Aug/090
Compact Flash cards from 100 Gbytes capacity
In conjunction with the Photokina fair in the world of digital photography and that is taking place these days in Cologne, Pretec has presented a new generation of Compact Flash memory cards.
These are solutions that aim to offer a storage capacity very high, more and more important considering the high resolutions of the latest SLR cameras appeared on the market and the needs of shooting in Raw format.
Jul/090
Memorie DDR 1 Gbyte
Transcend has announced the upcoming production of morduli DDR memory 1 Gbyte capacity each, of ECC Registered.
Each module is based on a 8-layer PCB, with 36 chips each, and 256MB of access time to 7.5ns; PC2100 specifications are fully met by these new memory modules, evidently designed for applications in servers and workstations in which professional is required an allocation of system memory very high.
Jul/090
Architecture ‘AMD Hammer
On Chip Architecth was published an interesting preview of the “Hammer” for AMD, which characterize the eighth generation of cpu of the American producer of Sunnyvale.
AMD has chosen to continue the “old” x86 architecture by implementing the ‘x-86-64 “, or a version with a new 64-bit registers (xeax, xebx, etc. ..) but that obviously supports backward in the code x86 16-bit and 32. In addition, AMD has taken steps to design the core K8 introducing numerous innovations, including the “Dual Core”, or the implementation of a dual unit of account that allows you to execute 6 instructions in parallel. The bus communication between CPU and northbridge uses the HyperTransport protocol (HyperTransport can be considered a protocol for communication between electronic components since it does not provide a physical system of fixed communication) and travel at a speed of 800 MHz with a width of 64 bits (ie offers a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 6.4 GBytes / sec).