Lenovo has introduced yesterday at CES 2013, the first smartphone that integrates the dual-core Intel Atom chipset for mobile phones.
   Lenovo K900 has a 5.5-inch screen, IPS display with 1080p resolution, 2GB RAM and 16GB of storage space. The smartphone offers a main camera with a Sony Exmor sensor of 13 MP and dual flash and ais accompanied by a 2MP front camera
   Announced two days ago, Atom Z2580 is the first dual-core processor for mobile devices released by Intel, it practically doubles the performance of previous model with a single core, Z2480. The new CPU is built on 32nm architecture, but the company will launch by the end od the year 22nm mobile processors.
   Lenovo k900 will be released in April on the Chinese market, when it will be upgraded to Android 4.2, the company said that it will be available later in other parts of the world.
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   Asus is about to expand the range of Zenbook ultrabooks equipped with 14 and 15-inch models.
   Present on the market for about a year, the Asus Zenbook ultrabooks are noticed by their finishing quality, flexibility and light weight.
    Asus Zenbook UX525VS has an14-inch screen, weighs 1.9 kg and boasts a case of only 6 mm thickness. Despite the limited space, the new Zenbook includes an  CD/DVD optical drive and a NVIDIA GeForce GT645M with 1GB video memory. Depending on budget, Asus Zenbook UX42VS comes equipped with Intel Core i7, i5 or i3, 6GB RAM and hybrid hard drive with a capacity up to 1 TB.
   Asus Zenbook UX525VS has an 15-inch screen, comes with Intel Core i7 or i5 processor, up to 10 GB of RAM, hybrid hard drive with a capacity of up to 1TB and Nvidia GeForce same video card  GT645M with 1GB of video memory.
  Asus Zenbook U500VZ  is out of the ultrabook class, but remains an unusually slim and lightweight laptop with 6 mm thickness and weighing 2 Kg. Equipped with an 15-inch Full HD screen and a quad-core Intel Core i7 with standard voltage, U500VZ offers the performance of a conventional laptop, but without sacrificing the ultrakook style. Along with the 8 GB RAM, Zenbook U500VZ includes a NVIDIA GeForce GT650M with 2GB memory and performance that leaves room for some less demanding 3D games.
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   AMD's new FX CPUs the utilizes multi-core architecture Piledriver, with up to 15% better performance than   the previous generation.
   Piledriver architecture used by the latest AMD FX was designed for multi-threaded applications: creation of audio/video and the best gaming experience
   AMD has launched 4 processors from this series:
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    Aspire M5, ready to launch with Windows 8 on October 26, is an 14-inch ultrabook framed by a very narrow frame and equipped with a multitouch screen.
    At a price of 799.99 U.S. dollars we will  receive a configuration  with a dual-core Intel Core i5 at 1.7 GHz, 6 GB RAM and a pair consisting of a 20 GB SSD and a 500GB hard drive. Laterally, we find a DVD Burner, a less common equipment on systems from ultrabook category. The 14 inch touch has an 1366x768 pixels resolution and support multitouch gestures and can interpret up to 10 fingers. For more control in applications we have a wide touchpad compatible with Windows 8 and a chiclet type backlit keyboard. With these features, the Aspire M5 (M5-481PT) manages to sneak in a case of 2 cm thickness, weighing about 2 kg.
   Those who will consider that they will not need a touch screen can choose an ultraportable laptop, Aspire V5 (V5-471P), at a price of 749.99 dollars and specifications nearly identical with the M5 version , without touch interface and hybrid storage device. Alternatively, we may choose the Aspire V5 (V5-571P) model with an 15.6 inch screen, which also don't have a touch interface, offering instead a larger screen for the same price of 799.99 dollars.
   Aspire M5 is housed in a case made of aluminum, while the Aspire V5 series models use a thicker plastic casing.
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   The first DDR4 modules have been in testing for quite some time now and even the first memory controller’s designs are ready for mass production, but DRAM makers are now yet willing make the switch.
