NEC Release 1st USB 3.0 Host Controller LSI

NEC Electronics Corp will release the "μPD720200," a host controller LSI that supports USB 3.0. "We will be the first to release a USB 3.0 host controller in the world," said Shigeo Niitsu, associate vice president of the 2nd SoC Operations Unit. 

NEC Electronics is planning to start sample shipments in early June 2009 and volume production at one million units per month in September 2009. The price of a sample is ¥1,500 (approx US$15.6). It is expecting the SoC to be used in PCs first. 

"We have already entered specific discussions with PC manufacturers all over the world," Niitsu said. "The SoC will be in PCs from an early stage."

The company forecast that a PC equipped with USB 3.0 ports will emerge by the end of 2009 at the earliest.

The μPD720200 has two USB 3.0 ports, both of which support 5Gbps transmission, the highest data transmission speed of USB 3.0. Its power consumption is "less than 1W in operation," Niitsu said. The SoC is a 10 x 10mm 176-pin FBGA package.

NEC Electronics is expecting USB 3.0 to start to be featured in PCs in 2009 and to spread in earnest in and after 2010. USB 3.0-compatible PCs will account for about 30% of PCs in 2011 and 80% of PCs in 2012, the company forecast. The number of PCs that support USB 3.0 will reach approximately 140 million units in 2011 and 340 million units in 2012, it said.

Also, the company believes that USB 3.0 host controllers will be available in chipsets as well as standalone host controllers in 2011.

Excluding those to be mounted on chipsets, "We will be able to acquire almost 100% share" in the standalone host controller LSI market, Niitsu said. According to the company's estimates, PCs equipped with a USB 3.0 host controller LSI will reach 26 million units in 2010, 60 million units in 2011 and 90 million units in 2012.

Moreover, as a USB 3.0-related business, NEC Electronics is planning to set out an ASIC business for "device side" USB controllers such as USB-SATA bridge LSIs with fabless manufacturers. NEC Electronics will, for example, manufacture physical layer circuits and chips in the business, it said.

The company is planning μPD720200-related exhibitions and demonstrations at the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference, which will take place in Tokyo May 20 and 21, 2009.

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USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week. Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete.

When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market in early 2010, it will have been 10 years since the now ubiquitous USB 2.0 was introduced (April 2000). The current USB 2.0 specification runs at a theoretical maximum speed of 480Mbps, and can supply power.

According to the USB Implementers Forum, there were 2 billion USB 2.0 devices shipped in 2006 (one for every three people in the world), and the install base was 6 billion (almost one for every person in the world). In November 2007, the USB Implementers forum announced the USB 3.0 specifications, and Intel officially demonstrated the technology at CES 2009.

Now, the juice: USB 3.0 promises a theoretical maximum rate of 5Gbps, meaning it's 10 times faster than USB 2.0. USB 3.0 is also full duplex, meaning it can upload and download simultaneously (it's bi-directional); USB 2.0 is only half duplex.


Put side by side with eSATA and FireWire 800, USB 3.0 is far superior. eSATA, an external connection that runs at the same speed as the internal SATA 1.0 bus, has a maximum theoretical of 3Gbps. This makes USB 3.0 faster than eSATA and about six times faster than FireWire 800 (full duplex at 800Mbps).

USB 3.0 also provides another advantage; while eSATA is faster than FireWire 800, unlike FireWire it cannot supply power. USB 3.0 has the advantage of being faster than both, even while supplying power.

Finally, USB 3.0 has improved power management, meaning that devices can move into idle, suspend and sleep states. This potentially means more battery life out of laptops and other battery-based USB-supporting devices like cameras and mobile phones.

Of course, there are other factors to consider; the FireWire 3200 standard is also in the works and promises to allow 3.2GHz speeds on existing FireWire 800 hardware. USB 2.0 generally doesn't meet its theoretical maximum throughput, due to its dependence on hardware and software configuration, where FireWire gets much closer.

It's hard to say whether USB 3.0's updated architecture will still use more CPU time than FireWire does.

But in the age of powerful hardware (can anyone say "3.2GHz, quad-core CPUs"?), all of this means that FireWire is still not going to match USB 3.0's theoretical maximum of 5Gbps.

The ultimate signal that this war has already been won is Apple's recent decision to ditch FireWire from its consumer line in favor of USB. Previously, Cupertino had been one of FireWire's greatest advocates. And surely the company will be one of the first to adopt USB 3.0.

All in all, we can't wait for motherboard manufacturers like Gigabyte and Asus to start supporting the technology and mainstream PC builders like Dell to start integrating it into their products. Bring on the speed.

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GAME BOOSTER

Game Booster is a freeware software intended to improve the performance of a computer such as computer gaming. But not limited to PC gaming only, can be also applied to a normal computer.

Game Booster has 2 functions. The first function to disable the Windows application that the system is running. Some of the program from either a Windows program that is running sometimes not required by the computer user. Second function, Game Booster can disable programs running in background or program that is actually active, but not seen by the user. Like Antivirus software, which is always active but the user does not know of the existence of computer programs or difficult to turn manually.

Game Booster is for the user computer gaming. With Game Booster software, disable the program resident in the walk can be turned off temporarily by the software. Likewise when someone takes a computer game without interference from the Antivirus software for a while. So Game Booster can disable antivirus programs. The result will improve the performance of the computer relative to the right during the active program. Both can increase memory space given to the application for the game, so the larger memory space.



Game Booster does not disrupt or make a random system Windows registry. Game Booster is designed to turn off the software that is not needed while the system itself. And not damage anything in the Windows registry. Because Game Booster can restore what is already in the switch off once again with a click on the menu program. And the whole program will run again as they are.

GameBooster software is Freeware and can be used for the OS Windows 2000, Vista, XP, and Windows 7

Example in the picture below, the view of the resident programs in Windows XP. Many applications that sebenarnyanya used when someone does not use the PC for gaming applications. Applications can be stopped temporarily by the software Game Booster

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Ms. Malicious Software Removal Tool 2.10

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (x86) 2.10

Quick Details
File Name: windows-kb890830-v2.10.exe
Version: 2.10
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB890830
Date Published: 5/12/2009
Language: EnglishDownload: Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 2.10

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Trojan.Winlock.19

More again trojan virus fraudulent Russian origin. Virus Trojan.Winlock.19 use the Russian language, spread through the Codec download files via the Internet. When exposed to this virus, the computer will go to the blocked system. 
Trojan.Winlock.19 found on 8 April, found by security company drweb. Trojan.Winlock.19 virus has been modified from the original version Trojan.Winlock.origin. 
But the quiet course, this virus can disappear themselves. After 2 hours of appear computer. So no need to panic, when exposed to the virus Trojan.Winlock.19.

 

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