Archive for ‘2006’

Demand for PDAs in Europe falls dramatically

Demand for PDAs in Europe falls dramatically

Who is interested in buying a PDA? If you believe the research analytical agency IDC, is willing to buy classic handheld in Europe, already almost gone. The sympathies of the consumers finally went over to the smart phones and other communication devices. Moreover, according to IDC, hard times and expect manufacturers GPS-navigation systems made by [...]

SX-8R vector from the NEC has been used at home

SX-8R vector from the NEC has been used at home

Cybermedia Center (CMC) at the University of Osaka, bought twenty vector supercomputers SX-8R production of NEC Corporation. The new system will be the most productive vector system in Japan, capable of delivering 5.3 teraflops peak (trillion floating point operations per second). CMC, however, does not want to stop there and plans to build second-generation vector [...]

IBM BlueICE will Meteorology and Climatology

IBM BlueICE will Meteorology and Climatology

IBM and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR) announced the completion of the first phase of the supercomputer BlueICE, which is part of a scientific network ICESS (Integrated Computing Environment for Scientific Simulation). BlueICE is based on SMP modules IBM P5 575 processor IBM Power5 + (1,9 GHz). [...]

New Eizo monitors series SlimEdge

New Eizo monitors series SlimEdge

Following the new 19 “series models FlexScan, Eizo Japanese company introduced two new series of monitors SlimEdge. S2411W and S2111W models have screen size 24″ and 21.1 “respectively. Specifications, traditionally for this manufacturer, at a high level. S2411W monitor supports 1920×1200 resolution up to WUXGA and a response time of 6 ms. Smaller model, S2411W [...]

Intel began shipping the multilevel NOR-chip

Intel began shipping the multilevel NOR-chip

Intel Corporation today announced the industry’s first volume shipments of multilevel (Multi-Level Cell, MLC) flash memory chips and class NOR, based at the 65-nanometer process technology, including 1-gigabit monolithic modules for cellular phones. announced back in April 2006 chip based on the architecture of Intel StrataFlash Cellular Memory (M18) and backward compatible with the series-produced [...]

Abit IN9 32X-MAX – to the delight overclockers

Abit IN9 32X-MAX – to the delight overclockers

Today, the company introduced a new abit motherboard IN9 32X-MAX, built on the basis of chipset NVIDIA nForce C55 SPP/MCP55PXE. New support for Intel processors in LGA775 package with FSB up to 1333MHz. As the producer, IN9 32X-MAX is created for overclocking and provides for this opportunity. Among the “features” it is worth noting the [...]

Dell opens an account quad servers

Dell opens an account quad servers

Less than a week after the official announcement of new quad-core Kentfield from Intel, as Dell has launched a series of servers and workstations productive collected based on quad-core Xeon 5300 and Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Intel Xeon processor 5300 will be installed in dual-processor servers, Dell PowerEdge 1900, 1950, 2950, ​​2900, SC1430 and 1955. [...]

Standard HPNA “dispersed” to 320 Mbit / s

Standard HPNA “dispersed” to 320 Mbit / s

Alliance HomePNA, promoter of the standard c using networks as the transmission medium of coaxial cable, or “telephone” twisted pair, announces a new version of the specification, HPNA 3.1. The most noticeable change from the previous incarnation – an increase in the rate of 128 Mbit / s to 320 Mbit / s, which provides [...]

The plates are certified WHQL ASUS

The plates are certified WHQL ASUS

Corporation ASUSTeK Computer (ASUS), announced the assignment of a series of tablet laptop R1 WHQL Certified for compatibility with the operating system, Windows Vista Premium. The above is the first series of tablet notebooks, the logo Vista x86 Premium. According to sources inside the company, ASUS plans to continue to refine the model of mobile [...]

New on the GeForce 8800 in the performance of Chaintech

New on the GeForce 8800 in the performance of Chaintech

The company Walton Chaintech, the well-known manufacturer of graphics cards and memory modules, today announced the release of two new graphics cards and GAE88GTS GAE88GTX, based on the latest graphics processors by NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series: GeForce 8800GTS and GeForce 8800GTX. Chaintech GAE88GTS has a high speed core – 500 MHz, equipped with 640 MB [...]

Approved the transaction on the movement of assets Gigabyte

Approved the transaction on the movement of assets Gigabyte

November 7 board of directors of the company Gigabyte Technology has received the approval of Shareholders’ Meeting to transfer the production of motherboards and graphics cards, valued at U.S. $ 124 million generated in conjunction with ASUStek Computer (ASUS) company Gigabyte United, starts its activities in January 2007. Transferred assets amount to 14.03% of the [...]

V410: Mighty GPS-middling from Yuer

V410: Mighty GPS-middling from Yuer

The Chinese company Yuer presented to the public a new navigation system, V410, working on the basis of the ubiquitous SiRFStar III GPS, focused on a wide range of consumers. notebook is equipped with a 4-inch touch screen that displays 65K colors, a processor from Samsung 400 MHz and 64 MB of memory, expandable with [...]

Copier, fax machine, printer and scanner in one unit from Samsung

Copier, fax machine, printer and scanner in one unit from Samsung

Korean company Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of color laser MFPs CLX-3160N and CLX-3160FN, designed for small businesses and home offices. The basis of these IFIs have been put color laser printers to small dimensions. The main difference between models apart is the fact that 3160FN built-in modem, so the device can function as [...]

CUDA from NVIDIA – the new GPU-computing capabilities

CUDA from NVIDIA – the new GPU-computing capabilities

The idea of ​​algorithms by coupling of graphics processors is not new. In GPU concluded enormous computing capabilities, which can reveal by the competent organization of parallel computations. Companies are working to create a convenient tool for developers to effectively address such problems. Recently Peakstream already offered his solution – a software platform that allows [...]

FeRAM Epson new material – the leader of longevity

FeRAM Epson new material – the leader of longevity

For easier perception of the material, we recommend our readers to read the article, which in simple terms describes the basics of this type of memory. The technology FeRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory – ferroelectric random-access memory) are no longer new, but it is still not so often found in the press notes for her. [...]