   DDR3 modules are dirt cheap right now and this is really not desirable not for the DRAM makers nor for the module manufacturers, but the industry is simply not ready for DDR4 and won’t be for the next 12 months.
   In a very interesting and informative meeting we had with Kingston’s European Product Development Manager, Mr. Stephane Rizzetto broke the news to us.
   DDR4 will not land on the PC market during the next year.
   Neither Intel nor AMD will have any kind of platform for the new memory type, no matter what market segment is in question.
   Some were hoping that the expensive LGA2011 platform from Intel will receive an upgrade or an annoyingly slightly different LGA2012 will bring the much awaited upgrade, but this will not happen.
   Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 now brings support for 4TB of RAM memory for a single server and DDR3 is now cheap enough to be able to fill the market’s virtualization needs.
   AMD and Intel are taking different routes to improve performance of their platforms.
Intel is likely to use Crystalwell cache-like concept and AMD is working hard to make the iGPU and CPU collaborate better with simultaneous memory access for the two.
   When it is finally introduced, DDR4 will be less interesting for desktop PC enthusiasts as it will likely not offer any significant improvement over DDR3 2133 MHz and will also be considerably more expensive.
   What DDR4 will actually bring is high module density, with modules starting at the 8 GB mark, and 16 GB ones being available at launch.
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   Maingear has officially launched a new gaming laptop, Nomad 17. The laptop is equipped with an Intel Core i7 and a Nvidia GPU from the GTX 600 series. In addition, it is available in many colors to appeal to all lovers of games.
   Maingear Nomad has a Core i7 wit up to 3.8 GHz speed and up to 32 GB DDR3 RAM. The video cards available are Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M or GTX 680M.

   JEDEC is an international organization that encompasses many memory chip manufacturers, module manufacturers and other technology companies.
   The organization develops and sets the standard specification in the DRAM memory field, and now it has officially launched the DDR4 standard.
   This means that now DDR4 mainboards and memory modules will start appearing from various manufacturers as there currently is a standard that will ensure compatibility between the different devices.
   Many believe that DDR4 will not be too popular during the next 12 months as DDR3 has greatly surpassed its specifications, and this will make initial DDR4 implementation look less impressive than DDR3-based ones.
   Also, just like any new technology, DDR4 modules will initially be quite expensive when compared with DDR3 DIMMs so there will be yet another factor working against widespread DDR4 use.
Even so, many difference companies are hard at work developing DDR4-based technologies and we’ve already reported here about Cadence’s first DDR4 memory controller that’s manufactured in TSMC’s 28nm technology.
   Intel is also preparing its own DDR4 memory controller that will likely be integrated in future Haswell processors, but even Intel is not gearing for a 2013 launch.
   The Haswell DDR4 version will likely land on the market in 2014 with an LGA2011 implementation or something similar.
   DDR3 memory was officially standardized back in 2007, but work on DDR4 started way back in 2005 while being initially projected for a 2008 launch.
   The roadmap and development plan has been changed in 2010 and only in 2011 did we start to see the first samples of DDR4 technology.DDR4 DIMMs will have 284 pins while DDR3 standard modules only have 240 pins. The SO-DIMM version will feature 256 pins while the DDR3 SO-DIMMs have only 204 pins.
   On the power consumption side, DDR4 DIMMs will need 1.2 volts while standard DDR3 modules use 1.5 volts.
   High-density modules using 3D chips manufactured using TSV technology will also make an appearance in 2014, but one of the most important aspects is the point to point nature of the standard.
   This means that a single module will likely be directly connected to a single memory channel.
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   The Alpha 24 Super Stock all-in-one personal computer is described by Maingear's CEO Wallace Santos as the proof that people don't need to sacrifice anything when choosing an all-in-one over a standard desktop PC.
   The so-called disadvantages that all-in-one systems have compared to desktops are multiple: lack of upgradeability, lower top performance potential, little overclocking support (if any) and, of course, a higher price.
   Maingear decided to eliminate these drawbacks, or at least offer enough to completely counterbalance them.
