Intel Introduces Solid State Flash Memory Drives

Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with the Intel® Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers cost-effective, high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms. With advantages over hard disk drive (HDD) or removable universal serial bus (USB) storage devices, Intel's Solid State Drives deliver faster boot times, embedded code storage, rapid data access and low-power storage alternatives for value PCs, routers, servers, gaming and industrial applications.

"Solid state drive technology offers many benefits over traditional hard disk drives including improved performance and reliability," said Randy Wilhelm, vice president and general manager of Intel's NAND Products Group. "The Intel solid state drive technology provides robust performance, while offering Intel's industry leading quality, validation and reliability for a wide variety of embedded applications."

The Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is the company's first solution in the Intel Value Solid State Drive family that will offer different industry standard interfaces and densities. The product comes in 1 Gigabyte (GB), 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities. With fast reads of 28 megabytes (MB) per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second, this higher performing solid state drive is a faster storage alternative that speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries.

The drives will also be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs. In addition, it will be used in Intel embedded solutions for routers and point of sale terminals.

Intel's Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive will be distinguished from other solid state product offerings by its extensive validation, including more than 1,000 hours of accelerated reliability testing, and is expected to meet an average mean time between failure (MTBF) specification of five million hours. The product can be easily integrated into original design manufacturers' designs because of its USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant interfaces, 2x5 USB connector and standard single-level cell NAND in thin small outline package (TSOP) devices. The company is also considering next-generation products that could incorporate cost-effective multi-level cell (MLC) technology.

Source from lowyat.net

大馬卡8功能或收費

陳財和：月杪全面啟動 大馬卡8功能或收費

updated:2007-03-05 20:34:24 MYT

（吉隆坡訊）大馬卡持有者可於今年3月底，享有大馬卡的8大功能，包括駕駛執照、護照、電子醫療卡、簽帳卡、提款卡，以及“一觸即通”（Touch n Go）。

國內事務部副部長拿督陳財和週日（4日）說，持卡人必須到國民登記局啟動大馬卡晶片，以輸入資料。

他透露，啟動大馬卡晶片或將徵收一些費用，不過一切須等到推介禮才公佈詳情。

政府部門資料系統連線

他週日為馬青總團主辦《萬人鬧元宵─尋寶大行動》主持閉幕時說，政府在之前的3年積極鼓勵大馬人更新大馬卡，現在是推介大馬卡功能的時候。

他說，推介大馬卡8大功能的準備工作已經做好，一切設施如解讀器也準備就緒，各政府部門資料系統已連線。

他表示，由於之前大馬人對大馬卡的功用認知不深，造成他們對大馬卡的功用信心不足。

“我們將大力宣傳使用大馬卡的好處，提倡公眾多使用大馬卡功能。”

他表示，一旦大馬卡8大功能啟用後，國人在申請或更新護照時將享有更大的便利，只須要通過國民登記局的陣線服務，核對資料和指紋即可。

依入境性質設櫃台
隆機場系統處理入境資料

陳財和說，吉隆坡國際機場在兩三個月前開始實驗性推行新措施，依入境性質設立櫃台，以更系統化處理入境資料。

他舉例，入境通道分成旅客、外勞、學生、工作或經商等櫃台，除了方便入境者，移民局隨時掌握外勞、學生及旅客入境大馬的數據。

他說，內務部將在6月前，重新評估這項新措施。 （星洲日報‧2007.03.05）

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Samsung: Goodbye VGA and DVI, Hello USB

At CeBIT next month, Samsung will be unveiling the SyncMaster 940UX, a 19'' LCD monitor that simplifies connections by chucking the DVI and VGA connectors and instead using everybody's pal, USB. The monitor is due for a May release, initially for Windows XP with Vista drivers to follow later.

The most obvious advantage to a USB monitor is that USB cables are remarkably easy to connect and disconnect, which eliminates one more obstacle for the technophobic. Multiple monitors can also be installed quickly and easily, without the need for a higher-end graphics card.

But Samsung is mum on one important detail: If the graphics are coming out of the USB port, then where is the processing taking place? Odds are it's the CPU, so just how much of a performance hit will you take if you're powering multiple monitors? (Samsung claims a maximum of three for multimedia, five for less intensive purposes.) Hopefully this question, among others, will be answered as CeBIT approaches.

Ah Kau: Well.. we have usb speakers/mouse/kb/card reader/usb heater/usb cooler... etc etc.. u name it

Ah Mao: How technology flies.... soon maybe we will see wireless monitor come out.

Ah Lian: wireless for monitor? there's keyboard, mouse, speaker?, headset and how bout wireless cpu

Wahahaha