Intel is demonstrating a server with 160GB of memory using Hynix DDR3 R-DIMMs and Meta SDRAM technology in the Advanced Technology Zone here at IDF this week. MetaRAM just announced their second-generation chipset that supports DDR3 memory today and we just happened to walk by the demo system. If you haven't seen a single platform with 160GB then take a look!
Intel is demonstrating a server with 160GB of memory using Hynix DDR3 R-DIMMs and Meta SDRAM technology in the Advanced Technology Zone here at IDF this week. MetaRAM just announced their second-generation chipset that supports DDR3 memory today and we just happened to walk by the demo system. If you haven't seen a single platform with 160GB then take a look!
Antec today announced that they are launching a new line of standard components for the mobile computing market. The announcement of the new laptop components, compatible with Intel's Rich Creek 2 and CBB standards, marks the first time that system builders will be able to build customized, personalized laptops from individual components, in the same way they do now with server and desktop PCs.
Antec's new mobile product line contains a wide range of CBB components
including two laptop chassis, a docking station, both CBB and RC2-specific
keyboards, AC adapters, battery packs, and several components such as
integral webcams and Bluetooth modules.
ASUS Z7S WS Receives Intel Innovation Award– Integrating Dual CPU Performance with Compact Size — FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (August 19, 2008) – ASUS, a leading name in high quality computer components and solutions, received an Intel Server and Storage Innovation Award for the Z7S WS workstation motherboard. Positioned for power users, the Z7S WS features dual socket 771 and utilizes the Intel 5400 chipset to deliver high speed performance and wide expansion capabilities. With a CEB form factor, the Z7S WS offers
Pat Gelsinger was on stage and kicked off IDF 2008 by giving the audience an overview of this year's show. Pat Gelsinger is going to talk about Digital Enterprise and Mobility this afternoon, so he handed things over to former CEO Craig Barrett to get the ball rolling. Read on to see what was talked about at the opening keynote!
USB flash drives offer an easy way to move and share information between computers. If you like the idea of being able to bring files with you, whether it’s for work, school, or home, then a USB flash drive is the way to go. This deal ends Wednesdays at 12:00pm ET.
Enhancing personal expression and style, Dell today launches five bold and contemporary Special Art Edition designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops, exclusively created by urban artist Mike Ming. Building off of the inaugural Ming art work for the Inspiron 1525 laptop, Dell extends its offering with new designs that showcase Mings fluid organic style. Pictured below is the red swirl, which is one of the new urban designs. 
Brooklyn-based artist Mike Ming (born Michael Miyahira) blends popular culture, motion and emotion to communicate his visual world. According to Ming, “The technology behind creating Dell's Art House series of laptops allows me to share my visual creations with people who are inspired by art and who want to express their own individually unique sense of style.”
This year’s IDF kicked off in typical fashion with Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and general manager, Digital Enterprise Group, taking the stage and giving an brief overview of what the event has to offer over the course of the next three days, including highlighting key speakers (the Woz on Thursday!), contributors, and sponsors. Gelsinger equated the childhood book series Where’s Waldo with trying to figure out where in the world Intel chairman, Craig Barrett might be at any given moment. As to
NVIDIA Corporation and Emergent Game Technologies have expanded their relationship resulting in NVIDIA PhysX technology being directly integrated into all upcoming versions of the Emergent Gamebryo game development platform. The union of PhysX technology and Gamebryo will give developers the power to push gaming to new levels of interactivity on all platforms and make world-class technology more accessible to the development community.
Gamebryo has been fully optimized for development on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii, and was recently selected as the development platform for the next-generation console titles Civilization Revolution by Firaxis and Splatterhouse by BottleRocket. Gamebryo is also being used by EA-Mythic for its upcoming game, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning as well as Divinity 2: Ego Draconis from Larian Studios.
File-sharing, that’s widely discussed. But game sharing, not so much. Basically the focus until now has been on music and movies, but now it seems industry has decided games being shared via P2P also deserve to be addressed. As many as 100 people suspected of illegally sharing computer game files over the internet are to be sued for copyright infringement, it emerged today. A London-based law firm said it would launch legal proceedings on behalf of the computer game publisher Topware Interactive