Western Digital's subsidiary, HGST, has started shipping its helium-filled hard disk drive. The Ultrastar He6 is a 6TB HDD. It is also considered the highest capacity 3.5-inch drive sold in the market, today. HGST makes use of a "hermetic seal technology" which makes it impossible for helium to leak through the HDD's seals. According to HGST helium ""dramatically reduces the turbulence caused ...

American multinational semiconductor company, AMD, has earlier announced that the supposed-to-be launch of their new Radeon R9 290 graphics boards last October 31 will be moved to today, November 4, due to unexpected driver issues. Their spokesperson has confirmed than an unnamed driver issue has plagued their latest graphics boards and caused the delay. AMD was said to have done a retest ...

Yesterday at the Apple iPad event the gang from Cupertino was making brave claims about the performance of the unused iPad A5X chip and talking a bit of trash about the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. Apple tossed a whisk on the big screen during the presentation claiming that its A5X has four times the graphics performance of the Tegra 3. Nvidia ...

Color us unsurprised that Ivy Bridge is destined to be faster and smaller than its predecessor, but unbeknownst to us is an fascinating tidbit concerning the upcoming architecture's GPU. The revamp will reserve resolutions in excess of 4K (topping out at a maximum of 4,096 x 4,096) -- a gigantic leap from the WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600) limitation of its Sandy ...

The battle for graphics supremacy has been going for well over a decade now, with several casualties of war along the way (RIP 3dfx, Trident, S3, etc.). The primary competitors continue to be NVIDIA and AMD, and with NVIDIA having recently reclaimed the single GPU performance crown on both desktops and laptops with their GTX 580/580M, it’s time for AMD to ...

Intel has been flaunting what the company reckons is “the world’s smallest cloud data center” though we can’t help but think they’d come in for major trouble trying to get it through an airport as carry-on luggage. The proof-of-concept is part of the company’s cloud strategy push , based on Intel Xeon processors.Hardware specifications for the compact cloud are unspecified, but ...

Intel has been flaunting what the company reckons is “the world’s smallest cloud data center” though we can’t help but think they’d come in for major trouble trying to get it through an airport as carry-on luggage. The proof-of-concept is part of the company’s cloud strategy push , based on Intel Xeon processors.Hardware specifications for the compact cloud are unspecified, but ...

Intel has been flaunting what the company reckons is “the world’s smallest cloud data center” though we can’t help but think they’d come in for major trouble trying to get it through an airport as carry-on luggage. The proof-of-concept is part of the company’s cloud strategy push , based on Intel Xeon processors.Hardware specifications for the compact cloud are unspecified, but ...

Shuttle has been around for years and years with some really cool small form factor computers that allow users to save space on their desktop and still use the normal monitor they already have. The latest computer in the SFF series from Shuttle is called the H3 6700P and this machine is aimed at professional users.The H3 6700P uses the Intel ...

Samsung has outed a new range of Series 9 notebooks, with three new 13.3-inch models and two new 11.6-inch models, priced from $1,049. The new Series 9 machines keep the styling of the models that began shipping in May, but add in new Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, up to 256GB SSDs and up to 6GB of DDR3 memory. ...