Connecting the Quantum Dots to More Than Double Hard Drive Capacity

Scientists have developed a new type of semiconductor structure—using microscopic crystals called magnetic quantum dots—that could more than double current hard drive storage capacity. That’s just for starters.
The crystals themselves aren’t new; they’ve been around for over a decade in computer chips, solar cells, and LEDs, according to CBC News.
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This Tiny Core i7 Motherboard Could Almost Fit In Your Pocket

5 inches by 3.7 inches—that’s the diminutive footprint of the fully loaded conga-BM57 Core i7 motherboard.
Despite its small stature, the conga-BM57 features an impressive spec list, including a 2.66 GHz Core i7, 8GB of RAM, integrated intel graphics, 5 PCI Express lanes, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 3 SATA, 1 EIDE and Gigabit Ethernet—plus support for dual displays over VGA, LVDS, HDMI, DisplayPort or SDVO.
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Nvidia GF100 512-Core Monster Graphics Card Previewed: Goodbye, Eyeballs

The curtain’s been dropped on much of Nvidia’s upcoming Fermi-based graphics cards, and the five-hundred-and-twelve-core GF100 looks like a behemoth, indeed. A completely overhauled architecture is all about three things: scalability, parallelism, and geometry. Oh, and ripping your eyeballs out.
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AMD’s Plan to Take Back Laptops: The Llano “APU”

If you want a laptop with graphics and battery performance that isn’t totally embarrassing, you’re basically stuck with some combination of Intel and Nvidia gear. Now, finally, AMD’s Llano, a CPU/GPU combo, or “APU”, could give us a serious alternative.
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HP G62t Core i3 Notebook Pairs Envy 15 Looks With a $600 Price Tag

Sony just announced a few colorful Core i3/i5 notebooks, and now HP is following suit with its new G62t. Its design closely resembles HP’s $1300 Envy, but you’ll pay less than half of that for the G62t’s base configuration.
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