Flip4New: Used Navi and charged with new device

Flirting with a new navigation model, you should not discard your old device easily. Let the value of the well-traveled companions deduct the new purchase: With online purchasing portal Flip4New you sell your old equipment using market-based prices and decide then whether to invest the price obtained directly into a navigation device, or prefer a cash payment via wire transfer you want.

Flip4New may not find that on the maximum price as it would be possible for example in an auction, but the system is stress free and simple to use. On the website of Flip4New select the category "Navigation" from. Then you pick out your model and answer questions with a few clicks on the condition and extent of the accessory.

3.9 billion transistors on a chip

Altera, a specialist in FPGA - programmable chips - has announced that the next chip in the range, the Stratix V, will contain 3.9 billion transistors. The range, which comprises several chips, will be etched into 28 nm "HP" (High Performance) by TSMC and is designed for data transfers. Altera designed the chip market dedicated to high-speed transfers, such as Ethernet cards 100 gigabits per second, management systems based on fiber optics, high-end video systems, etc..

Samsung wants two cores at 2 GHz in 2012

Samsung hopes - in 2012 - to produce smartphones with processors clocked at 2 GHz, with two cores. Frequency than others, like Texas Instruments or Qualcomm should also be achieved. This is obviously ARM processors, the architecture in vogue, and it is a priori the ARM Cortex A15 to reach this frequency in the Korean company.

The company says - Intel appreciated - it is easier to reach 4 GHz with a single core as 2 GHz with two cores, but that Samsung has chosen the "difficulty" because the dual core processors are effective multitasking with smartphones . And the company also says only 2 GHz, a smartphone will be closer to today's PCs.

Elysium: the housing size XXL Xigmatek

Xigmatek the manufacturer has announced the launch of Elysium, a tower chassis, showing the dimensions of 230 x 618 x 663 mm with a weight of 15.50 kg on the scale. With a steel chassis, this unit accepts XXL format ITX motherboard, Micro ATX, ATX, E-ATX, ATX-XL or HPTX. Two colors are provided (black or silver).

Twelve 5.25-inch bays are available, along with eight locations in 3.5 inch format. The classic USB 3.0 connectors (x2), USB 2.0 (x2), eSATA and audio are in turn placed on top of the box, next to a dock hot-swap HDD / SSD (2, 5 or 3.5 inches). Cooling side we have allowed two 120 mm fans for the front, a 140-mm rear and 200 mm on the side, places for additional fans of 120 mm, 140 mm and 80 mm being also available.

The ViewSonic ViewPad 10s to 299 €

The manufacturer ViewSonic has launched a few days in Europe ViewPad his 10s, a touch pad 10 inches, an embedded SoC Tegra2 NVIDIA (composed of two cores Cortex-A9 to 1 GHz) running Android 2.2. Showing the dimensions of 276 x 179 x 15 mm and weighs 730 grams, this tablet has a screen of 1024 x 600 pixels, with an LED backlight.

There is also 512MB of DDR2 memory, a storage space of 512 MB flash (only), a microSD card reader and 802.11g wireless controllers, Bluetooth and 3G (optional). A webcam 1.3 MPixel front, two built-in speakers of 1.5 W, an accelerometer, a USB 2.0 port and HDMI output complete the package.

Gigabyte Launches First Intel Z68

As has been done before, Gigabyte surprised everyone with the launch of an Intel chipset motherboard with Z68 before the chipset itself has been officially released, the GA-Z68X-UD7-B3. The proof is that the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 has been seen and photographed in Taiwan, where it has been put up for sale at a price of 287 €.

The GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 series belongs to the Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 with features such as 2 ounces of copper in the PCB, solid state capacitors made in Japan. Voltage regulation includes 24 stages, hybrid EFI BIOS, support for tri-SLI and CrossFireX (the motherboard has 4 PCIe 16x slots), 10 SATA ports (4 of them 6Gbps SATA), 4 USB 3.0, gigabit ethernet connections and 2 7.1 sound.

Asus U36S: Sandy's Bridge ultrafine

Asus will soon launch on the market a successor to the current U36Jc. U36S baptized, this 13.3-inch laptop has a hull made of aluminum alloy and magnesium-based platform on Sandy Bridge. Rather late, the U36S measures only 19 mm thick. In addition to the i5-2520M processor, this notebook has a hard disk with a capacity of up to 750 GB, a memory card reader, a multi-touch touchpad and Gigabit Ethernet controllers and WiFi.