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Intel launches its new ''Core i7'' processor

2008-11-18T14:15:00.000-08:00

The largest maker of computer chips in the world, Intel, began today with the delivery of the first processors of the new family "Nehalem" according to an article published today by the daily "Wall Street Journal."

With this powerful chip, Intel seeks to relaunch the downcast demand, affected by the financial crisis, and it's looking to bet against its smaller competitor, AMD.

The processors "Nehalem" provide, among other things, safety independent quad-cores and are designed to have a superior performance in personal computers used for games, for his good performance with images and video.

Here is a diagram of this powerful processor: Versions of the processor formerly known as "Core i7" will be available for use in servers during the first quarter of 2009, as planned.

Intel shocked last week the stock exchanges to raise awareness of massive cuts in their forecasts for sales and generated fears of a global economic decline. The demand of the maker of chips fell in all regions and market segments.

According to the information from the management technology, Intel will reduce its investments this year at $ 100 million to 2800 million dollars.

"One is recovering from a recession with products of tomorrow, not those of today," said Intel executive Sean Maloney to the "Wall Street Journal."

With the new generation of processors, Intel could continue to escape the danger of losing market share compared to AMD, which launched a few days ago its new high-performance processor "Shanghai", while presented a large list of important customers.

In tough competition with Intel, AMD announced the delivery of the new chip scheduled for next year.

A few years ago, AMD had managed to temporarily gain an advantage in the market for servers that he had been allowed to take away market share from its competitor. But according to estimates from market researcher IDC, Intel dominates the market for processors with a 81 percent market share.

For Intel, the new family "Nehalem" represents an important development that took place during the past year. The heart of this processor are four cores of security that can work performing calculations in an independent manner.

Previously we was fascinated when the dual core made their appearance, but now four cores are awesome!!

Did You know which words are the most difficult to translate?

2008-11-17T22:13:00.000-08:00

According to a survey, conducted to a thousand of linguist around the world by the company Translation Today, the word most difficult to translate in all languages is Ilunga, an expression in the Tshiluba language, spoken in the Republic of the Congo, which means "a person who is willing to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate the second, but not the third."

In the second place, the word shlimazl figure, which in Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jews of central Europe, means "the one who has a chronic bad luck." Poor guy who have that kind of luck!! The third more difficult to translate word, albeit with a much more straightforward meaning, is NAA, which is used in the Kansai region of Japan to emphasize statements or to say that one agrees with someone.

Produce Electricity While You Dance?. Its Real!!

2008-11-14T14:22:00.000-08:00

Will you Believe me if I tell you that you can produce electricity while you dance?

Yes, and there is a site in Rotterdam Holland that use this new "electro-technology", we are talking about the Watt Club. In this discotheque the atmosphere its electrifying, because this club have a particular dance floor that "harvest " all the energy produced by the steps and transform into electricity.

The philosophy of this club is: "the better the music, people dance more and more electricity comes from the floor".

All the generated electricity is used to generate the light show in and around the dance floor. This process help to save energy and make a much environmental friendly club.

The Watt club is the pioneer in the new generation of the clubs: "The Sustainable Dance Club". In this clubs, all the activities, services and processes its oriented to be eco-friendly and be more efficient.

This new club has been designed by a group ecological designers, and holland investors and engineers. The Watt club is a large scenic space, not only with a sustainable dance floor(that porduce the energy that it need),but also the toilets that are filled with rainwater and bars that produce little waste (everything is recycled). The heat is harvested by the guitar bands and other musical equipment.

The project leader S. Smit says: "Our idea is tha there is enough energy in this world, just got to use it", "If you have a crowded dancefloor , there are a lot of energy, you only need to transform into a more usuable product"

Obviously an eco-club can't resolve the problem of the increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, which scientists say are responsible for global warming. With their loudspeakers and lighting, nightclubs are some electricity "eaters", and is unlikely to ever stop issuing carbon.

Still, the energy produced by a person who dances, its equivalent to about 20 watts, so two people can light a bulb, as Watt Club scientists have found. The owner of the club, Aryan Tielemen, hopes his sustainable dance floor produces 10 percent of the electricity that the club needs. Eco-innovations in the club will reduce energy use by 50 percent and water by 30 percent, compared with other clubs in the building. It´s a start to save the planet!!

The Investment: Tilemen spent $257,000 on the dance floor, an investment than it wouldn't be recovered with the energy that is saved, because its the first model of it's generation and its so inneficient.

Energy: The most "spectacular" is , of course, the dance floor. Take advantage of a phenomenon known as the piezoelectric effect: when certain materials are compressed generate power and produce electricity. When people dance, the sustainable floor gave an inch and compresses cells that contain piezoelectric material under them. In theory, the piezoelectric floor can take energy of any step or jump and turn them into electricity, although that process is costly and inefficient, because only a fraction of human energy is converted into usable power. But the technology is evolving and it is reprogramming and electronically adjusting the first sustainable dance floor to increase their potency. The company that makes these floors hopes to sell the technology of the dance floor to other clubs and offers an organic certification to those who reduce by 30 per cent of their emissions. The Sustainable Dance Club meets every day the doubts of the business sector. "You can use it anywhere where you have movement, but the question now is when it becomes fundable itself?"

Now the company has identified the next frontier: gyms and training centers.

Hi folks of holland, please tell us more about that club!!, We want to know more!!