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The latest from NVidia fits into a credit card: A brain for artificial intelligence in robots and drones

April 17, 2017 by Lincoln

A NVidia known mainly for its graphics, or more recently for being stuck inside Switch, but the reality is that it has failed to become strong in mobile devices. It tried with smartphones, but it seems to have grown tired of that, and he wants to put the brains to the next revolution of gadgets: robots, drones, smart cameras or sensors. Closely related to the ‘Internet of Things’.

Very small devices that require three things: tiny hardware, a process capability capable of dealing with artificial intelligence algorithms, and most importantly, reduced consumption. The answer to these problems has NVidia with its new plate Jetson TX2.

These are the first Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti from ASUS

April 11, 2017 by Lincoln

What you see in images is the aspect of the first GTX 1080 Ti that will go on the market next March 10, by ASUS. The company will attack with two very different models in appearance: the Turbo model is the least striking, while ROG STRIX imposes more with a triple fan configuration.

We are faced with custom or customized models on what Nvidia initially introduced. The changes are mainly in the cooling systems introduced, which allows you to play with better overclocking in the latest Pascal GPU introduced in the market.

Tiny computer of only one cubic millimeter is so powerful that it counts on artificial intelligence

March 28, 2017 by Lincoln

The so-called millimeter computers or micromotes are not new, have been developed for several years with the idea of pushing tiny devices for minimal energy consumption, especially for IoT devices. The University of Michigan is the one that has been in charge of investigating more thoroughly within this technology, in fact two years ago they presented us their first bet with the M ^ 3.

Today at the International Conference on Solid State Circuits of the IEEE (ISSCC), computer scientists David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester of the University of Michigan presented the latest update to their micromote, which has significantly decreased their consumption Energetic, expanded its memory, but the most relevant is that it is now able to integrate an entire system of artificial intelligence.

SSD against hard drive: This way a notebook performance improves

March 27, 2017March 22, 2017 by Lincoln

Improving the performance of a computer, whether desktop or laptop, directly, simply and economically, is currently replacing the traditional hard disk with an SSD. At the price we can find them currently, it is a winning solution and does not require a significant effort or outstanding payout. At least for the improvement we get in return.

Advantages of SSD vs. Hard Drive

When thinking about changing a classic hard drive by an SSD the first thing that comes to mind is the speed improvement that we will get. But it is not the only one.

With very short access times and maximum speed transfers, which allow us to run applications faster or copy / move files faster, we must add that we are talking about units based on flash memory that do not have moving parts, So they are more reliable and resistant. This causes that the falls of the equipment do not pose a risk for the own data (if the SSD is not damaged, of course).

On reliability with time and GB of writing, as we discussed in the analysis of SSD Blue WD, except in very specific cases, we will change equipment or unit before the current begins to fail.

SSDs are also silent disks in their operation, and with a very reduced consumption compared to classic HDDs, since they do not require movement of any part. With the advancement in the capacity with which we can get them without the price, difference is very large compared to classic disks and increasing reliability, there is no reason not to have an SSD in our desktop or laptop except for very specific cases.

Quadro GP100 is the latest in Nvidia for workstations 16 GB of HBM2 memory and NVLINK

March 27, 2017March 20, 2017 by Lincoln

Well, the whole family is now converted to Pascal; if we have seen the GeForce GTX and the Titans go months ago, now it’s the turn of the Quadro. These are the graphics designed to place on workstations, so more than a mass product to play; this has a rather different destination, but no less interesting for those who follow the world.

Nvidia has presented at the SOLIDWORKS World event up to six new graphics cards, all with a professional destination, but the one that interests us most is the Quadro GP100. This unit presumes, among other things, to have 16GB of memory in HBM2 format.

If you are going to buy a hard drive, look out for these models they are the ones that seem to fail

March 11, 2017 by Lincoln

The conventional hard drives offer large storage capacities with a very competitive cost price per Gbyte is clearly lower than in the case of SSDs, especially for increasing capacity, but some brands are more trouble than others.

That’s what reports backBlaze reports every year, a company that offers an online storage service and that every year studies the performance of the disks you have on your servers. Western Digital is the worst performer according to that report.

AMD Vega: The new generation of graphics that bet on the power thanks to HBM2

February 20, 2017February 17, 2017 by Lincoln

AMD sought efficiency with Polaris and graphics as the remarkable Radeon RX 480, but the new generation of graphics cards of this company wants to put the difficult things to Nvidia in the field where it traditionally dominated: performance.

To achieve this comes AMD Vega, a new architecture that is focused on power and not so much on efficiency, and that benefits from the adoption of HBM2 (High Bandwidth Memory) its new standard for graphics. This could be AMD’s most important architectural leap in years, and we already have the first details of this release.

Samsung raises ‘gaming’ market with own brand: Odyssey debuts with two laptops

February 20, 2017February 14, 2017 by Lincoln

There is no one who wants to stay out of the business of gaming, especially powerful in regard to laptops, and there also wants to be Samsung with a brand of its own. In this CES 2017 we are getting tired of seeing models and brands offering similar products, something that we started to live in the past IFA.

Be it brand or family, what we should know is that the new line of notebooks designed to play is going to be called Odyssey , which is quite a declaration of intentions in Samsung since until very recently it has been rumored that they wanted to get rid of the division Of computers. In fact you are already moving parts in other markets that have to do with the game, such as monitors.

Backlighting and striking designs for the premiere of Odyssey, brands do not see a discreet appearance for their gaming equipment

5 GHz in one click overclocking and possibility to use your own pieces printed in 3D: ASUS Z270 for Kaby Lake

February 20, 2017February 11, 2017 by Lincoln

The new ASUS Z270 motherboards hit the market as the newly released seventh generation of Intel desktop processors, and is made up of different series with the ROG Maximus IX leading the way in overclocking functions.

ROG is already a symbol for the gaming world. Leveraging the output of Intel’s unlocked multiplier processors, ASUS has introduced its new range of Z270 motherboards already ready to take full advantage of Intel’s Kaby Lake processors.

Intel Core i7-7700K, Core i7 Kaby Lake most powerful resort to 4K as hook for everyone

February 8, 2017 by Lincoln

After the break that marked the launch of the Broadwell-E with its model 10 cores and 1800 dollars, Intel has used the CES in Las Vegas to continue the landing on the market of its seventh – generation processor, 14 nm and the Expected models at the top.

We talk about the Core i7 for the most powerful desktop computers for gamers and overclocking enthusiasts. We have already tested for a few days the king of this generation: the Intel Core i7-7700K. Enough to consider a change from a very recent 6700K?

Kaby Lake’s turn to desktop PC

Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake and now it Kaby Lake . Since last summer we met the chips that would make up the seventh generation of Intel processors and today we have done the same with the most anticipated models of this generation: the Core i7 and i5 for more powerful computers.

The generation Kaby Lake is based on technology of 14 nm, with micro architecture very similar to that we know from Skylake although improved, so we can consider it as a second tock, before the next tick will be Cannonlake and now points to the Second half of 2017.

These new processors waiting for the eighth generation and the long – awaited step to 10 nm are therefore an optimization of current Skylake. Why throw it then?