The GeForce GTX 590 already on sale in China

24 hours before the official end of the embargo imposed by Nvidia, the Chinese commerce site Taobao has released details of a GeForce GTX 590. This ultra high-end graphics as the reason has been that of restoring to the crown of the Nvidia card manufacturer's most powerful market, owned by AMD with Radeon HD 6990.

Like its rival, the GeForce GTX 590 is a dual-GPU card. These chips GF110 found in the GeForce GTX 580. They see their frequencies raduites to reduce their energy consumption to a reasonable level: of 772 MHz on the 580 to 607 MHz. The cooling system is dual-slot, and Nvidia has indeed chosen the mini-DisplayPort.

The 11 "Alienware will go to Sandy Bridge

The Alienware M11x, the ultraportable for players of society will evolve. After Intel Core 2 Duo and Core i5 and i7 Arrandale, the camera will switch to Core i7 i5 and Sandy Bridge. Three CPU models are offered: a 2537 m i5 - TDP of 17 W, frequency 1.4 GHz (2.3 GHz Turbo), 3 MB cache and 950 MHz IGP maximum - and the Core i7 2617M and 2657M.

Both models have a TDP of 17W and 4 MB of cache, but different frequencies: 1.5 GHz (2.6 GHz Turbo) and IGP up to 950 MHz for the first and 1.6 GHz (Turbo 2 , 7 GHz) and PGI 1 GHz for the second. For the rest, it was still a slab of 1366 x 768, up to 8GB of DDR3-1333, Wi-Fi and 3G. For storage, is expected to be a hard drive 750 GB 7200 rpm or 256 GB SSD's battery 63 Wh will be challenged to supply everything, even if we do not yet know the graphics card chosen by Alienware (early models used a GeForce GT 330M).

A screen powered by USB

Toshiba offers an interesting screen: it is USB powered. The slab has a diagonal of 14 inches and incorporates a graphics card, USB DisplayLink technology. Toshiba announced that it can operate without being connected to an outlet, even if it is obviously possible to go through a conventional transformer.

To get to run a screen with 2.5 W, Toshiba has made concessions: the panel has a response time of 16 ms only, it only displays 256,000 colors and contrast is very low advertised: 400:1 . The definition is correct: 1366 x 768. For brightness, Toshiba announces 220 cd / m² with the AC adapter and does not specify brightness can be achieved with USB.

Asus E35M1: New series of motherboards for entertainment

Brazos platform-based AMD, Asus has introduced its new series of motherboards for the world of home entertainment. The new platform incorporates a unidadAPU Arms (Grass Accelerated Processing Unit), which can integrate both the CPU and the GPU, resulting in improved transfer rate of both components and also a reduction in energy consumption.

Is also compatible with the latest graphics technology and DirectX 11, which is integrated directly into the chip. With all that the new series of motherboards from Asus is emerging as the ideal to enjoy, for example, home theater. Small and large format power. The new series E35M1presenta a reduced format, which in turn will turn provides maximum energy efficiency, all accompanied by a consumption of only 36W, which along with APU and the total absence of fans making it ideal for multiple uses.

The death of Itanium would be close

Oracle has announced that it would cease development of all its Itanium applications, thus ending the support for the Intel architecture. He explained that the smelter would have confessed to wanting to focus on its x86 and Itanium that came at the end of life. The press release is short and surprisingly direct.

Oracle says: He finally cites the examples of Microsoft and Red Hat have already stopped the development of software for Itanium, and the fact that the new PD G HP has not mentioned even once in his long architectural presentation that was on the future of the company. Oracle will be limited to providing engineering support of existing software, but continues its development activities.

Microsoft working on ARM CPU

ARM Taiwan President announced that his company worked with Microsoft to develop new architectures. It's a story that did not fail to arouse the curiosity of the press, but nothing else was available about this collaboration. We know that Microsoft is interested more flea Advanced RISC Machine. Windows 8 should take charge of their instruction set.

Nevertheless, the question of the compatibility of x86 applications still pending. Microsoft so far has shown that programs and drivers recompiled for the platform, but he could try to offer a translation system on the fly to ensure backward compatibility with existing applications. ARM might have found in Microsoft partner Intel will never be.

Steve Jobs wants to keep the iPod Classic

Steve Jobs sent an email to a customer explaining that Apple does not intend to stop the iPod Classic. Since 2008, Apple's strategy seems to point to the killing of the iPod classic. The firm reduced its first catalog to a single model (see "The End of the iPod classic") whose characteristics have not shaky since September 2009 (see "The New Landscape iPod").

In September 2011, the iPod classic is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and we thought, like many, that would mean the end of the famous player. We expected even at a ceremony with great fanfare as Apple has done it at WWDC 2002 for the death of Mac OS 9 (see video below). Steve Jobs has yet to end such speculation by saying that Apple had no plans to discontinue the iPod Classic.