Its for real, 32GB SDHC comming in April

PANASONIC ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE FOR WORLD’S FIRST 32GB SDHC MEMORY CARD WITH CLASS 6 SPEED

Available in April, SDHC Memory Card Stores Up to 12 Hours of HD Video

Panasonic just announced the release date of the world’s first 32 Gigabyte (GB) SD High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card with Class 6 speed specification.  With a global release in April 2008, the new SDHC Memory Card, RP-SDV32GU1K, is perfect for those wanting High Definition content,as it can record up to 12 hours of High Definition video.  The new SDHC Memory Card will have a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $699.

The newly developed card, featuring a massive 32GB of capacity is ideal for AVCHD High Definition video recording, a growing demand thanks to the recent expansion of High Definition SD Camcorders.  When used with Panasonic’s newly released High Definition SD camcorder, the HDC-SD9, the 32GB card can record approximately 12 hours of 1440 x 1080i High Definition video in HE mode, and approximately four hours of 1920 x 1080i full High Definition video in HA mode.  With the Class 6 speed specification and maximum data transfer speeds up to 20MB/s, the 32GB card allows users to enjoy superb performance and high-quality recording.

The card is also equipped with a new user-friendly labeling feature, which allows users to write titles or comments directly onto labels on the front and back of the card.  Panasonic will introduce the new labeling feature in its other SD Memory Card models, with a running changeover from the current card designs. 

The new card, like all other Panasonic SD and SDHC Memory Cards, is extremely reliable even under severe temperature conditions. Since the cards incorporate an industrial-grade flash memory, they work in temperatures ranging from -13°F to +185°F, while consumer-grade flash memory only guarantees +32°F to +158°F, thus ensuring consistent performance regardless if the user is skiing or snowboarding or if the SD Memory card is left in a hot car.

Chip news from AMD at the GSMA Mobile World Congress

Today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced an expanded portfolio of products and technologies to enable such popular, media-rich applications as mobile TV, 3D games and high-fidelity audio, delivering immersive entertainment to tomorrow’s mobile phones and handheld devices.
AMD has enhanced its established line of innovative, open-standard handheld device technologies with upcoming AMD Imageon processors, as well as next-generation 3D and vector graphics cores available for licensing. These new AMD offerings are designed to allow device manufacturers and network operators to support today’s most popular applications, as well as cutting-edge applications that will thrill tomorrow’s mobile consumer.

According to analyst firm iSuppli, premium mobile content such as music, games and video is gaining momentum as a key revenue driver for network operators. In fact, mobile content now surpasses messaging as the largest data segment, representing 51 percent of total data revenue.

“In many mobile phone markets worldwide, voice and messaging services are beyond the point of saturation,” said Pam Tufegdzic, analyst, iSuppli Corporation. “To continue to grow their subscriber base and increase return on their investments, network operators no longer see premium mobile content as a value-added competitive advantage, but rather as a mainstream service necessary for market entry.”
As a leading supplier of media processors and graphics cores for the handheld market, AMD works with an ecosystem of device makers, software developers and baseband suppliers to deliver innovative technology solutions that can yield truly immersive mobile content.
The latest technology offerings to broaden the popular family of AMD Imageon processors will include:

• AMD Imageon D160 mobile TV solution, a complete hardware and software package that will enable OEMs to design cutting-edge mobile devices that receive over-the-air broadcast TV signals transmitted in the DVB-T and DVB-H standards, currently used in various markets worldwide. This turnkey, antenna-to-display solution also will enable mobile TV functionality to be designed in a USB-powered device for watching live television on notebook PCs, PDAs, portable media players and other USB-enabled handheld devices.
• AMD Imageon M210 audio processor is designed to enable a high-definition, fully integrated audio subsystem capable of delivering more than 100 hours of music playback in airplane mode. This new audio processor will be ideal for both multi-function, mainstream mobile phones and portable music players.
• AMD Imageon A250 application processor for feature phones will combine the best of AMD’s latest multimedia technology for video recording and playback, photo imaging, and high-resolution displays, offering performance rivaling today’s stand-alone consumer electronics devices while maintaining long system battery life. This new application processor is designed to help phone manufacturers reduce the time and cost associated with system integration.

Graphics To Go AMD is committed to delivering stunning graphics to consumers everywhere by licensing intellectual property (IP) to mobile chipset suppliers. AMD announced several IP deals during the past year as part of this business. Building on that success, unique next-generation AMD graphics cores are available to leverage the same innovative AMD technology that provides an immersive graphics platform from PCs to game consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system.

• AMD Z180 OpenVG 1.x graphics core offers the only available hardware-accelerated native vector graphics solution, ideal for advanced user interfaces, navigational systems and portable devices optimized for animation and Flash-style content.
• AMD Z460 OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics core will deliver fully programmable shader models for realistic 3D graphics, designed to revolutionize the mobile gaming experience for portable devices.

New AMD handheld technology will be available for OEMs and silicon supplier licensees to sample beginning this month. Features enabled by these new products and technologies are expected to start appearing in mobile devices in late 2008 and 2009.

16GB SDHC Flashcard from Kingston

New Larger Capacity Card Joins Current Line of 4GB, 8GB SDHC Products to Offer Breadth of Digital Storage Solutions

Kingston Technology just announced it is adding a 16GB Class 4 SDHC Flash memory card to give consumers greater storage flexibility and faster speed to optimize use of today’s higher resolution imaging equipment. The new 16GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston’s line of SDHC cards, which include 4- and 8GB SDHC Class 2/4/6 versions.

