AMD Trinity Doing Much Better than Llano

Those that might not really understand why exactly is Trinity doing much better than Llano, should only remember that AMD now rules 43% of the low to mid-end PC market with its Brazos and Llano platforms. AMD's Corporate Vice President of Desktop Product Line, Ms. Leslie Sobon has admitted to Fudzilla.com that Llano was a troublesome and delayed part, but now the company is executing much better with Trinity, Fudzilla reports. The reality is that if the “troublesome and delayed” Llano along with the 40nm Brazos got AMD 43% of the market while not having a single top-performing x86 model, Trinity will normally do much better. Sure the company has not significantly upgraded Brazos, but it doesn’t need to as Atom’s competition...

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DeepCool NEPTWIN Dual-Fan Cooler

DeepCool has just launched yet another cooling solution and this one offers complete compatibility with most of AMD and Intel’s sockets and also comes bundled with two large 120-millimeter fans. The new cooling solution from DeepCool is officially called Neptwin and it comes with six U-shaped heatpipes that have a 6-millimeter diameter each. We’re still wondering why cooler makers aren’t moving their designs towards 8-millimeter heatpipes, but it seems that such a move will not affect the mainstream too soon. The copper base is mirror polished and the whole thing weighs in at an impressive 1109 grams (2.44 pounds). The DeepCool Neptwin cooling solution is compatible with AMD’s FM1, AM3+, AM3, AM2+ and AM2 sockets and...

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Most Tablet Makers Unimpressed with Intel Clover Trail

Intel’s Atom architecture took the computing market by surprise with its incredibly low power consumption, but also the unbelievably low performance. Now it seems that tablet makers have taken a good look at the way netbooks evolved and are apparently steering clear of Atom. During this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California, Intel reportedly touted “over 20 tablet design wins” with their Atom processors, and while this is a good number to start, we’d ask Intel if this is all it was able to get. Back when Nvidia was talking about Kepler, the company was bragging about “more than 300 design wins” and having a discrete GPU in a laptop is adding an extra cost as the same device could work just fine with an iGPU from AMD...

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Nokia Details Windows Phone 7.8 Features for Lumia Users

Nokia has already unveiled to the world its first smartphones running under Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform, and it is currently preparing them for launch. At the same time, the company is working on providing existing Lumia users with a new OS upgrade, none other than the Windows Phone 7.8 platform that Microsoft has announced back in June. According to Nokia, existing devices will benefit not only from an updated interface, just as Microsoft promised, but also from a series of other enhancements, such as new features and applications. “In short, there is everything that you currently love about your Lumia, plus new developments coming in the future to help ensure that your Lumia experience will remain the...

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MSI GTX 660 TwinFrozr III Video Cards

Reports oing to happen next week, right after Apple’s iPhone 5 presentation, but it seems MSI decided it couldn’t wait for the official schedule anymore. The company has apparently put out the official press release for its new MSI GeForce GTX 660 TwinFrozr III graphics cards and the toys are reportedly already available at several online outlets. The card is a whole lot cooler than the reference design as MSI touts a 19 degree Celsius lower working temperature and the cooling system is also 12.9 decibels quieter. MSI’s card comes with an impressive factory overclock as the GPU works at 1098 MHz base frequency, but unfortunately the memory is set at the standard 6008 MHz. Online pricing ranges between 221 EUR and $280,...

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Intel Top-Performing Haswell Coming in Late 2013

It seems that the big message to take home from this year’s IDF event in San Francisco is that the new architecture is power-efficiency oriented and there was practically no emphasis on performance. Not even the impressive new iGPU is allowed to truly shine and display its peromance. Intel is keeping the TDP specifications very tight and therefore the new GT3 iGPU can’t run at the same high frequencies as the HD4000 does today. We already detailed these aspects, but it seems that Intel is not at all interested in the performance competition and thus the top-performing Haswell CPUs will only enter the market in late 2013, VR-Zone reports. Most industry insiders and the experts in the know believe this is mostly due to...

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BlackBerry 10 Lands with the Largest App Ecosystem of Any 1st-Gen OS

Early next year, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will bring to the market its first devices running under the BlackBerry 10 platform, and it seems quite bullish about it. The company expects for the new OS and devices powered by it to enjoy significant success and to help it regain the market share it has been losing lately. One reason for this success, Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president of developer relations and ecosystem development said, would be the largest app ecosystem that BlackBerry 10 will enjoy when compared to other first-gen platforms, CNet reports. RIM has been working hard on attracting a lot of developers to its upcoming mobile platform, and it seems that it might have succeeded in doing so. However,...

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Apple New iPhone 5 Launched

Tim Cook and his troops took the stage at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts today and introduced the new generation Apple smartphone - the iPhone 5. Touted as the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, the iPhone 5 is redesigned with a unibody aluminum case, a 4-inch Retina display, an Apple-designed A6 chip, fast wireless technology, better battery life, and iOS 6, “the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features." “iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning...

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Apple's September 12 Keynote Leaked: New iPhone, iPod Refresh, iTunes Update

As if the iPhone 5 announcement wasn’t already half-spoiled by all the leaks as of late, Apple has now leaked all the major announcements it’s about to make on stage, one hour ahead of the big event. Eagle-eyed fans conducting searches on Apple.com in the hours leading up to the big iPhone 5 event have confirmed that Apple will be calling its next smartphone the “iPhone 5.” Not only that, but they’ve even managed to confirm it will sport LTE networking. Other searches yielded an iTunes update. And now, thanks to some even better inspired customers, the entire keynote has been leaked. All the major announcements Apple plans to make today can be seen in the above screenshot. These three announcements will be made on Apple’s PR...

