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- Intel's eight core plans revealed
- South Korea gives up on Microsoft
- Schmidt hits Cuba
- California allows Bitcoin
- HP forms Lynch mob
| Intel's eight core plans revealed Posted: 30 Jun 2014 01:12 AM PDT While Intel is about to release some of the first processors based on its Haswell-E specifications, it is starting to look like they will not be the eight core fiestas expected. Of the three Haswell-E Core i7 CPUs expected, only one of them, the Core i7-5960X, will actually come with 8 cores, and that is the one which will cost an arm and a leg to buy. The Core i7-5960X and the other two, the i7-5930K and i7-5820K, will contain only six cores. Dubbed the Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition, the flagship CPU of the first Haswell-E lineup and will have two more cores and four more threads than the company's current Ivy Bridge-E based Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition processor. Built around the 22nm Haswell architecture, this new 8-core CPU will head to the deep-pocketed gaming community. The Core i7-5960X will be clocked at a 3.0GHz base, with a 3.3GHz boost frequency. It will also include support for the latest DDR4 2133MHz memory, and 20MB of L3 cache as well. In addition, its power rating will be 140 watts TDP, or only 10 more watts than the 6-core i7-4960X. The new DDR4 memory controller resides on the processor and the RAM is directly connected to the CPU. The DDR4 modules themselves use only 1.2 volts of power, compared to DDR3's 1.65/1.5 volts. The two other Haswell-E Core i-7 chips are 6-core, 12-thread processors. Aside from clock speeds, their specifications are primarily the same. The i7-5930K runs at 3.5GHz, about a 3.9-4.0GHz boost, but it is nearly half the price. The i7-5820K, will run at a 3.3GHz base, with a 3.6-3.8GHz clock boost. It will list for around $300. Both will support a 15MB L3 Cache. So the question is what is it about eight cores that make shelling out that sort of money cost effective? At that price Intel has priced the 8-core i7-5690X out of mainstream machines. All three processors will be compatible with Intel's upcoming x99 chipset and motherboards. We expect them out during the fourth quarter. It is possible however that next year will be the year of the less-expensive, 6-core CPU. |
| South Korea gives up on Microsoft Posted: 30 Jun 2014 01:10 AM PDT South Korea is using the fact that Windows XP is no longer supported as a reason to walk away from Microsoft completely. According to a government statement, South Korea wants to break from its Microsoft dependency and move to open source software by 2020" In a statement the government said that it will invigorate open source software in order to solve the problem of dependency on certain software. The government has invested in Windows 7 to replace XP, but it does not want to go through the same process in 2020 when the support of the Windows 7 service is terminated. Korea has a long way to go. So far it has not even bought in the standard e-document format which is widely seen as stage one. However it seems that the government hopes to lean on the creation of a "local open source alternative" which basically means designing its own Linux fork. Under the plan support will be provided so that it will be possible to freely connect to the Internet with all operating systems and browsers by 2017. Starting next year the pilot open sources OS project will be carried out for 10 public and private institutions, and the expenses related to employee education and systems will be supported. By 2018, the government is planning to review whether the introduction of open source software for PCs reduced expenses and institutionalise the result so that the open OS-related private project can be further expanded. |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 01:08 AM PDT Google Chairman Eric Schmidt made a secret visit to Cuba as part of his campaign to get all sorts of black listed stamps into his passport. Schmidt has been touring authoritarian governments with less-than-favourable internet access, in a bid to get them to join the internet revolution. In doing so he has ignored US laws which have forbidden its citizens from traveling to Cuba or spending any money within the country. The US was always miffed that it lost a fortune when its corporate backed puppet government in Cuba was overthrown by a Communist revolution. Even though the cold war is over, the ban remains in effect, mostly because of a politically powerful Cuban ex-pat community. Schmidt has made controversial visits to North Korea and Myanmar to promote internet freedom, and has previously spoken out against online censorship happening in both China and India. Schmidt was joined by a crew of former Google employees as well as author Jared Cohen. Schmidt and company were apparently there to get a tour of Cuba's University of Information Sciences in Havana and discuss life within the country. Less than three percent of Cuba's population has access to the internet, which is expensive. Google has been looking at ways of increasing internet access in developing countries lately and it might have been that Schmidt was interested in talking to the Cubans about the project. |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 01:07 AM PDT A Californian law has removed a ban on using currencies other than the US dollar. The new law will allow for the growing use of alternative payment methods such as bitcoin. Signed by state Governor Jerry Brown, the new law will boost confidence around bitcoin, as regulators and tax authorities worldwide examine how to handle it. For years Section 107 of California's Corporations Code has prohibited companies or individuals from issuing money other than US dollars. The bill was introduced by Assembly Member Roger Dickinson who said that digital currencies, community currencies and reward points were technically in violation of the law but not penalized. Amazon's Coins to Starbucks' Stars were cash alternatives and were illegal too. In March, the US Internal Revenue Service said it will treat bitcoin as a form of property for tax purposes, rather than as currency, making it subject to similar rules as stocks and barter transactions. Those receiving goods and services in bitcoin will have to add the value of the virtual currency at the time it was received into their gross income. In the UK, HM Revenue & Custom said exchanging or mining bitcoins was exempt from value added tax (VAT) in the UK, but accepting the virtual currency for goods and services is subject to it. |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 01:06 AM PDT The maker of expensive printer ink, HP, is whipping together a mob to go for the former owner of British software company Autonomy. The company has settled litigation over its troubled $11.1 billion acquisition of Autonomy and is now going to go after Michael Lynch, its former chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain, and potentially others related to Autonomy. Part of the agreement with the shareholders is that their lawyers will assist HP in pursuing claims against Automony. It is not clear what HP sort of attack the combined armies of lawyers will be using. It will probably be something like Lynch failed to tell HP that his company was not making any serious money. HP said it has evidence showing how Autonomy "created the illusion" that it was a high growth company. HP took an $8.8 billion impairment charge in November 2012 for its purchase of Autonomy only just over a year earlier, with more than $5 billion of that linked to what HP said at the time were "serious accounting improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures". Sources close to an HP investigation into the matter say that the technology giant believes that Autonomy's results and prospects were made to look much better than they were. This is something Lynch has consistently denied. He said HP is blaming him for its own failure to manage Autonomy after the acquisition. "This had the effect of misleading investors and HP", it said in a statement. Former HP chief executive Leo Apotheker, the architect of the Autonomy deal who was ousted in September 2011 just weeks after it was announced, said he believed the conclusions of a special committee of HP board members that has reviewed the shareholder lawsuit would be a "welcome measure of vindication". |
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