Wednesday, March 29, 2006

ATI's R580+ revealed

NVIDIA put some extra pressure on ATI with its G71 generation. The X1900 XTX can put up a fight but ATI's cost is still quite a bit higher. Nvidia's chip is cheaper and cooler but this is about to change in the next few months.

G71 should be Nvidia's last Geforce 7 generation card, and after than it will move to G80, the eight generation powered with Unified Shaders. ATI, on the other hand, is preparing to move to 80 nanometres first.

It informed its partners that it has a R580+ card up at its corporate sleeves. It is nothing more than 80 nanometre R580 core, but this shrink will make the chip cooler, smaller and cheaper to produce. ATI will probably be able to get some higher clocks out of it as well.

Samples are scheduled for May, while production should start in Q3 between June and August. Such timing clearly indicates that ATI is not in a rush to release the R600 and we know that R600 is actually doing just fine. The R600 needs Vista to glow.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Hacker team gets close to Xbox 360 holy grail

AFTER a team of hackers admitted that their XBox360 hack was not really practical, another team has said that it is closer to a practical solution.

In hackerland getting a useable 360 hack is a bit like finding a cure for cancer. An outfit called team executer claims to have found a way to managed to write to the DVD drives firmware, without the need to de-solder the chip, flash, and replace it.

The group’s hack works by hooking up to your PC drive and flashing it over the S=ATA bus.

True you need a custom connector, because Vole uses a lot of proprietary stuff, but it is a step closer to the XBox360 being wide open, the group claims

Saturday, March 25, 2006

More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing

MICROSOFT appears to be in a state of panic, ordering 60 per cent of its new operating system to be re-written amidst a major shake-up of its troubled Windows division.

The news follows another delay with reports of a staff revolt over the way that management has handled the development of the operating system.

According to a Volish denizen speaking to smarthouse.com, orders have come down from on high to rewrite more than 60 per cent of the consumer version of Vista in a bid to get it ready for the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas.

Vole has shifted programmers from its Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. They are also working with Intel's Viiv team engineers and it is believed that Viiv could also be stalled to line up with Vista’s launch.

At the centre of the problem appears to be the Media Centre code which will not be optional. Apparently they cannot get it to work properly in its current format and will have to make a lot of changes to the code to jack it in.

Meanwhile Vole has moved to sort out management problems in its Windows division and restructured the lot.

Steven Sinofsky has been promoted to senior vice president of the Windows and Windows Live Group to take control of the division. He is one of the Volish "rising stars" and is famous for getting a team to work properly.

Smarthouse has dug up an internal memo on the changes from Co-President, Platforms Products & Services Division Kevin Johnson to his executive staff. He said that he had made a lot of the changes after talking to staff. One of the people who seems to have had his job changed is Johnson’s other Co-President, Platforms Products & Services Division Jim Allchin. Although his role in Vole has not changed, apparently he will have to report to Johnson from now on.

Although there are some musical chairs, no one appears to have been fired or demoted for a cock-up which has effectively cost Vole 40 per cent of five billion dollars.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Japan's NTV shows future of mobile TV

Japanese broadcaster NTV has seen the future of mobile television, and wants to share it with you. Sort of. The company is in the process of holding an expo in Tokyo, where they've lined up some leading Japanese manufacturers to show off their latest gear, along with concept products that will never see the light of an LCD screen. Among the current and near-future products were several video-capable cellphones, along with one that can wirelessly output stills to a printer. Panasonic showed off a system that can pipe terrestrial digital broadcasts into trains, coupled with a wireless system to allow commuters to hear a broadcast's audio via headsets without disturbing other passengers (hey, some of us like to work, read -- or sleep -- on the train). Of the items on display, the one that looked most useful and almost ready for prime time was Sharp's media player with video-on-demand functions (above). The device is designed to pull down VOD broadcasts via wireless IP, and then store them for later viewing on a hard drive or memory card. Given the number of DMB PMPs we've seen lately, including some with DVR-like functions, we'd say an IPTV VOD DVR PMP is an idea whose time has come.

Eh.........

Bueno he decidido poner las noticias en ingles , ya que tengo muy poco tiempo para ponerme a traducir si no le gusta la idea me avisan ..............