“Higher resolution digital cameras and increasingly popular HD video camcorders require high capacity memory cards with faster data transfer rates (DTRs) to maximize overall performance of the recording device,” said Jaja Lin, Flash memory marketing manager, Kingston. “Our new 16GB Class 4 memory card answers the performance needs and expands Kingston’s product line to provide a memory solution for every application.”

Even with today’s high resolution recording devices, a 16GB memory card can store literally thousands of photos and hours of high definition video. For example, the new 16GB SDHC card can capture more than 7,500 images (with a 6MP camera) and more than four hours* of video (for 6Mbps HD Extended recording).

Kingston SDHC memory cards are offered in three different speed classes (2, 4 and 6) with each speed class designation reflecting the minimum sustained DTR. For example, a Class 2 SDHC card has a minimum DTR of 2 megabytes per second, while a Class 6 SDHC card has a minimum DTR of 6 megabytes per second. These cards are the perfect solution for today’s SDHC-compatible devices that run MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and other high quality video compression used by consumer HD and DVD video.

Kingston’s line of SDHC memory cards are backed by a lifetime warranty and 24/7 live technical support.
Features and Specifications:

• Compliant: with the SD Card Association specification version 2.00
• Secure: built-in write-protect switch prevents accidental data loss
• Compatible: with SDHC host devices; not compatible with standard SD-enabled devices/readers
• File Format: FAT 32
• Reliable: lifetime warranty
• Simple: as easy as plug-and-play
• Capacities: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB
• Dimensions: 0.94″ x 1.25″ x 0.08″ (24mm x 32 mm x 2.1mm)
• Speed Class Rating:
  • Class 2: 2MB/sec. guaranteed minimum data transfer rate
  • Class 4: 4MB/sec. guaranteed minimum data transfer rate
  • Class 6: 6MB/sec. guaranteed minimum data transfer rate
• Operating Temperature: -13° F to 185° F (-25° C to 85° C)
• Storage Temperature: -40° F to 185° F (-40° C to 85° C)
• Voltage: 3.3V

Kingston Secure Digital High-Capacity Card
Part Number	Capacity and Description	MSRP (U.S. only). Prices subject to change.
SD4/16GB	Class 4 SDHC 16GB	$231.00

4GB SATA RAM, not harddrive!

Always getting tired of the slow harddrive, heres the solution Gigabyte i-RAM.

Product Introduction
Through GIGABYTE’s custom intelligent controller, i-RAM acts like a regular SATA hard drive at theoretically 1.5Gb/s data transfer rate. By utilizing conventional DDR memory modules, i-RAM is outfitted with four 184-pin DIMM slots that will accept any DDR DIMM and support up to 4GB unbuffered / non-ECC memory. Most of all, the major issue of data lost after powering down is solved by i-RAM’s backup battery which is charged by your system on the fly. Furthermore, the 4-level LED located in the lower left corner indicates the i-RAM battery capacity. Without mechanical elements of traditional hard disks, i-RAM’s stunning performance coming from the nature of DRAM as storage medium benefits in massive storage access application such as video / audio capture & editing and 3D graphics design applications. i-RAM is the fastest storage device you have ever imagined !
 
Power Interface

PCI 2.2 mechanical compliant slot
Support PCI 3V & 5V Slot
 
Data Transfer Interface
One onboard SATA connector supports 1.5Gb/s data transfer rate
 
Memory Interface

Memory Slot : 4 DIMMs
Memory Type : Unbuffered / Non-ECC DDR 200/266/333/400MHz
Memory Capacity : 4GB
Memory Height : up to 4.2mm
*Click the “Recommend Memory List” for details. 
 
Backup Battery
One 1,600mAh lithium battery
 
Battery Capacity Indicator

4-level LED battery capacity indicator
One red battery capacity indicator button
 
Form Factor
22 x 10.4cm
 
System Requirement

One available PCI 2.2 compliant slot
One available SATA 1.5Gb/s compliant connector
GIGABYTE Motherboards based on the following chipsets:

Intel : ICH6 / ICH7 / ICH8 / ICH9 series
VIA : 8237R/8237R+/8237A
SiS : 964
NVIDIA : NF4 SLI / NF4 4X / NF4 SLI Intel Edition + MCP04
ULi : M1689

Another 3870 X2 from Powercolor

Here comes another 1GB 3870 X2 from Powercolor. This stunning graphics solution built-in Dual HD 3870 GPU, clocks at 825MHz core speed and 900 MHz effective memory speed, doubles the performance of original version. It’s also built with 640 (320×2) stream processing units and 2X256-bit memory interface to take on demands of the latest games.

HD3870X2 offers Microsoft DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, Universal Video Decoder, and ATI CrossFireTM X technology; it also has built-in HDMI with 5.1 surround audio support for single HDTV connectivity. Same with HD 3650/3450, this product also bundles with iClone 2 SE software, which provides a technology of creating full motion 3D avatars and video story-boarding.

“PowerColor kept trying to meet the demands of the toughest gamers all these years. With HD3870 X2, we’ve come to this goal once again with its stunning performance. ’”says Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation.
 
iClone 2 advances the technology of storytelling, introducing entirely new features designed to enhance both film creation and viewing.

It transforms any desktop into a complete virtual movie studio. Create 3D characters, scenes, and special effects for films inside a total 3D real-time environment. Designed for users of any skill level, iClone is equipped to break the barriers of storytelling offering an accessible tool to bring any story to life.
 
 
Key Features
? 825MHz Core, 900MHz Memory
? 1GB of GDDR3 Memory
? 2 x 256-bit Memory Bandwidth
? 640 (320 x2) stream processing units
? DirectX® 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 support
? ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support
? Built-in HDMI and 5.1 surround audio
? Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu-ray™ and HD DVD 

Model

HD 3870 X2

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