Japan invest $ 1.3 billion in new supercomputer

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There is a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, and the last time it was updated back in June of this year, Fujitsu "K" (pictured) come out on top, taking place no. 1 from ANT 1A (supercomputer from China).

It was the first time since 2004 for Japan to claim those bragging rights and now the country's largest business newspaper Nikkei reports that the Government is already thinking about what would happen in 2020: by the time the plan is to develop, on a computer that handles the exascale computing or, in other words, one million trillion operations per second (this computer will be 100 times more powerfulthan K).

MEXT, Japan's Ministry of science is a score that can be up to $ 1.3 billion and has already roped in NEC, Fujitsu and Government Agency RIKEN to discuss details of the project. The goal is to make sure Japan remains on top in the race a supercomputer, as other countries invest, too. In February, the Government of the United States, for example, set aside $ 126 million for the development of exascale supercomputer in the budget for fiscal 2012.

Supercomputers are used for prediction of earthquakes and other natural disasters, climate change analysis, space exploration, etc.

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Intel Capital launches $ 300 M Fund to invest in technology Ultrabook Tablet

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Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corporation, announced the Fund Ultrabook 300 million to fund technologies that provide new and improved user interfaces, longer battery life and slim feature and platform technology in personal computers.

Earlier this year, Intel pitched a new category of laptops, Ultrabooks, that must have three distinct elements: they are thin (less than 20 mm/0.8 inches), lighter than most existing notebooks and at prices below $ 1000 to become mainstream. Intel said that most of these devices marry performance and capabilities of modern tablet notebooks with similar functions.

To help realize that vision, Intel Capital Ultrabook Fund will invest in companies building software and hardware technologies focused on enhancing how people interact with this new form of device, Ultrabooks, e.g. through sensors and touch, achieving a day via a longer battery life, innovative projects of physical and improve capacity.

The overall objective of the Fund, which will be invested over the next 3-4 years, you must create a series of innovative capacity and the system for this new and growing category of mobile devices.

This seems to be part of an overall strategy Intel to help make Ultrabooks into reality. Latest 2nd generation Intel ® CoreTM processor will soon be released, which the company promises to include thin, lightdesigns, which are less than 21 mm (0.8 inches) and at basic prices. Systems based on those chips will be available for the 2011 Winter holiday shopping season, says Intel.

Another processor, dubbed "Ivy bridge", which is scheduled for availability in the first half of 2012, a promise to improve energy efficiency, smart Visual performance, efficiency and security. And HASWELL Islands "is expected to reduce energy consumption up to poloviny"rascetnoj tocki"dlâ of modern microprocessors.

This is not the first Intel Capital Special Fund. Investment company also has a country such as the Foundation technology of India, China Technology Fund II Fund technology of Brazil and the Middle East and Turkey, as well as past special funds technology such as digital home Fund Intel and the Intel Communications Fund. Intel said that its portfolio of investments Intel Capital is currently approximately $ 2.179 billion.

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