Techno-Around-The-World

Techno-Around-The-World today definitely update the news that’s about two big brand of CPU developer and a few updates of other interesting news after that is the recommendation zone including some recommended gadgets which you should not miss!

Let’s start with AMD site (ALL HAIL AMD!!...I’m a big fan.) After a few day of officially announcement for new technology in Intel mobile chip, (my) AMD did not stand still anymore. They released the roadmap for laptop platform with all new technology that is ‘Puma’ platform based on ‘Fusion’ architecture mobile CPU. They claimed that this platform will be released in 2008.

In detail, ‘Puma’ incorporates ‘Griffin’, the first mobile processor for AMD in processing core which well-known as Turion X2 family. This 65nm dual core processor connected to 1MB of L2 cache that means it has 2MB of L2 cache in total.

AMD has focused on improving northbridge chip. It comes up with latest and fastest transport method called HyperTransport 3 including bus-power management to speed up or down the clock according to the need. In memory controller part, AMD featured the pre-fetcher, it will foretell and grab ahead data that processing cores are going to want in the near future. This style of memory oriented is tweaked for laptop only it does not work with desktop or server.

The northbridge and processing cores are on independent voltage plane for efficient in power usage. For example, if a process wants to connect to main memory by northbridge without using processing cores, CPU cores can down themselves to 300MHz independently and quickly, more than Turion which can only down to 800MHz.

In my opinion, this processor will lighten the way of mobile CPU for AMD which is in darkness and very less marketing share.

Get back to Intel site, after I already introduced to you about Intel’s officially announcement. They said that they are the first chip developer who can bring 45nm CPU technology into mobile. It means after next month (January) we will see an updated Centrino chipset with 45nm Core 2 Duo processor in laptop. They also talked about ‘Intel HD Boost’ and ‘Deep Power Down’ that are included in new Centrino.

"This brings up new ways we can do 3D rendering, new ways that we can process all the calculations that go into making graphics so real that it becomes almost unbelievable, and new ways of processing all the video that's played on a notebook" Brian Tucker, an Intel mobile platform marketing manager said. It means with Intel HD Boost all 3D rendering, games playing and videos playing on laptop will be a brand new kind. (I think he felt a little excited)

On the other hand, Deep Power Down can save power and get longer time of battery life. When CPU is active both cores are fully active this will surely get high output of processing power. But when CPU is idle this system will let CPU reaches an extremely low power usage. Deep Power Down also has another name, ‘HUGI’, from Hurry Up and Get Idle.

Intel does not just active on general laptop processor but Intel plans to release a new chip platform for mobile-internet devices (MPCs) and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs).

Do you begin to feel terrible for a lot of technical words?

Yeah! Now, look at some interesting stuffs below. You will feel better, for sure!

-Rock Xtreme 770

Intel Core 2 Duo T7800 2.6GHz, 4MB Cache, 800MHz

New NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX 512MB (Direct X 10)

Hi-res WUXGA+ X-Glass rock logo Orange

2GB DDR2 667MHz

200GB 7200rpm SATA HDD

An ultimate gaming notebook with the latest technology that money can buy has been released!!

With this laptop you can fancy playing Crysis on the go. In high resolution mode of Crysis no mobile graphic card can complete except Nvidia GeForce 8800M family even in 8X anti-alias.

Are you wondering about battery life on this powerful laptop? It can do better than you think. 84 minutes on 4400mAh Li-Ion. Not so bad, huh?

The high resolution 17inch screen comes up with 1920x1200pixels, so in fact it does not much portable and in long transporting battery life is hopeless and it sure weighty.

Let’s talk about pricing. 2199 pounds (131000THB) is not the price that you can buy easily, but if you can and not worry so much about carrying away, this is an interesting choice.

-iRiver Clix Gen2

Wide range audio format support and smoothly video playback is summarizing words for this media player.

With 2.2inch clear type screen with 320x240 resolution you can watch DVD quality movie entire hour without hurting your eyes.

Sound quality is elegance including high-end headphone.

8GB capacity is big enough to store a lot of encoded DVD movies and a lot of audio files

Specification:

Storage 2GB,4GB,8GB
General Continuous Playback Time(Audio) Approx. 24 hours (MP3, 128kbps, EQ Normal, Vol 20, Display Off)

Continuous Playback Time(Video) Approx. 5 hours (AVI, 320x240@15fps, Video 384kbps, Audio 128kbps/44.1kHz

Connection Type USB 2.0

Equalizer 7 EQ, User EQ and SRS WOW HD

Dimensions Approx. 80.3 x 46.8 x 12.8(mm)

Weight Approx. 55g

Operational Temperature -5 ~ 40

Line In/Out: N/A

Audio Frequency Range 20Hz~20kHz

Headphone Output Power 17mW(R) + 17mW(L) (16 ) at Max. Volume

File support File Type: MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, WMA, ASF, WMV9 SP, MPEG-4 SP, Macromedia Flash Lite 2.1, TXT, non-progressive JPEG

Bit Rate: MP3, WMA: 8Kbps ~ 320Kbps / OGG : Up to Q10

Display Main Set Display: 2.2" AMOLED (262K Color, 320x240)

Power Supply Battery Internal Li-poly rechargeable Battery

O/S Windows requirement: MSC mode: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP or later MTP mode: Windows XP with SP2 or later

Reference: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/ ; http://www.rockdirect.com/ ; http://www.ea.com/crysis/index.jsp