The wafers of 450 mm mass by 2015 in TSMC?

TSMC is indeed preparing the transition to 450 mm wafers to...End of 2010, we talking already the possibility of a passage to wafers of 450 mm (18 ") by some skiers (including Intel) and we detail that compatible foundries did not open their doors before 2018 in the best of cases. Finally, we learn that TSMC would be able to put as soon as 2015.Information confirmed by the Taiwanese fondeur which, starting next year, will begin to assess compatible...

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In the heart of the PS Vita...

Small point technique on the components of the PS Vita, structured as a smartphone...Available to the Japan, the Vita of Sony PS - alternate of the PSP - activities in Europe on February 22. Necessarily, it took only a few days to the sites for the reverse, as UBM Techinsights. They are especially focused on the processor of the console. A SoC that integrates a large chip in which there are four hearts ARM Cortex-A9 and a graphical circuit also...

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The films most pirated 2011 are...

Downloads of films are declining, via BitTorrent...TorrentFreak has published, as every year, its balance sheet, the most pirated films in Peer-to-Peer via BitTorrent. Rights-holders will be probably delighted to learn that the global volumes are down, with the Top 10 films that spawned 74.6 million downloads in 2011 against 92 million in 2010. But from there to imagine that repression implemented by some countries, as in France with the Hadopi,...

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3D: Canal + abandoned!

Finally, Canal + waives the 3D for the moment. The market is not ready according to the group...Canal + 3D was launched in June 2010 and Bertrand Méheut Group had gradually climb in power in the broadcast of films and events in relief (including sports). However, the planet ASC site, specializing in offers of Canal +, said that the Group 3D chain will be closed on January 24. According to this site, it is in compatible programs offer that is deemed...

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Shortage of hard drives: between 5 and 6 billion in win

All the PC industry is affected by the shortage of hard drives and the beginning of the year 2012, as the end of the year 2011, should be difficult for the manufacturers...The analysis firm Trefis is interested in the impact of the shortage of hard drives following the announcement of the latest results from Intel and the revision of its results for the year end. It must be said that 40 to 45% of world production in hard disks is concerned by the...

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Eee PC 1225B: the Brazos E-450 of Asus netbook

Asus is poised to launch a new netbook powered by the E-450 of AMD, with Radeon HD 6320 Brazos.Next month, Asus should add a new element to its Eee PC family. This is the Eee PC 1225B runs under Windows 7 Home Premium and is equipped with a screen of 11.6 "(1366 x 768 pixels) back-lit led, embarking the APU Brazos E-450 of AMD, quick to 1.65 GHz. This netbook will weigh a priori 1.4 Kg and will be equipped with 2 or 4 GB of DDR3, and a disk hard...

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4 G frequencies "or": Free regrets nothing

Free Mobile received no 4 G frequency on the 800 MHz band, say "in gold", but has no regrets...As we reported a few days ago, Free was not accepted by ARCEP (the telecoms regulator) for the allocation of frequencies"gold" on the band of the 800 MHz, which would have enabled him to extend its 4 G network on the less dense areas of French territory.But apparently this no worries nor this Maxime Lombardini, CEO of Iliad, the mother House of Free, which...

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Mr transistor is dead

Norman Krim died on 14 December at the age of 98. The industry called him "Mr. transistor"...This is a visionary electronics who played a pivotal role in the industry who has left us. This undisputed figure of the transistor - even if he does not invented it - found potential. It was he who pushed the production mass of transistors by his employer Raytheon, first for the design of sonotones.Invented by Bell Labs in 1947, the transistors will be used...

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The media-center passive ideal?

A rather interesting totally silent show package...The Japanese company ASKTech now presents an all new chassis-oriented HTPC that will not produce a single noise in the living room with a look of the old satellite STB. Rated measurements, it is 29.5 x 27 x 7.6 cm for 3.2 Kg on the scales, not bad! Its name? NT-TX3000, less sexy, but it is covered with aluminum for a simple reason, it is the chassis itself, which will play the role of sink with...

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Performance and consumption: Medfield end ready to launch Intel on smartphones and tablets?

Numbers fall for the next generation of Intel Mobile processors for tablets and smartphones. The competition has the concern to be? A few days ago we had some information - sum any enough light and without tangible evidence - concerning the future rise in power of Intel in the world of mobility. First, remember that Intel made its small domestic household to create four departments, to cover all the needs of the mobile devices of today and tomorrow....

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Acer guard confidence in smartphones and tablets

The Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has not had the success expected with its touch tablets and smartphones but it will not abandon to this market.Rumours that Acer would leave the market of touch mobile terminals such as tablets and smartphones, the constructor reacts and denies any block.Wrong point on the PC sector and having no flagship on the segment of smartphones and tablets, Acer is not abandon these lucrative markets.Stan Shih, founder of Acer,...

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When Epson starts the PC for gamers, it gives it...

