AMD Postpones the Radeon HD 7000 Launch to 2012 Says Rumor Mill

AMD may be forced to postpone the launch of the next-generation Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards to 2012, says a series of rumors that have recently hit the Web and which blame the problems TSMC has with its 28nm chip fabrication node. AMD has promised time and time again that the Radeon HD 7000 series will arrive by the end of this year, but rumors regarding the delay of these GPUs started circulating since mid-September. Much like this latest Hardcore Hardware report, the previous rumors also blamed TSMC's low 28nm yields for the delay, as well as the foundry's limited wafer production capacity for this node. The large die size and complex design of the HD 7000-series GPUs is also a problem for TSMC, so it had focused its attention on building...

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AMD Is Already Testing the First Trinity APU Samples

A series of processors from AMD's upcoming Trinity APU series were just spotted online in a benchmark database suggesting that the Sunnyvale-based chip maker has already started testing these CPUs and may have even sent them to its partners. Results of tests run using these processors were added to the OpenBenchmarking.org database and included not just the names and clock speeds of the APUs, but also information regarding their performance. All these details however have been removed from the database by the Phoronix Test Suite author “to save these engineers on too much embarrassment or trouble.” Despite this measure, Phoronix has however disclosed a few basic info about the chips. These are actually four in number and all are Engineering...

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Taking Photos on Nokia N9 and Sharing Them Is Easy

Nokia's MeeGo-based N9 has a lot to offer to its users, and the Finnish handset vendor is keen on showing to the world what the device is capable of.  We already had a look a video that explained the manner in which users could connect to the Internet from their MeeGo devices, and a new one is available for your viewing pleasure, showing you how to take a photo on N9 and then share it on the Internet.  Today, users are connected with their social networking accounts almost at all times, being capable of easily sharing various content is one of the features they praise the most.  Nokia N9 does come with fast access to the Internet, as well as to social networking sites, such as Facebook, and this is what the video above will show yo...

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8GHz Not Hard to Reach with AMD FX-8150 Says Overclocker

Expected to arrive in just a few hours from now, AMD's upcoming FX-Series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture seem to feature an impressive overclocking potential according to an enthusiast who recently stated that 8GHz is easy to reach using the upcoming FX-8150 CPU. “8GHz on 990FXA-UD7, not hard to reach without cherry pick CPU, LN2 Cooled -192°C,” said Hicookie, Gigabyte's in-house overclocker, who also helped the company develop the X58A-OC motherboard. Of course that “not hard to reach” for an extreme enthusiast such as Hicookie doesn't mean the same as for the rest of us, since as one can clearly see the AMD processor was actually cooled using liquid nitrogen which has a boiling point of -192°C. This sort of cooling was required...

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First iPhone 4S Gets Delivered to Germany - Pictures

Germany appears to be the place where the first lucky iPhone 4S buyer lives, though no one can be sure others didn’t already receive one but failed to take the pictures and upload them to the web. 9to5 reveals that while Germany is proud to have unboxed the first customer-ordered iPhone 4S with pictures, Italy is even a more exciting place to be if you like the technicalities behind the glass plates of the new iPhone. A tech-site from pizza-land has compared the 'spare parts' from an iPhone 4S with the hardware of its predecessor (the iPhone 4), and found quite a few differences. Screw placement is different, the proximity sensor has an additional part and it’s also placed differently, better glass covering the camera, harder glass on the back,...

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Revolutionary Supercomputer 'Titan' Makes Liberal Use of NVIDIA Tesla

While it is busy promoting consumer graphics, NVIDIA has also snared a deal on the supercomputing front, where it has sealed a contract through which the “Titan” will use its Tesla accelerators. GPU computing modules have gained a role in supercomputing thanks to their immense parallel processing capabilities.  NVIDIA's series of such products bears the name of Tesla, of which the Tesla M2090 will be used for the upgrade of the Jaguar. Based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), this supercomputer, which was once at the front of the Top500 list, will be upgraded with 960 such GPUs as part of the first phase of creating the Titan. The ultimate goal is to enable peak performance of more than 20 petaflops, two times faster than...

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Intel Prepares New Sandy Bridge ULV Celeron Processors

In the first quarter of next year, Intel will expand its product portfolio with two new Celeron processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture that are targeting ultra-low power and ultra-thin computers as they feature an ULV design. Intel has designed the first one of these chips, the Celeron 867, so that it would replace the previous Celeron 857, built around the same Sandy Bridge architecture and introduced in the third quarter of this year. Just like its predecessor, the new Intel CPU sports two computing cores, which this time are clocked at 1.3GHz, but it also includes an on-board dual-channel DDR3-1333 memory controller and an integrated GPU. This has a base frequency of 350MHz and a maximum Turbo clock speed of 1GHz, but it supports...

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Android Apps Can Run on Desktop PCs Now

The Android Market was already available for access from desktop PCs, and, starting today, applications developed for Google's Android platform are also available for these computers, courtesy of the new BlueStacks App Player for Windows PC. Android is becoming the leading mobile operating system on the market at a fast pace, with about half of the users who purchased a smartphone in the past three months said to have chosen an Android device.  The number of applications and games available for these users is also on the rise, with over a quarter of a million already confirmed by Google themselves. Starting today, these apps and games are available for both Android and non-Android users as well.  Not all people out there have an Android...

