Thursday 26 September 2013

Dell teams up with Tobii to make Optical control of systems a reality!

On thursday the 19'th of september 2013, Dell OEM UK announced that they had partnered up with Tobii technology to create the Tobii Eye-mobile, a tablet integrated with Tobii technology's amazing gaze tracking technology.
(image taken from original post on the dell newspage: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/press-releases/2013-09-19-dell-oem-tobii-eye-gaze-interaction) They developed this so that people with physical disabilities such as paralysis can use it and access things that everyone else can do such as using the internet, or any other task that they could not complete without this. This will hopefully become cheaper and more abundant in the future to help people with paralysis live better and more successful lives. Here is a video on Tobii eye tracking technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2mjra3oPLw

Monday 23 September 2013

Blue-Zoo teams with Dell to bring Q-pootle 5 to the TV

On the 16'th of september 2013 Dell London announced that the award winning London-based animation studio "blue-zoo" would be implementing dell infrastructure to help them animate an award winning book "Q-pootle 5" into a TV series to be aired internationally. With an animation history including Tree Fu Tom for the BBC and Olive the Ostrich for Nickelodeon, Blue Zoo have experience working with some of Europe’s largest broadcasters. However, upon winning the Q Pootle 5 contract for Snapper Films, Blue Zoo needed to increase its workstation and rendering capacity, and quickly due to the books success, so they turned to dell for robust and reliable technology with scale and stability, allowing them to work faster and more efficiently for less cost. So they got powerful workstations for animators and they got powerful servers for their software. Thats it for now, stay tuned for more news on the newest tech. Bye!

Thursday 19 September 2013

Intel releases new multicore silvermont "SoC's" (systems on chips)

On the 11th of september 2013, intel San Francisco announced the release of 3 new processors that were formerly codenamed as "Bay Trail" which is available for tablets, 2 in 1 systems, all in one systems, smartphones, laptops and desktops. This family of processors are based on Intels low-power and high performance microarchitecture "silvermont" that was announced in May 2013. The intel "Bay trail-T" (formally known as the Intel Atom Z3000)is Intels first muliti core processor and their most powerful for tablets and some other mobile devices. The describe it as: "It delivers a fast and fluid experience and a powerful balance of performance, battery life, graphics and rich features" in their announcement. The flexibility of the new "Bay Trail-M" and "Bay Trail-D" processors allows them to work in multiple platforms such as 2 in 1's, laptops, Pc's and all in 1 pc's. Stay tuned and follow me to see whats up in the technology side of the world, until next time, bye!

Thursday 12 September 2013

NVIDIA GPU powers the worlds most energy-efficient supercomputer!

On the 28'th of July 2013, NVIDIA proudly announced that their tesla GPU accelerators are in use in (scale to performance) the worlds most energy efficient supercomputer! Based on a list called the Green500. (This is a list that states the worlds most energy efficient supercomputers in the world). The actual system itself is known as Eurora. It contains NVIDIA Kepler architecture-based GPU accelerators, theses are the highest-performing, most energy-efficient accelerators ever built - this supercomputer delivers 3210 MegaFlops per watt! Making it over 2.6 times more energy efficient than the best system using intel cpu's alone! And whats more is that the second most energy efficient supercomputer according to the Green500 list is a system known as "Aurora Tigon", which also uses the same NVIDIA Kepler GPU accellerators. NVIDIA tesla GPU accelerators are designed specifically to be the most energy efficient GPU's in the market, and have stayed that way since they were designed. To read more click here.

Monday 2 September 2013

Hello!

Hi! I'm Matthew and this blog is about the latest technology news concerning components for pc's and other platforms such as sony's playstations and microsoft's xbox platforms. This blog will range from news on the latest intel processors, NVidia graphics cards and ASUS motherboards to gaming equipment and the newest versions of useful programs like photoshop. So i hope you'll enjoy reading this because there's lots more to come in the future, so stay tuned!