Techo: Via debuts Mini-ITX 2.0

This will be of interest to several folk formerly on my mailing list!

"Via Technologies has launched gen 2 of its signature mini-motherboard standard. Mini-ITX 2.0, an evolutionary update to the seven-year-old 170×170mm form-factor, introduces new and emerging buses and interfaces such as PCI Express, SATA, Gig-E, and HD A/V, while preserving backwards-compatibility with the original standard."

Now read on...

Via debuts Mini-ITX 2.0

Not that Intel isn't interested in this market too...
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG45FC/index.htm

Techo: It looks like Mars has water!

The scientists are pretty sure that the shiny lumps that have vanished from their trench were ice.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/release.php?ArticleID=1753

Now that really improves the outlook for our first foothold on another planet!

Techo: Old and New tech in future Intel chips

Embedded memory in processors has been attempted before, but a two-transistor memory cell that works at enormous speeds could radically change both processor speeds and programming models as cache-misses become a rarity.
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-38009-135.html