Qualcomm Airs Coming Smartphone GPU That's as Powerful as PS3

From DailyTech: Imagine a dual-core-powered phone with enough graphics processing might to power a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. That's precisely what some of the smartphone industry's biggest hardware players are promising.

Next year, NVIDIA will air its Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip...

OCZ Vertex 2 60GB Review (Page 1 of 9)

I still distinctively recall myself saying this out loud back in the early 2000s. "60GB? What can I do with that!?" As we approach the end of 2010, I caught myself saying the same thing -- albeit in an entirely different context. "60GB? What can I do with that!?" In the days where 1000GB hard drives are a dime a dozen, the rise of solid state drives in recent years among enthusiasts and high end computer users has always been...

Arm readies processing cores for 64-bit computing

From InfoWorld: Arm Holdings will unveil new plans for processing cores that support 64-bit computing within the next few weeks, and has already shown samples at private viewings, sources close to the company said at an Arm technology conference in Taipei.

The company's move into 64...

Manufacturing Problems Hit Nokia N8 Smartphone

From PC World: Some Nokia N8 smartphones are turning themselves off or refusing to turn on after charging. Nokia has identified a manufacturing problem and has promised to replace the small number of affected phones it said in a blog post on Thursday.

N8 owners have been complaining...

Google turns its local eyes to Groupon

From CNET News.com: According to multiple sources close to the situation, Google is in discussions with local-deals powerhouse Groupon about buying it.

Without making the requisite joke about the deal of the day, sources said the price being considered is certainly no discount-well...

Android Market to Get Boost With Android 2.3 Gingerbread

From DailyTech: Rumor has it Google will launch its next version of Android, Android 2.3 "Gingerbread", sometime very soon. Nobody knows quite what's in the new release exactly, but there's been plenty of rumors regarding what kinds of tricks the company might pull out.

According...

PCI Special Interest Group Publishes PCI Express 3.0 Standard

From X-bit Labs: PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express industry-standard input/output (I/O) technology, on Thursday announced the availability of the PCIe 3.0 specification to its members. The PCI Express 3.0 will increase bandwidth and feature-set...

Hitachi Quietly Joins 3TB Hard Drive Club

From X-bit Labs: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has quietly started to sell its first internal 3TB hard disk drives (HDDs). The new Deskstar 5K3000 and Deskstar 7K3000 products feature five platters and only work on newer computers, thus, they are unlikely to become very popular...

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