Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sony launches 24.8M pixel full-frame digital camera sensor
Sony has unveiled a full-frame CMOS sensor, which is equivalent in size to 35mm film. The sensor could find its way into high-end digital cameras from companies such as Nikon.
The 24.81 megapixel sensor is capable of capturing images at 6.3 frames per second, although it only offers 12-bit output, as opposed to the 14-bit sensors found in models such as the Canon 1d Mark III and Nikon D3.
Sony says its sensor includes a new "Column-Parallel A/D Conversion Technique", which means each column of pixels has its own analogue-to-digital converter, helping to reduce the amount of noise in photos and improve its burst rate.
The sensor should find its way into cameras this year, although exact model details have yet to be confirmed.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
French police future arests will be under Linux GPL licence
Sony makes 45nm Cell, IBM big Cell research center
30 MB L2 processor. Is it processor with cache or simply cache with built in processor?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
3D shockwave
Monday, January 28, 2008
Turbo fraud: Never bench Intel's 4C for less than 2 minutes !
You will get 37% better results. In a cold turbo mode.
Phenom FX 2,8Ghz in Q2 !?
Friday, January 25, 2008
Windows 7 Ultimate
Some pundits believe Microsoft is trying to stoke the Windows 7 fires to “build excitement” for its next Windows release. I don’t think this is the case at all. I think Microsoft wants to smother the Windows 7 flames and to dampen expectations as much as possible.Well, hmm how many lines of the code are in there? 63M?
Army's Future Combat System plagued by 63.8 million lines of software code !
According to GAO, the program has grown from 33.7 million lines of code to 63.8 million. The next largest DoD software development project is the Joint Strike Fighter, at about 23 million lines of code.
President Bush legacy brief
First synthetized human genome by year 2014
But synthetic biologists are also planning to scale up from the simplest organisms to the most complex: human beings. The first bacterial genome was sequenced in 1995 and was followed by the landmark sequencing of the human genome in 2001. Based on that trajectory, Voigt estimated that a synthetic human genome -- which could be used in human cloning research -- could be created by 2014.
But before researchers can do that level of synthetic biology, scientists will need to automate their methods. Beyond this work, Voigt said, scientists will need programming tools, in the same way computer scientists use higher level programming languages like Fortran, C++ and Java, to control computer function.
"(Otherwise it's like) writing Vista in binary," he said. "It's just not going to happen."
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Under the Hood: What Intel didn't tell you about 45 nm
Google search query lost somewhere $10B this month
VIA Isaiah X86 64-bit CPU
2 Ghz clock, 128KB cache, nothing performance spectacular, but VIA is chipset manufacturer , right?
A lot of market for small processor applications is left open. Right? Isaiah core area is just a quarter of Penryn's
one. Being made in 65nm that means its core is superior to Intel's because it used less transistors in cache and more in advanced multimedia features.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Mercury Research Q4 PC Processor Report is out
| AMD Units | 4Q06 | 1Q07 | 2Q07 | 3Q07 | 4Q07 |
| Server subtotal | 792 | 443 | 423 | 470 | 572 |
| Desktop subtotal | 12,007 | 7,312 | 10,812 | 11,602 | 12,498 |
| Mobile subtotal | 4,806 | 3,358 | 4,063 | 5,729 | 5,950 |
| Total | 17,605 | 11,113 | 15,298 | 17,801 | 19,020 |
| Intel Units | 4Q06 | 1Q07 | 2Q07 | 3Q07 | 4Q07 |
| Total Server | 2,757 | 2,470 | 2,881 | 3,041 | 3,473 |
| Total Desktop | 29,061 | 27,117 | 28,271 | 31,324 | 32,460 |
| Total | 20,003 | 18,366 | 19,833 | 24,510 | 27,218 |
| Total | 51,820 | 47,953 | 50,985 | 58,875 | 63,151 |
| AMD ASP | 4Q06 | 1Q07 | 2Q07 | 3Q07 | 4Q07 |
| Server average | $314.62 | $328.63 | $383.78 | $335.59 | $297.20 |
| Desktop average | $61.35 | $54.30 | $48.60 | $51.80 | $56.39 |
| Mobile average | $69.79 | $66.22 | $63.24 | $63.71 | $63.26 |
| Average | $75.05 | $68.84 | $61.76 | $63.13 | $65.78 |
| Intel ASP | 4Q06 | 1Q07 | 2Q07 | 3Q07 | 4Q07 |
| Average Server | $431.48 | $428.51 | $437.42 | $420.52 | $414.96 |
| Average Desktop | $99.42 | $98.94 | $82.66 | $90.08 | $95.65 |
| Average | $132.00 | $132.43 | $121.05 | $115.29 | $109.41 |
| Average | $129.66 | $128.74 | $117.64 | $117.64 | $119.14 |
| AMD Revenue | 4Q06 | 1Q07 | 2Q07 | 3Q07 | 4Q07 |
| Server subtotal | 249,183 | 145,584 | 162,339 | 157,728 | 169,997 |
| Desktop subtotal | 736,600 | 397,049 | 525,506 | 600,961 | 704,748 |
| Mobile subtotal | 335,421 | 222,379 | 256,925 | 365,014 | 376,374 |
| Total | $1,321,203 | $765,012 | $944,770 | $1,123,703 | $1,251,119 |
| Intel Revneue | 4Q06 | 1Q07 | 2Q07 | 3Q07 | 4Q07 |
| Total Server | $1,189,503 | $1,058,241 | $1,260,059 | $1,278,747 | $1,441,279 |
| Total Desktop | $2,889,104 | $2,683,074 | $2,337,035 | $2,821,724 | $3,104,731 |
| Total | $2,640,379 | $2,432,161 | $2,400,776 | $2,825,759 | $2,977,835 |
| Total | $6,718,985 | $6,173,476 | $5,997,870 | $6,926,231 | $7,523,846 |
