Techware Labs

With home media computers finding their way into many people's living rooms a need for high-powered hardware in smaller form factors is on the rise. Many early adopters of Home Theater PCs or HTPCs simply installed tower systems near their high definition TV or wired existing desktop systems in other rooms to the TV. Now with more widespread adoption many users wanted power horse computer capable of high definition multimedia playback but in a size more suitable to the TV area.

From X-Bit Labs:

In our recent reviews we focused on ultrafast multi-GPU solutions that may cost you $1000 and more. Such tests are indeed interesting and produce the raw data for hot discussions about which GPU developer is better after all. But it must be acknowledged that few gamers have a Radeon HD 4970 or a pair of GeForce GTX 480 cards in their computers. Most of us have to limit ourselves to far more modest products. As a matter of fact, $200 and cheaper graphics cards constitute the largest share of AMD’s and Nvidia’s sales.

From RegHardware:

Reg Hardware has covered plenty of solid-state disks before, but never anything to match the capacity of Kingston’s latest high density SSD. Back in January, Kingston announced the SSDNow V+ series, the higher spec members of its family of “value” drives with capacities ranging from 64GB to 512GB.

From The Inquirer:

THE EMERGENCE of ARM as one of the world's two dominant processor architectures can be seen as Britain's last laugh after its home-grown computer industry was swamped by the Wintel tide.

From Information Week

Funds would be on top of the $7.2 billion already committed to bring high-speed Internet to underserved areas.


Nearly $800 million in new loans and grants to expand broadband connections has been announced by President Obama, who previously had committed $7.2 billion to bring broadband to underserved Americans.

From TechPowerUp!:

Last year AMD released their new Radeon HD 5800 Series of graphics cards which quickly became a big success due to the numerous improvements made over previous generations. Over the course of the last months AMD has completed their DirectX 11 lineup quickly, the Radeon HD 5670 was unveiled on Jan 14. It is based on AMD's Redwood graphics processor which is made in a 40 nm process at TSMC Taiwan. HD 5670 cards can be found around a $100 price point, which is a tough market that is crowded with other cards like the GeForce GT 240, 9600 GT and 9800 GT. AMD's own products here are HD 4770, HD 4830 and HD 4850.

From Daily Tech

New standard offers both lower costs, the potential to deliver more information and convenience

LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor have been secretly conspiring to kill HDMI.  And today they set their plans into motion, introducing a brand new audiovisual standard, HDBaseT.  While that name may sound confusing, before you slap your head, this will not likely introduce a new kind of cable to your house.