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  • Chumby investigates Kingston microSD irregularities: Are counterfeit chips making their way into the supply chain?

    Chumby investigates Kingston microSD irregularities: Are counterfeit chips making their way into the supply chain?

    Does the name Bunnie Huang ring a bell? It might if you were around the Xbox "scene" in 2002, when people from all over the world were on Xbox hacking forums trying to figure out what made Microsoft's first console tick, so to speak. It was truly exciting—we're talking Paris in the 50s exciting. Mr. Huang has since gotten a job at Chumby, putting his technical know-how to good use and helping to create the adorable little clock-widget-thing. While in China, Mr. Huang discovered a problem with a number of Kingston-branded microSD cards that were to be used in Chumby production. The problem was that they were counterfeit, or "irregular" in the measured parlance of the blog post.

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  • This new Kingston 16GB microSDHC card is fast, really fast

    This new Kingston 16GB microSDHC card is fast, really fast

    MicroSDHC might soon be able to play with the big boys. This Kingston model is the first Class 10 microSDHC memory card and has a minimum data transfer rate of 10MB/sec. That's over twice as fast as the current Class 4 standard with its 4MB/sec speed. Too bad these cards are more than three times the cost of Class 4 16GB cards right now.

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  • Kingston starts shipping SSDNow V+

    Kingston starts shipping SSDNow V+

    Boasting blistering read and write IOPS speeds, Kingston has just announced that the latest SSDNow drives, V+, are now shipping. Ranging from 64GB up to 256GB, the V+ drives have claimed read and writes speeds of 220MB/s and 180MB/s, respectively. The 2.5-inch drives are priced as follows for the 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models: $254, [...]

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