LSI packs16 A15 cores in basestation SoC

 LSI Corp., introduced its Axxia 5500 series, a family of 28nm basestation SoCs that pack up to 16 ARM Cortex A15 cores riding the new ARM CCN-504 interconnect.
The chips will not sample until fall, but LSI claims it has commitments from top tier basestation makers designing them into systems set to ship in 2014.
                The SoCs support up to 16 10Gbit/second Ethernet ports. They also use an array of speciliazed hardware accelarators passed on from existing LSI SoCs for security, packet
processing and other operations.
               LSI claims the Axxia 5500 will sport four times the control plane performance and 2.5 times the data plane performance of its existing 3400 series SoCs that use four PowerPC 476 cores.
With the new chips, LSI is following Freescale and others in a board shift to ARM cores in embedded processors.
             The SoCs do not include LSI's starcore DSPs the company contends top tier basestation makers prefer to use their own baseband ASICs. letting the LSI SoCs handle L2-L4 processing.

Ceva targets basestations with FP cores

Ceva Inc., is driving its DSP technology toward wireless base stations and other high end products with a set of new floating point and multicore features. Ceva has
added capability to handle up to 32 floating point operations per clock cycle to its CEVA-CX vector processor unit. The feature enables handling jobs such as MIMO antenna
processing including 4 by 4 configurations for 802.11as WiFi at up to 1.7Gbits/second, Ceva claims.
              It added a range of multicore features for symmetric and asymmetric clusters running at up to a GHz including support for cache coherency in DSP and mixed DSP
and MPU clusters. Ceva's approach builds on ARM AXI4 interconnect protocol and AMBA 4 ACE cache coherency extensions. The company also provided enhancements
aimed at simplify programming multicore clusters.

ASUS Announced World's First AMD based Motherboard with PCI Express 3.0

Asus announced the TUF series SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0, the world's first AMD based motherboard to feature PCI Express 3.0 for use with next generation
high performance graphics cards. Up to three DirectX 11 graphics cards with 28nm GPU technology can be used via NVIDIA SLI or AMD CrossFireX to create desktop PCs
with formidable graphics performance.
                 SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 also features renowned ASUS TUF Series thermal design for superior heat removal. It undergoes military and server grade
testing to ensure absolute stability, reliability and longevity SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 is backed by a five year warranty.

Military grade components for superior reliability
             SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 meets strict TUF series quality assurance standards, which consists of multiple stage military and server-grade tests. TUF-certified
alloy chokes, together with solid state capacitors and MOSFETs, ensure complete reliability even when the motherboard is subjected to intense use for prolonged periods.
Four DIMM slots support uo to 32GB DDR3 memory at frequencies up to 2400MHz, aided by an eight layered PCB that promotes faster memory performance while
ensuring stability and compatibility with improved cross-component signal quality.

Sophisticated thermal management copes with extreme heat
          TUF series motherboards are designed to provide absolute stability and reliability under harsh operating conditions, and feature sophisticated thermal management
to handle extreme heat. Both the Northbridge and Southbridge use dual-heatpipe heat sinks with CeraMIX micro ridged coating that increases the effective heat dissipation surface area
by around 50%.
          SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 also features TUF thermal Radar, which uses multiple heat sensors across the motherboard for real time temperature monitoring.
Independent and automatic fan speed control then allows components to be cooled individually for maximum efficiency and operating stability.

