- New Intel head launched reforms - Core i7-4770 Haswell is already available - GeForce GTX Titan managed to surpass the popularity of GeForce GTX 690 - Microsoft formally unveiled a new gaming console -

Today computer news : 2013 - 05 - 23

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DATE:2013-05-22

Last week, the new Intel CEO Brian Krzhanich immediately made it clear that under his leadership, the company will actively develop the segment of mobile devices.  The first steps of the new head of the corporation, have just been directed to regroup for a decisive roll in the mobile segment.  

Under the direct control of Krzhanicha also are the production of client computers, mobile telecommunications equipment and products for the data center, which until then was in charge of Dadi Perlmutter.  The terms of reference of the new Intel president Renee James will include control over production operations and the direction of information security.  On the shoulders of Mrs. James also lie care of corporate planning and strategy formation.

Lead the direction of the new devices will be Mike Bell   who has worked at Apple and Palm, where he was involved in the development of mobile devices and platforms.  Bella will help Hermann Eul, which after the acquisition by the respective unit Infineon Intel worked on mobile telecommunications.  Perhaps this is only the first steps in the latest attempt to keep up with Intel competitors in the segment of mobile devices.

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DATE:2013-05-22

Haswell processor is already in ebay.  In particular, one of the lots has the Core i7-4770 in the boxed version.  Those who wish to get it right now will have to pay $ 1289.  

U.S. Internet giant Amazon through third party offers this processor  priced at $ 426.

Store Rakuten.com looks the most reasonable: $ 312 for the CPU Core i7-4770 also will be delivered to the buyer at the United States.  In the same store processor Core i7-3770 is priced at $ 289, so that the margin is not so great.

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DATE:2013-05-22

NVIDIA Corporation already mentioned about the success of GeForce GTX Titan, sparingly saying that this graphics solution is still sold out without reserve.  The company's revenue from the sale of video games for the year increased by 24%, it also managed to increase its market share.

NVIDIA representatives recently admitted that the actual number of GeForce GTX Tit sold copies has already exceeded that popularity of GeForce GTX 690.  Recall that the last product on the market for more than a year, while sales of GeForce GTX Titan launched less than three months ago.  GeForce GTX 780 has all the chances to repeat the success of its progenitor.  This graphics solution will be officially presented tomorrow night.

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DATE:2013-05-22

Microsoft formally unveiled a new gaming console, which received the name of Xbox One.  Even before the presentation of Microsoft warns that it will be the announcement of the concept.  More details about the new game console, the company promised to tell in June on a game show E3, what happens after 20 days.  So today we'll try to be brief.

In general, the company has confirmed that Microsoft Xbox One is based on the customized APU (or SoC) AMD's low-power 8-core Jaguar (x86), AMD graphics generation GCN, 8GB DDR3 and integrated into the SoC unit ESRAM.  If you do not take into account the crystal ESRAM, APU Xbox One layout is almost identical to the composition of APU Sony PlayStation 4.  Microsoft console has a 500 GB hard drive, maybe hybrid, drive Blu-ray, allows you to display an image with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K), supports HDMI 1.4 and 7.1-channel sound.  In the design of the body attachment, what Microsoft is asking to pay attention, engineers have focused on the maximum reduction in operating noise.

The company also added to the unit sensor Kinect.  Kinect camera captures the image resolution  1920 x 1080 pixels at 30 frames per second.  Improved array microphones - a tribute to the system of increased voice recognition.  Significantly reworked the game pad.  

The new console will be able to get in the face of Xbox One comprehensive digital entertainment center, including games, movies, music, photos, social networking, communication with network services.  

During the announcement of Xbox One  Microsoft, as well as developers of PlayStation 4, talked a lot about the simultaneous launch of the console masses independent applications.  In this scheme, an important role will be played integrated graphics core, in other words - GPGPU-tandem.  Over the past year, AMD has consistently expanded the idea to mass heterogeneous GPGPU (heterogeneous) computing.  

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