A quick refresher: Bobcat is AMD’s low-power Accelerated Processing Unit that can handle both computational and graphical duties, Ontario and Zacate are the chips built upon that core, and Brazos is the overall platform that they’ll be doing their work on. Clear enough? We hope so. AMD has finally allowed a few tech pubs to get their hands on Brazos-based systems and, along with feedback about their experience, the guys have come back with some added spec notes. There’ll be two initial Zacate options, the dual-core E-350 running at 1.6GHz or the single-core E-240 clocked at 1.5GHz, while Ontario will offer 1GHz dual-core and 1.2GHz single-core variants. Let’s not forget that both are intended for netbooks and lithe desktop computers before writing them off as too slow — which would be a mistake anyway as the sites that got a chance to play with the E-350 reported very respectable performance. HardOCP dared to try out Crysis and managed to get it chugging along at a resolution around 720p, whereas Hot Hardware witnessed a 1080p video clip being played back perfectly smoothly alongside an instance of Hyper Pi maxing out the CPU load. Benchmark results will have to wait for another day, but feel free to peruse the links below for a more detailed breakdown of the new architecture. AMD teases Bobcat Fusion APUs again, delivers Atom-busting performance originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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BEIJING (AP): British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, leading his country’s largest-ever official delegation to China in the latest European push to win business and spur a sluggish economy at home. Cameron, accompanied by four Cabinet ministers and about 50 business leaders, was due to meet with Premier Wen Jiabao at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of the capital later Tuesday. He meets President Hu Jintao on Wednesday. The two-day visit marks Cameron’s second major foray to court an emerging economy since taking office in May. He went to India in July. The visit would “mark…
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Looks like Kno kept to its “under $1,000″ MSRP promise, after all, and by more than just a penny. The company says its flagship tablet textbook is still on track for release by the end of this year — with limited available, at least — tagged at $899 for the original double-screen model and $599 for the single-screener . Speaking to All Things D , CEO Osman Rashid estimates first-run production “in the thousands” and also claims ten as-of-now unnamed universities will be the first targets for the device. Less than eight weeks to go — just worry about getting through fall semester finals for now. Kno prices tablet textbooks: $599 for single-screen, $899 for double originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Protesters interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a prominent American Jewish group Monday, the same day his government said it would move ahead with hundreds of new housing units in disputed east Jerusalem. (Nov. 8)
Continue reading …Yesterday the Carnival Splendor left Long Beach for a seven day Mexican cruise.
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This is surely going to make some mouths drop wide open. Liberal internet publisher Arianna Huffington on Monday proudly introduced a new section to her website called “HuffPost Divorce”: read more
Continue reading …NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 detailed: 512 CUDA cores, 1.5GB of GDDR5 on ‘world’s fastest DX 11 GPU’
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It might not be November 9 all around the world yet, but NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 has already had its spec sheet dished out to the world, courtesy of CyberPower’s seemingly early announcement. The new chip will offer a 772MHz clock speed, 512 processing cores, and a 192.4GBps memory bandwidth, courtesy of 1.5GB of GDDR5 clocked at an effective rate of 4GHz. CyberPower is strapping this beast into its finest rigs, and for additional overkill it’ll let you SLI up to three of them within one hot and steamy case. Now let’s just wait patiently for midnight to roll around and see what the reviewers thought of NVIDIA’s next big thing. Update: CRN has a $499 price for us and a recital of NVIDIA’s internal estimate that the GTX 580 bests the GTX 480 by between 20 and 35 percent. It seems, however, that the embargo for this hot new slice of silicon is set for early tomorrow morning, so check back then for the expert review roundup. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 detailed: 512 CUDA cores, 1.5GB of GDDR5 on ‘world’s fastest DX 11 GPU’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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American Lori Berenson told a throng of reporters gathered outside her home Monday night that she had no comment about her release from prison after serving 15 years for working with leftist rebels. A top Peru prosecutor is appealing her parole. (Nov. 8)
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The parents of a college football player who was shot to death by police went before a local judge and had a meeting with the district attorney coordinating the investigation. They want federal authorities to investigate the matter. (Nov. 8)
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