We recently wrote about the fact that there were the first real worries about the upcoming Intel confrontation with the British company ARM processor server market, in Europe launched a program to develop energy-efficient ARM-server, HP also considering the possibility of release servers based on ARM.

Soon after that HP officially unveiled Project Moonshot – the initiative release of energy efficient servers. Moreover, this initiative is not only HP has announced the impending development platform based on the chip ARM, but also a multi-stage multi-year program that includes elements such as HP Discovery Lab, where the company’s customers will be able to experiment, to test and compare the application on the platform and partner ecosystem Pathfinder Program, which will assist in the research initiatives of customers and support the development of elements of the Project Moonshot through open industry standards.

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While CEO Stephen Elop Nokia (Stephen Elop) has announced the Windows Phone smartphones almost a year before they enter the market than has undermined sales Symbian-devices, it is much more restrained interpretation of the tablet planes. The only thing we can say with certainty – Nokia examines Windows 8 as an excellent opportunity for the Tablet market.

Operating system Microsoft Windows 8 will support both high-performance chips are x86, and energy-efficient processor ARM; thanks to the latest desktop environment will be available in ultra-portable device that can perform some traditional applications.

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As a result of continuous development of ARM processors are strongly increasing their productivity, so the idea of ​​using these chips in the next generation of thin notebooks and entry-level PC is becoming more viable. It is not surprising that Qualcomm wants to become one of the first ARM-producers in this market.

These plans shared with the public none other than senior vice-president and president of the European branch of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Enrico Salvatori (Enrico Salvatori). In a recent interview resource Fudzilla, he said that the company’s goals include optimizing the platform for smartphones and tablets, followed by access to the markets of laptops and PCs.

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On Friday, IBM announced the death of John Opel (John Opel), one of the most influential executives of the company for all its long history. Former Head of IBM was on the executive director from January 1981 to January 1985 and oversaw the launch of the first of the original IBM PC – Model 5150 – in August 1981.

His achievement lies in the fact that he supported the idea of ​​precaution home PC at a time when IBM was still known primarily for its mainframes. Mr. Opel also spodvig IBM’s significant investment in the company by Intel in 1984, which helped the latter to make its chips the basis of a PC.

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The current executive director of Google, Larry Page (Larry Page) does not like to spend time on meetings and conferences, he even got rid of the Secretary, that he once again did not inform him about the upcoming meeting. Also, he does not bestow an e-mail (even if it comes to his own service, Gmail) – solve problems and exchange views in case it takes too much time.

Mr. Paige has never been so impatient, it is now. He has been a transformation in the era of Google midlife crisis company, which threatens to displace it from the perspective of one of the most dynamic leaders of Silicon Valley.

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As expected, today NVIDIA officially announced the release of a modified version of the graphics card GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which has 448 CUDA cores instead of 384.

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores made on a black PCB under the bus PCI Express 2.0 x16, and is based on a set of 40-nm chip technology with the same structure as that of the more powerful single-GPU graphics cards GeForce GTX 570 and GeForce GTX 580 and dual-chip GeForce GTX 590.

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The disaster, which is called the Bulldozer processor output in some circles, apparently convinced the leadership of AMD, the chances of effective confrontation with Intel in the PC market decline with each passing day. Everyone was waiting for quite a lot from the new 8-core FX, and in some cases, they were slower than the 6-core Phenom II decision the previous generation.

Whether it was or anything else, the reason for the latter solution, but Mercurynews reports that plans for AMD – the maximum distance from direct competition with Intel. The company will be less attention paid to the processors for PCs and concentrate more on the mobile market that is going to change the strategy, which is followed for many years. In this way, probably, AMD will continue to develop its own platform Fusion, optimizing it and letting the chips for use in tablets or even smartphones.

“We are at a turning point – AMD representative said Mike Silverman (Mike Silverman). – We all need to leave behind the old notion “AMD vs. Intel”, because the more it will not happen. ”

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