Transcend rolled out its largest 16GB Class 6 SDHC card in global market, which is based on the new generation of SD cards (SD 2.0) that support the FAT32 file system format.

Fully Class 6 compliant, the card features fast data transfer speed of 6MB/s and satisfies the high-capacity demands of today’s new SDHC devices such as high-end digital cameras or digital camcorders. The massive 16GB memory capacity is enough to store over 8,000 high-resolution 7M JPG photos, thousands of video clips, or even complete full-length high quality movies. Other features included ECC (Error Correcting Code) to automatically detect and correct errors during data transfer, preventing data corruption and missing files.

Intel launched its long-awaited new ‘Penryn’ line of power-efficient microprocessors, designed to deliver better graphics and application performance as well as virtualization capabilities. The processors are the first to use high-k metal-gate transistors, which makes them faster and less leaky compared with earlier processors that have silicon gates. The processor is lead free and by next year Intel is planning to produce chips that are halogen free too, making them more environmentally friendly. Penryn processors jump to higher clock rates and feature cache and design improvements that boost the processors’ performance compared with earlier 65-nm processors, which should attract the interest of business workstation users and gamers looking for improved system and media performance.

Price of DDR2 RAM goes down again. They are getting cheaper day by day. This big drop in price is due to lower cost of manufacturing the memory chip. Also using denser 1 Gbit dies, companies can now manufacture 2 GB per standard unbuffered desktop DIMM, or 4 GB per dual channel kit. This reduces the number of die required to make larger sized RAM. Looks like its time to add more RAM to my system!

About 1,800 brand new 300-GB or 500-GB external hard drives made for Maxtor (Maxtor is now owned by Seagate) in Thailand were found to have Trojan horse malwares pre-installed (autorun.inf and ghost.pif). When the HDD was used, it forward information on the disk to two websites in Beijing, China (www.nice8.org or www.we168.org) Authorities believe the Chinese government is behind the Trojans and they wanted to spy on mass scale.

Digix introduced its new internal memory card reader featuring ‘RTS5151′ chipset. With five memory card slots and one USB port, this model supports over 65 memory card types including SDHC, Memory Stick Duo, SD, CF, XD, MicroSD, and USB memory) and it also has microSD card slot. It measures 101.6×98x25.4mm and it can be installed to any product that has 3.5-inch drive hall in its pc case.

It comes in black and white color. It supports high speed USB 2.0(1.1 compatible). It can be powered in connection with a main board via USB port and doesn’t require extra power supply.

Good news for people who were planning to buy new HDD for their computer or upgrading their laptop HDD. Recent survey tells that Desktop hard drive prices fell to $51 in the third quarter of 2007, compared to $52.75 the previous year while notebook HDD fell to $53 from $86. the reason behind is the tough competition between all major HDD manufacturers like Seagate , Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi etc. Also the flash memories are also to be blamed for any further drop in price of HDD as people have came to know the benefits of using SSD even if they have less storage space to offer at present.