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Intel has announced a technology called “Wiress Display” for creating display via wifi. According to Intel, it allows a computer to display on another screen or television sets if they have a HDMI input. It is necessary to have an Intel laptop fitted with the latest Centrino platform equipped with an i3, i5 or i7 Core processor and [...]

Toshiba unveils new SSD models: those new products are manufactured from NAND Flash chips engraved at 32 nm. Capacities depend on size of SSD: from 64 to 512 GB for 9.5 mm 2.5″ model from 64 to 256 GB for 7 mm 2.5″ model. This size seems to be the new standard format, as Intel chose it too [...]

While IBM is stopping production of its Cell CPU, and that rumors indicate that Sony will adopt a x86 CPU for its PS4, Toshiba unveiled TV models sporting a Cell CPU: According to the manufacturer, the "Cell" TV offer 143x more power processing power than the current models. Associated with a high quality LCD panel, it [...]

The recent SDHC format is now EOL as the race to a larger storage capacity quickly pushed models to the upper limit of 32 GB. Last January, a new SD card format was announced: the SDXC. It defines a maximal storage capacity of 2 TB with transfer speed reaching 300 MB/s. However, this initial announcement [...]

Toshiba announced the launch of the production of the first 64 GB NAND Flash memory chips. To reach such density, Toshiba piled up 16 layers of 4 GB each, interconnected via tinny wires.  Each layer has been engraved at 32 nm and the chips includes its own controller, making integration easier. The availability of such chips is [...]

Toshiba announced (via 9to5Mac) that they have launched a 64 gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module. The new chip offers 64GB on a single chip and will start mass production in the first quarter of 2010. The reason the larg…

Toshiba has announced its new 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module will offer the highest available capacity in the industry in the first quarter of 2010.

Last year, main companies in component manufacturing (among them Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Toshiba, Olympus, Pioneer) announced the development of a new wireless format named TransferJet. Working with a frequency of 4.48 GHz, this technology aims to transfer data at 375 Mbits/s (real) over few centimeters and up to 560 Mbits/s.It is not designed to install [...]

According to the last news and tidbits, IBM might have decided to stop the development of its Cell CPU, a program initiated with Toshiba. If it is now present in servers and soon in TV, it became famous for being the CPU powering the Sony game station PS3, where it delivers amazing results. It remains [...]

Results of a recent study carried out among 30,000 people having a notebook computer from different manufacturers indicates that Mac might not be the most reliable computer anymore. Indeed, Apple ranks 4th, behind ASUS, Toshiba and Sony the the 2 and 3 years reliability factor, with an average failure rate at 3 years of 17.4%. this is [...]

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