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Today computer news : 2010 - 02 - 09

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DATE:2010-02-09

AMD Company promised to report details about the hybrid 32 nm processors llano at ISSCC 2010 conference.

llano processors will be released on 32 nm technology with the application of materials, which have the high value of dielectric constant (high- k), and also transistors with the metallic lock. The technology of immersion lithograph second generation will begin to operate with the processors production  . As we already reported, each of four processor core llano will have an area 9.69 sq. mm without cache in the second level with 1 mb volume., more than 35 ml transistors will be placed over this area.

llano processors can work at frequencies more than 3 GHz, the energy consumption level will be from 2.5 to 25 W, default voltage will lie within the limits from 0.8 to 1.3 v. each processor core will obtain 1 mb cache in the second level, llano core will be the architecturally optimized phenom II. The built-in graphic core generation evergreen with directX 11 support  on its possibilities will correspond to the budget solutions radeon HD  5xxx. Graphic and computational core will be placed on one crystal.

llano processors will consume a little energy in the rest state  , on this will contribute the advanced mechanisms of power control. It is assumed that following the processors thuban the support of certain turbo boost analog will obtain llano processors  . Technology will allow to dynamically increase or reduce the frequency of each core proportional to the load level. Passage from one energy state to another will require from the llano processors two times fewer expenditures of electrical energy in comparison with the predecessors. Sales of llano processors will begin in the following year, motherboard with the new socket type will be required for them.

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DATE:2010-02-09

Analysts already calculated, that the cheapest version iPad cost apple company $300, rest $199 is profit. Over the long term, this allows Apple to reduce the retail price of iPad, if those plane devices will enjoy a limited demand.

As reports associate with the reference to the analytical note credit suisse, the management of apple company actually has the right to flexibly change price policy with respect to iPad.  iPad is oriented to a narrow application sphere , survey of Internet sites, video, photographs and reading electronic books. iPad do not possess communication line abilities in its default version, if we do not consider the access adapters networks 3G and WiFi - The device does not support vocal functions  ; therefore, it cannot compete with iPhone.

Accordingly, apple company can reduce prices of iPad without visible damage for sales of other categories . All apple devices are attached to the program infrastructure, which also allow to derive revenues due to the realization of applications. Certainly, the price questions will be determined by demand.

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DATE:2010-02-09

The first impressions about the characteristics Of apple iPad for a certain part of users proved to be not the most positive. The absence of support to multi threading from the side of processor and adobe flash technology limits the possibilities of work with the contemporary data sizes  . It is possible to connect peripheral devices to iPad only through special port and dock- station, it is impossible to install a memory card to iPad . The screen of the device does not support HD video resolution, and the utilized SIM- card does not allow the selection of any connection operator  .

As showed Retrevo research among more than thousands of American interrogation, the attitude of potential buyers to Apple iPad was replaced after the disclosure of official characteristics. Let us recall that the sales of the device will begin not earlier than March.

The quantity of people which heard about iPad, but not desiring  to buy it,  grew from 26% to 52%. From the other side, the quantity of those desiring to purchase iPad increased by three - from 3% to 9%.

It is remarkable, that 59% of thousand interrogated Americans are not ready to pay $130 for the possibility of iPad work  in 3G networks. According to the estimations of experts, this apple possibility cost approximately $16; therefore, price increase does not actually stimulate buyers - only 12% of participants in the interrogation are ready to pay  $130 for the possibility of work in 3G networks .

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DATE:2010-02-09

At the moment, of r5770 hawk announcement MSI company  promised an improvement in the overclocking potential to 20% in comparison with standard version radeon HD 5770, but the first overclock attempts could raise the core frequency to 24%, after overcoming the 1 GHz barrier.

The powerful power system is not satisfied with the use of air cooling. As soon as MSI r5770 hawk fell in the hands of one enthusiast , it underwent hardware modification, which allow to raise the voltage on the core to 1.75 v.

Under liquid nitrogen this video card could overclock from 875/4800 MHz to 1350/5600 MHz. Stability with this core frequency remained in the test 3DMark vantage. The memory overclock was not a priority in this experiment.

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