- Another version of GeForce GTX 780 characteristics - The new head of Intel promises to accelerate the development of mobile processors - TGT bankruptcy - In the first quarter, the share of laptops with touch screen has reached 10 percents -

Today computer news : 2013 - 05 - 17

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DATE:2013-05-17

It was assumed that the graphics card GeForce GTX 780 will inherits from the GeForce GTX Titan the cooling system, and a tendency to inflate the price ($ 699).  Instead of 2688 stream processors will be active only 2,496 pieces, the memory bus will be 320-bit instead of 384-bit GDDR5 memory capacity will be reduced from 6 to 5 GB.

Here is the box of GeForce GTX 780 by Asus mentioned memory type GDDR5, not to exceed 3 GB.  This feature is confirmed by Inno3D.

Second, it was announced that the GeForce GTX 780 reference sample will be equipped with a combination of six-and Eight-power connectors.  Thus, the number of stream processors should be down to 2304 units, the number of texturing units - up to 192 pieces, though the memory bus will remain at 384-bit, the determined basic  GeForce GTX 780 frequencies  are equal to 863/6008 MHz.

GeForce GTX 780 should be 25-30% faster than GeForce GTX 680, although the price will rise to $ 699.  

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DATE:2013-05-17

Yesterday Intel officially changed CEO: Paul Otellini gave way to the new CEO Brian Krzhanichu , and president of the company took Renee James .  Both previously held senior positions at Intel lower level.  Successor transferred to an audience of shareholders and investors Merit Paul Otellini, and handed him a memorable gift - a silicon wafer size of 300 mm with the autographs of members of Intel Board of Directors  .

Krzhanich in his speech immediately recognized that the company still has not progressed rapidly in the segment of mobile processors.  Even with the current state of things in the mobile segment for Intel new CEO acknowledged satisfactory, apparently referring to the recently introduced architecture Silvermont .  According to Krzhanicha, it will be one of the most powerful Intel breakthroughs in the field of processor architectures.  This architecture will hit the market later this year.  

Intel Atom processors with  LTE network support will be integrated in the current year. NVIDIA company , for example, hurry to bring to market the processors Tegra 4i with an integrated modem .

According to Intel CFO Stacy Smith these days the trend of the market asking consumers, not corporations.  Everything is changing very quickly, and the vector of these changes determines consumer demand.  Intel will focus not only on the issue of energy-efficient processors, but will also pay attention to their information security and the ability of devices to communicate with each other.

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DATE:2013-05-17

Many users are faced with the inability to use the warranty of TGT cards , as the company said in private correspondence concerning the termination of this brand.  Questions warranty support is not settled .

Associate also managed to find out that since March this year, TGT is in the process of bankruptcy, the bankruptcy trustee appointed, all claims of creditors accepted until  26 April.  Obviously, the business model TGT proved to be unsustainable, particularly in protracted crisis of the European economy.

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DATE:2013-05-17

Asus and Acer  just in this year are going to increase the share of the corresponding models in the total volume of up to 30-35% in the next year to  50%, and by 2015 to increase this figure up to 70%.  European audience, as statistics show, for laptops with touch screen is cool enough .  In Asia, the popularity of laptops is quite high - it is measured by 15-20% of the market of new products.

The popularity of laptops with touch screen is growing at a solid pace, and Windows 8 on this process is not particularly affected.  The statistics included notebooks with screens up to 10 "and above. So, in the first quarter  their sales increased by 51.8% to 4.57 million units. This is almost 10% of all laptops sold in the first quarter. The most active touch panels acquire laptops with screens 11.6 "- apparently, they provide a reasonable balance of price, portability and ease of use.

Less than a year laptops with touch panels won 10% of the world market.  According to the plans of manufacturers, the achieved rates are not going to stop.  

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