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In addition to a couple of mobile Pentium CPUs based on both Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge architectures that will be launched at the end of Q3 or early Q4, Intel will also launch the Pentium 997 ULV CPU, a dual-core 1.6GHz CPU with 17W TDP.

The full list of new mobile Pentium CPUs includes Sandy Bridge based 987 and B980 as well as the Ivy Bridge based 2020M and 2117U CPUs. The last but not the least is the Pentium 997 ULV, spotted by CPU-World.com. Similar to the already detailed Pentium 987, the Pentium 997 ULV is also based on Sandy Bridge architecture, has two CPU cores, 2MB of L3 cache, integrated HD graphics and does not feature any advanced technologies like Hyper-threading or Turbo Boost.

The CPU works at 1.6GHz and has a 17W TDP. The Pentium 997 ULV is clearly a budget ULV part as it will end up slower than Ivy Bridge based Intel Pentium 2117U CPU.

Some of these CPUs have already shown up in some notebook specs sheets and we will probably see more of them in the Q4.

You can check out more here.

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 Governor Lincoln D. Chafee and Senator Jack Reed joined Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Michael P. Lewis Friday to officially open the new Sakonnet River Bridge.

This vital link to Aquidneck Island carries Route 24 and connects Tiverton and Portsmouth. With the opening of the new bridge, the 18-ton weight limit, in effect since June 2008, has been removed.

The governor was also met by residents who are opposed to bridge tolls.

Although the bridge is open to traffic, work continues on the approach roads on both sides of the span. As part of this activity, the Department temporarily closed the ramp from Route 138 (Main Road) to Route 24 south for approximately two months. A signed detour is in place. RIDOT expects construction activities on the segments of Route 24 approaching the bridge to continue through Spring 2013.

“Getting to and from Aquidneck Island is now much improved for residents, businesses, and the trucking community thanks to the opening of the new Sakonnet River Bridge,” said Governor Chafee. “Sound infrastructure is a key component of economic development. With that in mind, I am pleased to say that this impressive structure has clearly been built to last.”

Cardi Corporation has been building the new bridge since its groundbreaking in April 2009. At $163.7 million, the Sakonnet River Bridge Replacement project represents the largest single construction contract in RIDOT’s history.

“The Sakonnet River Bridge is an important transportation link connecting our communities. I am pleased to have secured $15 million in federal funding to help put more than 350 people to work building this bridge and making it safer and more efficient,” said Reed, a member of the Appropriations Committee, who noted that then-Senator Chafee and former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy secured $7 million and $1.6 million respectively, bringing the federal contribution for the project to $23.6 million.

With next year’s project  Sandy Bridge completion and the installation of a shared-use path, RIDOT will also offer pedestrians and cyclists a reconnection to both sides of the bridge that they haven’t had in more than 50 years since the Old Stone Bridge was taken down.

“We are pleased to deliver a new bridge to the host communities of Tiverton and Portsmouth,” said RIDOT Director Lewis. “Although the project is not yet complete, we are offering an improved structure that should better withstand the test of time.”

As part of this project, RIDOT is also rehabilitating the existing Hummocks Avenue Bridge as well as creating a new single-span Evans Avenue Bridge. The Sakonnet River Bridge Replacement Project also includes the creation of a public boat ramp with a fishing pier. The boat ramp and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant fishing pier is currently under construction on Riverside Drive in Tiverton and it is slated for completion in Summer 2013.

The Sakonnet River Bridge also includes a number of decorative and architectural features. These include LED-based lighting to illuminate the bridge’s piers in the river and light posts in the center median. The bridge approaches will also include backlit, bronze plaques that will depict the Portsmouth and Tiverton town seals, as well as the Rhode Island State Seal anchor.

All construction on the new bridge should wrap up in 2013. RIDOT will also begin preparing a contract to demolish the old Sakonnet River Bridge.

 Even though Intel Corp.'s Ivy Bridge-E/EP chips will arrive only in the third quarter of next year, substantially later than a year after Sandy Bridge-E/EP, they will be more powerful than originally expected as the new chip design sports no less than twelve cores, a media report claims.

The new Ivy Bridge-E/EP design, which is set to emerge in the third quarter 2013 and to power various microprocessor products, will have physical twelve cores and 30MB level-three cache, up Sandy Bridge  significantly from eight cores and 20MB L3 cache inside Sandy Bridge-E/EP, reports VR-Zone web-site. The Ivy Bridge-E variation of the chip will be the base for high-end enthusiast-class Core Extreme processors as well as workstation-class Xeon chips, whereas the Ivy Bridge-EP will be be used for Xeon chips for dual-socket severs.

