Silicon Power presents its unique and eye-catching portable solid-state drive, named Bolt B75, which may be easily mistaken for an external Silicon Power Armor A75 hard drive.

 

Developers assure customers, that they were inspired by a legendary German passenger-carrying aircraft Junkers F.13 while planning design of the device. The manufacturer reports the SSD Bolt B75 aluminium framework outwardly resembles ridged metalling, which was utilized in production of Junkers F.13 almost 100 years ago. This design solution was tried out in the external Armor A75 hard disk, released in November last year.

 

The novelty has the 124.4 х 81.9 х 12.2 mm dimensions and weighs 68–85 g. Inside there are NAND flash memory chips of the 120, 240, 480 or 960 GB total capacity. USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C port serves as an interface.

 

Speed rates of each Silicon Power Bolt B75 sample are not stated, however we know maximum figures. They are …

Last week the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) organization reported that the work on the DisplayHDR standard was over. This standard defines the quality of HDR content, being rendered by a display. Today we already know the name of the first device, which has successfully passed the certification mentioned. It’s the 49-inch Samsung C49HG90 monitor, which meets all requirements for obtaining DisplayHDR 600 conformity marking.

 

To receive this certificate a display must offer the ultimate 600 cd/m² brightness, the 10-bit colour depth and cover at least 99 % of the BT.709 palette and 90 % of the DCI-P3 colour space.

 

Samsung C49HG90 features the 3840 x 1080 pixels resolution, 144 Hz refresh rate, 3000:1 static contrast, 600 cd/m² max brightness and 1 ms response time. Other specs include Quantum Dot backlighting as well as AMD FreeSync 2 support.

 

The Samsung C49HG90 estimated cost is $999.00.

Area, a Japanese hardware retail company, has voiced its intentions to release four new expansion cards with SATA III interface and USB 3.0 ports. The announced products are called to present additional expansion facilities to PC systems. According to the present-day data, the release will include four models: PE4U3E-3E1 Sport Quattro, D-EP34U3R-S3, SD-PEU3R-2T2IL, and S-PESA3ES2L.



The first model, codenamed PE4U3E-3E1 Sport Quattro, will be based on Etron EJ188 controller. It will accommodate four USB 3.0 ports, three of which are external and the other one – internal. This expansion card will employ PCI Express 2.0 x2 bus for the connection to the PC interface.


The second model, codenamed D-EP34U3R-S3, will operate under the supervision of Renesas D720202 controller. The model will include two external and two internal USB 3.0 ports. The third model, SD-PEU3R-2T2IL, will employ Renesas D720201 controller as the basis and will contain also four USB 3.0 ports (two …