Fusion-io, the leader in solid-state architecture and high-performance I/O solutions, today announced the ioDrive Duo, which doubles the slot capacity of Fusion-io’s successful PCI Express-based ioDrive storage solution. The new ioDrive Duo is the market’s fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solution. With the ioDrive Duo, it is now possible for application, database and [...]

Not satisfied with simply introducing a new platform that’s more diminutive than the already tiny Mini-ITX, VIA has stepped in with an all new media system processor that aims to bring power efficiency to 1080p-capable systems. The VX855 MSP offers up hardware-based H.264 video acceleration in a staggeringly small, highly integrated single chip package with [...]

San Francisco-based Caustic Graphics has developed a new patent pending technology that can actually bring ray-tracing that generates highly realistic accurate three-dimensional images to computer gaming. Ray-tracing is currently really only used in high budget Hollywood productions and is a rather tedious process where a short scene can take months to generate with ray-tracing.
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AMD on Monday catered to multi-display power users by launching the FirePro 2450. The board is one of the few small, slim video cards to support four displays and can attach as many as four DVI or VGA displays at once, even at 1920×1200 resolution. AMD considers it an option for stock market trackers and [...]

The most obvious difference between AMD’s Phenom II x3 and x4 processors is the number of cores: the x3 has three and the x4 has, unsurprisingly, four.  However the chips themselves are actually the same hardware, with AMD locking out one of the cores in the x3 variants.  That presents an almost irresistible target for [...]

NVIDIA announced today that NVIDIA ION has been Certified for Windows Vista. With NVIDIA ION and premium versions of Microsoft Windows, small form factor notebook and desktop PCs will have rich media capabilities and full graphics support for the first time. NVIDIA is working with Microsoft, PC manufacturers, software developers, and Windows eco-system partners to [...]

With a high quality 19” screen size offering SXGA resolution of 1.280 x 1.024 the PL-900 is an extension to Wacom’s successful PL-family and is now the largest interactive pen display in the series. With its bigger screen and its anti-glare treatment, the PL-900 is more comfortable when in use, even over [...]

The world of television viewing will no longer be flat. Altera Corporation and DDD Group plc today announced a partnership that is bringing 3D digital cinema-quality images to your living room. DDD has qualified its TriDef Core embedded 3D image processor to run on Altera’s Arria® GX FPGA. As a result, DDD is delivering a [...]

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The Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe equipped with dual premium GPUs to provide the ultimate in gaming performance. Pushing performance to live up to Palit’s high excellence standards, our engineers created a custom board, power management system and effective cooling system to ensure you have

Palit’s revolutionary air cooling system is equipped with two [...]

Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market, today announced that the Acer Aspire Predator desktop PC and Acer G24 widescreen LCD display are now available to customers in the United States. This unique, power-packed [...]