Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Tab 7.0 Plus Get White Edition

Samsung's popular Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Tab 7.0 tablets will soon get an all-white edition, making them even more classy than before. These new models have popped up in Vietnam of all places and were spotted by a local website, called VN Express. As you can clearly notice from the pictures in the gallery bellow this post, not much has changed outside of the new white bezel and from what we know the specs of the Tab 10.1 and Tab 7.0 Plus have also remained unchanged. Right now, there's no telling when these two Samsung Galaxy tablets will arrive in retail, or if they will be more expensive than their black and white siblings. ...

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Fujitsu Launches ‘Girls’ Series of Phones in Japan

Japanese handset maker Fujitsu recently confirmed plans to enter on the North American smartphone market. If the company manages to launch the first product in the United States sometime this year, it will surely set itself apart from the competition.  However, Fujitsu might want to adjust its idea of smartphone for the demands of the North American users who have different needs in comparison with Japanese customers. Until then Fujitsu continues to flood' the Japanese market with handset that are aimed at different targets. The company's latest series of phone will make any girl proud. Fujitsu Japan has recently announced the upcoming availability of two new phones, which were especially designed for girls. Starting January 20, Fujitsu...

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CES 2012: EVGA SR-X Dual-Socket LGA 2011 Motherboard Showcased

Outside of its upcoming “overclockable” PSU, EVGA’s CES 2012 booth also included the long awaited SR-X dual-socket LGA 2011 motherboard, the successor of the company’s previous SR-2 LGA 1366 solution. The motherboard showcased is most probably a pre-production sample as there are still a few more months to go until the SR-X is ready to be released, but by the look of it its design seems to be nearly finalized. On the outside, the SR-X resembles a great deal its predecessor as it uses the same black/red color scheme and HPTX form factor, but the SR-X is now based on an Intel Patsburg chipset providing support for Sandy Bridge-E CPUs.  The two processor sockets are placed right next to each other and the board includes a total of 12 DDR3...

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AMD 28nm Mobile Radeon GPUs to Arrive in Q2 2012

AMD's release of the Radeon HD 7970 is only the first one in a long series of 28nm GPUs to arrive from the Sunnyvale-based chip maker, who is apparently planning to release a new series of high-end mobile graphics cores using this process technology in the second quarter of this year. The upcoming mobile GPUs will be apparently based on the company's Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and will include support for DirectX 11.1 as well as for a series of other new features. According to a slide leaked by ComputerBase.de, these include new power management capabilities, improved display features and some image enhancement technologies. The new 28nm GPUs will most probably be introduced by AMD in the Radeon HD 7000M product family which also...

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New Need for Speed and Medal of Honor Games Leaked By Retailer

UK retailer GAME has made a pretty big mistake yesterday, when one of its social media representatives posted on Twitter details about two unannounced games from Electronic Arts, in the form of a new Need for Speed racing game and a new Medal of Honor shooter. EA is always working on new games, most of them sequels to franchises it has owned for quite some time, but also on all-new titles in order to keep things fresh. Its plans were foiled yesterday, however, as a representative of store chain GAME posted on Twitter that he'd just seen a presentation from EA, in which footage from new games in the Need for Speed or Medal of Honor franchises was shown. While the confirmation isn't that big of a surprise, as EA hinted on multiple occasions...

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Changes in Windows Server 8 Beta Detailed in Leaked Screenshots

Next month, Microsoft should give us a taste of the beta release of its latest Windows platform, codenamed Windows 8.  The platform will have a server side too, and Microsoft is making the final changes to differentiate the two. The first Beta builds have been delivered to testers a few weeks ago. Compared to the Developer Preview that was made available for download back in September, the beta release of Windows Server 8 will not include functions that are meant for the client version.  Thus, Microsoft removed from it features such as Immersive PC Settings, aero cursors, wallpaper pack, Windows To Go and some other functionalities, WinUnleaked notes in a recent article.  Screenshots, that leaked from the latest internal build...

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IBM Delivers the First Racks of 20-Petaflop Sequoia Supercomputer

The first four racks of NNSA’s Sequoia supercomputer have arrived at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where they will stand at the heart of what is to become the 20 petaflops Sequoia based on IBM Blue Gene technology. In addition to its impressive number crunching capabilities, IBM also expects its system to become one of the most power-efficient supercomputers in the world, churning out no less than 2 gigaflops per watt. These advancements in energy efficiency and computing power were made possible by IBM's new PowerPC A2 processing architecture which adds 16 computing cores to each processor installed, compared to the four cores used in its previous machine, the Blue Gene/P. Together with these 16 cores dedicated to providing the...

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CES 2012: Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs Get a Mini-ITX Motherboard from Zotac

At this year's CES fair, Zotac showcased its first motherboard built around the Intel Z7 chipset, a mini-ITX contraption that is designed to bring Intel’s next-gen 22nm Ivy Bridge processors to small form factor computers. This mini-ITX board draws power from 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors and then delivers it to the CPU via a 6+1+1 phase power design that uses Dr. MOS capacitors to provide stable voltages no matter the power requirements placed on the PWM. Right under the CPU socket, Zotac has installed two full-length DIMM slots that can house up to 8GB of DDR3-1333 memory in a dual-channel configuration. The rest of the expansion options include a PCI Express x16 slot, a mini PCIe x1 slot that is populated by a WiFi 802.11 b/g/n...

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For the First Time in Decades, a New CPU Architecture Appears, UPU

There hasn't been a completely new major instruction set architecture since 1991, but this has finally changed now that ICube has released the UPU. Put simply, the UPU is a chip that has both the computing and graphics instruction handled by a single processor core. Said core bears the name of MVP (Multi-thread Virtual Pipeline) and even shares the register file. Intel, AMD and ARM have all moved towards CPUs with both computing and graphics capabilities, but the units are, in the end, still silicon dies with distinct processing and video components. MVP offers the first truly fused CPU/GPU processor core and, since it was wholly developed in China, it has no licensing obligations or dependencies on US technology. A UPU (Unified Processor...

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Microsoft Hotfix for AMD Bulldozer CPUs Tested, Brings Almost No Improvement

Hoping to get an extra performance boost from Microsoft’s Bulldozer hotfix? Don’t get your hopes up yet, as it seems like even if this does actually bring some improvements these are too small to even mention. Shortly after Microsoft made public the KB2645594 and KB2646060 Windows 7 updates, TweakPC.de has tested the hotfix using an AMD FX-8150 CPU to see what is to be gained by applying this patch. The processor was put through a series of tests including AIDA64, Twofish AES, 3DMark, Resident Evil 5 and others and found that at most the hotfix brings a 4% performance increase for this Bulldozer CPU. Some of these results can be viewed in the gallery bellow this post, and if you want to read the full review you can do so by following this...

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CES 2012: Nokia Sells More than 400 Patents to Sisvel

Sisvel, an Italian patent licensing company, has just announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show that it has acquired 47 patent families from Finnish company Nokia. In fact, the Italian company bought more than 450 patents from Nokia from which more than 350 are critical to wireless standards. These patents were considered essential by the Finnish company for different communication standards such as, GSM, UMTS/WCDMA, as well as LTE. Furthermore, Sisvel claims that a large chunk of these patents are covering technologies that are in close relation with a range of mobile communications devices and services. However, the portfolio of patents acquired from Nokia also includes video encoding optimization technologies. In addition,...

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