Computer and Technology News

• Posted on May 3rd 2012 by BoT
• created by Jason Mack
• Source: DailyTech

28 nm design is likely to be the most powerful ARM architecture core yet

ARM and TSMC are showing that Intel isn't the only one who can play the speed game, showing off a 3 GHz core. [Image Source: Maximum PC]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp., Ltd. (TPE:2330) today announced an important milestone, achieving a stable core clock of 3.1 gigahertz with a Cortex-A9 dual-core chip. The air-cooled chip, built on TSMC's new 28 nm process, typically operates at lower clock speeds. However, the chip is capable of overclocking to over 3 GHz when performance demands it -- much like rival Intel Corp.'s (INTC) "Turbo"-equipped chips.

The chips typically cruise at a more battery-friendly 1.5-2.0 GHz. Thus, while partners' proprietary designs based on the rapidly maturing process will likely be targeted primarily at the laptop market, there's also the possibility of seeing such speedy designs in tablets or even smartphones.

• Posted on April 23rd 2012 by BoT
• Source: Intel Newsroom

3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Bring Exciting New Experiences and Fun to the PC

World’s First 22nm Quad-Core Processors Bring Up to Twice the Visual Performance for Unmatched Overall PC Experiences

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Quad-core processors available starting today in powerful, high-end desktop, laptop, and sleek and beautiful all-in-one designs.
• Accelerates Intel’s “Tick-Tock” cadence for first time to simultaneously bring to market the world’s first processors developed on 22nm manufacturing process using innovative 3-D tri-gate transistor technology and a new graphics architecture. Up to twice the HD media and 3-D graphics performance, as well as significant processor performance, deliver stunning visual experiences from mainstream gaming to HD video editing.
• Ultrabook™ devices, all-in-one (AIO) platforms, business PCs and Intelligent systems in retail, healthcare and other industries will benefit from Intel’s newest processors, with formal announcements in the coming months.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 23, 2012 – Intel Corporation today introduced the quad-core 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor family, delivering dramatic visual and performance computing gains for gamers, media enthusiasts and mainstream users alike. Available now in powerful, high-end desktop, laptop and sleek all-in-one (AIO) designs, the new processors are the first chips in the world made using Intel’s 22-nanometer (nm) 3-D tri-Gate transistor technology.

• Posted on April 18th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Codisha Reviews

From sunny California comes our next contender. SilentX send us the EFZ-120HA5. The EFZ-120HA5 is a 120mm heatsink equipped with SilentX's own Effizio fan. Usually this would be a pretty straight forward review and it will be but we discovered something that immediately caught our eye. On the packaging of the SilentX EFZ-120HA5 is an additional brand name, PCOOLER. It is pretty confusing to say the least. We will try to dig a little bit deeper into this and see what we can come up with.

• Posted on April 10th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Instagram Blog

When Mike and I started Instagram nearly two years ago, we set out to change and improve the way the world communicates and shares. We’ve had an amazing time watching Instagram grow into a vibrant community of people from all around the globe. Today, we couldn’t be happier to announce that Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook.

Every day that passes, we see more experiences being shared through Instagram in ways that we never thought possible. It’s because of our dedicated and talented team that we’ve gotten this far, and with the support and cross-pollination of ideas and talent at a place like Facebook, we hope to create an even more exciting future for Instagram and Facebook alike.

It’s important to be clear that Instagram is not going away. We’ll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network. We’ll continue to add new features to the product and find new ways to create a better mobile photos experience.

The Instagram app will still be the same one you know and love. You’ll still have all the same people you follow and that follow you. You’ll still be able to share to other social networks. And you’ll still have all the other features that make the app so fun and unique. We’re psyched to be joining Facebook and are excited to build a better Instagram for everyone.

• Posted on March 19th 2012 by BoT
• Author: Matthew DeCarlo
• Source: TechSpot

The company has achieved a storage density of 1 terabit per square inch, about 55% more than today's 620 gigabits per square inch. More abstractly, Seagate says that's more bits per square inch than our Milky Way galaxy has stars, which astronomers estimate between 200 and 400 billion.

...it arrives "later this decade" and it will lead to astronomical capacities of up to 60TB over the following 10 years. Seagate hit the milestone by using heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which the company hails as a next-generation successor to 2006's perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR).

• Posted on March 9th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Codisha Reviews

We continue with our quest to explore alternative options to traditional air cooling and to do so today we have the Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620 in the lab.

The Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620 is the little brother of the Antec KÜHLER H₂O 920 and has been specifically designed for Antec by Asetek. We can see a head unit similar to the one used on the 570LC and a radiator similar to the one used on the 550LC or 510LC.

• Posted on January 1st 2012 by BoT
• Author: Darren Murph
• Source: engadget

IBM Labs: Holey Optochip

LOS ANGELES - 08 Mar 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists today will report on a prototype optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will be presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference taking place in Los Angeles.

With the ability to move information at blazing speeds – eight times faster than parallel optical components available today – the breakthrough could transform how data is accessed, shared and used for a new era of communications, computing and entertainment. The raw speed of one transceiver is equivalent to the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users at today’s typical 10 Mb/s high-speed internet access. Or, it would take just around an hour to transfer the entire U.S. Library of Congress web archive through the transceiver.

“Reaching the one trillion bit per second mark with the Holey Optochip marks IBM’s latest milestone to develop chip-scale transceivers that can handle the volume of traffic in the era of big data,” said IBM Researcher Clint Schow, part of the team that built the prototype. “We have been actively pursuing higher levels of integration, power efficiency and performance for all the optical components through packaging and circuit innovations. We aim to improve on the technology for commercialization in the next decade with the collaboration of manufacturing partners.”

• Posted on March 6th 2012 by BoT
• Author: Jason Mick
• Source: DailyTech

The "T-Labs" research group of T-Mobile USA's German parent Deutsche Telekom AG (ETR:DTE) made a splash this week, announcing [press release] that it had worked the kinks out of ultra fast fiber optic transmission, which travel at a theoretical data transfer speed of 512 Gbps (or "the simultaneous transmission of 77 music CDs" as T-Labs puts it).

Real world performance isn't far behind. Deutsche Telekom observed real world speeds of 400 Gbps during a 734 km round-trip along a single-optical fiber test channel running between Hanover and the capital city of Berlin.

400 Gbps is a pretty impressive figure, given that the current fastest deployed fiber networks run at around 100 Gbps, with most networks well behind that even. T-Labs plans to bundle together 48 of the single channels into a bundle that will offer a combined throughput of around 18.75 Tbps (18,750,000,000,000 bit/s) (24.6 Tbps, theoretical).

Deutsche Telekom describes the breakthrough in terms that surely would rile the Recording Industry Association of America -- "A collection of 3,696 CDs could thus be transferred over a single optical fiber — a strand thinner than a human hair — at the same time."

• Posted on March 1st 2012 by BoT
• Source: DailyTech

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has struggled mightily in the server market in recent years, seeing its market share fall from nearly 15 percent in 2007 to less than half that -- roughly 6.5 percent in 2011.

That's why the news of its acquisition of SeaMicro for $334M USD (a mix of $281M USD cash and stock) is a bit surprising, but a bit unsurprising. The small 80-person Silicon Valley server maker is known as a premium maker of highly dense and power-efficient servers. It sells heavily to large-scale cloud computing businesses.

In the long term this deal makes a lot of sense. AMD, given its scant stake (and given SeaMicro's modest market share) can likely phase out Intel's designs. In cloud workloads Bulldozer and its successor Piledriver could truly shine in the one area AMD currently beats Intel -- thread performance.

• Posted on February 28th 2012 by BoT
• Source: AP

Interpol says 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America.

The international police agency says the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the aegis of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.

• Posted on February 15th 2012 by BoT
• Created by Donald Melanson
• Source: Engadget

Mike D pushes Net Neutrallity at AT&T

Michael Diamond may be best known as Mike D of the Beastie Boys, but he's also an AT&T shareholder, and he's now played a central role in forcing a shareholder vote on net neutrality. He, along with his wife Tamra Davis and John P. Silva of Silva Artist Management previously submitted a proposal to AT&T arguing that shareholders should be allowed to vote a resolution that recommended the company "publicly commit to operate its wireless broadband network consistent with network neutrality principles." AT&T unsurprisingly rejected that proposal, stating that it would "directly interfere with its network management practices," but the SEC has now stepped in and said that net neutrality has become a "significant policy consideration," and that it can no longer be excluded from shareholder ballots.

• Posted on February 13th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Reuters

U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecom industry would be licensed at fair prices.

U.S. clears Google-Motorola deal, Nortel patent sale

Google Inc received U.S. antitrust approval to buy Motorola Mobility, a deal aimed at building up an arsenal of patents, and an Apple-led consortium also received the go-ahead to purchase a trove of patents from bankrupt Canadian company Nortel Networks, the Justice Department said.

