Toshiba Begins to Sample eMLC-Based ZD6300 7.68 TB SSDs to Customers
Toshiba has quietly expanded its ZD6300 family of SSDs with a 7.68 TB model, its most capacious storage device announced to date. The new drive was designed for mixed...
30 by on 8/12/2016Western Digital to Use 3D ReRAM as Storage Class Memory for Special-Purpose SSDs
At the Flash Memory Summit this week, Western Digital announced that it intends to use 3D Resistive RAM (ReRAM) as storage class memory (SCM) for its future special-purpose ultra-fast...
38 by on 8/12/2016Maxiotek Unveils MK8115: Low-Cost SSD Controller for 3D NAND SATA SSDs
Maxiotek this week introduced its first SSD controller designed for affordable SSDs with an SATA interface, which is meant to be paired with new types of NAND flash memory...
6 by on 8/11/2016Dell Releases S2417DG and SE2717H Monitors: New Gaming Displays with G-Sync and FreeSync
Dell has quietly expanded its lineup of gaming displays with two new monitors featuring dynamic refresh technologies from AMD and NVIDIA. One of the monitors uses a full-HD (1920x1080...
46 by on 8/8/2016TUL Shuts Down VTX3D Graphics Cards Brand
TUL Corp., the company behind graphics cards sold under PowerColor and VTX3D trademarks, has decided to shut down one of its brands. From a post on the company website...
35 by on 8/5/2016Western Digital Adds Helium-Filled WD Gold 10 TB HDD to Lineup
Western Digital has this week introduced its new 10TB datacenter-class helium-filled WD Gold hard drive. This drive, according to WD, boasts higher performance compared to its predecessor combined with...
34 by on 8/4/2016Thermaltake Releases New SFX PSUs: 450W and 600W, rated at 80 PLUS Gold
Thermaltake has introduced its first SFX power supplies designed for gaming PCs. The new Toughpower SFX series of PSUs will have two models, both of which are 80 Plus...
17 by on 8/2/2016Crucial Expands MX300 SSD Lineup with Additional Capacities: Up to 1TB
Crucial this week made two announcements. Its MX300 family of 3D NAND-based consumer-grade SSDs has been expanded with additional models, and also Crucial revealed plans to start sales of...
11 by on 8/2/2016SK Hynix Adds HBM2 to Catalog: 4 GB Stacks Set to Be Available in Q3
SK Hynix has quietly added its HBM Gen 2 memory stacks to its public product catalog earlier this month, which means that the start of mass production should be...
43 by on 8/1/2016Samsung’s PM1633a Now Available: $10k for 15 TB, $6k for 7 TB
Samsung started to ship its PM1633a SSD with 15.36 TB capacity to select customers in March and recently it began to supply the drive to select resellers as well...
42 by on 7/29/2016Patriot Adds Two Dual-Channel DDR4-3733 Memory Kits into Lineup
Patriot this week unveiled two new DDR4 kits rated to run at DDR4-3733. The dual-channel kits are designed for Intel’s latest platforms and belong to Patriot’s Viper Elite and...
12 by on 7/29/2016Xiaomi Unveils Mi Notebook Air, from $525
Today Xiaomi has introduced its first pair of notebooks and unvieled the Mi Notebook Air family. As the name suggests, these are aimed head first into Apple's Air line...
49 by on 7/27/2016Price Check Q3 2016: DRAM Prices Down Over 20% Since Early 2016
Slow sales in the first half of 2016 have negatively affected suppliers of virtually all of PCs, tablets and smartphone components. Producers of DRAM typically suffer more than others...
37 by on 7/25/2016G-Technology Introduces G-Drive and G-RAID External HDDs up to 20 TB
G-Technology this week introduced several new models of its G-Drive and G-RAID products with Thunderbolt 1, USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2 soltions. These are direct attached storage (DAS) devices...
16 by on 7/22/2016Samsung’s SSD 850 EVO 4 TB Now Available from Major Retailers
Samsung quietly added its 4 TB 850 EVO SSD model to the product to the lineup back in May (according to its own datasheet) without making any formal announcements...
29 by on 7/22/2016Super Talent Launches their PCIe Nova U.2 SSDs, up to 2 TB and 3 GB/s
The march to U.2 adoption is slow but coming - it is already more successful than SATA Express ever was. Consumer motherboards are now coming equipped with slots, and...
16 by on 7/21/2016HP’s Elite x3 Windows 10 Smartphone to Cost $699, Set to Be Available Worldwide
When HP introduced its flagship Elite x3 phablet earlier this year at MWC, the smartphone made a very positive impression mostly because HP decided to make a bold move...
67 by on 7/21/2016SiFive Unveils Freedom Platforms for RISC-V-Based Semi-Custom Chips
SiFive, a company established by researchers who invented the RISC-V instruction set architecture in the University of California Berkeley several years ago, has this week announced two platforms which...
10 by on 7/18/2016Intel Readies New NUCs Based on Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake SoCs
As one might expect, Intel is working on a new generation of its NUC small-form-factor systems based on the company’s upcoming Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake microprocessors. The writers...
39 by on 7/15/2016Seagate to Lay Off Over 8,000 to Lower Costs
It is not a secret that total available market of hard drives significantly shrank in the recent years due to the slowing sales of PCs and popularization of SSDs...
41 by on 7/14/2016