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BlackBerry Network Still Down - 10/11/2011

As originally reported yesterday, BlackBerry users have been hit hard by an outage that initially affected Europe, Middle East and Africa. We have received hundreds of reports from unhappy BlackBerry users who were unable to use BBM, email accounts, Internet, or any other application that requires data connection, including Facebook, Twitter and App World. Research in Motion stated that the problem only affects EMEA countries, it appears that the outage spread and is now affecting both Americas, as well. Fortunately, it appears that the services are coming back up in some regions, as some users already reported full restoration of BlackBerry services. At 6AM UTC BlackBerry services were fully restored in Romania (Orange), Netherlands, and UK...

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AMD FX-8150 Processor Gets Previewed and Benchmarked

Just a few more days are left until AMD will make official its highly anticipated FX-Series of desktop processors, and the company's flagship CPU based on the Bulldozer architecture, the FX-8150, was just put through a series of extensive benchmarks that compare its performance with that of the Core i7-2600K. The FX-8150 is the most powerful of the three FX-Series processors AMD plans to launch and it includes four Bullodzer modules for a total of eight processing cores. These are paired together with 8MB of Level 3 cache as well as with 8MB of L2 cache memory and the CPU also packs a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller supporting speeds up to 1866MHz. AMD has set the base clock speed of the FX-8150 at 3.6GHz, but when less than half of the...

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Intel Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Launch Schedule Unveiled

At this year's IDF conference, Intel made public the fact that it has delayed the arrival of its first Xeon E5 server processors, but nobody back then knew when these CPUs will arrive. A recent report however has managed to uncover the chip maker's plans regarding this new series of CPUs. Previously, the Xeon E5 product families were scheduled for a Q4 2011 release, but CPU World has find out that Intel's current roadmaps place the launch of these chips in the second Q1 of 2012. Just as their naming scheme implies, Xeon E5-1600 CPUs are to be installed in uni-processor machines while products in the Xeon E5-2600 range support dual-socket configurations.  Despite this difference, both of these Xeon CPU series will be compatible with Intel's...

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AMD FX-Series Water Cooler Gets Pictured

There have been a lot of rumors going around lately about AMD's and Intel's plans to bundle their upcoming high-performance processors with water cooling kits, and recently such an AMD FX-Series CPU was spotted by a Chinese publication. The retail box pictured on the XFastest website is clearly marked as belonging to the FX-Series and on its back AMD has mentioned that it includes not only a CPU, but a liquid processor cooling system as well. Opening the box, one gets to see that the cooler bundled with the Bulldozer CPU is almost an exact replica of the Antec H20 920, which was launched earlier this year. This is understandable considering that both solutions were actually developed by Asetek, which is well renowned for its high-quality closed...

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Intel Plans Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 CPUs for 2012 Release

Together with the consumer version of the Ivy Bridge processors, Intel will also release a series of Xeon E3 chips that will be based on this 22nm architecture, which are expected to launch at about the same time as their desktop counterparts. The Ivy Bridge Xeon processors will make part of the Carlow platform that will also include the C216 chipset, also known under the code name of Panther Point. The upcoming Xeon E3-1200 v2 CPUs will utilize the same LGA 1155 socket as the current Sandy Bridge-based server chips, but for now the specs of the processors are still unknown. Intel's Ivy Bridge processors are a die 22nm shrink of the Sandy Bridge chips and feature the same architecture which will receive a series of improvements. In the consumer...

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A Quick Look Behind the Symbian Belle OS

Nokia has already unveiled to the world their latest flavor of Symbian, called Symbian Belle, and also unveiled the series of features and enhancements it is set to bring along.  However, the same as with any mobile OS out there, there are things that are not visible when one uses a handset running under a specific mobile OS or another, and the video above is meant to present some of these things that are connected to Symbian Belle.  What you will see in the short clip includes interviews with the designers behind the new mobile platform.  They will explain the vision, observations, learnings and processes involved in the creation of the user experience that Symbian Belle has to offer.  We all know that Symbian does not have too long to live, and Belle is one of the latest...

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Windows 8 OpenXPS, the Latest PDF Killer

Only time will tell whether OpenXPS will succeed where the plain vanilla XPS document format has failed, namely to erode the domination of Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF).  The Open XML Paper Specification, or OpenXPS for short, is a new document file format supported in Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3).  I think it’s rather safe to assume that the RTM Build of Windows 8, or whatever it will be called after the platform goes gold, will also play nice by default with OpenXPS.  “OpenXPS is the XML Paper Specification document format based on the European Carton Makers Association (ECMA) standard specification. This specification, “ECMA 388 – Open XML Paper Specification,” was published in June 2009,” Microsoft reveals.  Long story short, at the...

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New Nokia 800 Promo Materials Emerge

One of the first handsets that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will bring to the market with the new Windows Phone operating system on board is the Nokia 800, which has been spotted into the wild before, and which has just emerged in a series of newly leaked promo materials.  Apparently, this is the same Nokia SeaRay smartphone that the handset vendor showed to the world a few months ago, and which also made an appearance recently at Orange France as the Nokia Sun.  Rumor has it that Nokia plans on marketing the new device as the Nokia 800 in most markets, but that it might also choose another name for it in certain countries around the world.  However, since there might be more than just one handset included in the initial...

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