Bulldozer FX: Today the official debut of the new AMD

After much waiting and more or less confirmed the time has finally come the debut of the processors AMD Bulldozer FX . The new generation of processors from the house of Sunnyvale comes at a good time because the producer sees in an excellent position in the desktop GPU and embedded systems, where he recently proposed a wide range of APU.

Desktop CPU instead of the segment that has been in the past two years has seen AMD use Intel's counter-part in the high-end, but at the same time take a very aggressive pricing policy that has borne fruit; just think that a processor Phenom II X6 6-Core has a cost just over $ 100.

But back to Bulldozer FX , as we will see a symbol that does not "point" only new processors from AMD Enthusiast but a broader vision that includes all the hardware platform of the PC , with a focus that could be called essential for the price / performance ratio.

The PC hardware market, particularly aimed at the demanding gaming in 2010 generated more than 16.5 Million of U.S. dollars with nearly half a billion Gaming assembled. In this cauldron of almost 500 million computers, however, two thirds are systems that are aimed in some way to contain the final cost of the machine within the $ 700, leaving the systems above $ 1500 a share of about 2% slice and market (about 20%) to mid-range, if that can be defined.

In this view comes with the AMD FX processors and chipset 990FX Dozers, specifically designed for the new platform.

iMessage in iOS 5 kills traditional SMS

iMessage - universal instant messaging, designed for mobile devices running iOS Apple 5. With it you can send and receive text as well as photos, videos and contacts, and absolutely free. Launch of iOS 5 with the support of iMessage able to destroy the thriving with SMS-services, says Telecompaper.

This application will give the owners iMessage iPhone, iPad and iPod touch the possibility of free and unrestricted exchange of text messages in the Wi-Fi and 3G. The bonus is sharing pictures, videos, contacts and information about the location. You can communicate with the entire group of respondents. Not be ruled out later iMessage support will appear in iChat on OS X Lion .

And it is true: iMessage based on existing user data transfer services, eliminating the need to pay to send the message. SMS business is incredibly profitable for operators, bringing them billions of dollars. Estimated comparison shows that for a cellular subscriber's terminal value to send as many SMS, to get the amount of data in 1 MB will cost 120 thousand times more than the price of Internet data transmission of the same volume: somewhere in the $ 1500 against 1.25 cents. While the cost of SMS to the operator does not exceed one third cents.

Some providers of cellular services, recognizing the threat iMessage, have begun to offer more flexible tariffs SMS-plans, for example, by sending an unlimited number of text messages for a fixed monthly fee. Other operators perceive iMessage as an additional way to communicate to existing and further development of communication standards - users are also in need of data transmission charges, and only choose how to exploit them.

Again, Apple-only devices are making a 5 percent annual contribution to the SMS-traffic times, so a service iMessage, supported so far only iOS does not exclude any disappearance SMS-services - users need to communicate with the owners of other handsets.

Apple-iMessage acts in response to popular messaging platform RIM BlackBerry Messenger, largely thanks to a Canadian manufacturer has managed to attract plenty of fans for its products. Samsung, Google and Microsoft are preparing to submit their own text service communication, alternative SMS.