Intel introduced the Latest 50-core processor

Intel announced a new processor «Knights Corner», oriented for use in server computers. This is a  first in the world of chip, which has just 50 cores, the level of its performance more than 1 teraflops. The main competitor - AMD - boasts a processor with 16 cores in the server CPU Opteron 6200.

Knights Corner processor is manufactured on 22 nanometer technology with the use of standard "three-dimensional" transistor Tri-Gate, which allows them to be mounted vertically and horizontally. It is noteworthy that the 50-core chip from Intel is fully compatible with the most popular x86 architecture. Knights Corner with the server chip family of Xeon E5 (micro architecture Sandy Bridge) will be installed at supercomputer Stampede, which is being built for the University of Texas.

It is expected that the total computational power of this machine is 10 petaflops - a 80% performance supercomputer will meet the 50-nuclear Knights Corner, and for the other 20% - chips E5. Starting the Stampede is scheduled for 2013.

At today's most powerful supercomputer is Fujitsu K. The performance of this monster, which is located at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science Riken in Kobe, more than 10 petaflops per second. For comparison, the computational power of a chip in the iPhone 4 A4 is at 36 megaflops. At Fujitsu K used 88 000 128 chips, each of which has 8 cores.

Update to version 5.0.2 iOS should "no later than next week"

In light of the "fall" of new products from Apple, many people expressed their dissatisfaction over unrestrained "promises" from the company. One of those promises was claimed battery life of devices running a recent operating system, in particular battery life "on a single charge» iPhone 4S, also presented this fall, and not to the expected delight. After the release of iOS 5 on the official sources of public relations company "fell" letters in which he narrated about a small-time operation of the devices running the new operating system from Apple (as compared with the declared two days of continuous operation).

To resolve the problems the company has released a patch aimed at eliminating failures in iOS 5. The result was an updated version of iOS 5 - iOS 5.0.1. Apple had planned to resolve this action all the problems associated with the unstable charge the battery, but this has not happened. The new version is not allowed to remove all the limitations. "Apple" company has promised to address this issue more seriously.

According to AppleInsider , citing Macerkopf.de , Apple plans to upgrade to version 5.0.2 which should fix problems with the battery pack faster. The main goal pursued by developers, is to increase the working time iPhone 4S to 40 hours in standby mode after 10 hours of active use. According to them, "fresh" version will be released "until next week."

It is also expected major upgrade iOS 5. Version 5.1 should make a lot of changes in functions and commands a voice assistant Siri. From the same message became known, a major upgrade is expected before the end of 2011. This delay is because the work is accompanied by Siri "great financial cost."

Macerkopf.de have often acted as a source of "classified" information, for example, in April of this resource is made ​​public announcement of the upcoming iOS 5 . Now Macerkopf.de suggests that Siri will get commands such as video, photo creation, enabling or disabling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.