28nm Parts, Near In future: Globalfoundries

In an interview, Tom Sonderman, vice-president of manufacturing system and technology in Globalfoundries said that, the company is planning to built an GPUs using 28nm technology, in near future.

According to X-bit Labs website, which published 4 page interview of Tom Sonderman where many topic discussed such as the Globalfoundries name, origin of company and many more other things came in light during interview, but in the end when X-Bit Labs asked a question about AMD outsourcing its chipset and graphics chips to Globalfoundries.

He said, "We intend on competing for AMD’s graphics business in the 32nm/28nm technology node," However, as X-Bit pointed out, AMD is obliged to require both microprocessors and GPUs from Globalfoundries, as AMD is one of the owners; using the term "competing" may have been inaccurate. Still, Sonderman's answer hints to the possibility that the company may be ready for 28nm processing soon.

Additionally, Sonderman said that the company is already sniffing around for additional clients outside AMD. "We are actively engaging with multiple tier 1 fabless and fablite semiconductor companies who require leading-edge capacity," he added. "We’re not ready to announce any new relationships yet."

"PC platform technologies (CPUs, GPUs), wireless, game consoles, and telecom are a few examples of markets we’re targeting," he confirmed.

Sonderman also pointed towards its 32nm technology, which is already functioning in Dresden. Thou, he did not revel any more details on 28nm processing and when company is going to carry out the new technology.

So keep your figure cross to access in whole new world of '28nm'.

ATI Radeon HD 4890 And GeForce GTX 275 Out Same Day; Grab Your Machine!

The two big names in graphic industry AMD and Nvidia launch there GPUs officially.

AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4890 is heavily load as it 1.36 TeraFLOPS, GDDR5 memory using a 256-bit interface, 800 stream processors, and clock speeding almost about 1 GHz mark.

“The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card represents the AMD sweet spot strategy reloaded,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Products Group, AMD. “With last year’s launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 products, we gave gamers great performance and an incredible value proposition. Today, we’re doing it again. ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics cards are incredible performers, priced to sell in all major markets worldwide.”

As we come to price section this high-end graphics card from ATI and the HD 4000 series card will be available for $249 (Rs. 12,750), and priced at select retailers as low as $229 after the mail-in rebate.

When it comes to Nvidia, they are out with there new GeForce GTX 275 GPU. This beaut is based on the GT200 architecture, featuring 240 processor core operating at 1404 MHz, 80 texture processing units, an 896 MB farmebuffer and a 448 bit memory interface.

Nvidia claims that it new GPU can handle Windows 7 heat, and is loaded with 185 new GeForce release drivers. Only thing that can hurt gamers is its availability since it will not available until 14th of April. This killing machine will cost your pocket about a price of $249.

Ready to Shop! :D

Intel Core i7 975 Out This April?

There are many speculation made by distributors and retailers of Intel Core i7 975 launching. Some of the websites are already showing date of releases as 6th or 7th of April. Thou, there is no official announcement from Intel and this dates are estimates only. Core i7 975 is expected to ship out in later this May.

The outlook of 45nm Core i7 975 is highly-anticipated one. This new processor provides core speed of 3.33 GHz, uses 1 MB of L2 cache and 8 MB of L3 cache, provides support for LGA 1366 sockets and also has a TDP of 130W. Recently the processor was leaked, overclocked, and benchmarked, pushed up to an "extreme" clock core speed of 5,239 MHz, breaking the then-current record of Futuremark's 2DMark05 benchmark application

As we come price section, here Intel Core i7 975 is hit hard with a cost of $999 which is quite high. Keeping price an issues Intel is launching similar processor with less speed about 3.06 GHz for $562, which is still high enough to hit your pocket hard :D.

Some more other processor which are lineup to get launch in May itself are consist of the Pentium Dual-Core E6300, the Core 2 Duo E7600, and the Celeron Dual-Core E1600 which will  cost users about $84, $84, and $53 respectively.

500 GB Data In 2.5-Inch SSD By A-DATA

A-DATA technology revealed its 500 GB SSD at CeBIT 2009. The product launched by company is about 2.5 inch and is capable of storing about 500 GB.

A-DATA's 512 GB XPG 2.5 inch SSD offers notebooks and PC enthusiasts half a terabyte of storage with excellent read and write speeds. With Aluminum casing this small storing monster looks cool! Thou, company doesn't reveal its price.

When it comes to speed in both ways(read/write), the 2.5 inch SSD give a top speed of 230 MB/sec and 160 MB/sec respectively. In addition, 512 GB XPG 2.5 inch SSD can resists a shock of 1500G/0.5 ms and a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1,500,00 hours (figures look good :-D .....)

"Continuing to leading in the industry, A-DATA is committed to provide the highest performance, capacity, and best quality products to satisfy the needs of PC enthusiasts," the company said. "Through the launch of the highest capacity of SSD in the industry, the 512 GB XPG 2.5-inch SSD is committed to satisfy the needs of notebook and PC enthusiasts on fast transfer rate and high capacity SSD."

A-DATA is the world’s second largest vendor of memory modules. The company’s main product lines include memory modules, flash memory drives/cards, and multimedia application products.

Fully Loaded Apple's New iMac and Mac Mini

On Tuesday, Apple roll-out its iMac and Mac Mini product lines, several changes are made in both products like memory, performance and storage, but there was no major price cut came in light.

Thou, the all-in-one desktop comes with faster processor and better graphics the maker provide the new model at the same price as the old model.

iMac consist a 24-Inch screen, a processor of 2.66 GHz Intel core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB of DDR3 memory(I guess which is more than sufficient, ;-)..), hard-drive which is capable of storing 640 GB of data(man!!!), and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M integrated graphics and all this heavy loaded machine is available at price of $1, 499, which is quite same as 20-Inch iMac cost to your pocket.

An much anticipated upgrade from Apple was in Mac Mini, which is one of the company's least pricey desktop. A major improvement in the system, which measures 6.5 by 6.5 by 2 inches, is the GeForce 9400M that delivers five times better graphics performance than the older Mini, according to Apple. This time Apple claims its Mini consumes less energy by 13 watts, but only when system is idle.

now it will be interesting to see that will consumers will switch over to PCs which runs Microsoft Windows or will stick to there personal favorite even during this hard time.

Apple's 24-inch iMac can be consider as a price cut because it cost you same as the old model even after all up-gradation in new iMac.
"It's their best effort at adjusting the price, but their computers are still more expensive than other systems," Gartner analyst Mika Kitagawa said.