Latest Components News

17 September 2013
News: Security researchers create undetectable hardware trojans

Security researchers from the U.S. and Europe released a paper showing how integrated circuits used in computers, military equipment and other critical systems can be maliciously compromised during the manufacturing process through virtually undetectable changes at the transistor level.
News: IBM hopes to Power cloud, analytics with $1 billion Linux investment

IBM will invest US$1 billion to promote Linux development over the next five years as it tries to adapt Power mainframes and servers to handle cloud and big data applications in distributed computing environments.
News: Cheaper storage is leading businesses to take on too much capacity: Oracle

The explosion of demand for capacity, as well as managing it, is creating challenges for today's organisation.
16 September 2013
News: NAND flash use is up, but Apple's buying binge slows

While overall use of NAND flash is up, Apples consumption waned over the past quarter. At the same time, 3D NAND flash, which offers far greater capacity than todays flash drives, is expected to dominate the future.
13 September 2013
News: Intel successfully demos SSD overclocking, but will it come to market?

Intel successfully managed to overclock an SSD by 10 percent at its Intel Developer Forum, but it's unclear whether or not the company will ever formally release the technology to market.
News: The legend of Jack Kilby: 55 years of the integrated circuit

The tech industry thrives on legends. Here's a good one.
News: Samsung to use 64-bit processor for Galaxy S5

Samsung has confirmed its next generation of smartphones, including the Galaxy S5 we assume, will use a 64-bit processor.
News: SK Hynix shifting more production to DRAM after price jump

SK Hynix will increase DRAM production at its headquarters, the company said Friday, following a price spike in memory chips after a fire at a company factory in China.
12 September 2013
News: Five benchmarking world records bite the dust at the Intel Developer Forum

Some of the world's preeminent overclockers pushed Intel's fastest CPU, Corsair's best memory and power supplies, Asus's top motherboard, and Nvidia's most powerful graphics processors to their limits--and all it took was prodigious quantities of electricity and liquid nitrogen.
News: Promise preps for Mac Pro with new Thunderbolt 2 peripherals

When Apple wanted to showcase its first Thunderbolt-enabled Macs, it turned to Promise Technology and the storage company's Pegasus multiple-drive RAID enclosures to highlight the finer points of the nascent peripheral connection technology. Now that the next version of Thunderbolt is upon us, Promise thinks it will be the first to enter the market with a RAID 5 storage product for Thunderbolt 2.
News: Wine-powered microprocessor fermenting in Intel labs

In a new twist on strange brew, an Intel engineer Thursday showed off a project using wine to power a microprocessor.
News: Why Bay Trail makes more sense for Chromebooks than Haswell chips

More Chromebooks are coming from companies like HP, Acer, and Toshiba, but they might not be the ultra-cheap, browser-based laptops we've gotten used to seeing over the last year.
News: DRAM prices up over 27% since China FAB fire

Prices of DRAM chips have continued to climb after a major Hynix FAB plant was damaged by fire last week.
News: SSDs do die, as Linus Torvalds just discovered

Linux coder Linus Torvalds wrote this week about how the SSD in his workstation suddenly stopped working, forcing him to delay work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.
News: Future Samsung smartphones will have 64-bit processors, too

Apple set off a torrent of speculation on Tuesday after announcing theiPhone 5s would come packed with a desktop-like 64-bit processor. As we reported, Apple has little reason to switch iOS devices away from 32-bit processors right now, so this is clearly a play for the future. The most likely scenario, analysts say, is that Apple is laying the groundwork for a unified operating system that covers everything the company makes, drawing together Macs and iOS devices.
News: Schneider Electric releases new UPS servers

Schneider Electric has released two new UPS aimed at powering entry level servers.
News: Google's Chromebook enters adulthood, thanks to Intel

Intel's decision to bring its Haswell chips to Google's Chromebook might make it the system it was meant to be.
News: Windows 8.1 tablets with 64-bit Atom chips not coming until Q1

Buyers looking for a tablet with Intel's new Bay Trail Atom chip and a 64-bit version of Windows 8.1 will have to wait until early next year.
11 September 2013
News: IDF 2013 keynote: Intel announces Bay Trail tablet CPU, slew of Haswell Chromebooks

Intel on Wednesday ended weeks of speculation by launching "Bay Trail," the next-generation Atom Z3000 chip that pushes tablets towards PC-esque levels of performance.
News: Intel, Google show 'next-generation' Chromebooks

Intel and Google showed off the next generation of Chromebooks from Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Toshiba, which will be faster and more power-efficient than predecessors.