CES: ASUS Will Ship U3S6 USB 3.0, 6Gbps SATA PCIe Adapter For $30

From DailyTech: ASUS started shipping the first motherboards with support for the USB 3.0 and 6Gbps SATA interfaces two months ago at the beginning of November. The first mobos were targeted at enthusiasts, but soon made their way into the mainstream. Gigabyte followed suit, and...

AMD to show upcoming laptop processors

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices is expected to show off its latest laptop processors on Thursday, including quad-core chips for laptops that are due in a few months.

The chips will include two to four cores and achieve higher levels of integration that could offer longer...

Palm Updates the Pre and Pixi for Verizon Wireless

From PC World: Verizon Wireless will start selling improved versions of Palm's Pre and Pixi smartphones later this month under an exclusive arrangement with the handset maker.

The Pre Plus is a modified version of the Pre that offers 16GB of flash memory. The updated design...

ATI Launches DirectX 11 Mobility Radeons, Targets Arrandale Laptops

From DailyTech: It was four months ago that ATI showed us the Radeon HD 5870 at a secret press event in Oakland, California. The media was suitably impressed by the demos and visuals, but were skeptical about ATI's plans for a top-to-bottom DirectX 11 product rollout for the discrete...

AMD Ships Two Millionth DirectX 11 GPU

From Tom's Hardware: AMD is plenty proud of itself for beating the competition to market with its DirectX 11 parts, and today at CES the company expressed even more pleasure at its hitting the milestone of 2 million DX11 GPU shipped.

AMD pointed out that it was able to reach this...

EVGA Preps Dual-Socket Mainboard for Gaming Systems

From X-bit Labs: Just when everyone thought that dual-processor platforms for consumers were dead, EVGA, a well-known supplier of graphics cards and mainboards, revealed plans to unveil a motherboard for two microprocessors aimed at gamers with no limits in mind and budget.

At the...

Is It the End of the Road for Memory Stick? Hope So!

From PC World: In the great scheme of this, this is minor CES news indeed, but I kinda like it: Sony is releasing a line of SD and MicroSD memory cards. If it were any other company, I wouldn't be writing this post, but we're talking Sony-the company behind the venerable, eternally...

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