The socket is shown in the Llano FM1

While deliveries to the various partners Llano APU from AMD have recently started a first picture of the socket FM1 dedicated to this processor has just made its appearance on the canvas. It reveals in particular the location of notches. The lucky forumer site Zol. com. cn, to whom we owe this picture, also spent his Llano "Engineering Sample" on the chopping block CPU-Z.

With four cores clocked at 2.4 GHz, the APU has 1 MB of L2 cache but no L3 cache. Come on, more than a few weeks to wait ...

• AMD's ships Llano, the ultimate HTPC processor (05/04/2011)
• AMD Takes On Budget Desktops with Quad-Core Llano (06/04/2011)
• AMD's Llano Chip to Reach Laptops This Quarter (04/04/2011)
• Can AMD's Llano Beat Sandy Bridge? (01/04/2011)
• AMD Expects Llano-Powered Laptops in Second Quarter (05/04/2011)

Windows 7 finally over XP!

Windows 7 has passed a symbolic milestone: its market share surpassed that of Windows XP in the United States. But because the ancestor of resistance: Windows XP represents 46.8% market share globally. These statistics are from StatCounter, which analyzes the configurations connecting to a wide range of 3 million websites.

They show a linear rate of increase for 7 at the expense of Vista and XP. Some countries have even adopted the latest Windows faster than the U.S.. In Germany for example, 7 XP surpassed last January. In France, the rupture occurred in March. Statcounter curves do not show any acceleration by cons 7 following the release of SP1 in February.

Apple is recruiting a specialist bike

Apple has just hired Kevin Kenney, an engineer who formerly worked in the field ... cycling. Indeed, the engineer worked so far in a company that built bicycle frames made of carbon fiber. We immediately understand the interest for Apple, Sony might follow (especially) in the world of laptops in carbon fiber.

Carbon fiber is a composite material which has the advantage of being very strong and lightweight, making it attractive for notebooks. Apple uses for over 10 years of metal for the hull and machinery of its carbon fiber could reach the titanium and aluminum in computers Kale. Still some flaws: the carbon fiber has poor resistance to impact, is difficult to recycle - and it is a workhorse for Apple aluminum - and the electrical conductivity of the material can be problematic, as on aluminum hulls.

Western Digital offers Go Free

A nice surprise for the buyer of a Western Digital hard drive 500 GB Scoprio Blue: opening the box he discovered a 640 GB model with a note explaining that the manufacturer had received 140 GB free! This story is currently isolated and we do not know what drives Western Digital has so much bounty. Technically, nothing prevents it: the hard drive makers use the trays with a total capacity often broader than advertised on the box, the difference being created by the firmware of the disk.

AMD Socket FM1, first pictures leaked

As we have seen in Zol. com. cn have already leaked the first photos of the new AMD socket FM1, which is the basis for AMD's new processors codenamed "Llano", which form part of the APU (Accelerated Processor Units) for embedded systems. With this new socket, AMD hopes to compete with Intel's socket LGA1155/1156 market personal computers have integrated graphics.

The Llano APU integrates a quad-core x86-64 with DirectX11 integrated graphics AMD Radeon HD 6000 series (with 400 + stream processors), a dual DDR3 memory controller and a PCI-Express 2.0 hub. Only to see it, the socket FM1 appears smaller than the AM3 +. Clearly, the version used CPU-Z in the following screenshot does not support 100% APU cores, but reveals some information.

Symbian exposes its source code

Nokia has released the source code for Symbian, but said that his project is not open source. It is governed by a special license that allows employees of the firm to benefit under certain restrictions. The Finnish press has sown confusion by speaking of the project "open and direct," which was originally interpreted to mean that Symbian became open source.

The manufacturer has now clarified by explaining that Symbian was using a model "open and straightforward", but it was not open source. Specifically, to get the source code for Symbian, you must be a "collaborator", that is to say, submit an application and be approved. The goal is not to open Nokia Symbian community but to facilitate the work of his "Japanese OEMs and the small community of staff development platform with which we are already working." The announcement precedes a major conference around Symbian to be held tomorrow, which demonstrates the commitment from Nokia to maintain its project despite its partnership with Microsoft (see "Microsoft gives $ 1 billion to Nokia")

• Symbian Is No Longer Open Source (08/04/2011)
• Nokia says Symbian isn't open source, just 'open for business' (08/04/2011)
• Nokia says Symbian now closed-source (08/04/2011)
• Symbian source code is now live (31/03/2011)
• Nokia Publishes Symbian Source (01/04/2011)

AMD looks to Android

AMD is trying to recruit new developers who will work on drivers for the operating system from Google. MSI should have a shelf Honeycomb Brazos. Acer is expected to follow suit in the near future. So we imagine it will be important for the firm to have graphics drivers optimized for Android. Remember, the Brazos is the first platform of the firm Fusion.

They integrate processors Ontario (Series C) and Zacate (Series E). They have also, on the same die, a chipset and Mobility Radeon HD 6xxx are etched into 40 nm. AMD will not be easy since it will face the Oak Trail Intel Atom platform which has already attracted Lenovo. Fujitsu, Samsung and many others.