HardwareIntel Reveals SSD Details at IDF 2008

Intel unveiled its plans for SSDs in 2008 at IDF. It also made some pretty lofty performance claims for how its SSDs will stack up against the competition. Could this be *the* SSD to buy this year?...

If you've ever used a system with a SSD, you'll know the appeal. They are expensive, small and not widely available, but that doesn't mean that the technology or the drives aren't desirable. Today Intel is announcing its SSD family: There's the Intel Extreme SSD X25-E, which is a 2.5" drive based on SLC NAND flash in either 32GB or 64GB sizes. Sampling will be in 90 days from today, so we may see the first drives by the very end of the year. The SLC drive delivers 250MB/s reads and 170MB/s writes. The Intel Mainstream SSD line has two models, the 1.8" X18-M and the 2.5" X25-M... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]

HardwareWhat Nehalem is really about

As IDF has started, the first benchmarks of Nehalem will probably pop up. It is without a doubt an impressive architecture that gets a much better platform to run on, but this CPU is not about giving you better frames per second in your favorite game than the Penryn family. Let me make that more clear: even when the GPU is not the bottleneck, it is likely that most...

HardwareToshiba propels DVD quality to near high definition

Toshiba announced its XDE technology yesterday, which makes DVD picture quality close to high definition.