With constant price fall for HD DVD players it was just a question of time when the selling price will fall below $300. Latest Samsung’s BD-P1400 Blu-ray player was announced at $549 and now is available for $298.76 at Amazon. With very sleek design BD-P1400 comes with 1080p24 support, Dolby Digital Plus audio system, Dolby True HD, DTS HD, HDMI 1.3 and 1080p DVD up-conversion. Now, don’t you agree this is perfect Christmas gift for your family?
Toshiba hits the news with new 128GB SATA SSD! As sources reports Toshiba starts to selling them by May. New product lineup are based on the new 56-nm processes, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch MLC NAND slabs with SATA interfaces, with thickness of 3 mm of board modules and comes in three choices: 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. Supply voltage for 1.8-inch HDD module is 3.3 V and for 2.5-inch HDD type 5 V. Mean time between failures (MTTF) is one million hours. Obviously we are waiting answer from Sandisk really soon, at least ’till CES in Las Vegas next January. As expected no prices were announced.
Seems that Intel is about to have very busy start of 2008. First, for 6th January scheduled shipping of 45 nm Penryn Intel Core 2 processors and then delivering the first dual-core Celeron processors for 20th January along with long waited Yorkfield and Wolfdale chips. The specs says that new Celeron E1000 will run at 1.2GHz with 800MHz bus and 512K of cache, also frequencies for quad-core QX9000-series Yorkfields are from 2.5 to 2.83GHZ, and Core 2 Duo E8000-series Wolfdales from 2.66 to 3.16GHz.
Japanese scientist Fujio Masuoka who invented flash memory for Toshiba in 80’s revealed plans for developing new three-dimensional semiconductors, which will allow designing processors that are ten times faster than current products. Exact details on the technology are still secret but Masuoka announced that he will work with Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics and that first models are expected to be ready in two years. Of course it is too early to talk about price but as Digital World Tokyo reports Masuoka will be paying high rates to the Singapore government for licencing the chips to manufactures.
