4 GB DDR3 PC Memory Chips With 50-nm Technology: Samsung

On Thursday, Samsung announced that it has used its 50-nm circuit technology to built the first and only 4-GB DDR3 PC memory chips, which is said that it offers more capacity will requires much less power than currently available DDR3 chips.

Aim of company is to built new green generation PCs with its new technology, which will be utilized in 16-GB dual in-line memory modules or likely to be used in RDIMM for servers; 8 GB unbuffered DIMM for workstation and desktop PCs, as well as for laptop with 8 GB small outline DIMM.

DDR3 is a type of DRAM technology, which comes with a several advantages over previous technology which was DDR2. Most beneficial point of DDR3 is its data transfer rate which is high up to eight times than the previous technology, while power consumption is reduce up to 30% and that makes a big difference, in particular when we all are talking about green technology.

"We have leveraged our strength in innovation to develop the first 4-GB DDR3, in leading the industry to higher DRAM densities," Kevin Lee, VP for technical marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, said in a statement.

Samsung's new technology is capable of operating at 1.35 volts and has a maximum speed of 1.6 Gbps, (for me it is quite high). Samsung is applying its dual-die package technology to its 16-GB modules which can be combined to get one maximum 32-GB dual-die package, which is twice the capacity of products based on the previous highest chip density.

Samaung said that it will imposed its 50 nm technology to all its DRAM products. It is to be noted that, company had already released its 50 nm 2-GB DDR3 DRAM, on other hand Samsung also offers 1-GB DDR3 DRAM.

According to IDC figures, it is said that by 2011, DDR3 is expected to account about 72% of the DDR market, while 29% this year.

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Nvidia's Quadro NVS 420 Graphic Card Supports Four Display

On Tuesday, Nvidia come out with a professional graphics card, which is quite capable on supporting up to four 30-inch monitors, and I think it is sufficient to support any smaller desktop systems that require multiple display support.

The graphic card is called as "Quadro NVS 420"; the graphic card has a total of 16 processor core on two GPUs and a total of 512 MB of memory with total bandwidth of 11.2 GB per second processor (man..!).

When it comes to power requirement it consumes about 40 watts and provides support up to 4 different monitors with a high resolution of 2,560 by 1,600 pixels each. Company says, card fully supports both Intel and AMD processor and can run well with operating systems like Microsoft's Windows and Linux.

Card is already been tested on several business system, which includes Adobe's Creative Suite and Autodesk's AutoCAD designing software’s. The Quadro NVS 420 has been design for all sorts of fields whether user’s lies from content creator or work in oil and gas industry, it is suitable for all types of users.

Launching of the Quadro NVS 420 is expected in February which will cost about $499.

Nvidia already announced its future plans to releases products for low cost mini-laptops in middle of this current year, popularity of mini-laptops are growing fast and company expects a major profit in the field. Thou, company have seen some downturns in current time, which directly affects it PC sales that use Nvidia products. The company this month slashed its revenue projections by 40% to 50% for its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends Jan. 25

Customize Google: A Whole New Feature For Google Users

Google is experimenting with a whole new feature that lets online users to choose sites that you actually whats to search when you Google anything!

According to search giants, "The preferred sites feature lets you set your Google Web Search preferences so that your search results match your unique tastes and needs. Fill in the sites you rely on the most, and results from your preferred sites will show up more often when they're relevant to your search query."

In other words, preferred site system will suggest frequently visited sites based on search history basically will depend upon its relevance, but it will completely depend upon users that which site they want to add or delete.

Okay let me take an example to describe it clearly; let's say I am searching some photographs say about ocean and and if I am interested only getting some decent pictures regarding topic ocean, and not want to read articles about ocean and stuff, then after pressing search button the result I will get are like photobucket.com, flicker.com and many more like this sites then I have to add all this sites to my preferred search list.

Google also said, "If the feature goes live to everyone, people will be able to pick a list of authoritative sites and influence all search results"

To access this feature, you have to signed in to your previous or new Google account. After log-in the other thing you have to do is to go to your Google preferences and change the sitting to enable the feature. According to Google, it will analyze your browsing history and offer some suggestion as to which sites you might add to the preferred list. Cool huh..!

