IDF 2009: The Best Tech From The Show Floor

To wrap up our coverage of the 2009 Intel Developer Forum we are going to bring you coverage on a number of companies who had products that stood out to us over all the rest. If you’ve heard about Super Talent’s TeraByte PCIe RAIDDrive SSD, Intel’s 7 SSD PCIe card, Kingston’s dozen SSDNow powered demo system, Marvell’s SATA 6G storage controller, Lucid’s Hydra 200 multi-GPU technology or SuperSpeed USB 3.0 then you are in for a real treat today.

By Nathan Kirsch

Intel Previews Clarkdale Processor Performance Numbers

Back in Feburary 2009, Intel disclosed that the 32nm ‘Westmere’ desktop processors were coming out in the fourth quarter of 2009 and that appears to still be true. Arrandale and Clarkdale are the first two Westmere cores that will be introduced to the market. Both Arrandale and Clarkdale are dual-core Westmere parts, but the difference between the two is that Arrandale is for mobile platforms while Clarkdale is for the desktop market.

By Nathan Kirsch