It is expected that Ivy Bridge-E central processing units will have eight or ten cores (thus will have two cores disabled) as well as high clock-speeds to provide decent performance in workstation applications as well as video games. The Ivy Bridge-EP will come with all cores enabled and therefore will feature up to twelve cores. The new chips will be made using 22nm process technology and will have up to 150W thermal design power. The new processors will retain LGA2011 packaging.

At present Intel Xeon processors "Sandy Bridge-EP" for dual-socket servers have maximum of eight cores, whereas Intel Xeon "Westmere-EX" for multi-socket servers feature up to ten cores. With the Ivy Bridge-E/EP the world's largest maker of chips will be able to offer whopping twelve cores even for mainstream servers.

Intel did not comment on the news-story.

David Perlmutter, Intel Corporation's chief product officer unveiled Intel's 4th generation processors at the Intel Developer Forum at San Francisco yesterday, which will bring about a significant power reduction over the previous generation, providing longer battery life, improved performance, and sleeker form-factors.

Laptops, convertibles, Sandy Bridge ultra books and other mobile devices are slated to be available using the low-power 22nm "Haswell" micro architecture by 2013, which will reduce platform idle power by more than 20 times over the 2nd generation Sandy Bridge cores. Operating at about 10 watts, Haswell chips will also sport improved HD graphics support, new instructions for faster encryption and performance, new hardware-based security features.

According to Intel, more than 140 different Ultrabook designs are in development, with more than 70 powered by 3rd generation Intel Core processors available today. The 22nm Haswell processor will incorporate gesture and voice interaction capabilities as well.
Intel will be releasing the company's first ever Perceptual Computing Software Development Kit, which will enable hardware and software developers to bring gesture interaction, facial and voice recognition, and augmented reality to Intel PCs and ultrabooks. A demonstration of Dragon Beta Assistant was also demoed on the XPS 13 Ultrabook, click on the video below for a quick highlights reel of yesterday's proceedings.

The new server system supports more than five petabytes of storage

Semiconductor firm AMD has launched SeaMicro SM15000 server, which will be available with AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon "Ivy Bridge"/"Sandy Bridge" processors.

The new server is built around the Freedom Fabric technology, which is designed and optimised to work with Central Processor Units (CPUs) that have both large and small cores, as well as x86 and non-x86 CPUs.

The Freedom Fabric Storage Sandy Bridge will help SeaMicro SM15000 server to connect directly to massive disk arrays, enabling a single ten rack unit system to support more than five petabytes of storage.

AMD Data Center Server Solutions group corporate vice president and general managerAndrew Feldman said: "AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server enables companies, for the first time, to share massive amounts of storage across hundreds of efficient computing nodes in an exceptionally dense form factor."

The SM15000 server is now available with Intel Xeon Processor E3-1260L ("Sandy Bridge") and in November the company releases two new versions, one supporting Intel's new "IvyBridge" processor, and the other with AMD's "Piledriver" Opteron processor.

In addition, the AMD SeaMicro fabric technology delivers a key building block for AMD's server partners to build energy efficient micro servers for their customers.

Combining the Freedom Supercompute Fabric technology with the Freedom Fabric Storage technology enables data centers to provide more than five petabytes of storage with 64 servers in a single ten rack unit SM15000 system.

AMD said the system can accomodate up to 64 compute cards, each packed with single-socket octal core 2.0/2.3/2.8 GHz AMD Opteron processor based on the "Piledriver" core.Each AMD Opteron processor can support 64 gigabytes of DRAM.

The new system will also be available with a quad core 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 ("Ivy Bridge") for 256 2.5 GHz cores in a ten rack unit system or 1,024 cores in a standard rack. E

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server also contains 16 fabric extender slots, each of which can connect to three different Freedom Fabric Storage arrays with different capacities.

The SM15000 system stands ten rack units or 17.5 inches tall, provides up to ten gigabits per-second of bandwidth to each CPU and connects up to 1,408 solid state or hard drives with Freedom Fabric Storage.

In addition, it delivers up to 16 10 GbE uplinks or up to 64 1GbE uplinks and runs operating systems including Windows, Linux, Red Hat and VMware and Citrix XenServer hypervisors.