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Intel's 6-Core Gulftown Gets Tested, Blows Us Away Pringles might be delicious, but its unique can-shaped packaging makes it difficult to enjoy an entire stack when your hands can’t squeeze down the tube. Not exactly an Earth-shattering problem, but we’re still glad there are young designers willing to tackle the issue.
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center is building one of the greenest, high-performance computers on the planet, but if Alex Ramirez gets his way, it could also be the most powerful.
There have been a series of hold-ups with Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor line, but according to CPU World the wait is almost over; some of the new mobile and desktop quad-core chips will be launched before the end of April.
Johannes Kepler once wrote, “Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” Nvidia’s latest GPU, code-named Kepler after the German mathematician, looks to be inspired by that quote, as much as by the original Kepler’s mathematical prowess. The new GPU — the GTX 680 — offers superb graphics horsepower but requires only two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors. It’s a big departure from the last-generation GTX 580, which was fast but power hungry.
With processors, it’s easy to get caught up in gigahertz and petaflops and the top-end specs. But blazing fast speed doesn’t mean all that much for, say, your refrigerator. ARM’s says its Cortex-M0+ chip will connect your dumb appliances to a smart grid, and offer “years” of battery life on some of them.
With the announcement of the iPad 3, came the announcement of a new processor: the A5x chipset with (presumably) a dual-core CPU and quad-core GPU. The A5x is more powerful to be sure, but should we think of it as a next-generation chip or merely a spec bump?
We’ve been hearing for years that integrated graphics — meaning your computer doesn’t have its own, separate graphics card — won’t catch up to the beefier cards, but it’ll be good enough some day soon. Hasn’t happened yet. But these reported benchmarks of Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors from CPU World look pretty promising.
Most every piece of modern electronics has a wireless connectivity option — TVs, alarm clocks, refrigerators, even thermostats. With all these devices competing for bandwidth — not to mention the demands of streaming media — network performance will suffer. Qualcomm Atheros’ new gigabit-capable 802.11ac chips should give these devices some breathing room.
For all of Sony’s troubles, their commitment to R&D is something that can never be questioned. Their latest achievement is a wireless radio component that operates on the 60 gigahertz frequency and can transfer 6.3 gigabits per second. According to The Verge, that’s good enough to exchange 50 gigs of data in under a minute.
