Archive for ‘2006’

NAND-flash memory Toshiba, working in LBA mode

NAND-flash memory Toshiba, working in LBA mode

Toshiba has introduced a NAND-flash memory, rabotayuschuya mode logic of a linear sector addresses (LBA, Logical Block Addressing), which reduced the cost of chip manufacturing, as well as possible to introduce a simple system of error correction (ECC), to provide dynamic and static mechanisms of wear-leveling. memory standard LBA-NAND interface is fully compatible with NAND [...]

24 “HD-display BenQ FP241W in September for $ 800

24 “HD-display BenQ FP241W in September for $ 800

As the company BenQ, in early September in the Japanese and European retail sales will be 24-inch LCD FP241W, featuring support for the interface HDMI (HDCP) and 1920 x 1200 pixels. In addition to the HDMI monitor includes D-Sub, DVI-D, S-Video, composite and component video inputs. The characteristics mentioned more than once during the official [...]

Apple iPhone: more details

Apple iPhone: more details

A few days ago the network was a rumor about the upcoming model phone from Apple. According to the man who saw the iPhone – is “very thin, sexy, damn phone, ever existed.” The phrase has been said thus an anonymous employee of Apple. A day earlier posts on Engadget, AppleInsider cited several intriguing facts [...]

A three-dimensional “movies” from Dolby and Infitec

A three-dimensional “movies” from Dolby and Infitec

Dolby Laboratories goes to new horizons. To develop three-dimensional cinema technology company is working with German Infitec. The advantage of Dolby 3-D is the fact that the image is projected onto an ordinary white screen, and viewers do not have to wear heavy and inconvenient points, as in the cinema of Real D. first cinemas [...]

InCard offers credit cards to do with the display and battery

InCard offers credit cards to do with the display and battery

Interesting development to protect the credit card presented by Innovative Card Technologies (InCard). It offers embedded in the map display, battery, and a special chip that generates one-time password for Internet payments. Despite the abundance of options, the card is no more and no thicker than usual, and besides, the same flexible. The development of [...]

Surgeons will be able to reconstruct the 3D patient

Surgeons will be able to reconstruct the 3D patient

Scientists Brigham Young University (BYU) have developed a unique program for the “virtual surgery”. The program, which gave the name of Live Surface, allows surgeons to visualize in 3D any part of the patient’s body. It should be noted that such developments already exist, but Live Surface favorably with their fast work and interactive technologies. [...]

The new 3D-scanner, instantly creating a 3D-model

The new 3D-scanner, instantly creating a 3D-model

The company showed at the exhibition ZScanner SIGGRAPH 2006 new three-dimensional scanner ZScanner 700. A small device placed in his hand, and can create three-dimensional models in real time. During the scan produced by the model is immediately displayed on the screen, so you can see its weaknesses and turn a real object properly or [...]

The new IBM servers based on AMD Opteron

The new IBM servers based on AMD Opteron

IBM announced the forthcoming expansion of its family of systems that use processors from AMD, with five new models of servers – two modular, BladeCenter LS21 and LS41, and three rack – System x3455, System x3655 and System x3755. Although systems based on AMD chips have appeared in the nomenclature of the company since 2003, [...]

3DEasy – a new mouse for gaming and work with 3D

3DEasy – a new mouse for gaming and work with 3D

The company Sandio Technology demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2006 Show new mouse 3DEasy, designed specifically for those who work with 3D-graphics as well as play games. The mouse comes with the package for application developers 3DEasy Software Developer Kit, so that everyone can use to optimize the robot’s specific application. need for such a device, its [...]

ATI RV550 receives broad HD capabilities

ATI RV550 receives broad HD capabilities

Playing HD video on a computer imposes strong demands for computing resources of the latter. In such cases, to help the CPU card may come with the possibility of hardware acceleration for decoding video. ATI is under Avivo technology has introduced a similar feature for any video series X1000, which supports hardware decoding of H.264 [...]

Cell: now and the PCI-E card

Cell: now and the PCI-E card

It can be argued that the development of IBM, Toshiba and Sony, called Cell from this point belongs not only to console the Playstation 3, but also to any servers and workstations. The company Mercury Computer Systems recently announced a special accelerator based data processor Cell. New feature called Cell Accelerator Board, or simply CAB. [...]

20.1 “Aspire 9800 laptop with HD-DVD on sale!

20.1 “Aspire 9800 laptop with HD-DVD on sale!

This week Acer launched the sale of its 20.1-inch (1680 x 1050 pixels), the Aspire 9800, which is the starting price at the moment is the sum of 2,800 U.S. dollars. Novelty is designed for those users who need a system of performance comparable to desktop PCs. The Aspire 9800 is a powerful “graphics” based [...]

Flash memory standard NOR from Intel

Flash memory standard NOR from Intel

Intel introduced a new flash memory for NOR class growing segment of the market of cheap mobile phones. The new products include a QUAD + package with multi-function terminals (88 ball sites), which minimizes the number of pins. Flash memory is configured to work with low-cost single-chip solution for receiving and transmitting radio signals. release [...]

Canon enters the market with HD-Camcorder HV10 model

Canon enters the market with HD-Camcorder HV10 model

The abbreviation HDTV, which stands for High Definition TV (HDTV), are increasingly found in the recent news from the “iron” of the front. HD-TVs, monitors, video card with hardware decoding of HD-content – all this indicates that in the near future the standard will be even more popular. That’s why many companies are slow to [...]

AMD increases the volume of supply Sempron S754 to the Russian market

AMD increases the volume of supply Sempron S754 to the Russian market

The release of new Core 2 Duo Merom nuclei and Conroe significantly influenced the balance of power and processor segment of the budget – and Intel, and AMD have significantly reduced the price of food the previous series. In this situation the main objective is to establish an uninterrupted supply to the end user did [...]