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Submission + - Nvidia teases ARM-based CPU for desktops, servers (techreport.com)

J. Dzhugashvili writes: Today at CES, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang shocked attendees by announcing Project Denver, a "high performance ARM core" designed in-house at Nvidia. Project Denver will include both a next-generation ARM-based processor component and a graphics processor on the same silicon. Huang gave strong hints that a yet-to-be-announced version of Windows will run on the chip, too.

Comment Beware if you want to install Linux! (Score 0, Troll) 116

According to semiaccurate:

" If you try to use Sandy Bridge under Linux, it is simply broken. We tried to test an Intel DH67BL (Bearup Lake) with 2GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3, an Intel 32GB SLC SSD, and a ThermalTake Toughpower 550W PSU. At first we tried to install vanilla Ubuntu 10.10/AMD64 from a Kingston Datatraveler Ultimate 32GB USB3 stick. The idea was that it would speed things up significantly on install.
That's when the crippling bug surfaced. It seems the USB3 ports on the Intel DH67BL don't want to work. Ubuntu 10.10 installs fail during the install, no fix was found. Plug the same stick into a USB2 port, and it works fine. Alternately, install from a USB2 stick on a USB3 port, and things work fine."

source: http://semiaccurate.com/2011/01/02/sandy-bridge-biggest-disapointment-year/

Comment Want an ARM notebook? Try Toshiba AC100 (Score 2) 391

Powered by a nVidia Tegra 2 processor and a special version of Android.

However, reviews haven't been kind on it:
http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/03/review_netbook_toshiba_ac100/
10/100
"The beautifully designed and executed hardware is very close to my ideal netbook, and it's hardly an exaggeration to say that I'm heart-broken by Toshiba's cocked-up Android implementation. The best one can hope for is a firmware rescue from the open source community, although I wonder if the product will stay around long enough in these tablet-obsessed times for that to happen."

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/laptops-portable-pcs/laptops-and-netbooks/toshiba-ac100-721195/review?artc_pg=4
2.5/5
Verdict
"If you want a device for carrying the web around with you, and you don't want a tablet and can't be bothered with a Windows 7 powered netbok, then the AC100 may be for you.
There's no denying it works and that you can browse the internet on it, but it's how it goes about doing this that most disappoints.
Especially as the AC100 could have been great, it still has lots going for it – the most crucial being excellent portability.
For us, however, the poor implementation of Android 2.1 remains a deal breaker."

Comment Samsung-built ARM for iPhone... and Samsung Wave! (Score 1) 150

What's the Samsung-built ARM stuff in an iPhone? Sapple? Samphone?

The world needs to know. This is important!

The ARM processor used by the iPhone 4 (Apple A4)...is the same than the used by the Samsung Wave (Samsung S5PC110A01).

At least according to an annalysis by cnet: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20007162-64.html)

Comment When AMD turns to 28nm production... (Score 3, Interesting) 126

Any chance Apple could use that for the next versions of Mac mini and MacBooks? Or is a Core 2 Duo with nVidia 320M still better than Fusion?

... according to Fudzilla.com

http://www.fudzilla.com/notebooks/item/20888-amd-apple-deal-is-28nm-notebooks

"Fusion goes Apple 28 / 32nm
It all started here, when AMD’s Senior VP and Chief Sales Officer Emilio Ghilardi was brave enough to show an image of several Apple products in a Fusion presentation. After we wrote our part AMD was quick to deny it, perhaps a bit too quick, which gave us a reason to dig some more, only to find that we were on the right track.

We asked around and some sources close to Intel / Nvidia have denied the rumour saying that they know nothing about it. However, just a day later we managed to confirm that the leak is real and that Apple will indeed use Fusion, here.

Our industry sources have indicated that the deal will be announced in at some point 2011, that it will involve 28nm and 32nm Fusion parts particularly Krishna and that Apple plans to launch notebooks based on AMD chips. Apple is also not cold hearted on Trinity 32nm Fusion parts.

The announcement can be as far as a year away, as 28nm parts won't materialise until the second half of 2011 and since AMD doesn’t have a tablet chip, it won’t happen in iPad segment. At this point Apple doesn’t plan to use any AMD chips in desktop or server parts, but in case Bulldozer impresses us all, maybe Steve might change his mind.

So if you like Apple and love AMD, start saving money as roughly a year from now you should be able to buy Apple notebook with Fusion Krishna / Trinity class APU."

