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Rambus was showing the first tangible parts of a Terabyte bandwidth initiative. It was announced less than a year ago and they have already created a working version. With a working silicon version that’s not bad at all!

DRAM Emulator pushing Gbps

The idea was to get a single chip with 1Terabyte data transfer on and off the chip creative massive bandwidths. This was achieved by using optical interconnects. A single differential pin pair which carry 16Gbps and produces a 512b wide interface on the chip. Each one works at 32x signaling rate with their Flexlink C/A technology providing a routing solution.

The picture above does just that but will only run at one channel. There is little reasoning why you cannot creative the system using more channels thus creating massive bandwidths. The hard part is done, 32 channels woudln’t go a miss.

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Asus released a different machine, something small, something portable and something mobile. Other manufacturers followed suit where Intel even designed a processor specially for the mobile x86 market. Now all the main vendors such as msi, asus, dell etc are all at it!

There are talks about a dual core atom processor called ‘intels nettop-orientated atom 330′ ready for release next year.  Soon as any updates emerge I will send out the specifications to you all.

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There has been mentioning of nine cell laptop battery the people over at eeepc news have managed to get their hands on a picture of a MSI laptop with a battery larger than the current EEE PC battery pack.

MSI’s current laptop uses a 3 cell battery pack much smaller than the new implementation. I expect that MSI will continue to ship 3 cell battery packs to the consumer. Consumers will then be able to buy the nine cell battery packs separately allowing users to use their laptops during long journeys.

This is not however advanced technology far from it, the battery cell is basically 9 cells crammed together making your laptop bulkier and heavier than it was before. Its entirely up to you, the weight vs the added power? Who cares about looks when you have three times the power! I’m sure some users would disagree, notebook air? Nah!

Will there ever been a new technology that will reduce the size of the cell? Can we increase power and decrease size? Will solar panels on calculators be used for laptops to create a greener laptop? Well only time can tell.

Keep checking this space for updates!

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It turns out that asus may be dishing out various EEE Box PC’s models well before its intended release, alpha testing anyone? Asus confirmed today that the EEE Box PC shipped to japan may contain a software virus! ok then!

According to sources Asus has warned that the partition of the EEE Box hard disk contains a hidden file named recyclyed.exe. When the drive is addressed the virus activates itself and then delivers the payload infecting any other added storage.

The problem does not exist within other regions as yet but make sure these version are not bought on on-line auction websites, you may end up with a cheap but contaminated system!

I am however unable to tell the public what the virus actually does and how powerful this threat actually is but then again, a threat is a threat in my opnion.

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Intel Corei7 technology has a sudden pitfall with its architecture. I’ve always had my suspicions that Intel had an issue with their memory! Taken that the new memory controller is not asynchronous and the fact that you can only run odd number of modules the voltage bottleneck didn’t come as a surprise.

Memory modules cannot exceed 1.65 volts, a Japanese forum has photographs  of asus’s x58 motherboard that has a warning label instructing builders not to exceed this memory voltage. Asus has stated that they are currently running their memory at 1.7 volts which is considered the highest voltage to date.

Currently no news is available to why Intel have done this, is this another flaw in Intels design and how manufacturers are forced to design round their specifications, unfortunately. Intel have either done this to help accelerate computation or is this considered a design fault where enthusiast cannot overclock their memory to achieve better gaming capabilities.

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