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Story of the week would have to be Intel being slapped with a 1.45 billion USD fine by the European Commission. Intel “went to great lengths to cover up its anti-competitive actions” and “harmed millions of European consumers” to maintain its dominance of the global market for the chips, which is worth about 22 billion euros a year, Ms. Kroes said. Another report here. What I want to know is, what happens to that money? Who actually gets it? Discussion here.
Meanwhile a shot of Intel's Larabee processor was shown recently, spurring much speculation, including some on Tech Report. If you look closely at this high-res version of the die shot, you'll see that the chip is laid out in three rows. The design of the chip looks to be fairly modular, with repeating areas of uniform structures of several types. The most common unit of the chip is most likely the x86-compatible Larrabee shader core, and the dark areas at the ends of its long, rectangular shape are probably cache of some sort, either L1, L2, or both.
Here's a cool solar-powered motorcyle. “People look at me at the stop light and just say, ‘What is that?” Gryzch said. “I just shrug my shoulders and tell them, ‘it’s solar powered.”‘
George spotted this single-PCB GTX 295, with more info here. The change of PCB makes the card require more in cooling performance. Single-PCB GTX295 features reference cooler which is 22.61mm thick. The two large heatsinks can effectively cool down the GT200 chips as well as PCB board, and the 88.5mm-diameter turbo fan is capable of delivering heat outside. You know, the previous GTX295 can’t vent the heat out of chassis, which is a big problem.
A few people pointed out this Apollo 11 Owner's Workshop Manual coming out soon. This is the story of the Apollo 11 mission and the ‘space hardware’ that made it all possible. From the evolution and design of the Saturn V rocket, the Command, Service Modules, and the Lunar Module are described. Launch procedures are described, ‘flying’ the Saturn V, navigation, course correction ‘burns’, orbital rendezvous techniques, flying the LEM, moon landing, moon walk, take-off from the moon, and earth re-entry procedure.
Speaking of spacey stuff, this has to be one of the most awesome photos ever. More info and another view here. On Wednesday, May 13, two, tiny, fast moving spots crossed an otherwise featureless solar disk. Not sunspots though, the dark blemishes were silhouettes of the shuttle orbiter Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope side by side. Also, the lady who named Pluto died recently, thanks JM.
HotHardware have a four-way SSD roundup. Due to all of the recent activity in the SSD space, we thought it was a good time to round-up another assortment of solid state drives to get a better feel for the current landscape.
A popular flight sim site called Avsim has apparently been destroyed by hackers, thanks "the scotsman". The attack took down the site's two servers and the owners had not established an external backup system. Ouch. :(
iXBT look at Phenom II with DDR3. Many reviewers and interested users said that it made no sense to upgrade from DDR2 to DDR3. So it must be really hard for the new memory type to justify its existence, even if there are some technical prerequisites for it already. We decided to publish a thorough analysis of the situation.
Here's a fairly generic skeet shooting game from Samsung.
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