Intel's 180GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

Intel's 240GB SSD 335 was the first solid state drive featuring 20nm flash chips. The 180 GB Intel SSD has product number SSDSC2CT180A4k5 and is based on LSI-Sandforce's SF-2281 controller, combined with a SATA 6Gb/s interface. Performance of 500Mbyte/s and 450Mbyte/s is claimed for respectively reading and writing operations. 52,000IOPS are specified for 4K random writes.
        The 20nm MLC memory is produced by IMFLASH, a collaboration between Intel and Micron. The 180 Gb drive features a new enclosure, which is still of the 2.5-inch type with a 9mm thickness.
 Intel's SSD 335 180 GB SSDSC2CT180A4K5 has a recommended price of £113.

Acer Equipped its liquid C1 with Intel Atom Processor

 Acer equipped its liquid C1 smartphone with an Intel Atom processor. The handset will initially be available in the far east, on the Thai market, the phone costs roughly £215.
  The Liquid C1 is powered by a 1.2GHz Atom Z2460 processor with Hyper-threading support. The 4.3-inch IPS screen has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 960x540 pixel resolution. The phone has 4GB of storage capacity, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, micro-SD card slot, 8 megapixel camera and a 2000mAH battery. It runs on Android 4.0 Ice cream sandwich and has dimensions of 12.7x6.6x1 centimeters. Its weight is 140 grams.

ASRock launches A85X mini-ITX motherboard

ASRock has introduces a new mini-ITX motherboard with AMD's FM2 socket. The board has a richer feature set than A55 or A75-based boards.
         ASRocks's new board has two DDR3 memory slots, one PCIe 2.0 x 16 slot and seven SATA 600 connectors. The I/O panel contains 2 x USB 3.0, five audio jacks, optical SPDIF output, eSATA and Gigabit LAN. An additional internal header is present, which allows for two more USB 3.0 connectors to created. Video outputs on the board include VGA, DVI and HDMI.
        The ASRock FM2A85X-ITX will be available shortly and has a recommended price of £70.

HP Chromebook pavilion with a 14-inch screen

 A new chromebook has been mentioned in a PDF manual on HP's website. The unannounced Pavilion has a 14-inch screen with 1366 x 768 pixel resolution and is powered by a celeron 847 processor. The chromebook has a 2GB of memory, and a small 16GB SSD. with its 4-cell battery, the device should last about 4 hours.
          The Pavilion chromebook weighs 1.8 kilograms and has three USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI output and a full-size Ethernet connector. for wireless networking, an 802.11n WiFi adapter and Bluetooth module are integrated.
        The PDF file claims that  the new chromebook is under NDA until February 17th. It's likely that the portable device will be officially announced around the date.
 

Bowers & Wilkins AM-1, weatherProof loudspeaker offer high quality sound, durability and flexibility

Bowers & Wilkins unveiled their AM-1 Loudspeaker. A two-way design, it features an inverted drive unit configuration, with the AM-1's inch (25mm) aluminum dome tweeter mounted below rather than above a 5-inch(130mm) glassfibre bass/mid-range driver. This ensures optimal dispersion of sound when the speaker is mounted high on the wall.
           AM-1's low-frequency output is bolstered by the use of a rear-mounted auxiliary bass radiator(ABR). used instead of a conventional bass reflex port, the ABR endows AM-1 with exceptional bass for a cabinet of its size. unlike a port. It also provides AM-1's cabinet with a continual seal against the elements. This combination of advanced drive units, unique configuration and classically simple crossover components combines to create a loudspeaker as Musial as it is flexible.
         AM-1 has been carefully designed to be easy to install. Its elegant cast aluminum wall bracket incorporates an ingenious one-plug mounting system. Designed to be positioned in either landscape or portrait mode when mounting, extra flexibility s offered by AM-1's ability to be rotated through 110 degree from center in both directions.
        Its minimal projection out from a wall also add a to its appeal. So, while AM-1 has obvious applications such as providing high quality audio around gardens, patios and around swimming pools, its sleek design will also find favor indoors. Venues such as bars, restaurants and other communal areas will benefit from AM-1's winning combination of premium sound quality, discreet styling, flexibility and durable construction.
     AM-1 combines dust proof aluminum grille with a rigid cabinet composed of glass-filled plastics, ensuring class-leading resistance to extremes of dust, moisture and UV exposure. It has also undergone rigorous, continuous testing in an accelerated salt-spray chamber, plus outdoor UV accelerated life tests to ensure its parts don't fade or discolor.

Fijit acquiring Miso

Dijit Media, Inc, makers of the popular NextGuide and Dijit Remote TV discovery and control applications, announced today that the company is in the process of acquiring GoMisc, Inc, makers of the Miso, slideshows, and Quips Social TV products. Dijit will continue to support Miso and slideshows users, but intends to shut down the Quips app and service. Somrat Niyogi, founder of GoMiso, Inc, will join Dijit as an advisor.
        Dijit Media's flagship app is NextGuide, a "hyper-personalized" TV guide that brings together live TV with results from Amazon Instant video, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, iTunes, and Netflix. The app combines Dijit's  recommendations and discovery technology with social features and a unique mosaic style interface for a modernized re-interpretation of the classic guide.
      As of the streaming TV service increases, so does the need for cross platform discovery solutions that aid consumers in identifying pretended content," said Andy Tarczon, founding partner of TDG Research. Dijit strongly positions themselves as a leader in the evolving entertainment discovery category.

GizmoSphere Launches an AMD APU-based Gizmo board for embedded systems inventors and hobbyists

AMD announced that the newly launched Gizmo board, a low-cost board geared toward x86-based embedded system development available from GizmoSphere, is powered by an AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). Gizmo is a 4-inch by 4-inch x86 development board that can run a variety of operating systems include Android, Linux®, RTOSes and Windows®. AMD is a founding member of GizmoSphere, a not-for-profit organization whose collective goal is to drive and enable technology projects of interest to independent developers, with a focus on stimulating and encouraging innovation around multicore heterogeneous computing using APUs.

The Gizmo board includes the G-T40E dual-core processor running at 1.0 GHz, combined on a single die with AMD Radeon™ HD 6250 discrete-class graphics. The board provides a performance capacity of 52 gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS) at less than 10 watts. Custom high- and low-speed edge connectors enable a full range of functions. This unprecedented level of integration between serial and parallel processing offers a power-efficient foundation for high performance multimedia content delivery across a broad range of embedded designs such as digital signage, x86 set-top box (xSTB), IP-TV, thin client, information kiosk, point-of-sale, casino gaming, media servers and industrial control systems. “Gizmo is an excellent board for the next generation of embedded systems development,” said Kamal Khouri, director of Embedded Products, AMD. “The new board will serve the diverse and growing embedded development community and is essentially useful for those wanting to incorporate the advanced capabilities possible by harnessing a heterogeneous architecture. Developers ready to take advantage of a high-performance, full I/O-featured x86 development board will find tremendous value in Gizmo.” Packaged as part of a development kit, the Gizmo board is available now through GizmoSphere.org for $199. GizmoSphere’s founding members include AMD, Sage Electronic Engineering, Texas Multicore Technologies and Viosoft.