The department also said on Monday that it would not hesitate to take enforcement action to ensure that essential patents -- patents needed to ensure that devices sold by different companies are interoperable -- were licensed fairly.

• Posted on February 10th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Codisha Reviews

Today comes double trouble from Spire. The company send us the Gemini Rev 2. Spire has been in the business of build computer parts and equipment for over a decade. The company is covering International markets with multiple locations strategically placed around the globe.

Taking a first look at the cooler, the general look reminds on the Prolimatech Megahalems on the other hand the Gemini Rev 2 rather seems to be an off spring of the Spire TherMax Eclipse II. Basically the TherMax Eclipse II cut down in the middle like the Megahalems. Good idea to try to breed something you know will work with something that also has a proven track record.

• Posted on February 7th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Codisha Blog

Yes you heard right or if you haven't heard it yet, you know now.

Diggnation aired it's last live show on 01/18/12. The show will go on but in a recorded setting which softens the blow.

• Posted on January 26th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Intel Newsroom

Intel has signed an agreement with RealNetworks to purchase approximately 190 patents and 170 patent applications worldwide, as well as next-generation video codec software, for $120 million. As part of the agreement, Intel will acquire RealNetworks’ foundational streaming media patents, expanding Intel’s diverse and extensive portfolio of intellectual property.

• Posted on January 25th 2012 by BoT
• Source: The White House

If you haven't seen it, watch it. If you have seen it already, watch it again.

• Posted on January 17th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Codisha Reviews

There have been many discussions on the interwebs of whether or not traditional air cooling is efficient enough and if it can provide enough performance or if water cooling can supersede it and offer things that air cooling just can't. Noise, power draw, reliability, performance and pure price are among common categories mentioned in these discussions. The camps are still divided but the manufacturers aim at the middle and aim to change that. A few years ago we started seeing hybrid all-in-one liquid cooling kits showing up on the market. The first models where still very closely related to traditional water cooling; however, soon after we started seeing more complete and pre-assembled kits taking over. And the benchmarking wars began.

Testing liquid and water cooling devices is rather different from testing air cooling devices. There are different things to consider and focus on. As we primarily focused on air cooling in this section, devices like the Antec KÜHLER H₂O 920 are difficult to pin against traditional water cooling or air cooling as it is very difficult to accomplish a level playing field. However, we would like to like to see how well they perform and how well they perform compared to air coolers.

• Posted on January 17th 2012 by BoT
• Source: Codisha Blog

Say no to SOPA and say no to PIPA.

Both SOPA and PIPA were created by big media companies, lobbyists and politicians to create and secure a new revenue stream that could render the internet as we know unusable. The bills would allow the government and companies working for the government to almost immediately shut down websites and businesses that share user created content if that content point to other content that would infringe on the said bills. Simply linking to a torrent could be the reason.

The very people that want to implement these laws are infringing on them. Gov. Lamar Smith has used content without consent and used it on it's own website. See DailyTech article: Obama Admin. Declares War on SOPA; SOPA Author Caught Stealing Work

In the Wall Street Journal, artist and author DailyTech has reported on this contiguously. The latest article: Ding, Dong SOPA is Dead

William Gibson Calls SOPA ‘Draconian’

If you feel like making a stand, you can support "Make the call, stop the wall."

• Posted on January 2nd 2012 by BoT
• Source: btarunr @ techPowerUp

In its 20th year of service, Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, power supply, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer, today announced the successor to a world renowned chassis line, the Cosmos II. Incomparable in design and specifications, the Cosmos II comes in as among the first of its type. It is an Ultra Tower; a benchmark for all enclosures that exist and all that follow.

Inspired by luxurious supercars, the exterior of the Cosmos II melds aluminum, steel, and mesh into an elegant artistic piece. It utilizes a high-grade aluminum for its primary construction and form. This is supplemented by steel and mesh to add to strength, stability, and overall appeal. It maintains its trademark Cosmos profile and outlook with its reinforced aluminum rails while being further refined for today’s advancements in air/water cooling, peripheral support, and styling. Following the supercar feel, the large aluminum side panels swing wide open with a small press of a button. Aluminum sliding doors adorn the well equipped fan and LED control and I/O ports function panel on the top of the case along with the front drive bays. These serve to obscure unsightly cabling and protect drive bays and devices.

• Posted on January 1st 2012 by BoT
• Source:

Happy New Years!!!