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Resumen de la Conferencia de SONY

PS3:
- GLOBAL RELEASE NOVEMBER 11th
- 60GB HDD 2.5" with pre-installed Linux OS will be standard (included? we don't know 100%, but it is "required") and is upgradeable
- Dev kit specs fix as of today
- Final PS3 development kits will be sent to developers in June
- 10.000.000 BD-ROMS manufacturing capability per month @ cost around same as 2-layer DVD
- Every PS3 game will be on a Blu Ray Disc, in an attempt to prevent piracy
- Price will not be less than 50.000YEN (~$425USD) [Note that Japanese prices are usually higher. SPECULATION is that it will be $349-$449 USD]
- PS3 will have HDMI support from launch
- Sony plans to produce 1 million PS3s a month; 6 million PS3s for FY2006 (by the end of March 07)
- "basic" online service free, no details yet (could be XBLS for PS3)
- Full backwards compatibility from day 1; hi-res and texture filtering for all titles (akin to what MS does to the few BC titles on 360)
- The online service will be working off of GameSpy technology (co-development with SOE)

PSP:
- videophone in autumn
- GPS (Hot Shots Golf with GPS revealed; October 2006 for Japan)
- Eyetoy
- Flash support with next update
- Mem.Stick boot support in autumn
- first-gen PS1 official emulator
- buy/download games from net
- 199 CORE PACK PSP being released in USA/Europe by end of March (March 22nd for Europe)
- 19,800 yen Ceramic White PSP CORE PACK from 15 April in Japan

Monday, March 13, 2006

Sockect AM2 tal vez soporte DDR3 (RUMOR)

Hay una posibilidad grande que el socket existente AM2 pueda utilizar DDR3 tambien.

AMD o los fabricantes de motherboards deben hacer algunos tweaks al BIOS para poder hacerlo funcionar en el socket AM2.

Hay una indicación grande que los módulos de RAM DDR3 pueden ser indenticos a los de DDR2. Asi que hay un gran chance de que podomas utilizar esta ram en bancos de memorias viejos.


Mis Comentarios: Interesante noticia , pero viendo en la forma que se muve esta industria los fabricantes de chipsets lo mas seguro van a hacer un modificacion nueva al AM2 para poder usar DDR3 y nosotros vernos obligados a comprar otro board.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Quad SLI Works on AMD AM2

NVIDIA esta algo feliz acerca de la demostracion del Quad SLI en el Socket AM2.Cuatro es mejor que dos porque dos son mejores que uno, excepto si usted está hablando de apuros o de costillas quebradas.

Hemos visto que tres sistemas con Quad SLI hasta ahora y nosotros no estamos sorprendidos que Foxconn tiene uno de ellos. El Foxconn tiene naturalmente cuatro tarjetas gráficas, pero soporta y trabaja con el CPU socketAM2 de AMD.

Un muchacho de Nvidia cuidaba el sistema con su vida, y la gente estaba muy interesada ver estas tarjetas en la acción. Nvidia todavía no habla del funcionamiento de las máquinas sino que tiene gusto de demostrar de la raza del fórmula uno. Ésa es la única cosa que usted puede ver en él hasta ahora.

Cuando viene a los lanzamientos duros, esto es la segunda vez que Nvidia enseña el Quad SLI y todavía no es listo para venderse. Culpa naturalmente a los OEM y a los fabricantes pero a algunos de los hilanderos dichos realmente que el sistema no esta listo para benchmarks, por lo menos no todavía.

Usted necesita una unidad de la fuente de alimentación 850W para poder hacer funcionar estos montrous de tarjeta y les aseguro que no sera barata la factura de luz.

Mis Comentarios: Sinceramente veo un desperdicio de dinero invertir en cuatro tarjetas , si con una es mas que suficiente para correr cualquier juego de esta generacion y ademas ahi que tener en cuenta el precio de estas tarjetas dudo que vayan a ser baratas cuatro 7900GTX saldrian como en 2000 dolares y esto mucho dinero pero ahi que esperar a ver lo que espera en el futuro a ver si se hacen necesaria en realidad.

BenchMarks del Conroe Contra el FX60

Primero la caracteristicas de las computadoras es que se corrieron estos BenchMarks:


AMD
Intel
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 @ 2.8GHz
Intel Conroe E6700 @ 2.66GHz
Motherboard
DFI LANPARTY UT RDX200
Intel D975XBX "BadAxe"
Chipset
ATI RD480
Intel 975X
Chipset Drivers
ATI Catalyst 6.2
Intel INF 7.2.2.1006
Video Cards
ATI Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire (2 Cards)
ATI Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire (2 Cards)
Video Drivers
ATI Catalyst 6.2
ATI Catalyst 6.2
Memory Size and Configuration
2 x 512MB DDR400 DIMMs
2 x 512MB DDR2-667 DIMMs
Memory Timings
2-2-2-5/1T
4-4-4-15

En el siguiente Benchmark nos podemos dar cuenta la gran diferencia que ahi , este benchmark fue probado en el juego Fear:


Mis Comentarios: Bueno Intel ah sorprendido , no me esperaba este huge performance por encima del FX60 ,pero ahi que tener en cuenta que se esta comparando una tecnologia de hace tres años con una de este año y que aun esta en fase de desarrollo tendremos que esperar a ver que AMD nos trae con su AM2 y tambien ahi que considerar que INTEL esta comprando un chip 65nm contra uno de 90nm

Bienvenida

Jejejeje esta sera la bienvenida del blog aqui publicare todo lo referente a la nueva tecnologia de hoy en dia espero que soporten este blog :D.