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Kingston now producing system-specific SO-DIMM memory

Kingston now producing system-specific SO-DIMM memory

Kingston is making further efforts to separate itself from other SO-DIMM makers by being about as explicit as possible to its customers straight off the shelf in terms of which memory module(s) will work best with their specific notebook.


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Kingston releases HyperX 3K SF-2281 powered Solid State Drive

Kingston releases HyperX 3K SF-2281 powered Solid State Drive

Kingston has just launched a new SSD to market under its HyperX family dubbed the HyperX 3K. Aimed at enthusiasts and gamers on a budget, the HyperX 3K is an MLC based drive using a second-gen SandForce SF-2281 controller together with a SATA 6Gb/s interface to produce impressive sequential read and write performance of up to 555MB/s and 510MB/s respectively.


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Kingston launches pocket friendly USB 3.0 card reader

Kingston launches pocket friendly USB 3.0 card reader

Memory card readers built into notebooks are generally not the fastest ones around and if you happen to own a notebook with USB 3.0 connectivity, you're definitely going to want to invest in a USB 3.0 card reader. Kingston's new MobileLite G3 USB 3.0 reader might just fit the ticket, at least as long as you only use SD or MS cards with your camera.


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Ultimate 8-core mATX Powerhouse: Xeon E5-2690, R4G, 7970DCii and more!

Ultimate 8-core mATX Powerhouse: Xeon E5-2690, R4G, 7970DCii and more!

"What if I have about US$5000 to spend - Could I have a true 8-core/16-thread CPU in a small form factor setup without compromising on storage, thermals or online gaming prowess?"

Well, we show that we can!


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Kingston expected to drop pricing on NAND flash storage products

Kingston expected to drop pricing on NAND flash storage products

With speculation that both motherboards and potentially DRAM will be increasing in price in the next few months, it looks like NAND flash based products aren't following the same trend. Kingston is said to be dropping is pricing on at least some of its NAND flash based products by as much as 15 percent.


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Kingston Shows off New HyperX Memory Modules, SSDs

Kingston Shows off New HyperX Memory Modules, SSDs

Kingston showed off some of its latest creations alongside the ongoing International CES event, in Las Vegas. Visiting journalists were shown a variety of products from Kingston's PC memory and SSD portfolios.


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Kingston Buying Up Large Volumes of Elpida, Toshiba DRAM Chips

Kingston Buying Up Large Volumes of Elpida, Toshiba DRAM Chips

The DDR3 memory industry is suffering with indigestion. Quite literally. Upstream component manufacturers, as well as vendors have jointly overproduced, and hence we're seeing unreal memory prices. DRAM chip vendors Elpida and Toshiba are two of those companies suffering with inventory digestion problem, and they could be the worst hit, given that they're both Japanese, and are part of an environment with lower room for cost-cutting (since labor costs, as well as product quality factor in higher). Kingston Technology has a pill.


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Kingston states the obvious, lower NAND price will lead to cheaper SSDs

Kingston states the obvious, lower NAND price will lead to cheaper SSDs

Sometimes technology companies really states the obvious and Kingston has now gone on record to say that it expects SSD drive adoption to take off significantly towards the second half of next year. The reason why you ask? Well, by then NAND flash is expected to have come down in cost to about US$1 per 1GB, in other words, SSDs will be cheaper than they are now which will lead to a bigger consumer uptake.


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Kingston launches its first HyperX USB 3.0 flash drive

Kingston launches its first HyperX USB 3.0 flash drive

There's no shortage of USB 3.0 flash drives by now, but disappointingly many of them offer the same kind of write performance as USB 2.0 drives, something that makes them a fairly uninteresting purchase despite the faster read speeds. Kingston has alleviated that issues with its DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 flash drive which is offering some really fast speeds, but at a cost.


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Kingston announces new wallet friendly SSDs

Kingston announces new wallet friendly SSDs

Another day, another new SSD range offering higher performance than the one announced the day before, oh, hang on, the new V200 series from Kingston isn't actually a high-end range of drives, instead Kingston has focused on good enough performance at a lower price point. The company claims that its new V200 series will offer close to twice the performance of its previous budget model, the V100, at a more attractive price point.


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Kingston To Ship HyperX SSD

Kingston To Ship HyperX SSD

Kingston will be shipping the HyperX SSD which uses the Sandforce SF-2281 controller.


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Quick Look: Kingston HyperX Plug n Play DDR3-1866 SODIMM

Quick Look: Kingston HyperX Plug n Play DDR3-1866 SODIMM

We received an interesting set of notebook memory in the mail recently. Kingston claims these HyperX Plug n Play modules will run at DDR3-1866 speed right out the box, so we decided to take them for a quick test drive...


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Kingston HyperX SO-DIMM Rams Certified for Intel XMP

Kingston HyperX SO-DIMM Rams Certified for Intel XMP

Kingston's 2133MHz HyperX SO-DIMM memory module is now Intel XMP-compatible. It is one of the fastest notebook memory modules in the market. More details inside.

 


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Kingston Reveals Wi-Drive Portable Storage for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Users

Kingston Reveals Wi-Drive Portable Storage for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Users

Kingston has another interesting product announced today and it's a storage solution known as the Wi-Drive for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod users. Due to the limited storage capacity of Apple's mobile gadgets, this portable storage solution certainly has its potential. It allows up to three Apple users to store, share and even stream content wirelessly through the Wi-Drive app available for download from the App Store. Wi-Drive will be available later this month in capacities of 16GB and 32GB for US$129.99 and US$174.99 respectively.


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Kingston Gets Serious In SSD - Launches SandForce HyperX SSDs

Kingston Gets Serious In SSD - Launches SandForce HyperX SSDs

Kingston is clearly getting more serious in the SSD business and unveils their first SandForce based HyperX series SSD today. These SSDs are using the SandForce SF-2281 SATA 6Gb/s controllers with Intel 25nm Compute NAND (5K Program Erase) and are available in 120GB and 240GB capacities. HyperX SSDs have a read throughput of 525MB/s and a write throughput of 480MB/s, 4KB random read/write speeds of up to 95K/70K IOPS.


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