Intel to Detail 22-nm Ivy Bridge CPUs at ISSCC

At the 2012 ISSC (International Solid-State Circuits) conference, that is scheduled to take place in February of next year, Intel will disclose additional details about its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors based on the 22nm fabrication process. The talks will focus on an entry-level Ivy Bridge desktop or notebook processor which uses four IA-32 cores, a graphics-processing core, memory and a PCI Express controller, all built on the 22nm fabrication node, according to EETime’s findings. Other details about this chip were not released, but we do know that the Ivy Bridge presentation will be accompanied by another Intel talk dedicated to a low-power CPU. This will be built using the 32nm process technology and consumes just 737 mW at 1.2V while...

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Fujitsu ARROWS Kiss F-03D Android Phone Is Here for the Ladies

Fujitsu has just announced the upcoming availability of a rather unusual phone aimed at women, the Fujitsu ARROWS Kiss F-03D, which will be available in Japan beginning November 25. However, the smartphone will be exclusively available through NTT DoCoMo carrier for a price that will disclosed in due time. According to Fujitsu, the ARROWS Kiss F-03D is a “smartphone with 'gem-cut' buttons that sparkle like actual jewelry.” Aside its 3.7-inch LCD WVGA touchscreen that supports 480 x 800 pixels resolution, the smartphone is delivered with a stylus that provides users with an alternative to touch-based control. In addition, the stylus makes it easier for user to write complex Japanese characters. Even though this is a women-centric phone that...

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Intel May Release Unlocked Xeon E5 CPUs in 2012

Encouraged by the success they had with the unlocked version of the Westmere-based Xeon 5600 processors among overclocking enthusiasts, Intel is now rumored to be considering coming up with an unlocked version of the Xeon E5 too. These chips would primarily target enthusiasts who are interested in building a dual-socket LGA 2011 system based on motherboards such as EVGA’s recently announced SR-3, according to VR-Zone. Paired with two eight-core CPUs from the Xeon E5-2600 series and eight channel memory, a system based on this platform should be able to deliver almost half a teraflop of peak FP double precision power if using AVX coding. Furthermore, this would be able to deliver well over 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth while also feeding 8...

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Nvidia Tesla GPUs Power World’s Greenest Supercomputer

Nvidia has just announced that for the second year in a row, the Tsubame 2.0 system powered by Nvidia Tesla GPUs has become the most energy efficient petaflop-class supercomputer in the world according to the TOP500 list. Tsubame 2.0 is a heterogeneous supercomputer (combining both CPUs and GPUs) used to accelerate a range of scientific and industrial research in Japan. This is installed at Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Global Scientific Information Center (GSIC) and went live in 2010. According to Nvidia, the supercomputer has a sustained performance of 1.19 petaflops per second while consuming 1.2 megawatts of power, which after a simple calculation reveals that it can deliver 958 megaflops of processing power per watt of energy. This...

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HP Itanium Servers Sell Less and Less

HP may be paying Intel to keep making Itanium processors, and is supposed to keep doing so for years, but it might soon come to pass that this isn't a viable marketing tactic anymore.  For those who don't know or remember, Oracle, earlier this year (2011) said it was no longer making new software for Itanium servers. This immediately sparked outrage, especially on HP's part, leading to even lawsuits, or one of them at least. Nevertheless, despite its efforts (it even admitted it has been paying Intel to keep Itanium alive, sort of), HP isn't seeing the long end of the stick, so to speak. According to the earnings call with financial analysts, the company has been forced to cope with dwindling sales of Itanium-based servers. Mission-critical...

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iPhone 5 Display Even Denser, Developed by Sharp - Report

The same Peter Misek who earlier wrote to investors about the rumored iTV also says there will be at least one exciting new feature in Apple’s next iPhone and iPad - the display. The analyst, working with Jeffries, reportedly learned of a partnership between Sharp and Apple that resulted in modified IGZO -- or indium, gallium, zinc -- technology to reach 330 dots-per-inch screen resolution. The current Retina display in Apple’s iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S does 326 dpi/ppi (also designated 'pixels-per-inch'). The technology reportedly eliminates the need for IPS (in plane switching) technology to accommodate viewing angles, and does not require dual-bar LED backlighting, thus draining less power from the iPhone’s battery. "In our view, this should...

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Cooler Master Redesigns the CM690 II Case, Adds USB 3.0 Support

Cooler Master has just announced that it will soon out a redesigned version of its popular CM690 II case that now comes with a series of new features as well as with USB 3.0 support for connecting high speed storage devices. The case will be available in two versions, called the CM690 II Plus and the CM690 II Advanced, but both of these will share a similar set of features and are just as roomy. In fact, according to Cooler Master, the cases can house without any problems AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 graphics card, while they also come with enough space for mounting a pair of 120x240mm radiators, one at the top and one at the bottom of the case. Additionally, users can also install up to 6 internal storage devices, either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch, and...

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HIS Redesigns the Radeon HD 6770 Fan 1GB GDDR5

HIS has one of the most extensive graphics card ranges out there, but this hasn't stopped the company from periodically updating its portfolio with new solution based on AMD Radeon HD designs the latest such card to make its appearance being the Radeon HD 6770 Fan 1GB GDDR5. This new HIS creation is a slightly simpler version of the initial HD 6770 Fan that HIS outed back in April when AMD introduced this re-branded Juniper GPU in the consumer market. Aesthetically, the card doesn't differ too much from its predecessor as it uses the same black plastic shroud that covers most of its PCB, but the heatsink placed underneath has been modified to make it cheaper to produce. Gone are the two copper heatpipes that were responsible for directing...

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Corsair and AMD's FX-8150 Establish New Memory Frequency World Record

When it comes to setting world records, no processor seems to be a match for AMD's Bulldozer-based FX-8150, which was recently used by an overclocker together with a pair of Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 modules to set a new WR memory frequency of 1733.8MHz (DDR3-3467).  The record was achieved by Jake "Planet" Crimmins a renowned overclocker that is employed by Corsair to test and showcase the power of its memory solutions to other computer users. The system was built around an AMD FX-8150 processor and an Asus Crosshair V Formula motherboard, which was paired with a 2GB dual-channel Corsair Dominator GTX6 memory kit. Both the memory and the CPU were cooled with liquid nitrogen (LN2) which has a boiling point of -196°C (-321°F). As with...

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