Since this current feature is in its experimental stage, Google is keen to hear it from you guys. So please feel free to get more information about this cool feature.

MSI's Wind NetTop D130 Powered By Dual-Core Intel Atom

Micro-Star International this week brought in a dual-core, bare-bones mini-desktop for only $240.

The machine is named, Wind NetTop D130 which is outfitted with an Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor and comes with DDR2 553MHz SDRAM, SO-DIMM Memory. Only 35 watts of electricity is required to run the system, which is much less than an average lighting bulb.

It comes with an DVD burner and can connect to digital TV for playing movies and pictures of user choice. The machine backs a stereo surround sound system of 7.1 Channel HD Audio.

This system is MSI's first dual-core NetTop. MSI also built the NetTop 100, which is powered by Atom 230 1.6-GHz processor and 945GC chipset.

System appearance is quite cool, it is roughly 12 inches by 9.5 inches by 2.5 inches, which holds 6 USB ports and a VGA port. Not only this, it also carry a mini-PCI express slot for a Wi-Fi card or to support a TV tuner card.

The desktop, which is almost a size of normal DVD player is the latest product by company in low end of the consumer PC market.
After launching of this supposed net-books reached about  5 million units world-wide in the fourth quarter of last year, and 10 million units is the total sale figure for the whole year, which accounted for 7% of overall PC shipments, according to IDC.

Free Licenses For Qt Platform: Nokia

On Wednesday, Nokia made a move to boost its developer ecosystem by offering its Qt user interface and application framework under the Lesser General Public License.

This user interface is a cross platform framework based on C++ that can be used to build application and framework for PCs, set top boxes, and all of the above for mobile phones. With the help of Qt, programmer can built a program with can work on multiple platform with minimal adjustments for a specific platform. It is offered by Nokia owned Qt Software, and cross platform applications that are Qt include Google Earth, Skype, Opera and Last.fm.

Previously, toolkit has been available under the General Public License, as well as a commercial license. Company said LGPL move was made to meant to lower the barrier of entry and boost adoption rate were some key point in mind.

"Nokia is making significant contributions to open source communities through ongoing work with Qt, its contribution of Symbian OS and S60 to the Symbian Foundation, and open development of the Maemo platform," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's executive VP of devices, in a statement. "By moving to LGPL, opening Qt's source code repositories, and encouraging more contributions, Qt users will have more of a stake in the development of Qt, which will in turn encourage wider adoption."

In an Qt blog, the company said it wold take multiple steps to make Qt more user friendly with the open source software community. Nokia is going to open wide door for Qt source code by engaging more developer on work, will try to reduce the overhead needed to make submission, and will launch a new Web infrastructure to support contributions.

With the releases on Qt 4.5 LGPL license will be available, which is expected for March, the company said. Not only this Qt 4.5 will support for WebKit and performance improvements even more better. No side effect on previous version by all this moves.

First Portable Disc Player From Panasonic At CES

Panasonic comes out with its first potable Blu-ray disc player. The DMP-B15, unveiled it at CES in Las Vegas. This portable machine features a 8.9 inch LCD screen come with three-hours rechargeable battery. The device can work is two ways first as portable player and second as a digital TV connected via HDMI cable and used as a standalone player.

The DMP-B15 comes with an  SD memory cards that can be used to view digital photos, as well as high definition videos. This players includes Panasonic's Viera Cast application, which gives consumers with a broadband connection to visit Web sites, which can make this player more popular among consumers. Player supports sites like Amazon's video-on-demand service, YouTube, Google's Picasa photo service, the  Bloomberg financial news site and a weather channel.
The DMP-B15 will out in May. Thou, no words on pricing yet.

Panasonic also used its press conference to announce another first, Blue-ray/VHS dual player, the DMP-BD70V along with two new dedicated Blu-ray players: The DMP-BD60 and DMP-BD80. Again supported by Viera Cast.

