It’s really hard to make a smartphone that stands out these days. Most Android phone makers are working with the same processors, cameras, and display technology available to their competitors. Sometimes we see a company try something really weird in an effort to break through the noise. Sometimes we see that same company exit the smartphone […]
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XFM memory spec paves the way for small, speedy removable storage
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has introduced a new data storage specification that could bring super-speedy, removable storage to compact devices that have typically had storage soldered to the mainboard until now. XFM Embedded and Removable Memory Devices provide an NVMe over PCI Express interface in a smaller, thinner form factor than the M.2 […]
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Lilbits: Xiaomi’s telescopic smartphone camera, Purism’s Linux phone that’s also a PC
In order to keep smartphones thin while still offering versatile camera features, smartphone makers have largely taken the same approach in recent years – instead of using cameras with lots of moving parts, throw a bunch of different stationary cameras on a phone. That way you can have different focal lengths to mimic the kind […]
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Hacker makes the Raspberry Pi 4’s PCIe interface usable (sort of)
The Raspberry Pi 4 is the most powerful Raspberry Pi computer to date, and the first to support up to 4GB of RAM. It’s also the first to support USB 3.0 — and the chip that controls USB is connected to a PCI Express interface. But that doesn’t mean you can attach peripherals directly to […]
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Next-gen SD cards to support up to 128TB of storage, 985 MB/s speeds
The SD Association has revealed a few major updates that could bring faster, higher capacity SD cards. The new SD 7.0 specification includes new technologies that will enable support for SD cards with up to 128TB of storage and data transfer speeds as high as 985 megabytes per second. Right now the theoretical maximum amount […]
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WD demos SD card with 880MB/s speed, PCIe x1 interface
Western Digital is showing off an SD card at Mobile World Congress that’s faster than many SSDs. It can handle sequential read speeds up to 880 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 430 MB/s. The only catch is that your PC, phone, or tablet probably can’t use it… and that’s unlikely to change anytime […]
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Samsung NC10 hack: Adding an extra PCIe slot
Want to add a Broadcom CrystalHD Video accelerator or another module that comes on a mini PCIe card to your netbook? While a handful of netbooks have unused PCIe slots hanging out on the motherboards, many use the only available space for the wireless card. And then there’s the Samsung NC10. SammyNetbook forum member graemem […]
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Netbooks with PCIe expansion slots
One of the questions I get asked every now and again is why the Liliputing Product Database doesn’t show which netbooks have open mini PCI Express slots. The short answer is because this information can be rather difficult to come by unless you open up the netbook or get your hands on a detailed service […]
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Could NVIDIA offer ION 2 as a netbook upgrade on a PCIe card?
Theres a rumor going around that NVIDIA’s next-generation ION platform could be available on a PCI Express card. French netbook blogger Pierre Lecourt reports that while he hasn’t seen any confirmation, he’s heard from several sources that NVIDIA will be taking a PCIe approach for the ION chipset in the future. And I have to […]
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Super Talent launches Dell Inspiron Mini 9 SSD upgrades
super tYesterday Active Media released 2 new SSDs designed for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Now it’s Super Talent’s turn. The company launched a half mini PCIe solid state disk and a double wide half mini PCIe. The half mini model will be available either as an MLC disk with 16GB to 32Gb of storage […]