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Monday Morning (6 Comments) (link)
Monday, 12-March-2012 02:47:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg

CeBIT 2012 was on recently - here's some headlines:

CeBIT 2012 Coverage on HWHeaven.
ROCCAT live demo Power-Grid on Vortez.
GIGABYTE live demo Lucid Virtu MVP on Vortez.
GIGABYTE Z77 Motherboard Preview on Vortez.
OCZ Demonstrates Vertex 4 SSD on TheSSDReview.
Booth Babes and Part 2 on TheSSDReview.
Gigabyte Unveils U2442 Ultrabook With Great Features on TheSSDReview.
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Mini RAID Data Storage/Backup on TheSSDReview.
ASRock showcase Z77 and Extreme11 motherboards on Vortez.
Powercolor HD 7970 Vortex II on Vortez.
ASUS Z77 Motherboards in the Spotlight on Vortez.
Alpenföhn CPU Coolers on Vortez.
ZOTAC Showcases New ZBOX on Vortez.

ASUS also recently gave people a sneak peak of their Z77 motherboards, with coverage on Tech Report and HotHardware.

Tech Report checked out some Sandy Bridge Xeons. With eight cores and 20MB of L3 cache per chip--and a breathtaking amount of total bandwidth--these new Xeons promise vast improvements in throughput over the prior generation. Read on for look at the Xeon E5-2600 lineup, along with some preliminary benchmarks from Damage Labs.

Western Digital are now the largest producer of hard drives, after acquiring Hitachi GST. This move means that WD Technologies and HGST will now operate as subsidiaries of Western Digital. It also means that Western Digital now has about $15 billion in yearly revenue. That surpasses its biggest rival Seagate to make Western Digital the world's biggest hard drive maker. This new merger also means that there are now only three major manufacturers of traditional PC hard drives in the world: Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba. Seagate previously acquired Samsung's hard drive division in December for $1.4 billion.

Asher spotted this somewhat unnerving video of Kara. A new tech demo featuring sophisticated performance-capture technology made by the game developer Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Indigo Prophecy) was inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Near.

PRiME sent word that an alpha tech demo of Outerra engine is now available. Outerra Engine is a unique 3D engine, a world rendering engine capable to seamlessly render whole planets from space down to the ground level. It can use real world data to render the planets realistically, while it also dynamically refines the data using procedural algorithms to provide high ground-level detail. Discussion here.

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