   The overclocking issue is easy: people who consider buying an AiO aren't thinking of tweaking the clock by default.
   The lack of upgradeability and performance issues were solved in a single move: Maingear equipped the Alpha 24 Super Stock with high-end components that won't actually need changing for months, years even.
That leaves the price, and we dare say that the number achieved by the custom system maker, $1,349 / 1049 – 1,349 Euro, is more than decent when taking into account just what Alpha 24 Super Stock can do.
   The Core i3-3240 Ivy Bridge CPU (3.4 GHz) is the base processor option, but a Core i7 can be chosen instead. Up to 16GB of RAM back up the unit.
   For graphics, Maingear selected an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 GPU, but has the GeForce GTX 680 in reserve, just in case.
   Moving on, a hard drive supplies the configuration with as much as 3TB of storage space, though an SSD can be employed instead, with a top capacity of 256 GB but faster data rates.
   Everything else follows the standard blueprint: HDMI, USB ports (2.0 only for some reason), mic/headphone jacks, ODD, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an ODD (DVD or Blu-ray).
   "In this day and age, there shouldn't be a reason anyone would need to compromise for an all-in-one performance PC," says Wallace Santos, CEO and founder of MAINGEAR.
   "Other all-in-one PC solutions pale in comparison to the ALPHA 24 and can be summed up with just a few words: 1080p gaming set to Ultra, maxed anti-aliasing and tessellation."
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   It looks like Intel will get into the foundry business, but despite the fact that this sounds mind-blowing, it won’t be as exciting as you could imagine.
   Intel will let some smaller players build their chips on 22nm as the company is the leader in changing the manufacturing process. At this time TSMC as its greatest competitor is at 28nm, with test chips in 22nm, and Global foundries at 32nm in Dresden and 28nm slowly staring this year in Malta, New York State.
   When we say Intel will make chips on its own terms it means that it will accept designs from companies that won’t compete Intel's offerings. Intel has even publicly mentioned few potential clients and we will try to get this information confirmed for you.
   In the long run, since Qualcomm and Apple are both fighting for TSMC’s love, there might be a time when Intel broadens its partner list trying to make money of these ultra-big, building fabs investments.
This is a rather interesting twist and it looks like over the course of next two years TSMC will finally get some decent competition.
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ZTE has introduced its first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone which is powered with an Intel chip.
ZTE Grand X IN has an Intel Atom Processor Z2460 and comes with HSPA+ 21Mbps support with Intel XMM 6260 Platform. The company tells us that its new smartphone will have 1GB RAM and will be available in 4GB/16GB versions. You can expand the the memory to 32GB using microSD. It also has a 4.3 inch TFT, Capacitive display with 960×540 resolution and 16M colours.
It comes up with 8MP primary camera and 0.3MP secondary camera. It also features GPS, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth 2.1 + A2DP; Accelerator, Gyro, Compass, Proximity, Light; Dolby, FM Radio; DLNA, 1080p Recording, 1080p Play; and NFC, FOTA, HD Voice, Dual Mic. It is ZTE's first flagship smartphone in Europe to feature Intel Inside and is part of a move from Chipzilla to elbow its way into the mobile market. We are expecting to see more Intel based smartphones out soon from Lenovo,Orange and Lava International.
Motorola reportedly is expected to launch its own Intel-powered smartphone during an event on 18 September in London. The ZTE has announced that Grand X IN will be available in Europe in September. No word on price of course.
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   In less than nine months after the launching of the the first Razer Blade, the electronics maker, unveiled the second generation: Razer Blade 2 with more powerful components and a lower price, with almost $ 300.
   Razer introduced the new specifications of the Blade 2  , a real "beast" laptop, the company prides itself on working with the motto "The Beauty is now the Beast".

During this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany, Chinese company Lenovo has decided to announce its new thin and light series of notebooks called the S series. The new product line is powered by Intel’s processors and AMD’s mobile GPUs while there are also models using AMD’s APUs only.
The first and most expensive member of the new S series from Lenovo is the S300.
