OUYA: Should Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo tremble?

And if this OUYA was able to get a place in the video game console market?

The console very inspired official but turning models under Android with a SoC ARM and coming from Asia, there are dozens. But a project which also quickly Federated players than this OUYA, benefiting from the exhibition currently offered to any well wrapped Kickstarter project since the crowdsourcing is fashionable, it is more rare. Because success is already at the rendezvous, at least in the promises of funding. Added only a few hours on Kickstarter, the OUYA project has already attracted more than 20,000 investors, which allows the console to explode its initial objective of harvest $950,000 in record time. Currently, the collected sum displays more than 2.6 million $, what give a sacred kick to the project, actually. Especially him still have 28 days of fundraising.

But then, what did this OUYA to please as much? The promise is simple: it's a console under Android, proposing a joystick resolutely "gamer" to connect HDMI to its screen and that promises to offer quality games, if possible independent and the mode of the Free-to-Play. Some see it as a useless defiance to platforms in place, others the console of the future. In a context also uncertain that it is the game, although malignant industry would in any event that might know what type of game console will be booked in the future.

Always is it that project OUYA accompanied by some interesting business principles. For example, no royaltie will applied to game developers, and the SDK based on Android will be simply integrated into the console. Don't need, therefore, for the studios to invest in specific materials to develop a game OUYA. Only constraint: that sets OUYA are - at least partly - free. Demo and Free-to-Play (Freemium) accepted.

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If the sauce is, it is also because this console would be sold at a competitive price if times it came to be distributed one day. $ 99 For a console and a joystick ($ 95 for the first 1000 contributors). Expected now to know more, waiting to see a finished prototype, before will be launched production and development kits are available.

Reactions of independent developers are rather ambitious. Jenova Chen, creator of flOw, Flower and Journey, said: "I'm excited by OUYA." "I think there is always material to disrupt the status quo," while Adamm Saltsman, Canabalt creator, explains: "the prospect of a console open and affordable, is an excellent idea".

Preliminary technical data:

CPU Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core1 GB of RAM8 GB of flash memory connection HDMI, 1080pWiFi 802.11 b/g/nBluetooth 4.0Un port USB 2.0controleur wireless (touchpad, two analog sticks, pad, eight buttons) Android 4.0

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Google and Facebook should change servers

Google and Facebook should proceed with an update of their servers at the end of the year which will coincide with the release of the Interlagos of AMD and the Romley, the new Sandy Bridge for Intel Server using a Socket LGA 2011. According to DigiTimes, who allegedly received information from manufacturers of servers, this should create a wave of renewal of machines and related products, such as storage or network devices.

Romley will integrate eight cores taking processors support Hyper-Threading and motherboards dual for a maximum of 32 threads. Companies are now restored the economic crisis according to assemblers, which are cited by DigiTimes. Their new economic health explains this desire to update their infrastructure.

Intel showed the first Romley to the IDF in September 2010. They integrate a memory controller channel compatible DDR3 LRDIMM (Load Reduced Dual-Inline Memory Modules) that allows systems using more than 32 GB of memory to turn each bar to its maximum rate. Conventional controllers are unable to maintain the integrity of the data of this type of configuration because of a deterioration of the signal that occurs when using all chip memory. With the LRDIMM, Intel can support 96 GB without loss of frequency.

The LRDIMM uses a buffer which reduces the flow of information between the processor and memory. The bus is therefore less taxed by the increase in the memory modules. The LRDIMM is a derivative of the MetaRAM technology. It allows to virtually consolidate a series of memory chips to simplify the task of the controller and increase the capacity of the bar. For example, it is possible to place 32 125 MB modules for a bar of 4 GB and the system sees that 500 MB 8 chips. It can be more modules on a bar. The problem is that the buffer required for the proper functioning of this technology is expensive, which explains that the LRDIMM are before any reserved for servers.

Rumours that circulated last month the Sandy Bridge Romley will use memory cache L3 2.5 MB per core, for a total of 20 MB, and will have a TDP which will be included between 40 W and 95 W following the requests of the system. They will be coupled with the chipset Intel Patsburg-B. The Romley should be marketed under the name of Xeon E5. They will also have two links QPI, 40 rows PCI-Express 3.0, 4 DMI 2.0.

They will be opposed to the Interlagos of AMD will be built on the Bulldozer architecture. They integrate between twelve and sixteen cores, memory four channels and 16 MB of L3 cache controller. They should be marketed at the same time as the Romley.

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