And if you want Fusion benchmarks, check the usual suspects:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/19981
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4023/the-brazos-performance-preview-amd-e350-benchmarked

Comment Google should show its apps as an ad (Score 1) 257

But I believe it'd be better if their own services didn't display as a result and more as a "hey look your favorite search engine has something for that" kind of thing

I think that Google should use the same algorithm no matter what the term is searched.

However, Google services could be shown in the user's search as an advertisement, the same method that every company uses to promote their products / services in Google.

Comment Koffice has just split! (Score 4, Informative) 510

http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=128782551919625&w=2

"Dear fellow members of the community,

As you might be aware, after months of discussions, it has been concluded that
the best solution is to split the community.

However, the split is going to happen at application level. The maintainer of
each application will be asked to consult his fellow developers to decide in
which group, A or B, the application will lived. The other group is free to
fork the application under a different name. It is also possible for the
developers to change the application name and ask that the current name is not
used by any of the group. This can be used as an opportunity for a fresh
start.

Currently, to the best of my knowledge the groups are composed of the
following applications:

Group A: KWord
Group B: KPresenter, Krita, Karbon, Kexi

Since the license give the right for a fork, I can already mention that Group
B will come with a fork of KWord, under a name that has yet to be decided.
Group A is free to fork any application of Group B under a different name.

Maintainers have until Sunday October 31th to decide with which group to go.
Applications that have not choosen a group will have to be renamed by each
group.

The KDE e.V. board will be asked to decide what happen to the KOffice name,
the KOffice website, the KOffice mailing list, KOffice.org, KOffice wiki and
the KOffice bugzilla product. The recommendation from members of the CWG is to
retire the name KOffice altogether, which will allow both side to start on a
fresh start and leave the past behind. Then the application maintainers and
developers of each group will have one week to find a new name for their
suite, and move to another place in the KDE subversion tree and to rename or
remove the applications that are in the other group.

In the meantime, I am suspending the KOffice release process, meaning that I
will release Beta 3, but that the date for the following release is undefined.
The reason is that I do not feel confident that the splitting will happen in
time before the RC1, and I do not think it is a good idea to ship a RC release
that will get different applications than the final release. If the splitting
takes more time, I will proceed with one more beta. I also advise each group
to ensure that they have a release coordinator.

I will urge readers of this letter to:
1) refrain discussion around the splitting outside the mailing list, or to do
so in private conversation
2) acknowledge, that at this point there is no sense in trying to place the
blame anywhere, we just have to accept the fact
3) remain civilised and polite in this difficult moment

--
Cyrille Berger Skott"

Comment Could have included more updated packages... (Score 1) 228

According to ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/ , the included version of PostgreSQL is 8.4.4. I know that PostgreSQL was released about a month ago and that this is an enterprise release subjet to more tests... but this new version has important features (Hot standby, Streaming replication) for a production environment.

Does anybody know if RH will update the PostgreSQL version as a manteinance package?

Comment Try Google App Inventor (Score 4, Informative) 188

> The real issue is a lack of a "Interface builer" so we can build beautiful apps with no extra effort.
> Combine a really good "interface builder", "default layout settings" or whatever it might be with
> Android's customization and we got a clear winner in the UI and UX space.

Try Google App Inventor, an official tool from Google itself

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Comment Some current Smartphones have HDMI connections (Score 1) 104

Connecting to an HD TV
Nokia N8 and EVO 4G, for example, have a HDMI port to connect to a HD TV.

GPU Power
The current Smartphones can put up to 1000 MPixels/sec (see http://alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cellphonehardwarecompari1.png). For example, an ATi Radeon HD 2400 Pro PCI-E produces 2100 MPixels/sec (see http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=525&card2= )

RAM
iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM, the same as the XBOX 360.

With new cores, such as ARM Cortex A9, the computing power of these devices will further increase.

You can find more info at:
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=17125 (Hummingbird vs. Snapdragon: The 1 GHz Smartphone Showdown)

Google

Submission + - Chrome 7 just got full GPU acceleration (conceivablytech.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Well, that did not take long: Just one week after the company said it would take a month or two to provide GPU acceleration in Chrome, the company is offering this feature now in its nightly and canary builds. If you apply a few switches, you can activate full GPU acceleration and achieve a performance that is similar to IE9 Beta and Firefox 4 Beta. It is ironic that Chrome 7 was the last of the three to reveal this feature, but it may be the first final browser to provide GPU acceleration due to Google’s short release cycles.

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