Archive for October, 2007
The most powerful supercomputer in the world
31 October 2007Japanese company NEC has created the most powerful in the world supercomputer SX-9 which peak performance makes 839 billion operations with floating decimal point in a second (839 TFLOPS).
Till now the most powerful in the world was a supercomputer BlueGene/L developed by experts of IBM together with US Nuclear Safety. Its productivity makes 280,6 TFLOPS. [...]
TVs: Samsung shares plans for the future
30 October 2007During an exhibition FPD International 2007 in Japan official Samsung Electronics’ representatives have shared the plans for the future with journalists.
EE Times Asia informs, referring to the head of Samsung LCD division Lee Sang-Wan, the company does not exclude the possibility of construction of own factory on manufacture of LCD-panels of 10-th generation. [...]
Sony offers 80 GB for storage of family photos
29 October 2007There are some ways for digital photos import. First, they can be recorded with the help of the built-in device for memory cards reading, second, with the help of the built-in recording CD/DVD-drive, thirdly, to copy from a personal computer - for this purpose there is Ethernet port. Besides built-in USB interface allows to keep [...]
Samsung has created first-ever 30-nanometer flesh-memory module
26 October 2007Developers from Samsung have managed to create the first 30-nanometer flesh-memory module with cells capacity in 8GB, informs TG Daily.
The novelty is Multi Level Cell (MLC) based which consists in use of multilevel cells for data storage.
According to developers, standard MLC-stores have capacity up to 2GB, therefore to achieve quadruple increase in store capacity [...]
Intel “buries” one-nuclear processors
24 October 2007Intel Corporation plans in the first quarter of 2008 to proceed to production of the first binuclear Celeron processors and simultaneously to it start phase out production of one-nuclear chips for desktop systems. With a view to decrease the cost price, new processors will originally be made on 65-nm technology.
Clock frequencies of binuclear Celeron in [...]
Japanese created round LCD-display
23 October 2007Developers of Japanese company Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology have developed the small round liquid crystal display made on new technology.
Toshiba Matsushita’s experts have developed special technology which allows to produce displays of any form. Therefore developers have immediately decided to realize the technology.
The novelty in 11 millimeters is a matrix such as TFT, on the [...]
Samsung has created the battery working on water
22 October 2007At an exhibition Korea Electronics Show 2007 Samsung has presented first in the world phone, which works on water. It was the special generating hydrogen battery, which has allowed to make it.
Inside the phone water reacts with metal, and as a result is gassed hydrogen, which is used as the power supply for the phone. [...]
Sony produces second generation Blu-ray-drive
19 October 2007Sonу Electronics has announced computer Blu-ray-drive of second generation BWU-200S, able to record BD-R disks on 4х speed and DVD±R on 16x speed. The device records BD-R twice faster, than drives of the last generation, - burning of 50-GB Blu-ray-disk takes about 45 minutes.
The drive is made in 5,25 inches form-factor with SATA interface [...]
Taiwanese electronics manufacturers will produce their iPhone’s analogue
18 October 2007Taiwanese companies have begun development of communicators with the displays, similar to iPhone.
The list of the future creators of Apple’s mobile phone contains Asustek Computer, BenQ, Compal Communications and Arima Communications.
iPhone-like products of these companies will be Windows Mobile based, completed with modules of GPS satellite navigation and will support 3G cellular networks. It [...]
Nokia has brought down the price for E65 and other models
17 October 2007The Finnish manufacturer of cell phones Nokia has brought down the price for business-smartphone E65 approximately by 15 %, transfers Reuters.
“This is normal for any product, cost changes during the life cycle”, - have noted the official sources. According to analysts, though depreciation of products is a common practice on the threshold of holidays, this [...]