Epson does not restricted only to printers and other devices dedicated to the image, to the Japan the mark also designed liftstations PC configs.The last creation of Epson, Endeavor Pro 750 is a PC based on Intel Sandy Bridge-E platform which is aimed at gamers. The package aluminum perforated on the front has two handles on the top, much like the Mac Pro, and bays of 3.5 drives and 2.5 "are directly accessible from the front with a trap, facilitating...

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Centerton: a real SoC Atom at Intel

Some info about an Atom SoC in 32 nm unveil...Our colleagues from VR-Zone broadcast since a few days of slides with a new representative in the range of processors Intel Atom. code name: Centerton. It would be an Atom with the 32 nm which would happen in the second quarter of 2012, and that would have the peculiarity to be a real SoC (System on Chip) integrating a CPU dual-core 1.6 GHz (512 KB of cache by heart) and a single-channel memory controller...

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Android 4: shelves Sony ok, LG smartphones also, but not the Tab 7 "Galaxy and Galaxy S

Small update on the updates expected to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Sony tablets there will be entitled, as LG smartphones, but not the Tab 7 "Galaxy and Galaxy S of Samsung...Good news for holders of Sony Tablet P and S (the model tested by writing), they will receive well updated SEV under Android 4.0 said "Ice Cream Sandwich". It is the staff of Sony to the United Kingdom that dropped information, without however advance specific date. A reminder,...

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The Blu - ray begins to catch up with DVD sales

Big films of 2011 and re-editions expected boost the adoption of the Blu - ray in France... Not to mention the price of Platinum.That you received at the foot of the Christmas tree? Many Blu - ray if there is a release of Digital Entertainment Group (DEG). It must be said that with drives blue laser displaying prices of entry-level around €60 in our comparator of price, the purchase of cakes in high-definition has made a good in front of the order...

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2012: the year of the Thunderbolt on PC?

The Thunderbolt finally promises to break into the world of the PC next year...According to DigiTimes, the spring of 2012 will be marked by the explosion of the Thunderbolt - derived from technology LightPeak precursor connectors - in personal computers other than those of an Apple branded. Indeed, Intel would have informed its many partners that Thunderbolt technology would be fully available as of April. No doubt to accompany the release of new...

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The Sony TV will have 100% Samsung slabs

Sony gives to Samsung its shares in joint venture for the manufacture of slabs...Samsung and Sony have announced the end of their joint venture (S - LCD Corporation) established in April 2004 designed LCD screens and allowed the two giants to control their slabs supply and the cost thereof. Samsung contributed 671 million euros to acquire the shares of Sony, or a little less than 50%.Following this agreement, Samsung will continue to provide to Sony...

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Death of Jack Goldman, founder of Xerox PARC

The man at the origin of the technological advances that have made the success of Microsoft and Apple is dead.Unknown to the public, Jack "Jacob" Goldman is the founder of the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) computer research centre where are born plethora of concepts and technologies as a basis to our current computing environment.Bone interface based on icons, Windows and menus in place and place lines of commands, the mouse, laser printing,...

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App Store against Android Market: the 2011 budget

 Expert opinion - according to the annual balance sheet produced by Distimo, 2011 a dedicated the dominance of Apple in terms of income and the rising power of the freemium model and in-app purchases.2011 has been a year rich in developments on the market of the app store. Distimo, specialist of the hearing of applications for smartphones and tablets has just published its annual report which it draws several key lessons.Starting with the dominance...

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Android: 700,000 activations per day

Figures - The growth of the Green robot driven Terminal sales remains also strong... Android drives the nail. While sales of smartphones fighting full during these holidays of end of the year, the Green robot of Google continues to seduce mass new buyers.According to Andy Rubin, in charge of the development of the operating system, in September, 700 000 new terminals are activated every day against 500,000 in June and 550 000 in July. A record.RecordThe...

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PLATFORM: Towards a world Android

Android: automaton whose appearance evokes the human. But our Android has nothing of the robot which is moving hands and feet in a quest for imitation of human kind. Avinash Meetoo, Director of Knowledge 7 society, summarized us Android, computer platform.Let's look. Mauritius, in five years: children returning from school, take their lunch while tapping their digital shelves. into the bus, smart phones to any va; all buses are Wi - Fi (or something...

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Android and other Google services violate patents of British Telecom

Deposition of complaints against Android for patent violations have become more than common. If the clash between Apple and Samsung takes the majority of media coverage, Google had also accused Microsoft and Oracle gang with Cupertino to poison the life of its operating system. And while trials spring up everywhere, British Telecom filed complaint in turn. The English telephone operator considers him also that Android and services such as Google...

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Intel Medfield: some news in x 86 mobile chips

Intel processor x 86 ultra fast and efficient energy, what invade the world of mobility by the large door?ARM, the processor architecture that is imposed by mass in our mobile devices, such as our smartphones or our digital shelves. Low, offering more performance, these small SoC are now everywhere, what begin to shake giants like Intel smelter which would well a place in this market (its Atom x 86 there is being did not place).And although, according...

