News Archive

June 01, 2004

LSI Logic Corporation introduced a physical layer memory interface that can save customers months of development time while improving product performance with the industry's highest speed DDR-2 SDRAM technology. LSI Logic's new DDR-2 ASIC core is the first physical layer interface and I/O buffer to support 333MHz/667Mbps data speeds, enabling manufacturers of data storage, communications, multi-function printers, industrial and medical equipment to take advantage of the memory technology's superior density, bandwidth and lower cost.

May 30, 2004

ASBIS Receives Title of ‘The Fastest Growing Samsung Semiconductor Distributor in EMEA Region’

ASBISc Enterprises Ltd., a leading supplier of computer components to the EMEA region’s emerging markets, has been awarded the title of ‘The Fastest Growing Distributor of Samsung Semiconductor’s TFT-LCD products’ in Europe, Middle East and Africa in the year 2003. The award has been officially handed over at Samsung’s annual dealers’ conference held in Prague.

May 27, 2004

Adaptec Backup Solution for Corporate PC and Laptop Data Wins Best of CeBIT America Award

Adaptec, Inc. won the Best of CeBIT America award with the Adaptec File Saver ESA1500, an application-specific storage array that automatically backs up corporate PC and laptop information unprotected by standard server backups and gives users an easy way to restore lost files.

May 17, 2004

Hitachi increases Microdrive production on demand for high-capacity digital music players

Driven by exponential increase in demand for its Microdrive storage media, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is implementing an unprecedented growth strategy for the one-inch hard drive. In 2004, Hitachi GST plans a substantial manufacturing expansion for the 4 gigabyte (GB) Microdrive product at its Thailand facility. This development is being spurred by the proliferation of hard disk-based storage in consumer electronic devices, especially portable digital music players.

May 17, 2004

HGST - Expansion of Microdrive production

Driven by exponential increase in demand for its Microdrive storage media, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is implementing an unprecedented growth strategy for the one-inch hard drive. In 2004, Hitachi GST plans a substantial manufacturing expansion for the 4 gigabyte (GB) Microdrive product at its Thailand facility. This development is being spurred by the proliferation of hard disk-based storage in consumer electronic devices, especially portable digital music players.

May 10, 2004

Toshiba - New SD-R5272 recorder

Toshiba is among the few companies that still produces DVD technology. The company has unveilled quality drives in the past, and currently, after quite some time of "inactivity", comes up with the new SD-R5272 dual format recorder. The drive is compatible with all current formats such as DVD-R/RW and +R/RW, CDs as well as DVD-RAM (read).

May 05, 2004

TOSHIBA SD-R5272 DVD±RW recorder

Toshiba is among the few companies that still produces DVD technology. The company has unveilled quality drives in the past, and currently, after quite some time of "inactivity", comes up with the new SD-R5272 dual format recorder. The drive is compatible with all current formats such as DVD-R/RW and +R/RW, CDs as well as DVD-RAM (read).

May 05, 2004

Seagate - Performance tests of Barracuda 7200.7 SATA

Seagate at WinHEC demonstrated in head-to-head tests using Intel's IOMeter benchmark that its Barracuda 7,200-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology equals or exceeds the performance of the latest 10,000-rpm SATA hard drives on the market. Seagate also announced it is shipping its Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drives with NCQ technology to direct OEM customers next month.

May 04, 2004

Seagate Shows SATA with NCQ can Beat 10K SATA; Seagate NCQ Ships Next Month

Seagate at WinHEC demonstrated in head-to-head tests using Intel's IOMeter benchmark that its Barracuda 7,200-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology equals or exceeds the performance of the latest 10,000-rpm SATA hard drives on the market. Seagate also announced it is shipping its Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drives with NCQ technology to direct OEM customers next month.

May 04, 2004

Intel - New 10Gbps Ethernet adapter

Intel Corporation introduced a 10-Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) adapter for servers that helps overcome for the first time the cost and technical barriers that have previously made 10GbE server connectivity impractical for the data center.

May 03, 2004

Certance Licenses Next Generation of DDS/DAT

Certance announced a licensing agreement for DAT 160 technology, the 6th Generation DDS tape solution. In cooperation with HP, DAT technology developer and manufacturer, Certance will market and distribute the next generation of DDS (digital data storage) technology with DAT 160.

May 03, 2004

Intel® Unveils New Network Adapter That Opens The Door For The First Time To 10gbE Server Deployment

Intel Corporation introduced a 10-Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) adapter for servers that helps overcome for the first time the cost and technical barriers that have previously made 10GbE server connectivity impractical for the data center.

May 02, 2004

Certance - New DAT 160 technology agreement

Certance announced a licensing agreement for DAT 160 technology, the 6th Generation DDS tape solution. In cooperation with HP, DAT technology developer and manufacturer, Certance will market and distribute the next generation of DDS (digital data storage) technology with DAT 160.

April 29, 2004

Toshiba - New 100Gb laptop HDD

Toshiba Corporation confirmed its leadership in the fast growing market for 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDD) with the announcement of the MK1031GAS, the highest capacity drive yet achieved in this increasingly important form factor.

April 23, 2004

Intel - New family of XScale CPUs

Intel Corporation announced a new family of processors based on Intel XScale® technology that can handle multiple forms of wireless broadband access with enough computing power to provide cell phones with full motion video conferencing capabilities and PDAs with DVD-quality video playback.

April 22, 2004

CANYON motherboards get the award in Bulgaria

Canyon motherboard CN-9I6PEA-L won a Strongly Recommended award in the group test of motherboards in April's issue of Personal Computer World magazine - Bulgaria.

April 22, 2004

Toshiba’s New 100GB 2.5-inch HDD Offers World’s Highest Capacity

Toshiba Corporation confirmed its leadership in the fast growing market for 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDD) with the announcement of the MK1031GAS, the highest capacity drive yet achieved in this increasingly important form factor.

April 17, 2004

Kingston - 1Gb CF cards available

Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the immediate availability of a 1 GB CompactFlash. Elite Pro. card featuring the latest in high-density flash components. Kingston’s newest 1 GB CompactFlash Elite Pro provides a low, price per megabyte solution of reliable, high-speed media.

April 15, 2004

ASBIS to present a comprehensive line of products and services for Mobile PC manufacturers

The Mobile PC market became the fastest growing segment of the computer market due to consumers' desire for mobility. According to a recently released report from The NPD Group's point-of-sale tracking service, May 2003 marked the first time that the dollar sales of notebook computers sold, surpassed the sales of desktop computers in U.S. retailers. Gartner analysts say, that over the next three years a 40 percent increase is expected in the mobile PC business, and in 2007 mobile PC shipments will equal traditional desktop computers shipments worldwide.

April 14, 2004

ASBIS invites its partners to visit ICC Kenya

Once again, ASBIS invites its business partners to attend Intel Channel Conference which will be held at Hyatt Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya on the 22nd April, 2004.

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