Tech Link (Industry): A Tour Of The Kingston Memory Factory In Taiwan

THG have a "photo" story up and running about their trip to Kingston. I think they are pretty good and interesting, go check 'em out if it's yer thing...


Source:THG

Tech Link (Storage): Intel's X25-V & Kingston's 30GB SSDNow V Series: Battle of the $125 SSDs

It seems the headmaster guru leader tophonch Anand has an inside info about the deal between Intel and Kingston, but hey I suggest skip that part of "unvalidated" information and instead, focus on the article benchmark results. Check out the latest value SSD (which is my latest craze) review from AMDTech.

The story goes like this: Intel let Kingston build a value version of its X25-M G2 drives. This became the 40GB Kingston V Series Boot Drive. When Intel added TRIM support to the G2 drives, Kingston was told to wait. Kingston would get TRIM support when Intel launched its own 40GB version of the G2. Here’s where things get hairy. Intel and Kingston couldn’t work out terms for the TRIM enabled firmware on the V Series Boot Drives. Intel wanted too much money and Kingston wanted to keep the drive price below $100. The outcome? Kingston V Series Boot Drive owners never got official TRIM support and the product was dropped altogether.

Source:AMDtech

Article: Kingston® KVR533D2N4K2/1G Dual Channel Kit Value RAM (Affordable Overclocker's RAM?)

Kingston* is one of the leading and world reknowned memory manufacturer. While they have many OEM memory, they are also now a known within the Enthusiast community, specially their infamous HyperX memory. On top of this market segment, Kingston* is also manufacturing many retail memory for the end users, and targetted at the value segment. It is in this segment that this review will be focusing on, but don't get frustrated, in this review, overclockability will also be explored. Click here to check the review or expand for more.

The Kingston® KVR533D2N4K2/1G Dual Channel Kit ValuRAM is a kit of two(2) with 64M x 64bit (512MB) DDR2 running on 533MHz with CL4 timing. The total kit capacity is 1GB (2x512MB) and the components on each module include eight(8) 64M x 8bit (16M x 8bit x 4 Bank) DDR2-533MHz SDRAM in FBGA packge, and requires 1.8v to operate properly.

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