iSuppli: The Semiconductor Industry is Starting to Recover

 

The global semiconductor industry has started to recover, but it would take another year or two before the revenue reaches pre-recession level, according to iSuppli.

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Kingston Intros Affordable 40GB SSDs for Desktop Users

 

Kingston has recently announced the release of the SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive, the latest addition to its V family of solid state drives.

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Specs and Pictures of Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X Surface

 

First seen a month ago on the release day of Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X model is finally ready to debut.

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MSI Big Bang TRINERGY Motherboard Pixellized

 

MSI’s Big Bang P55 motherboard has made quite a splash with the Lucid Hydra 200 chip to enable multi-GPU computing without any SLI/CrossFire software. This revolutionary board is expected to make an official debut on Oct 29th, but the site Donanimhaber cannot wait to share the pictures of the final design.

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Gigabyte Unveils P55A Family with 333 Onboard Acceleration Features

 


Gigabyte P55-A-UD6 motherboard

Gigabyte has today announced seven new P55A series motherboards that have Gigabyte 333 onboard acceleration features including USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) and a 3x boost in USB power.

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Intel Pulls Firmware Update After Data Corruption Complaints

 

Yesterday Intel released a new firmware for the 34nm X25-M SSDs which was said to bring a 40% performance boost and adds support for the TRIM feature in Windows 7. Unfortunately, some users who have had the new firmware installed found that they couldn’t start Windows 7 any more, and others said affected drives become unusable.

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