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Today computer news : 2009 - 01 - 08

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DATE:2009-01-08

The producers of finished computers suffer from the economic crisis. As reports associate with the reference to Lenovo data, that this fourth in value computers producer ( in the world ) already in the third quarter last year reported about reduction in profit by up to 78%. The results for thr fourth quarter will be even worse.

Lenovo is assembled to reduce in the current block approximately 2500 colleagues (11% of state), and to also reduce the payments volume to top managers by 30 - 50%.  Up to March 2010 the company plans to save due to these measures up to $300 ml. Within the restructuring Lenovo plans to combine regional divisions, which correspond to China, Asian- Pacific Ocean region and Russia in order to remove duplicating functions. The center of telephone calls for Lenovo will be transfered from Canada to North Carolina (USA). Lenovo expenditures for restructuring in this block are achieved with $150 ml.

Dell company  , which is the second largest computers producer in the world, also stated about its plans with respect to restructuring and reduction in the number of personnel, occupied in the production in Ireland. About 1900 colleagues will be removed, the corresponding positions will be transferred in Poland, where Dell has also some production capacities. The employment volume at the Irish factories will compose, all in all, 2400 men.

Mass reductions will impact local economy, where the production of computers at dell factories ensures up to 5% of national gross product. The level of unemployment in Ireland already reached 8%, and the transfer of dell production part in Poland caused serious public dissatisfaction.

IBM company can be deprived from 16 000 colleagues, occupied in computer equipment. Analysts predict, that incomes reduction rates force producer  to reduce a part of personnel  .

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DATE:2009-01-08

Recently appeared information that the south bridge SB800 will be presented by AMD company already at the end of the second quarter. One of the main updates in this south bridge will become the support of SATA-600 interface, which ensures the data transmission speed of up to 600 Mb/s.

Associate reported that the first devices with SATA-600 interface will appear in the second quarter this year. The introduction of new interface will start from the solid-state disks, since precisely for them the SATA-300 capacity can become real a barrier . True, this is correct only with respect to the fastest disks ( following generation ).

Old hard disks will begin to acquire the SATA-600 interface later. HDD with SATA-600 interface will be compatible with the old controllers and motherboard - the data transmission speed in this case will be naturally lowered to 150 Mb/s or 300 Mb/s.

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DATE:2009-01-08

After December cleaning in the Intel Price- list only budget four core processor, produced on 65 NM technology, remained : Core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz). Besides the lower price ($183), it was differed from its 45 NM analog in terms of imposing cache volume : 2 X 4 Mb. against 2 X 2 Mb. .

Certainly, old technical processes could not ensure the same energy efficiency and overclocking potential, but due to the large cache volume in the second level core 2 Quad q6600 could find its grateful buyer.

However, in fifth January Intel company sent out information about the removal from production of the processor core 2 Quad Of q6600 (2.4 GHz).

Last claims are possible until 8 May, 2009, the last party of box processor versions will be dispatched in 8 August 2009, and processors in the tray- assembly will be supplied up to 9 July, 2010.

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DATE:2009-01-08

 ZOTAC international declares about the release of new video card GeForce GTX 200 series: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 285 AMP! Edition.

The video card series ZOTAC GeForce GTX 285 unite the power of 240 high-speed stream processors, which are ready to work with the newest games and applications, which support DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.1 and CUDA technology.

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 285 possesses a much larger performance, than previous generation, consuming in this case as much if not less energy resources.

The technology NVIDIA CUDA allows to use power of graphic processor not only in gaming applications: video converting tasks , and also work with images.

Since this card support NVIDIA physX the reproduction of physical effects in games is calculated in the real time .

This card support also the technology NVIDIA SLI, which allow simultaneously to work with several video card.

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 285 is supplied with the complete version  race driver: Grid.

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 285:

• Graphic processor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
• 240 stream processors
• 1 GB high-speed GDDR3 memory
• 512- bit memory bus
• Dual output dual-link DVI
• Core Frequency : 648 MHz
• Shader Frequency : 1476 MHz
• Memory Frequency : 2484 MHz

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 285 AMP! Edition:

• Core Frequency : 702 MHz
• Shader Frequency: 1512 MHz
• Memory Frequency: 2592 MHz
• Interface PCI express 2.0 (compatible with 1.1)
• Compatability with DirectX 10, Shader model 4.0 and Open GL 2.1
• Support NVIDIA CUDA, PhysX, PureVideo HD, Stereoscopic 3d

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