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Thursday, 17-November-2011 00:32:23 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AMD has some new Opterons, previously code-named Interlagos and Valencia, with up to 16 cores. “Our industry is at a new juncture; virtualization has provided a new level of reliable consolidation and businesses are now looking to the cloud for even more agility and efficiency. We designed the new AMD Opteron processor for this precise moment,” said Paul Struhsaker, corporate vice president and general manager, Commercial Business, AMD. More here on ArsTechnica.
Meanwhile NVIDIA's Tegra CPUs are part of an upcoming supercomputer. The chipmaker said today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is developing a new hybrid supercomputer that, for the first time, combines energy-efficient Nvidia Tegra CPUs (central processing units), based on the ARM chip architecture, with Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs).
If you happen to see any prototype Blade laptops, Razer would like them back. Razer is working closely with the authorities, as you do when something this valuable is stolen, and they urge their fans not to buy any suspiciously Blade-like laptops in back alleys or out of the backs of pickups.
Applidium have figured out how Siri works. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! Or use Siri on an iPad! And we’re goign to share this know-how with you.
A Dutch artist decided to print out all the photos uploaded to Flickr in one day. He has created this amazing room of one million images after downloading and printing out every picture uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. For his project, Photography In Abundance, he wanted to give visitors the opportunity to grasp the immense scale of just how many photos are shared on one site on a daily basis.
Tweaktown have a look at dual and quad channel memory performance on X79 and Z68. Memory performance on the new platform has been all over the place and I've personally been talking to both motherboard and RAM manufacturers to see what we can do about the performance. The big issue at the moment is under AIDA64 - an almost industry standard benchmark for us, we see that Quad Channel isn't painted in the best light.
GIGABYTE made a X79 overclocking video. Introduction to overclocking with GIGABYTE X79 boards, bios options and tuning, OC Touch discussion, RAM tweaks etc 3930K and X79-UD7.
The USA's DOJ want to make it a crime to violate terms of service. The U.S. Department of Justice is defending computer hacking laws that make it a crime to use a fake name on Facebook or lie about your weight in an online dating profile at a site like Match.com. In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies.
HWSecrets continue their thermal compound roundup. We added five new thermal compounds to our previous roundup, for a total of 50 different thermal compounds from major brands. We also tried another thermal compound from the kitchen: butter.
XbitLabs have a 750GB USB 3.0 External Drives Roundup, as well as a 1TB Hard Disk Drives Roundup. The last HDD roundup on our site was dedicated to 500 GB drives. Today we are going to check out nine models with 1 TB storage capacity from Seagate and Western Digital.
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