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SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now offers the most extensive line of SSDs in the industry with 8, 16, and 32GB SSDs for low-density designs and 64, 128 and 256GB alternatives for the higher densities. The new 256GB SSD more than doubles the performance rates of Samsung 64GB and 128GB SSDs to become the SSD with the highest overall performance in the personal computer industry, combining sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) with sequential write rates of 200MB/s. This sharply narrows the performance gap between read and write operations to only 10 percent, compared to a read-write speed difference of between 20 and 70 percent for other SSDs. In addition, erase cycles are a rapid 100GBs per minute, allowing the entire drive to be re-written m...

It is Wacom’s turn to show off its multi-touch solution for laptop computer monitors, with a new product and specifications that explain how to make a touch screen laptop, destined to notebook computers and desktop screen manufacturers. According to the company’s description, the new solution for computer monitors and smartphones’ displays supports multiple finger input and features 100 fps speed, 0.5 mm pointing accuracy range, and a resolution of 200 ppi.