Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. or TSMC for short is without any doubt, worlds largest foundry. The company churns out billions of chips per year and easily beats even Intel in number of chips manufactured. Revenue side of business is another thing, though.
TSMC gained a lot of attention since companies like AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and others use them to manufacture products on the bleeding edge of technology and the recent past made several "claim to fame", beating the industry benchmark (Intel) by a process node. For example, TSMCs 80nm process shipped dozens of millions chips while Intel was manufacturing 90nm ICs (Integrated Circuit) and 55nm continued the same trend.
Apple has shown interest in building a new, simplified remote control that would automatically control a variety of devices while reducing setup and frustration for the user.
The concept was revealed this week in a new patent application discovered by AppleInsider. Entitled "Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control," it describes a touchscreen-based controller that would reduce the confusing clutter found on current universal remotes.
The filing notes that current remotes have a large number of buttons and switches to control the functions of a device, and while those buttons are necessary to control all of the functions, the average user typically only uses a handful of the buttons.
The Dev Team has recently updated their renowned RedSn0w jailbreak tool to version 0.9.10b5 in order to fix the DRM issue for iBooks on jailbroken devices.
This fix, which was developed by PlanetBeing and integrated into RedSn0w, overcomes the jailbreak detection by iBooks that would cause some images to not display properly, if at all…
AMD Southern Islands series GPUs, including Tahiti and some other exotic names are about to show their face in the second week of January and if all goes well we should see Radeon HD 7000 generation cards by January 10th.
Naturally we wanted to ask Nvidia what is going on with its 28nm graphics generation codenamed Kepler. We were positively surprised that Senior Product PR Manager at Nvidia, Igor Stanek has decided to confirm that Nvidia is on schedule with its Kepler roadmap.
A slide purportedly detailing Radeon HD 7970 has leaked online. The slide resembles AMDs standard presentation design, and is seemingly part of the press deck held. As previously rumoured, the HD 7970 features the GCN architecture.
The HD 7970 features 32 CU containing 2048 ALUs, clocked at 925 MHz. This amounts to 3.5 TFLOPS (Single Precision). TMUs are upped to 128, as expected. However, ROPs remain at 32 compared to Cayman, which is odd considering the memory bus, as we have observed, is 384-bit. Memory speed remains unchanged at 5.5 GHz, meaning a 50% boost in memory bandwidth. The TDP is rated under 300W, while the idle power is incredibly only 3W. This means a 8-pin + 6-pin power connector configuration. HD 7970 features 4 display outs - 1x DVI, 2xmini-DisplayPort and 1x HDMI. Finally, the slide mentions the embargo release date - 9th January 2012.
In our previous test 17 CPU test in Battlefield 3", we did not involved some popular old processor.So in our this test,we also will join them,and hoping to allow users to know whether their old processors can play "Battlefield 3".