This is a thin and light notebook powered by Intel’s Ivy Bridge based Core i5 processor and a discrete AMD video card.
The diagonal size of the screen measures 13” and body color is white while the keyboard is black.
The second on the list is the S400 that also comes equipped with Intel’s Ivy Bridge based Core i5 processor and a discrete AMD video card. The mobile system can feature a 500 GB HDD and also has a 32 GB SSD to boost the overall responsiveness and degrease boot time.
Lenovo’s S405 is surprisingly positioned as a top solution featuring an AMD A8 APU with four x86 processing cores, a 1TB HDD and the same 32 GB SSD that the S400 has.
The S400 and S405 are 14” notebooks and there are more different color schemes such as white, black, red, silver and apparently pink.
All the systems in the new Lenovo S series are not positioned as UltraBooks, but are clearly quite thin and quite light.
They all weigh a maximum of 1.8 Kg and that's just under 4 pounds while being just 21.9 millimeters thick (0.87 inches).
The starting price is $500 (400 EUR) and it will vary slightly depending on the configuration.
The way Lenovo likes to put it, the S series have a long battery life just like netbooks, but come with the processing power of a notebook, lacking the price premium of an UltraBook.
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Intel has teamed up with Microsoft’s sworn enemy VMware to deliver a platform for "trusted cloud."
The technology will mix Intel's Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and VMware's vSphere 5.1, platform for building cloud infrastructures. Intel said its hardware-enhanced security capabilities integrated directly into the processor combined with vSphere 5.1 would provide a hardened and high-integrity platform to run business-critical applications in private and public cloud environments.
Chipzilla thinks that the biggest barrier to cloud adoption is the fact that companies are worried about security. Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel's Cloud Infrastructure Group, in a statement that Intel TXT provides hardware enforcement to help overcome some of the most challenging aspects of cloud security, including detection and prevention of bios attacks and evolving forms of stealthy malware, such as rootkits.
Using VMware vSphere 5.1 support of TXT is essential to building a foundation of trust in virtualized infrastructures and the cloud and is ready for deployment. In cloud datacenters, servers are typically virtualized and shared across multiple departments or customers and are no longer dedicated to specific lines of business, creating new security concerns, Intel said.
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We know it’s a big statement but sources close to the matter that have seen a roadmap or a two have revealed us that Haswell comes three times faster 3D graphics than today’s Ivy Bridge Core i3000 series.
It turns out that Haswell, Intel's fourth-generation core architecture, can score three times the performance of Ivy Bridge GT1 and the Haswell in mind is called GT2 Desktop SKU.
In addition the new core scores up to three times faster in video conversion, something that Intel got better in the last few processor generations. Of course, up to three times in 3D and up to two times in video conversion are best case scenarios, but it sounds quite optimistic and impressive.
It can make AMD and Nvidia run for their money in the lower end market segment and possibly better gaming at entry level notebooks and desktop computers.
When one of the Nvidia’s general managers was asked what happens if Intel gets its act together and get its integrated graphics much faster, he replied that Nvidia will make even faster entry level parts. The same probably goes for AMD, but with the added luxury of top notch graphics in APUs.
The chase will definitely continue heated up in Q2 2013 when we should expect to see the launch of Haswell.
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Intel’s next-generation processor and the whole Haswell-EP platform is likely to be the biggest jump in performance since the 2006 introduction of Core 2 Duo. The Haswell processor itself will be considerably more advanced than Ivy Bridge, while bringing new innovative features and raw computing power.
The Haswell processor will still be manufactured in 22 nm process, which confirms the fact that Intel is not going to reach 14 nm processor manufacturing during the next year.
Intel’s new platform will most likely be the first DDR4 personal computing platform available on a large scale. The fastest DDR4 memory modules supported will be running at a modest 2133 MHz.
We’re calling 2133 MHz modest because many memory manufactures have announced weeks – if not months – ago DDR3 modules certified to work at 3 GHz using overclocking settings.
The company has always been conservative about the memory frequencies supported by its chipsets, so the Haswell-EP platforms will be no different this time.
