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Exclusive: First USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 Expansion Card, Will Sell For $30
For a mere 30 smackers, the U3S6 card gives you two USB 3.0 ports and two SATA 6.0 ports in a PCI-E card. The card has three primary components: an NEC D720200F1 USB 3.0 controller, a Marvell 88SE9123 SATA 6.0 controller, and a PLX PEX8613. The PLX part is the same chip the company uses on its SATA6 boards to helps ameliorate a problem with the P55 chipset.
New Asus P55 Motherboards are ‘TUF’
Kicking off the TUF series is the Sabertooth 55i. Based on Intel’s P55 chipset and built around Asus’ own ‘Marine Cool’ concept unveiled at CeBIT earlier this year, the Sabertooh comes equipped with the new CeraMIX heatsink. Through the use of ceramics and a microfin surface texture, the CeraMIX heatsink purports to dissipate heat more rapidly than traditional anti-oxidant compounds, Asus says.
Asus to Enter E-Book Market, MSI Considers the Same
Rather than let Amazon, Sony, and a handful of others have all the fun, Asus plans to dive into the e-book market with an e-book reader of its own. According to company president Jerry Shen, Asus will market the device under its Eee brand
Asus Readies Ion-Based Nettop and Eee Keyboard for Fall Launch
According to news and rumor site DigiTimes, Asus plans to keep busy this fall launching a number of new products. Among them are an Nvidia Ion-based Eee Box, Eee Top all-in-one PC, and two ultra-thin notebooks under its U/UX series.
Asus Cancels the World First USB 3.0 Motherboard
USB 2.0 rated at 480Mbit/s sounded great when it was released back in April 2000, but more than 9 years later its becoming pretty easy to saturate with our never-ending collection of high speed external drives. USB 3.0 clocks in at a much more respectable 4.8 Gbit/s, but those patiently awaiting hardware will have to cool their heels just a bit longer.