NVIDIA Introduces GeForce GTX TITAN

 Nvidia introduced the new GeForce GTX TITAN, powered by the fastest GPU on the planet and designed to unleash the world's fastest gaming PCs including personal gaming supercomputers and
svelte, quiet, small form factors PCs.  GeForce GTX is a beast of a GPU and only one in the world powerful enough to play any game at any resolution at any
time, said Scott Herkelman, general manager of the GeForce business unit at Nvidia.
                 GTX TITAN is built with the same Nvidia Kepler architecture that powers Oak Ridge national laboratory's newly launched TITAN supercomputer, which is
number 1 in the list of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world. GeForce GTX TITAN features an array of innovative technologies complemented by sleek materials
that contribute to the exotic design of the card, including a high quality exterior aluminum frame and high efficiency vapor chamber cooling. GeForce GTX TITAN's
aesthetic design evokes the spirit of a supercomputer and the enormous capability within a blistering fast GPU and astonishing graphics horsepower that is delivered
with the power efficiency that only kepler class GPUs can provide.
              GeForce GTX TITAN is also perfect for powering the new wave of small form factor gaming PCs. so gamers no longer have to make the choice between performance
and size they can have both at the same time.
             The GeForce GTX TITAN GPU will be available starting on February 25,2013 from Nvidia's add-in card partners, including ASUS and EVGA in North America, and
additional partners, including Colorful,  Galaxy,  Gigabyte,  INNO 3D,  MSI, Palit and Zotac outside the US. Pricing is expected to start at $999 USD.
            GeForce GTX TITAN will also be sold in fully configured systems form leading US based system builder, including AVADirect, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest,
Geekbox, IBUYPOWER, Maingear, Origin PC, Puget Systems, V3 Gaming, Velocity Micro, and Other system integrators outside North America.

Nvidia Introduces Chimera- World's first mobile computational photography architecture

Forging a path for the next wave of advanced, consumer-focused mobile imaging experiences and appliances. Nvidia today announced new capabilities
delivered by the Nvidia Chimera Computational Photography Architecture. Available in the Nvidia Tegra 4 family of the mobile processors.
            Chimera architecture offers a number of features never before available on mobile devices, including always on high damage range photos and
videos HDR panoramic and persistent tap-to-track capabilities.
            Chimera architecture provides the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing. using computational
techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescope and spy satellites.
           First revealed at CES 2013, the architecture redefines mobile imaging with always on HDR photos and videos. This allows camera users to instantly capture
high quality, HDR images in a vast array of locations and scenes, and under diverse lightning conditions.
         Nvidia Chimera is available as technology integrated into the Tegra 4 family, including Tegra 4 the world's fastest mobile processor and the new Tegra 4i the first
integrated Tegra LTE processor.

Nvidia Announces Tegra 4i

 Nvidia launched its Tegra 4 'wayne' SoC, a high-end ARM processor with four Cortex-A15 cores and a 72-core GPU. The Tegra 4 is Nvidia's new high end
ARM chip, made for 'super phones' and  tablets. The Tegra 4 does appear to be an expensive and power hungry chip, so in order to complement its flagship
chip Nvidia presented the Tegra 4i. The Tegra 4i is a smaller and more energy efficient chip that is set to release at the end of 2013.
                The Tegra 4i is a nanometer chip, but smaller, because Tegra 4i doesn't have a Cortex-A15 cores of the Tegra 4, but revised Cortex A9 cores.
Nvidia claims it's improved the Cortex A9 design, presented the changes to ARM. Which then was integrated into fourth revision of the Cortex A9 core.
                 This latest revision should be 15 to 30 percent faster at the same clock speed than the previous one. The cores in the Tegra 4i run at an unprecedented
clock speed of 2.3GHz, and Nvidia claims that CPU speed is in fact twice as high as that of the Tegra 3. It's the first SoC to feature the new R4 version of the Cortex A9,
The Tegra 4i also has a fifth energy efficient core that takes over when only little power is required.
                The Tegra 4i has only 60 GPU cores compared to the 72GPU cores of the Tegra 4. Nvidia hasn't specified anything yet about the memory interface on the new chip.

Western Digital is working on 5mm thick hybrid drives

Western Digital working on reducing the size of the disks. WD hopes to offer 500GB drives soon that are just 5mm thick. In 2008, a 9.5mm enclosure was required
 to harbor such a capacity, a number which dropped down to 7mm just last year.
                        Western digital has added 32GB of flash memory to the 500GB hard drive. The result is a hybrid disk called WD Black SSDHD. The WD Black SSD has a
downside as well. To use the available storage, special drivers are required for Windows operating system. Western Digital has not yet issued a statement on how this
will affect the installation and ease of use. The 5mm thick drive will have a special SATA-connector which will be featured only on specific ultrabooks.
        the exact released hasn't been mentioned yet.