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AMD Slips Out Trinity ULV 3DMark Performance

In a footnote of a slide detailing AMD’s Trinity A6 APU for Ultrathin notebooks at the company’s Financial Analyst Day event, the new chip’s 3DMark performance was revealed. The company was talking about the 17W ULV (ultra-low voltage) variant of the “…

$25 Raspberry Pi Hobby Computer Doubles iPhone 4S GPU Performance And Beats Tegra 2

We have previously reported on the super cheap ARM-based Raspberry Pi hobby computer that’s been under development from the Raspberry Pi foundation. However, it’s now going into production and is generating a lot of interest, so gamesindustry.biz inter…

RunCore Displays Single-Chip SSDs

RunCore showed off its engineering potential in four “single-chip” solid-state drives (SSDs). If we’re playing semantics here, almost every USB flash drive in the market these days is a “single chip SSD”, but in context of these drives, “single chip” r…

OCZ demos second-generation Indilinx Everest controller

OCZ seems to have put SSD chip development in overdrive since it’s already showing off the Everest 2 controller although the first-gen Everest silicon has barely been out for a few months. Codenamed IDX400M00-BC, the new Everest chip is supposed to del…

(PR) JEDEC Publishes Breakthrough Standard for Wide-IO Mobile DRAM

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the availability of a new standard for Wide I/O mobile DRAM: JESD229 Wide I/O Single Data Rate (SDR). Widely …

New USB 3.0 Webcam Controller Makes Quality 1080p Streaming Possible

Genesys Logic announced its newest application processor, the GL3620. This chip is designed to be the prime-mover of tomorrow’s high-definition 1080p web-cameras, which will strike mainstream price-points. This chip takes advantage of the USB 3.0 inter…

Leak: The Intel Medfield Files

VR-Zone have been having a little chat with Intel ‘sources’, who have leaked some juicy tidbits for us to enjoy in the form performance and power news. The upcoming next generation Medfield platform is Intel’s first true System on a Chip (SoC) and is d…

Intel Readies Core i5-2550K Quad-Core Unlocked Processor

Intel started its “Sandy Bridge” LGA1155 family with two processors geared for overclocking, the Core i7-2600K, at a $320 price-point, and Core i5-2500K at around $210. Both are extremely successful products, among the two the Core i5-2500K struck a pr…

(PR) Multi-Purpose Photonic Chip Paves The Way To Programmable Quantum Processors

A multi-purpose optical chip which generates, manipulates and measures entanglement and mixture – two quantum phenomena which are essential driving forces for tomorrow’s quantum computers – has been developed by researchers from the University of Brist…

Intel Releases Core i7-2700K Processor

Intel released its latest performance-segment processor, the Core i7-2700K. The i7-2700K is a quad-core chip in the LGA1155 package, based on the 32 nm “Sandy Bridge” silicon. It is clocked at 3.50 GHz, and features an unlocked base clock ratio multipl…