Intel Plans 22nm 8-Core Atom CPU for 2013 Launch Says Report

Even though some of you may be quick to write off Intel's low-power Atom processors, the chip maker apparently still has plans for this architecture as recent reports suggest 2013 will mark the introduction of a new eight-core Atom processor. According to information received by Semi Accurate, the chip will be called Avadon or Abadon and will be built using the 22nm fabrication process. Information about the architecture used in these processors is scarce at this point in time, but it appears that it will use a 2 pipe, “mildly” out-of-order design with 25% better performance than that of the current Pine Trail platform. The first Intel Atom processors to use this architecture should make their appearance in late 2013, at about the same time...

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DotA Guide: Dirge - Undying Introduction

DotA is the most popular custom made map for Warcraft III. To allow players a better understanding of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide. Even if it's considered to be a Strength hero, Dirge has lots of Intelligence attributes. He is not a solo hero and will rely on his team even from the start. In late game he can become a real killer. You can recruit him from the Scourge Strength Tavern. Let's learn how this hero got his powers: "Considered to be an exceptionally filthy and despicable specimen by all who encounter him, including his fellow zombies, Dirge has wandered in from the wastes outside to serve the Lich King in hopes of finally obtaining a place of acceptance amongst the Undead masses. While he is...

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Upcoming 16-Core AMD CPU Already Chosen by Supercomputers

AMD made an official announcement in which it reveals that both existing and upcoming processors are being used in high-performance computing applications. Since HPC applications, supercomputers as it were, have become the core of any and all research efforts, AMD, naturally, wants to get contracts for as many as possible. Its latest press release says that this goal was achieved in at least some measure. HECToR is one of the supercomputers based on AMD chips, Operated by the University of Edinburgh, UK, and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Another is CSCS, Located in Manno, Switzerland, as is NAMEM (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) and HLRS, the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). These,...

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AMD Fusion APU Powered HPC Cluster Built by Penguin Computing

HPC system expert Penguin Computing has just announced that the company has finalized the installation of the world's first HPC cluster powered by AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The system is comprised out of 104 servers that are interconnected through a QDR InfiniBand fabric capable of delivering a peak performance of 59.6 TFLOPs. At the heart of the HPC cluster stands Penguin's new Altus 2A00 compute platform that relies on consumer AMD Fusion APUs based on the Llano architecture. As many of you know, AMD's Llano chips include two or four x86 computing cores, Radeon HD graphics cores with a maximum of 400 stream processors as well as a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller and...

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Noctua Outs Special Edition NH-D14 for Intel LGA 2011 CPUs

Cooling specialist Noctua has just announced that the company will soon introduce a special version of its popular high-performance NH-D14 CPU cooler which will include out-of-the-box support for Intel's upcoming processors using the LGA 2011 platform. The new SE2011 version will be shipped together with the company's SecuFirm2 mounting system that Noctua is currently delivering free of charge to its clients who have purchased a Noctua cooler since 2005 and who also plan to get an LGA 2011 board or CPU. In addition to the new mounting system, the NH-D14 SE2011 is also bundled together with the new PWM controlled versions of the NF-P12 and NF-P14 fans. According to the company, these use a custom designed NE-FD1 PWM integrated controller...

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Upcoming Features of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is taking place these days (October 31st - November 4th) in Orlando, Florida, USA. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is scheduled for release on April 26th, 2012. As you know, Ubuntu 12.04 will be a 5-year LTS (Long Term Support) release, therefore we believe that the following features should be present in the final release: Linux kernel 3.1; UEFI Linux Kernel support; X.Org Server 1.11; Mesa 7.12; DDX Drivers; Wayland; Enhanced DKMS; PackageKit integration; systemd integration; Nokia Qt 5; Xen 4 support; Old Mesa 7.11 drivers; Optional initrd images; U1DB synchronized database system for Ubuntu One; ARM A15 QEMU/KVM support. Also, don't miss Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at UDS-P, were he says...

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Ice Cream Sandwich Brings Hardware Acceleration, Faster Apps

Applications running on devices based on the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system should be both faster and better looking than before, Google says.  This is due to the fact that Google packed the new Android release with hardware accelerated graphics, something that was announced ever since Android 3.0 Honeycomb arrived on the first tablet PCs out there. Starting with Android 4.0, hardware acceleration will be on by default for all of the applications that have been installed on the device, which results in a far better experience for all users. “Earlier this year, Android 3.0 launched with a new 2D rendering pipeline designed to support hardware acceleration on tablets. With this new pipeline, all drawing operations...

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Ubuntu and HP Will Power ARM Data Centers

After yesterday's announcement of HP's Project Moonshot, a programme that will accelerate the use of ARM low-power CPUs in data centers, Canonical also announced today that it will be involved in the Moonshot project. HP's announcement includes the launch of the Redstone development platform which harnesses low-power CPUs (both x86 and ARM), the Pathfinder partnership programme, and the HP Discovery laboratory in Houston. Canonical has just released the first Ubuntu Server for ARM edition, along with the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) release, and the company thinks that Ubuntu is the perfect choice for big data, web and cloud infrastructure workloads. Not to mention that movies, such as Avatar, were rendered on Ubuntu. The Apache Hadoop...

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VIA Enters New Fanless Dual Core Mainboard with USB 3.0 Support

VIA Technologies has just announced the introduction of a new Em-ITX form factor motherboard, dubbed the VIA EITX-3002, which comes configured with the company's latest dual-core processors as well as with USB 3.0 connectivity. Users have the option of choosing between two board revision, one PACKING a 1.2GHz VIA Nano X2 E-Series processor, while the the other comes with a low-voltage 1.0GHz VIA Eden X2 CPU. Both of these include two processing cores and are paired with the company's VX900H media system hub sporting hardware acceleration support for various HD video formats, including MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1, WMV9 and HDCP for Blu-ray content. The EITX-3002 mainboard also sports support for up to 4GB of system memory via a single SO-DIMM socket...

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Asus Transformer Prime May Be Available in Both Gold and Silver

There isn't that much time left until the Transformer Prime tablet will be officially launched by Asus, so it isn't at all surprising to see that some details about this tablet have already started to show up in a series of leaks. The latest of these come from a Taiwanese e-tailer which has listed the Transformer Prime on its online store revealing that the tablet will be available in at least two colorways, Gold and Silver. We have already seen the Silver edition of the Prime being showcased by Asus' chairman Jonney Shih at the AsiaD conference and also other more recent photos, but this is the first time we hear about a Gold version being in the works. One should however take this latest info with a bit of salt, as the Transformer Prime...

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BlackBerry Bold 9790 Emerges in New Photos

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is expected to bring to the market in the not-too-distant future a new BlackBerry device in the popular Bold series, one that would sport the name of Bold 9790, and which can be admired now in a new leaked photo. This is not the first time the smartphone makes an appearance into the wild, and the new leaked seems set to confirm that RIM is indeed set to launch the device soon. Rumors has it that it will be a smaller handset when compared to the new Bold 9900 smartphone, but that it will pack similar specs and features, and that it will be similarly powerful. BlackBerry Bold 9790 is expected to become available for purchase before the end of November, or at least to make an official appearance...

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