While Intel is busy unveiling their Silverthorne range of Low power processors designed mainly for UMPC’s in the ISSCC , they are also taking care of the High end Mobile platform processors.Intel is now getting ready to launch the X9000 Core 2 Extreme Edition Mobile Processor by this February end.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme Edition Processor is designed on the 45 nm architecture while the current fastest Extreme processor is based on 65 nm architecture.Intel is promising a certain performance increase than the baseline processor.Intel has optimised performance with HD related media on this processor by using Intel® HD Boost technology.

The X9000 is having a 6 MB shared L2 Cache and is running its FSB at 800 MHz.

Intel , Worlds largest commercial microprocessor manufacturer & now having a successful market sales by the help of their Penryn series will be unveiling their new , smallest and the lowest power consuming x86 based chip at the International Solid State Circuits Conference which will be held at San Francisco later this week.

The new Silverthorne based processor made in 45 nm architecture can crank up to 2Ghz clock speed with only 2 Watts of power,making it ideal for running UMPC’s with Windows Vista running on them.Its actual power consumption will be even smaller than that because of active power management.So it can work on power as low as 600 milliwatts.

The device in fact is much similar to the Pentium range.The 25 mm chip can go into a new power management state , C6 deep sleep state in less than 100 microseconds and can come  alive from it in around the same time.Its having a 533 MHz FSB and an optional much more energy efficient CMOS mode.

Though the Silverthorne processor is one of the lowest power consuming Commercial processor chip, there are other Microprocessors which consume lower power than that and to Intel’s dismay they will be unveiled at the same venue.The other processors include a cellular chip from Texas Instruments which has a 840-MHz ARM11 to run applications, a 480-MHz TI C55x DSP core to handle 2G and 3G baseband communications, and a 240-MHz image processor.and it just consumes 500mW at peak operation and normally operates between 100 and 250mW.

Western Digital’s 400 GB external premium edition hard drive one huge drive actually.Its compact and at the same time having large capacity.With dimension of 6.8 x 5.6 x 2.2 inches , its one of the compact external drives that you can lay your hands-on.Western Digital named it Mybook because of its compactness.

Toshiba upped the capacity of their 1.8 inch drives to 160 GB.The 160 GB HDD runs @ 3600 rpm.

The drive’s 8mm thick and is a dual platter model with two 80 GB platters.The seek time of this Drive averages at 15 milliseconds.

Dual Format drives are the optimal solution for the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray that has ben taking place for sometime now.Buffalo and I-O Data have announced their new Dual format drives which can playback both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

Buffalo’s Super Multi Blue drive is available in [tag]USB[/tag] 2.0 external and Internal Flavors with writing speed of 2X on BD-RE and 4X on BD-R, the Multi Blue Drive however doesn’t offer writing capability of HD-DVD but can play them.The Multi drive can burn CD’s and DVD’s as well.

Logitech unveiled their latest gizmo which is ultra curvy.The new ergonomically designed Wave range of [tag]Keyboard[/tag]s are so pretty.The uniform sized keys are aligned in a wavy pattern which conforms to the natural positioning of hands.Another nice feature of this [tag]gadget[/tag] is its cushioned Hand-rest which will certainly ease the tiredness of your hands.

[tag]Logitech[/tag] has released two models of wave keyboards:

• Logitech® Wave Keyboard , which has the curvy Wave Range Keyboard only.Its priced at $49.