Intel’s slide, published by ChipHell, clearly shows that the processor is supposed to have 10 or more processing cores.
Moreover, if we take a look at the level 3 cache allocation, we’ll see that the chart also says that there will be roughly a 2.5 MB level 3 cache slice allocated to each core.
Considering that there will be a total of 35 MB of level 3 cache, this amounts to about 14 cores, and that’s an impressive number in itself.
AMD originally had 10-core processor plans for 2013, but those were scrapped once new management came in place.
Sure, the small, fabless CPU designer can stick together two dies with 8 cores each, but that's a totally different approach when compared with Intel’s 35 MB shared level 3 cache.
HyperThreading technology will still be around and Haswell will also come with HNI or Haswell New Instructions.
That is an Intel AVX 2.0 set of instructions that the company will design inside its new processor.
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Intel wants to invade all market segments with its third-generation processors, now launches new mobile processors from the i3 series. The announcement comes shortly after the company revealed that Surface, Microsoft's tablet, uses Intel. Intel has launched two new mobile processors Core: i3-3110M and i3-3217U, both at a price of $ 225. Intel Core i3-3110M is a dual-core at 1.8 GHz that consumes 35W, has 3MB cache and iscompatible with PCI Express 3.0.It has Intel Graphics HD 4000 as integrated graphics chip , running from 650 MHz to at 1GHz. Intel Core i3-3217U consume about half the energy needed by first chip, only 17W, but offers similar specifications: a dual core at 1.8 GHz. The differences come from the graphics, Intel HD Graphics 4000 runs at 360 MHz and is compatible with PCI Express 2.0.
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Orange Santa Clara, the smartphone with Intel design and processor , arrives in Europe on June 6 under the name Orange San Diego. The Intel Medfield chipset with an 1.6 GHz Atom Z2460 processor and 6260 XMM HSPA + wireless modem are made by Intel and they are trying to enter to the smartphone market. The most praised aspect of the phone it's the battery life of 14 days on standby.
Orange San Diego has a 4-inch screen with an 1024x600 resolution and 16GB storage space. The new smartphone developed by Intel and Orange uses NFC for mobile phone payments.
The first European country in which Orange San Diego will be sold is the UK, where the price without contract is 200 pounds.
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K800 uses a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor and runs Android 2.3.7. The smartphone made ​​by Intel and Lenovo has a 4.5 inch IPS display with a resolution of 720x1280.
Equipped with an 8MP and a front camera of 1.3 MP, the smartphone uses wireless display technology created by Intel that allows the streaming of videos from phone to a compatible HDTV.
The K800 Smartphone, sold at a price of about $ 524, is the second phone with Intel CPU after the Lava Xolo 900 launching in India, in April. In the up coming months more Intel phones launches are expected from Motorola, ZTE and Orange.
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Intel has revealed some details about smartphones processors, under development. After Intel Atom, Intel will launch Intel Merrifield and Intel 6331, both prepared for 2013.
Intel chips will be developed on 22nm: Merrifield is a dual-core, while Intel 6331 is a single core processor.
Intel Merrifield will have native support for 4G LTE and will be delivered to manufacturers of mobile technology in 2013 and will include new radio XMM 7260.
The current generation of Intel chips, Medfield, are using 32nm technology and provides with included modem connectivity up to 21 Mbps HSPA+.
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After it created Windows 8 to get stronger market touchscreen device sites, Microsoft has planned with manufacturers the launch of the new tablet PC with Windows 8 in November.
The first Windows 8 tablets that will reach consumers this fall will be based on Intel.
In addition to the basic version of the operating system for tablets with Intel, Microsoft prepares Windows 8 RT, for tablets with ARM chips produced by Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Nvidia.
Besides the Intel,AMD and ARM Windows 8 tablets is expected a large number of hybrid notebook/tablet.
On the notebook/tablet hybrids are expected the new Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs, but most Windows 8 tablets will use Intel Atom "Clover Trail".
(by byetech staff)