Panasonic also introduces three camcorders at CES, each with a 70x optical ultra-zoom lens, which the vendor claims is not available from any other competitors. The SDR-H80 and SDR-H90 both have hard disk drives, and the third one uses an external SD memory card.

"Panasonic understands that consumers sometimes need that extra zoom to truly capture dynamic colors, expressions and motions when the subject is far away, such as during an on-stage school play or sporting event," Dennis Eppel, VP of Panasonic's Network Business Group, said in a statement.

All three camcorders are scheduled to be available in April. The SDR-H80 has a suggested retail price of $450, the SDR-H90, $500; and the SDR-S26 $330.

500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive

On Tuesday, Toshiba introduced a half- terabyte external hard disk drive who are looking for an portable backup device for libraries like music, home video and other files.

The new 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive comes in black and white graphics and offers "ultra-quiet operation" Toshiba said. The device is capable of storing 142,000 photos, 131,000 music files and long 222 hours of DVD quality videos or 58 hours of HD quality video.

"That amount of capacity packaged in an effortless, do-it-yourself solution enables consumers to easily archive digital photo and video memories, as well as create portable entertainment libraries of music, movies and more," Manuel Camarena, product manager for consumer storage at Toshiba's Storage Device Division, said in a statement.

The latest drive joins Toshiba's other stylish consumer models, the ocean blue 400 GB model, the carbon grey 320 GB version and the chilly red 250 GB model. The noticeable point is that drives are about the size of a postcard and are powered via the USB port which weigh six about six ounces and have an internal shock sensor to protect the drivers mechanisms, a anti-slip footpads to anchor the drive in place.

This new drive compatible with Window XP, Window Vista and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and is available through Toshiba's Web site and major retailers. The product is available at a price of $180.

Toshiba is not alone in providing high-capacity external HDDs for consumers. Western Digital offers the My Passport Studio product line that offer capacities from 320 GB to 500 GB. The drives are also USB-bus powered and feature shock-resistant enclosures.

LG And Netflix Unveils Broadband HDTV Plan

LG Electronics & Netflix plan to make broadband HDTV sets available this season.

On Monday, companies announced that the new LCD and plasma broadband television sets would deliver Netflix movies, television shows, and some other HD content available through Internet connection. The machine will embedded with Netflix streaming software, therefore no external device is required to pull from Netflix's online library.

"Embedding the Netflix streaming software in the television is a natural progression of our partnership with Netflix and our innovative product line," LG Electronics USA president Teddy Hwang said in a prepared statement. "This is an LG industry first, which provides another flexible option for consumers seeking to access exciting content directly through their HDTV."

The company decided to show their  television sets during this week's consumer electronic show, 2009 CES, in Las Vegas. They directly stream content from a broadband connection and queues-based user interface. The consumers who have devices can use the Netflix Web site to add movies and TV shows to their own queues. Will accessing site television sets will display the choices and through remote controls users are allowed to read summaries, rating content, watching movies and shows within 30 seconds of choosing them, and a fast-forward or rewind feature is also provided.

"LG Electronics was first to embrace Netflix as a streaming partner a year ago, and was first in 2008 to introduce a Blu-ray disc player that streams movies from Netflix," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a prepared statement. "So it's fitting that LG is the first to introduce Netflix instant streaming directly to the TV with these next-generation HDTVs."

Netflix members owning the devices pay monthly subscriptions which beings from $8.99, for unlimited streaming and DVDs.

Asus's Xonar HDAV 1.3 with Dolby TrueHD Support

Yet another Asus product is all set to hit market, this time a high-end sound card dubbed as the Xonar HDAV1.3 series boasting HDMI 1.3a compatibility and Dolby TrueHD bitstream support. The Xonar HDAV 1.3 series sound solution comprises of a AV200 audio processor customized by C-Media as well as by a TotalMedia Theater player by ArcSoft. The same processor is previously used in Asus Xonar D2X, the PCI-Express sound card.

Thou there is on official information about pricing and availability by Asus, but many hardware stores are already the newly out processor ranging between $240(means Rs. 11,600 approx.) and $263( means Rs. 12,700 approx.).