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14,600 nVidia Tesla GPUs Powers Oak Ridge Titan Supercomputer

While Intel is celebrating the Stampede HPC system and the role played by Xeon Phi in its creation, NVIDIA has its own reason to be giddy: the soon-to-be fastest supercomputer of them all. Some may have already heard about Titan, but for those who haven't, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is currently building it. We've now learned, from a report, that there will be 14,592 Tesla K20 graphics processing units involved in the building of the HPC conglomerate. While 16-core AMD Opteron CPUs do the regular computing, NVIDI's GPU accelerators do the parallel processing tasks. The Titan will have 18,688 nodes, each with a 32 GB of memory. The cumulative floating-point performance should end up at above 20 Petaflops (Sequoia,...

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Sony Alpha NEX-6, the “Normal” One Among Camera Titans

Normally, we wouldn't say that a thousand dollars is agreeable, let alone cheap, but Sony's NEX-6 might wind up being considered thus, for a while, by people familiar with those two beasts revealed a short time ago. NEX-6 is an interchangeable lens camera that uses a 16.1-megapixel image sensor and can record Full HD video (1080p). Like the Cyber-shot and A99, it uses Sony's Bionz image processor, as well as a wide ISO range (up to 25,600 sensitivity). The full list of specifications can be read on Sony's website, and there are two versions of the product: one with 16-50mm Lens and one without. Expected to ship starting November 2012, the former is priced at $999.95 / 774 Euro, while the latter has a tag of $849.99...

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Sony Alpha A99 Flagship Full-Frame DSLR Camera

Sony is bound to leave a few people flabbergasted now that it has launched a compact camera equipped with a 24.3-megapixel sensor, but it wouldn't be easy to see just how significant an invention the Cyber-shot RX1 is without a “normal” product to compare it to. The Sony Alpha A99 full-frame DSLR camera is the sort of large and solid photo and video shooting product that full-frame 24.3-megapixel sensors are actually made for. The company intends to start shipping it in November, for a price, curiously enough, identical to that of the RX1: $2,799.95 / 2,167.31 Euro. Before anyone asks why the sums are the same, there is, in fact, a reason why the A99 is as expensive even if it doesn't demand the same painstaking manufacturing...

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Here Is Pre-Haswell Ultrabooks Are Look Like

We’ve only just talked about Haswell-based ultrabooks, but those products won't actually be up for sale any time soon, not before the year is out at any rate, which means Intel has to fill the time gap with Ivy Bridge-based designs. That doesn't mean the corporation doesn't have anything new to offer though, even if the general blueprint stays the same. The folks at Mobile Geeks have provided us with the specification sheet of the new ultraportable mobile personal computers. There were several prototypes there, but the one they paid most attention to was particularly packed with features that most ultrabooks lack. The touchscreen wasn't all that shocking, even though it is, still, considered rare and unusual on a...

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Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme CPU, Detailed Report

It is somewhat ironic that the architecture used in the making of Intel's strongest desktop central processors is one step behind that of common ones, but high performance always warrants more work and, thus, more time. By that we mean to say that the strongest Extreme Edition Core i7 CPUs are based on the Sandy Bridge-E core, not Ivy Bridge. For that matter, by the time Ivy Bridge-E cores are ready, Intel will have already launched the Haswell micro-architecture. That said, there is a single Sandy Bridge-E high-end CPU that Intel still has to launch this year: Core i7-3970X. Slides published by BSN show that the base clock speed is of 3.5 GHz, while the Turbo Boost frequency can be of up to 4 GHz. For a chip with...

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Intel Haswell Ultrabooks to Have Nine-Hour Battery Life and Just $699 Price

Intel Developer Forum (IDF), currently taking place in San Francisco, California, has brought about some interesting revelations regarding the upcoming range of ultrabooks. After the deliberately vague data on the Haswell CPUs themselves, as well as the Clover Trail Atom line, we are glad to see some specifics on a certain product range that the CPUs will reside in. We are, naturally, speaking of ultrabooks, those ultrathin laptops that Intel has been trying to use as a sort of anti-tablet buffer, albeit without a sufficient amount of success. We are fairly sure that slates have already established themselves as a product that consumers like enough to see as independent from the PC segment. Still, since many people will...

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New Type of Windows Tablet Will be Powered by 32nm Intel Atom Clover Trail

Since Intel is holding the latest edition of its developer forum, the company is talking about its upcoming CPUs in official capacity, and that includes the Clover Trail. Unfortunately, even now the IT player is proving to be less than forthcoming on the details, despite the press releases being long. We aren't quite surprised, not after seeing the same happening with the Haswell. That doesn't mean we aren't a bit disappointed though. Nevertheless, Intel did mention a few things about the new mobile system-on-chip (SoC), so we'll summarize them here. Unlike Haswell, Clover Trail won’t use the 22nm process, but the 32nm. The architecture is expected to compensate for the lack of energy efficiency gain associated with...

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Intel Will Launch Haswell CPUs with 20X+ the Power Efficiency of Sandy Bridge on 2013

Given that the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco has been underway for two days now, it would have been odd if Intel hadn't said anything about the next year (2013) and what would happen then. The promise of better hybrid drives (SSHD, solid-state hybrid drives as it were) is one thing that will have consumers, and IT companies alike, on the edge of their seats. Nevertheless, Intel is a CPU maker first and foremost, so, naturally, the world is more interested in what the corporation will do on that front. The 22nm Haswell microarchitecture took center stage, as we expected, and now we have the closest thing to an official confirmation that the line will, indeed, spawn at least one chip with 10W TDP. The announcement...

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