor has powered that’s not a netbook. It also uses Windows CE 6.0 and lets you “design machine vision applications” without the need for programming. In the end, you’ll be able to configure the camera to read barcodes, recognize patterns and more. The Matrox Iris GT will be available in the first quarter of next year.
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Written by Brenda Stokes on November 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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This month marks the release of Intel’s new i7 processor. Die-hard PC enthusiasts drooled over the latest and greatest i7 with unparalleled efficiency and performance would have to pay a higher price to get the novelties ahead of everyone. While many are struggling to get hold of the new Intel Core i7 processors, Newegg is one step ahead of the industry; the online vendor has already put up a custom built Nehalem gaming rig available to order online.
The IBUYPOWER Gamer Supreme 964i boasts a i7-940 Quadcore 2.93Ghz processor, 6GB DDR3 memory, Nvidia GTX 280 1GB, 1TB Sata II storage and a Blu-Ray combo drive for a price tag of $2,450.
If a plain black container is not you favorite choice of computer case, that’s always an option with orange metallic accents like the Gateway FX6800-01e we reviewed early this month.
[via I4U]
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Written by Daniel Lim on November 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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When Intel first started getting detailed about hardware requirements for its Core i7 CPUs, one of the things that worried some enthusiasts was the low max voltage RAM could be ran at. This meant that new RAM was needed to get the best performance out of the Core i7 and X58 chipset combination.
Kingston was among the first RAM makers in late October to launch triple-channel kits specifically for the new Intel platform with its first triple channel HyperX RAM. Kingston is now back with more DDR3 triple channel kits specifically for the Core i7 platform and other platforms. The difference is that the new HyperX offerings Kingston has announced use a new heatspreader design.
The new heatspreader technology is the HyperX T1 series and is made from heavy-duty extruded aluminum with extended fins to dissipate more heat. Heat is built up inside the RAM from overclocking and being able to remove more heat from the RAM could mean higher performance. The HyperX T1 triple channel 3GB kit running at 2000 MHz retails for $435. That price is about $100 more than the first HyperX kit for the Core i7 platform we talked about before.
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Written by Shane McGlaun on November 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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