- Phenom II X4 965 Black edition announcement date - Transcend ram with temp sensor - CUDA will not be supported by AMD video cards - CULV notebook case issues -

Today computer news : 2009 - 07 - 02

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DATE:2009-07-02

Many AMD associates noted the fast announcement of phenom II X4 965 Black edition (3.4 GHz) processor. Especially since aSRock company included this processor in the list of supported CPU. It was assumed that the new four core AMD processor will be presented during the present week.

However, the first day of the third quarter did not bring changes in AMD Price- list . Associate reported that the model phenom II X4 965 Black edition does not figure even in the last version of AMD road map . Its announcement is expected in several weeks - during July  AMD company  does not plan to present the processor phenom II X4 965 Black edition (3.4 GHz).

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DATE:2009-07-02

Temperature monitoring is an important for computer component protection system . The built-in processors thermal-diode do not allow overheat with overclock or fan failure . Furthermore,  sensor temperature gives to us the possibility to follow the temperature of processor and to smoothly regulate the fans rotation speed , reducing the noise level in the idle time.

Transcend company declared about the release of DDR- 3 memory modules characterized with temperature sensors. According to the intention of producer, such a sensor allows to track the temperature of each memory module and to flexibly distribute loads, preserving the reliability of system at high levels.

The presented transcend modules DDR 3-1066 and DDR 3-1333 with ECC function is intended for work stations and server systems.

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DATE:2009-07-02

CUDA support by strange platforms was interpreted as straight hint to the possibility of accelerating calculations by AMD video chip.

NVIDIA representatives explained, that their scientific leader spoke about the wide spectrum of program or hardware platforms, then they transferred a question in certain hypothetical planes. AMD representatives stated that NVIDIA could intentionally worsen the productivity of applications under CUDA with AMD video card  . Even if there was no sabotage, NVIDIA could not optimize CUDA under the special features of AMD video card . Without design dialog between AMD and NVIDIA, it is impossible to realize CUDA support on radeon video cards.

Finally, NVIDIA representatives noted that they do not plan to support streams by their video chip. Both companies support OpenCL and DirectX compute.

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DATE:2009-07-02

Associate reported that some notebook prototypes ( CULV class ) with the plastic case proved to be too brittle and they cracked. In this case apple MacBook air and Dell adamo have a durable metal case. In the price segment, in which enter CULV products   , cheaper plastic case is used.

Contract notebook producers recommend to their customers the use of CULV class products with metal cases. This will affect the price of end products .  Intel Representatives noted that the problem of brittle plastic case in no way relates to CULV processors .

Notebook producers can do purpose notebook models with increased screens in order to make some adequate proposal. Although Intel does not greet the creation of notebook on base of atom processors with the screen more than 11 inches,  ION platform from NVIDIA company does not have similar limitations . Samsung and Lenovo already presented their notebook on base of ION with the screen diagonal  11.6 and even 12.1 inches.

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