CES 2021 went all digital this year, as several other shows have in the past ten months or so. While we covered some of the larger stories our readers would be interested in from Dell, Lenovo (here and here as well), NETGEAR, Kingston, Phison, and Supermicro, there were other stories we wanted to touch on
Today Synology Inc. launched two new RackStation units powered by AMD processors, the RS1221+ and RS1221RP+. Both of the new devices are 8-bay NAS, that as the name implies, are rack-mounted. The units are 2U and aimed at the small-business sector.
Today GIGABYTE Technology announced a highly dense storage server with the ability to hit over 400TB in 2U, the GIGABYTE S251-3O0. In order to do this, the server has up to 26 drive bays and seven expansion slots. The S251-3O0 is an Intel Xeon-based server and is aimed at software-defined storage, big data, virtualization, and
At CES 2021, Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced its own high core count workstation, the Supermicro AS-5014A-TT. This single socket, server-grade workstation leverages the AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor allowing it to have up to 64-cores. This shows a furthering of the commitment of Supermicro to AMD processors that they have been showing with AMD EPYC
This week at the all-digital CES 2021, Phison Electronics Corp. announced that it will be showcasing a handful of its new SSD controllers. These controllers are aimed at gaming and content creators. The new controllers are the Phison PS2251-17 (U17), PS2251-18 (U18), Phison (E21T), Phison PS5018-E18 (E18), and the Phison BGA SSD-E13T (E13T).
As part of CES today, Lenovo announced the new ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 i, a unique dual display notebook, as well as the ThinkBook 13x i, ThinkBook 14p Gen 2, and ThinkBook 16p Gen 2. All of these models will have 16:10 displays, Dolby Atmos display and audio support, and WiFi 6 connectivity. They also
Today, as a part of CES, Lenovo has announced 4 new ThinkPads, as well as the ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses. The new notebooks take the form of the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, X1 Carbon, X1 Yoga, and X12 Detachable.
Today at CES 2021, an all-digital event, Kingston Technology laid out its new NVMe SSD lineup. The lineup includes a new Gen4 drive, new Gen3 drives, an external SSD, and a data center SSD. Kingston also announced and showcased its new Workflow station and readers.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NETGEAR made several business announcements for CES. Computex achieves Nutanix Cloud Champion Status. BackupAssist partners with Wasabi. SingleStore adds AWS Glue.
Today, Lenovo announced its first round of new and updated products for CES 2021. In this announcement, we have the IdeaPad 5G with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and modem, as well as next-gen AMD and Intel 14 and 16-inch laptops, carrying the “Pro” moniker. We have the Yoga AIO 7 all-in-one with a 4K 27-inch
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