Lexar launches its first 1000x CF memory cards
You can never get enough speed when it comes to flash storage. Lexar appears to think the same way, because it’s introduced a new series of CF cards that pack a whole load of impressive numbers. Boasting 150MB per second read speeds and tested to capture streams at up to 20MB per second, it’s sounding like a portable videographer’s dream
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MIT researchers locate genes that help underlie memory formation, zap some mice
Over time, the neurons in your brain are going to change. And that’s only natural.
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Apple buys flash storage maker Anobit for $500 million, aims to establish R&D lab in Israel
The rumor mill has been churning on this one for the last few days, but it’s now as official as it’s ever apt to get: Apple has decided to splash out the $500 million to buy Israeli flash-chip outfit Anobit . The fabless designer of MLC NAND flash chips should be a good fit, given Cupertino’s reliance on solid state storage technology for its iPad, iPod, iPhone and Macbook Air lines
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Dell unveils Alienware Aurora gaming rig, will serenade you for $2,200
Dell has just taken the wraps off a brand new addition to the Alienware family , hailing it, rather poetically, as “a serenade to raw gaming power.” It’s called the Alienware Aurora, and it’s staring at you with a Cylon-like grin in the image above. Beneath its menacing veneer lurks Intel’s six-core, 3000 series Core i7 CPU, an X79 Express chipset and quad-channel DDR3 memory, all of which are kept in check by Dell’s liquid cooling and active venting technologies
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AMD shaves 800 million transistors from Bulldozer chip, swears nothing’s wrong
When a company cuts 40 percent of its transistors from an upcoming processor, one question comes to mind: why? According to ExtremeTech , AMD issued an update stating that its Bulldozer eight core / four module CPU would feature 1.2 billion transistors, as opposed to the previously stated two billion transistors.
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Behind Amazon’s Silk browser lurks a really fast supercomputer
We were hardly shocked to see Fujitsu atop the most recent list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, but perhaps more surprising is the fact that Amazon cracked the top 50, as well. Turns out, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers are powered by a Linux-based, 240-teraflop beast that boasts 17,024 cores, 66,000 GB of memory, and a ten gigabit Ethernet interconnect. That’s good for 42nd place on Top 500′s global rankings, and it’s also good enough to power Silk, the browser you’ll find on the Kindle Fire. But Amazon has a long way to go before catching up with the Fujitsu K, which recently cracked that vaunted ten petaflop barrier.
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Behind Amazon’s Silk browser lurks a really fast supercomputer
We were hardly shocked to see Fujitsu atop the most recent list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, but perhaps more surprising is the fact that Amazon cracked the top 50, as well. Turns out, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers are powered by a Linux-based, 240-teraflop beast that boasts 17,024 cores, 66,000 GB of memory, and a ten gigabit Ethernet interconnect. That’s good for 42nd place on Top 500′s global rankings, and it’s also good enough to power Silk, the browser you’ll find on the Kindle Fire. But Amazon has a long way to go before catching up with the Fujitsu K, which recently cracked that vaunted ten petaflop barrier.
Behind Amazon’s Silk browser lurks a really fast supercomputer originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MIT unveils computer chip that thinks like the human brain, Skynet just around the corner
It may be a bit on the Uncanny Valley side of things to have a computer chip that can mimic the human brain’s activity, but it’s still undeniably cool. Over at MIT, researchers have unveiled a chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt to new information (a process known as plasticity) which could help in understanding assorted brain functions, including learning and memory. The silicon chip contains about 400 transistors and can simulate the activity of a single brain synapse — the space between two neurons that allows information to flow from one to the other. Researchers anticipate this chip will help neuroscientists learn much more about how the brain works, and could also be used in neural prosthetic devices such as artificial retinas. Moving into the realm of “super cool things we could do with the chip,” MIT’s researchers have outlined plans to model specific neural functions, such as the visual processing system. Such systems could be much faster than digital computers and where it might take hours or days to simulate a simple brain circuit, the chip — which functions on an analog method — could be even faster than the biological system itself. In other news, the chip will gladly handle next week’s grocery run, since it knows which foods are better for you than you ever could.
MIT unveils computer chip that thinks like the human brain, Skynet just around the corner originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Maingear brings Intel i7-3960X Extreme Edition chip, Epic Audio Engine to desktops, extreme gamers
Maingear brings Intel i7-3960X Extreme Edition chip, Epic Audio Engine to desktops, extreme gamers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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PlayStation Vita gets a content management app, plays nice with PS3 and PC
Worried your PlayStation Vita is going to be so full of repurchased PSP content that you won’t be be able to store it all? Yeah, neither are we — but if you want another place to keep your Vita’s picture, video, music and game content, Sony says your PC and PS3 will do nicely. An application page on the Japanese PlayStation website details a Vita app that lets users transfer data between the three platforms, noting that content can be purchased on the PC or PS3, and then transferred to the Vita for use later. Gamers looking to save scratch on that not-so-optional memory card will be able to use this content sharing feature to get the most out of whatever size storage they can afford. Sure, 4GB of storage the cheapest Vita memory card offers isn’t ideal, but at least Sony is throwing you a bone to make it work.
PlayStation Vita gets a content management app, plays nice with PS3 and PC originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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