A Chinese company by the name of Rikomagic has begun shipping a micro PC that has similar form factor as the recently released Raspberry Pi and the upcoming Cotton Candy. Marketed as an IPTV, the specs of MK802 also puts it somewhere in between Raspberry Pi and Cotton Candy. The PC uses an Allwinner A10 SoC powered by 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, a Mali-400 GPU, and 802.11b/g radio. Continue Reading »

During the opening day, keynote presentation, NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang showcased two GPU based on the Kepler architecture. This upcoming line of graphic processors will be sold under the moniker of Tesla, with the Tesla K20 releasing in the fourth quarter of 2012. NVIDIA also showed of the Tesla K10 GPU, which houses two GK104 Kepler GPUs to deliver 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth. The K10’s however, are designed specifically for oil and gas exploration companies for signal, image and seismic processing applications. Huang also announced that NVIDIA has released CUDA 5 Parallel Programming platform to members of NVIDIA's GPU Computing Registered Developer program to start exploring the Kepler architecture. Continue Reading »

AMD's successor to the incumbent Llano architecture will be called Trinity, and we should expect to see stateside release of a laptop by Hewlett Packard called Envy Sleekbook, by as early as June. Continue Reading »

Xbit managed to snag and post a couple of slides from an Intel presentation used by the CEO to discuss research and development of chip fabrication technology. The company’s mobile chip line-up will be split into a low-cost line headed by Atom 22000 carrying and XMM 5255 radio, and the high-performance Atom 22580 that will sport a XMM 7160 radio. Continue Reading »

Partition Assistant from Aomei Technology is a disk management and partition management utility for those who need more than what is available with Windows Disk Management. The Home Edition of Partition Assistant can be freely downloaded for both personal and commercial use. The application works with 32-bit and 64-bit version of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, and supports SSD, external drives and of course internal hard disks. Continue Reading »

Hewlett Packard has expanded its line of Ultrabooks to accommodate the Spectre XT, which will carry the latest generation of processors from Intel. The specs of Spectre XT are otherwise largely similar to that of its predecessors, with the exception of a few minor tweaks. The Spectre XT has a slightly smaller screen at 13 inches, and the battery-life is down by a notch to 8 hours; however, this model has managed to shed nearly half a kilogram of weight. Continue Reading »

Home theatre personal computers (HTPC) or media centers, as they are sometimes referred to, is nowhere as common as desktop and laptop computers, but this category has been gaining some ground for some time now. For those who prefer custom assembling an HTPC with choice of configuration, their first stop would be at a HTPC cabinet vendor. Here we take a look at some of the models that are readily available in the Indian market, from vendors such as Antec, Cooler Master, and Silverstone. Continue Reading »

Having updated their Alienware M-x series of laptops with Z77 chipset and matching processors, Dell has now rolled out the desktop upgrades. Since Intel is presently shipping only the quad-core variety of third-generation processors, Dell has included the Ivy Bridge option only in their XPS and Vostro lines of desktops. Continue Reading »

Cooler Master has unveiled a CPU cooler, which the company claims is a culmination of their best technologies, and it can rival liquid cooling system. Called TPC 812, this CPU cooler uses Cooler Master’s Vertical Vapour Chamber technology that uses vaporized coolants to expedite transfer of heat from the CPU block to the fins. Continue Reading »

It is often hard to get excited about a router, but there is little argument about its importance as it takes center stage in a wireless network. Up against veterans like Linksys and D-Link, ASUS still has to prove itself, but at least they seem to be getting things right on paper. ASUS’s new flagship router released under the Black Diamond series is a dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) switch 900Mbps cap on bandwidth. This router also supports sharing over a localized 3G network, using a separate 3G dongle, which should prove useful if you have non-Wi-Fi handsets lying about. Continue Reading »