Hynix today unveiled a new upgrade to its flash memory that it hopes will dramatically improve the capacity of portable media players and other flash-bound devices. The company’s version of three-bits-per-cell technology lets the company stack data to offer as much as 32 gigabytes of data into a tighter space. Despite the capacity jump, the 32GB chip occupies 30 percent less area than a more typical two-bits-per-cell flash chip, the company says. The space would allow a single chip to hold as many as 8,000 average-size MP3 tracks.

TDK Corp launched the “HS1″ series, a line of 1.8-inch solid state disks (SSD) with the Micro SATA interface, targeting notebook computers and industrial devices.The drives are available in 16, 32 and 64GB capacities, and use single-level cell NAND flash memory. Prototype versions of the HS1 drives were first shown at CEATEC in 2007, and TDK says are now ready for use in industrial devices. The HS1 drives are rated at 100MBps reading and 50MBps writing burst speeds thanks to a four-channel bus between the controller LSI and NAND memory. The write speeds are similar to those of HDDs partly because TDK used wear-levelling, which averages out the number of rewrite operations over each cell, to help promote longevity.

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Here is a new graphic card for those who want the advantage of dual-stream Picture-in-Picture (PiP) 1080p Blu-ray Disc playback with the latest DirectX 10.1/OpenGL 2.1 unified shader architecture. The S3 Graphics Chrome 400 GTX adopts the latest GDDR3 memory for optimised memory bandwidth and native HDMI connectivity for the latest digital displays. The company also claims that this graphic card outperforms the current market leader (ATI’s Radeon HD 3470) in its class by over 15% in 3D benchmarks and rendered frames-per-second in the most popular DX10 and DX9 games. The video card retails at just $69 (£35

Biostar today introduced the successor to the P35 motherboard by releasing the new P45 series. This motherboard comes with a faster Front Side Bus (FSB), an easy setup for both Crossfire and SLI configurations and support for faster memory. There are also six SATA connectors and 10 USB ports. No word on pricing so far

Asus P5Q motherboard has been released. The new motherboard adopts a Linux-based Express Gate technology which is a simplified operating system that allows you to load up only the required programs that are needed to access the Internet. Other features include an integrated EPU energy saving chip which is the VRM (voltage regulation module) that takes advantage of a 16-phase power design. There is no word on pricing or availability of the P5Q series motherboards.

Via Electronista