Nvidia is known as a company that focusing on graphic processing unit development and chipset technology for PC and mobile devices that based in the US, will be participating in the Computex event held in Taipei, Taiwan from May 31th – June 4th 2011. On their website release, Nvidia reveal that they will be displaying the GetForce, Tegra, and 3DVision, Nvidia will also show how their technology will be able to support computing devices from superphone to supercomputer. They will also be showing their games, new PC applications, photography, and 3D videos.
NVidia will be distributing 10 million of dual core Tegra 2 processor until the end of June 2011. The Tegra 2 is known to be used by Samsung Galaxy Tab, Acer Transformer, and LG Optimus. NVidia will also show the quad core processor with the code name Kal El that will support products like tablets and smartphones, the tablets with Kal El will be out on September, while for the smartphones will be out next year. The Kal El will provide better graphic for gamers and non-gamers, also with higher on efficiency applications, simply put, the Kal El can do all the Tegra 2 can with lower power consumption. The tablet with Kal El support in it can support gaming activity for 4-6 hours in a single recharge. Beside processors, NVidia will also show their 3D glasses with the price of US$ 99. The glasses is said to be cheaper, more simple, and no battery required, but there are cables that will limit the movement of the users.
The two Japanese electronic giants, Sony and Toshiba, plans to combine their LCD business unit. There are speculation emerging, the duet will strengthen the LCD production for popular products such as Apple iPhone and iPad.
According to the Wall Street Journal, both company will sell their shares to the Japanese government with the value of $ 1.2 billion. It is estimated, the combined LCD business unit could outperform Sharp, as the largest LCD panel producer from Japan. Apparantly, the Japanese government is working to protect its leadership in the production of LCD for smartphones and tablets. The combined LCD business unit of Sony and Toshiba will be mostly owned by the government. Sony and Toshiba are intensly discussing the unification of their LCD units. The merger is likely to be welcomed. The Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), the finance company that affiliated with the government, has offering an investment if Sony and Toshiba agree to integrate their LCD business operations.
There are many alleged mention that the Pentium name will disappear along with the product, but this is wrong. Intel now regenerates the Pentium series with a more sophisticated specifications.
Within the last five years, there are no sign about the new generation from Pentium. The microprocessor giant are getting busy with the Core i series, which keep getting improvement. Intel has quietly released the Pentium series that have used the Sandy Bridge for desktop. Among those processors are:
- Pentium G840 (dual-core, 3MB cache , 2,8 GHz)
- Pentium G850 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2.9 GHz)
- Pentium G620T (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2,2GHz)
- Pentium G620 (dual-core, 3MB cache, 2,6 GHz)
despite having the advance support from Sandy bridge, but all of the processors are sold at the price ranging from US$64 to US$ 86.
The Manli Technology Group Limited is one of computer vendor that are quite updated to release new graphical chips, and their latest one is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 560. Manli claim to have used a very good cooling system for the product, so the performance are expected to be better.
Beside for playing games, the product are also promised to deliver a great visual when used for watching High Definition films and 3D movies. The Manli GeForce GTX 560 have the specification like: Model Name of M-NGTX560/5R7HDD, CUDA cores of 336, Core/Memory Clock of 810 Mhz/4000MHz, Memory Configuration of 1GB DDR5, Memory Interface of 256 bit, Heat sink design with Cooling Fan, and Mini HDMI Output ports + 2x DVI-I.
