Thursday, September 23, 2010

IT News HeadLines (AnandTech) 22/09/2010


AnandTech
GTC 2010 Day 1: NVIDIA Announces Future GPU Families for 2011 And 2013

We’re currently down in San Jose, California covering NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference. While we're only covering the final 2 days of the conference, on Tuesday NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the company's next two GPUs: Kepler and Maxwell. Due in late 2011 and 2013 respectively, these will be the next GPU families for the company and will be their major 28nm and 22nm products. At this point NVIDIA isn't telling us more more than the name and the expected double precision floating point performance, but it's certainly a start. Read on for more information.

 

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HP Mini 5102: This Netbook Means Business
We’ve seen more than our fair share of Pine Trail netbooks since their launch late last year. Performance has never been spectacular, but battery life and portability have been strong points. Today we’ve got a look at HP’s Mini 5102, which marks a couple of firsts for our Atom reviews. Not only is this the first “business” netbook we’ve reviewed, but it’s also our first look at what Broadcom’s Crystal HD decoder can do for Atom. Read on to see how HP’s latest compares to the competition.

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AMD's Fall Refresh: New Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs Balance Price and Performance
I don’t know the last time I was this excited about AMD’s roadmap. Zacate and Ontario are due out in a quarter, and both promise to bring competition to an area where we haven’t seen much from AMD.
Llano is slated for release near the end of Q2 next year. While it won’t be a big step forward in CPU performance, we should see a huge increase in integrated graphics performance.
Sampling in Q4 of this year and shipping sometime next year is AMD’s next-generation microarchitecture: Bulldozer.
Within the course of twelve months we will see AMD introduce three drastically different microprocessors into the market’s eager hands. We’ve been dying for more competition and AMD is planning on giving us just that. But that's the future, what about the present?
Today AMD announced speed bumps to nearly every processor in its desktop lineup. Everything from the dual-core Athlon II to the six-core Phenom II gets a new family member today. And they’re all very attractively priced.

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RIM Tablet to Sport New OS, Droid X Gets Froyo
BlackPad set for Q4 launch with totally revamped operating system
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UPDATED: Benchmark: iPhone 4 HTML5 Performance is Far From "Magical"
iPhone 4's HTML5 looks pathetic versus Android, even worse against Flash 10.1
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U.S. Military Device Will Use Water to Disarm Bombs
"Stingray" Being Sent To Troops in Afghanistan.
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Newly Discovered Spider Builds Largest, Toughest Webs in The World
Caerostris darwini uses a silk twice as elastic as other web-weaving spiders
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Nokia Exec: Smartphone Makers Using Android is Like Peeing Your Pants to Stay Warm
Exiting Nokia exec guns for Android
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Zune Expands to Other Countries and Debuts Multiscreen Service
Zune content will play on windows Phone 7, Zune, PC, and Xbox 360
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AMD Unveils Speedier CPU Lineup, Bumps Older Models Down in Price
Chipmaker delivers a 100 MHz bump to almost all of its lineup, its third refresh of the year for some models
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