Innovation is always important and even if the product in question does not work for various reasons, it can be the start of something better. ADATA is undoubtedly one of those manufacturers who develop in the market based on quality and above all on different products. Your R&D department has taken up a concept that already existed and which has not succeeded in adapting it to new times and improving it, will it succeed now?
ADATA XPG VAULT gaming mouse
Let’s start by presenting the precursor of this very original idea, which was SONY, where in 1998 he released the MSAC-US5, a very particular mouse that carried a typical USB connection and which was totally different from the others by including a memory reader. on his back. Stick to a read speed of 12 Mbps per second (1.5MB / s).
Storage was based on capacities ranging from 8 to 64MB, a lot for the time, so this XPG VAULT is essentially a similar concept.
There are not too many innovations in terms of aesthetics with this ADATA mouse beyond the RGB system that it integrates, but by penetrating more into the matter with it we see that it uses a system of independent clicks and that it is a mouse for right handed users. It also incorporates rubber side mounts, side buttons and its connection is via USB-C, but as you would expect, that’s not what is really relevant on this model, but its capacity of 1. To NAND Flash which connects directly to the PC.
Your game library at your fingertips
At least that’s what the brand slipped, where when asked about the benefits of this mouse, they slipped the following:
XPG will also allow visitors to take a look at its latest product concept called XPG VAULT, a wired USB-C mouse that claims to be “your game library in the palm of your hand”. The current prototype can integrate up to 1 TB solid state memory that runs at 985MB / s and Gaming Launcher software that promises to make your game libraries comfortably portable and a higher level of gaming integration with the XPG Prime software ecosystem.
Logically, there are a lot of unknowns to be seen here, since at no point does ADATA talk about the type of NAND Flash its mouse uses and given the speeds, it could be high performance SD-Express memory. of new generation, since this standard supports up to 128 TB and the speeds are very similar thanks to a PCIe 3.0.
The way to do it is simple: the mouse would have an M.2 connector on the board to which is connected an adapter with an SD-Express card reader, as simple as that, compact, light and extremely fast as seen.
The good thing about this idea is that with just one software we will have all the libraries in the mouse wherever we go, without having to download anything to the new PC other than telling the launcher where the mouse is. game installed. The speed ensures that performance will be optimal and the interface should be considerably faster than that of a SATA 6Gb / s in terms of latency, as long as it is connected to the CPU and not to the clear chipset.
We’ll see all the details of this XPG VAULT gaming mouse at CES 2022.
