The Register - HardwareBiting the hand that feeds ITThere's a lot of sizzle with this STEC- June 17, 2008 The charmed life of a disruptive firm Analysis For HDD manufacturers the whirlwind, the silicon sandstorm, has literally come out of the desert, the Iranian desert as it happens. In the shape of STEC, a booming Californian company with greatness being thrust upon it, the hard disk drive (HDD) triumvirate of Hitachi GST, Seagate and Western Digital face the biggest disruption they could imagine with, potentially, their products being replaced by flash memory-based solid state disks (SSD).http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/sizzle_with_this_stec/ AMD's new Firestream chip tops 1 teraflop- June 17, 2008 GPGPU smackdown week The latest round of graphics card dueling between AMD and Nvidia isn't just over high-end gamers. The vendors will also exchange blows for the hearts and wallets of your friendly neighborhood medical imagers, seismic modelers, and computational fluid dynamicists.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/amd_firestream_9250/ Cell-based GPU zaps laptop batteries, admits Toshiba- June 17, 2008 Yet GPU launches in... er... laptops Exclusive Toshiba has announced a pair of laptops that use its Cell-based SpursEngine graphics chip. But don't expect the chip to work when the notebook's on the road - SpursEngine consumes too much power, Register Hardware can reveal.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/17/toshiba_rebrands_spursengi... |