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Submission + - Intel Releases Information on Penryn, Nehalem

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Justin Wheeler

on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @09:02PM

Justin Wheeler writes: "Intel has been slowly trickling information on their new Penryn cores (the next release after Merom/Conroe), as well as their upcoming Nehalem cores. From the articles: "At a press meeting today, Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, "we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture." What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments.""

Boeing Working on Fuel Cell Aircraft 163

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @08:40PM from the 12,000-AA-batteries-not-included dept.

"Boeing is working with development partners on a fuel cell-based small aircraft. It seems like a logical use of the technology. Now if they can come up with a quiet, personal-sized VTOL craft a la Paul Moller's Skycar (which is anything but quiet), we'll really have something." From the article "A Boeing research director was quoted as saying, "While Boeing does not envision that fuel cells will provide primary power for future commercial passenger airplanes, demonstrations like this help pave the way for potentially using this technology in small manned and unmanned air vehicles."

Feed Another Phone With Video and a Vowel-Conserving Name (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @08:12PM

First there was the smash-hit Razr. Then came the Slvr, Pebl and Krzr. Now, enter the Motorola Rizr.

Feed Game Theory: Keeping Up With Tiger Woods by Swinging a Remote (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @08:12PM

A golf game that it just like playing the real thing, aches and pains included.

New Horizons Photographs Earth Sized Storm 31

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @07:59PM from the bring-an-unbrella dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "The New Horizons spacecraft has taken the closest ever photos of Jupiter's Little Red Spot, which is actually a storm the size of Earth which has been raging since 2005. New Horizons targeted the storm when it passed Jupiter to gain speed for its journey to Pluto. The source of the red hue remains an open question. Some scientists believe hurricane-like winds lift material from beneath Jupiter's cloud-tops up to an altitude where radiation from the Sun can chemically alter it, producing the red colour. Scientists have estimated that winds in the storm were whipping around the atmosphere at 180 metres per second."

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