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Allostreaming: the war of the filtering is postponed

A procedure that is likely to be long, very long... Allostreaming has time to prepare his defence, as the search engines and operators assigned in chambers.To one side, the accused, Allostreaming, and three other Web sites belonging to it that offer TV series and movies for free. On the other, the successors of these content which, for strike hard, interim measures have assigned the major search engines (Yahoo, Bing and Google) and the French Internet...

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Radeon HD 7970: performance expected by AMD

In what proportions the Radeon HD 7970 should be more powerful than a GeForce GTX 580? AMD has an idea...While the Radeon HD 7970 heating currently in the labs of the planet, a small malignant have disclosed some slides taken from the "reviewer's guide" provided by AMD to testers of matos with its new map. Discovering the performance gains offered by the card expects AMD. It graphs from these suggestions 3DCenter offers. Are you left with the images...

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ADSL will continue to report to the historical operators...

Proposals from Brussels to encourage more rapid deployment of fibre do not fly in historic operators. Yet, their rents on the local loop should be used to modernize the network...Last October, the European Commission was a seductive track for who would like to see ISPs accelerate the deployment of fiber optics: reduce their revenues on ADSL. By reducing the cost of access to local loops of incumbent operators who exploit the copper pair, Brussels...

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A new era for Bouygues Telecom with the ranks soon presented

Bouygues Telecom will present his new Internet box in January. A new step for the Internet access provider...It is next January 24 that Bouygues Telecom will throw the veil on its new BBox. Necessarily, it is an important step in the ISP where the box is now one of the best ways (with proposed subscriptions) stand out. See if Bouygues Telecom secret custody should therefore be a new innovation (he was the first operator to launch the quadriplay...

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Hadopi: the municipal police downloads also!

The position of Mèze municipal police officers are not impeccable side Peer-to-Peer...After the Elysee and the use of its IP addresses to download illegal files on P2P networks, it is the turn of the municipal police receive a mail of the Hadopi. Indeed, according to the daily Midi Libre, the Office of the municipal police of Mèze, in the Hérault, received a warning of the high authority. A computer in the Office was used to download pirate a movie...

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The Ivy Bridge compiled potential prices

How many will be sold the Ivy Bridge? Officially, no one knows. But unofficially, here are the prices that should be expected...The year 2012 will be marked by the arrival of Core third generation i, the famous Ivy Bridge engraved 22 nm at Intel. If many leaks already released most of the interesting information concerning these processors need to be tested in real conditions of use, missing us however - side rumors - the data concerning the potential...

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These 2012: der of ders to Microsoft

Microsoft announced that it will more present at the Consumer Electronic Show from 2013...After twenty years of attendance and presence in the these, the American Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced no longer want to participate in the event as an exhibitor from the 2013 Edition. The event will take place from 10 to 13 January 2012 in Las Vegas will be the last to see Steve Ballmer, Microsoft pattern, opening the show with his traditional...

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A screen "24 16: 10 in NEC

The new NEC screen in "24's interesting. Damage, its tariff may be full-bodied...NEC launches - the Japan for the moment - its MultiSync LCD-EA243WM, a 24 "backlit led screen. A definition of 1920 x 1200 (ha, 16: 10 ratio!), it enjoys a 5 ms response time, of a brightness that can reach 250 cd/m² and a dynamic contrast of 25000: 1, all for the angles of 170 ° horizontal, 160 ° vertical vision.Side connectors, there are VGA, DVI, DisplayPort and...

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Sandy Bridge: price declines expected

The Core i3 and i5 of second generation should see their prices down a few weeks, according to Asian sources...Intel has recently informed its partners of its intention to reduce the price of its Core i of second generation Sandy Bridge processors. Some references to the Core i5 and i3 ranges could even lose between 10 and 15%, according to some actors in the mobile market, we learn the DigiTimes. Necessarily, it promises the arrival of the Ivy Bridge,...

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ASUS sued by Hasbro for its differential Transformer

The touch Tablet transforming premium of Asus against the robot Transformers Optimus Prime of Hasbro, who will emerge victorious?Toy manufacturer Hasbro sees a bad look the use of the name "Transforming premium" of the last touch of Asus Android tablet. Indeed, the firm filed a complaint against Asus for brand noise because it thinks that there may be consumer confusion by associating the toys in the Transformers franchise with the touch tablet of...

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The smallest MP3 player in the world?

Up to 32 GB of music in a small "Kube"...This Kube2 is presented as being the smallest of the world MP3 player! Nothing than this. Let us to doubt, because it still has the impression that the iPod Shuffle 3 G is less bulky. But well, let's. It has the advantage to accept a micro-SD card allowing to offer up to 32 GB of storage, and to be customizable via various stickers to stick on its aluminum coating. This MP3 player offers 6 hours of autonomy...

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Duke Nukem 3D free on Android

The grand blond to dark glasses in marcel red is available to all owners of smartphones under AndroidMachineWorks NorthWest studio plays Father Christmas time before offering the episode 1 of the Duke Nukem 3D game in the Android version. Valid since yesterday and for 2 days (thus until tomorrow Friday, 23 December), this offer is the opportunity to (re) discover this game and the world of Duke Nukem (and to forget the disappointment of the opus...

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