Asus promises bit-to-bit lossless Blu-ray audio output via the AV200 audio processor and the TotalMedia Theater player. The streaming capability of the sound card output at a lossless compression rate of 24bit/192KHz, and can be received at AV receivers all thanks to Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. With the help of HDMI port, a 7.1 channel 24bit/192KHz Linear Pulse Code Modulation (multi-channel) audio out can be received through this sound card.

Advanced Access Content System and Protected Audio Playback System (PAPS) certification for content protection is there in Asus Xonar ADAV1.3. The EAX 5.0 and 3D gaming audio in Windows Vista will be enabled with DS3D GX 2.0, which automatically enables the latest EAX and DirectSound hardware post installation without the use of any driver patches, OpenAL, or game modifications.

Asus is expected to launch it Xonar HDAV1.3 sound card in mid-July. Another, Asus product is making its way in hardware market, its Asus's AM3 Motherboard.

Quad-Interface Desktop Hard-Disk Drives By Verbatim

Verbatim on Friday launched two external, quad-interface desktop hard-disk drives.
The drives comes with the storage capacity of 500 GB and another one of 1 TB, offer PC and Mac "plug and play" support for the leading interfaces, USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and eSATA II, the company said. The main moto of drives digital content professionals, consumers and of-course the small business which are looking to store audio, video, photos and graphics files.

"Our new 500-GB and 1-TB Desktop HDDs offer many advantages for editing and storing high-density applications, compared to using two or three smaller HDDs," Charles Klinker, director of marketing for Verbatim, said in a statement.

The 3.5-inch drives feature spindle speed at 7200 revolutions/minute and come with 32 MB of cache memory. The machine is fitted in aluminum case which weigh 3.3 pounds. and measure 9 inches by 6 inches by 1.5 inches.

The product's multi-interface support simplifies file sharing for designers collaborating on projects from different systems. The bus-powered drives have transfer speeds of up to 50 MBps for FireWire 400 connections, up to 100 Mbps for FireWire 800, and up to 3 GBps for eSATA II.

The drives also include Nero's BackItUp 2 Essentials software for automatic backup for Windows systems. The hard drives support Windows 2000, XP, or Vista, and Mac OS X 10.1 or higher. The products, which come with a three-year warranty, have a manufacturer suggested retail price of $180 for the 500-GB model and $250 for 1-TB version. The drives include cables for the four supported interfaces.

Verbatim also offers hard drives with only USB interfaces, as well as products with USB/FireWire and USB/eSATA interfaces.

LG's Blu-ray Player Accessing CinemaNow And YouTube

LG Electronics has added features like CinemaNow and YouTube access via through Internet to its Blu-ray disc player.
The new services will be available on Network Blu-ray Disc player, which is going to be launched in first half quarter of 2009. It will complement the Netflix support already in the devices, the company said.

Recently it was seen that player for the high-definition movie format have failed to be consumers favorite and the major reason for this cause was their high prices in comparison to standard DVD players. A Blu-ray DVD also cost more than standard than a standard DVD.

However, pricing of Blue-ray player have fallen significantly. For example, LG brand was available at Amazon for $290, and other players are hitting market at less than $200. Companies like LG, are hoping to get a higher price for their machines by adding broadband connections for accessing Web Services.

Analysts expect the market for on-demand movies over the Internet to grow in time and will replace DVD, as music download did to CD's. "LG is bridging the gap between packaged media and video-on-demand services to provide entertainment solutions for consumers' demand for content," Tim Alessi, director of product development for LG, said in a statement released Tuesday.

On one hand, where hardware vendors are trying to attract customers by providing Web services in machines. Online video rental services like Netflix and CinemaNow are using consumer electronics manufactures to get more customers. Netflix is also available through Samsung's Blu-ray player, and rental service says it hopes to get similar support in Sony and Panasonic.

Analysts say subscription models similar to Netflix's are likely to gain in popularity as an alternative to individual movie rentals. Netflix subscribers, who pay a monthly fee for having movies mailed to their homes, can also get access to films online at no additional charge.
LG plans to unveil its new Blu-ray players at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which runs Jan. 8-11.