Intel has Core i7 EE 990X and revises the list LGA-1366 CPU

Despite the launch of the new Sandy Bridge architecture, Intel continues to use the previous Westmere architecture for its CPU-end enthusiast. Yesterday, the giant U.S. chip-maker has officially unveiled the 990X Core i7 Extreme Edition, a new proposal based on top of the line core Gulftown (Westmere architecture with native 6-core).

The only change from the previous top model Core i7 EE 980X is the increase in clock rate, which fell from 3.33MHz to 3.46MHz, because the rest of the specifications is always the same manufacturing process to 32nm, LGA -1366, 130W TDP, multiplied unlocked upwards and 12MB of shared L3 cache, as well as price on the trade: $ 999.

ARM - who does what Samsung (8)

Samsung is a specialist ARM SoC. The company team because some of its phones with its own chips (the Hummingbird is quite famous) but also the team of Apple phones since the beginning. The Samsung SoC are the usual S5L8900 the APL0298C05 S5PC111 and even if Apple A4 is also considered by some as a Samsung, because the Korean firm has worked with Apple for its design.

The first was used in first generation iPhone, the second in the iPhone 3G? the latest in Tablet Tab and smartphones Galaxy and Galaxy Nexus S. S5L8900 the team is the SoC that the first generation iPhone and iPod touch. 90 nm in the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch 1G, it is clocked at 412 MHz.

AMD is not the most user marks Athlon, Athlon and Sempron

AMD could eliminate the specific brands of its processors in order to give more space to the brand AMD Vision. Xbitlabs him back. with the company citing an internal document from which we learn that the names Athlon, Athlon and Sempron processors will slowly disappear. The transition will start with its new desktop CPUs now known by the codename of Llano Zambezi and for which no new brand will be introduced and will be divided into different classes of the Vision platform.

Apple will be the biggest customer of Samsung

According to the Korea Economic Daily newspaper, Apple would become the first customer of Samsung with a series of orders totaling $ 7.8 billion (approx. 5.8 billion euros). The Cupertino company is used to place large orders to take advantage of low prices, maintain inventory and stifle competition.

This strategy is not new, but with the various successes of the firm, the controls are becoming increasingly important. Despite the fact that Samsung is a competitor of Apple in the market for tablets and smartphones, both companies have trade long ago. Cupertino usual to provide in NAND (see "Apple robs Samsung") and uses its facilities to manufacture its processor A4 (see "Apple Samsung S5PC110A01 = A4 = Cortex A8").

Motorola Xoom in Europe since the second quarter of 2011

The tablet Xoomarriverà 3G/WiFi versions in Europe and only WiFi, from the second quarter of 2011. Confirmation of Motorola is the same as he announced from the stage of the MWC. In the U.S., the device should be released on February 17 instead. As we saw at the CES 2011, the Xoom uses the Android operating system 3.0 (Honeycomb), a dual-core CPU Tegra 2 1GHz and a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels 16:10, the same Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

• Motorola Xoom Tablet Apparently Priced At $1200 (14/02/2011)
• Motorola brings Xoom to Europe (14/02/2011)
• Motorola to launch Xoom in Europe in Q2 (14/02/2011)
• Motorola Xoom $1199 at Best Buy? Probably not (at least we hope not) (13/02/2011)
• $1,200 Motorola XOOM listing: madness or mistake? (13/02/2011)

TDJ: Core i7 2600K and GTX 580 on Mini ITX

Our fellow Cowcotland just upload the test configuration Mini ITX original, combining a Core i7 2600K and a GeForce GTX 580 on a motherboard Zotac ITX WiFi H67. Ease of installation, performance, power consumption and temperatures: Silverstone SG07 housing and 600 watts of power will they cope?

• Sapphire to launch first AMD Fusion mini-ITX motherboard (13/01/2011)
• Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3 Mini-ITX packs dual-HDMI for Sandy Bridge (17/01/2011)
• A Mini ITX Board To Please Many (03/12/2010)
• BCM unveils Mini-ITX boards running old and new Core CPUs (17/01/2011)
• AMD launches world's first Fusion APU for embedded systems (20/01/2011)

Mini-ITX (wikipedia)  Intel Core i7 (wikipedia)  

Eink of "lively" for reading lights

At the MWC, and pending a more comprehensive point on ARM chips, we've seen prototypes of screens eink (electronic ink) which - for once - came alive. Indeed, Freescale offers ARM SoC with integrated controller eink (the MX508 i) that accelerates quite dramatically the frequency of animation. Even if it's still quite slow, with up to 8 fps is more than the usual eink screens, which leveled off to an image every one to two seconds.