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.

There’s a backup button for one click backup of your components.and the connectivity is made either through FireWire 400 or USB 2.0 .It supports Windows 98/XP and Mac OSX 10.4.8+ .

Other sizes in which it is available are 160 GB , 250 GB and 400 GB. with 8 MB cache for capacities except 400 and 500 GB.They are having 16 MB cache.

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.

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.

Buffalo’s drive is estimated to be priced at ¥47,000 ~£206 for the internal drive.While the I-O Data’s [tag]SATA[/tag] drive is ¥63,500 ~ £279.Availability outside Japan isn’t yet confirmed .

HD DVD/Blu-ray dual format drive on sale now

[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.

• Logitech® Cordless Desktop Wave , which’s the cordless range and has a cordless high performance Laser [tag]mouse[/tag] with soft rubber grips is bundled with it as well.Its priced at $89.

Both products are [tag]Windows[/tag] and [tag]Mac[/tag] OSX compatible.They even have Windows Vista Certification.

Logitech® Wave Keyboard & Logitech® Cordless Desktop Wave