On 14 January 2005, the probe “Huygens” has successfully landed on the surface of Titan. The spacecraft was named after the famous Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens. It was he who in 1655 discovered Saturn’s moon Titan — the second largest satellite in the Solar system.
The probe created in the European space Agency. The main purpose of the spacecraft is to study the characteristics of the atmosphere of Titan. In your journey “Huygens” started on 15 October 1997 in conjunction with the station “Cassini”. The entry into orbit occurred on December 25, 2004.
The Probe “Huygens”
14 January 2008 for the first time Intel showed a dual-processor gaming platform Skulltrail (V8). The official announcement of the motherboard with two sockets LGA771 took place a month later on 19 February 2008. Skulltrail was created in response to the output of similar platform the AMD Quad FX (4×4). At the time of a full-fledged Quad-core processors have just started to appear, so this system became a kind of intermediate option. A very expensive interim solution. Intel D5400XS was worth $ 600, the remaining components — to match. For example, the system uses the very exotic RAM standard FB-DIMM DDR2 with 4-channel access. Skulltrail supported 45nm Harpertown processors. For example, Core 2 Extreme QX9775.
Intel has long refused to release a dual-processor platforms, such solutions existed up 2010 (platform LGA1366). And yet the Corporation today produces top gaming decisions based on the server Xeon chips. The most powerful to date, is the platform LGA2011-v3, based on the chipset X99 Express. It supports 6 – and 8-core processor family Haswell-E, and in the summer will be released the first Board 10-core chip.
Intel Skulltrail
January 14, 2014 on sale left hybrid processors AMD Kaveri. Using 28-nanometer process technology “red” managed to combine the x86 architecture Steamroller and the graphics GCN (Graphics Core Next). As a result of the flagship (at the time) the chip the A10-7850k is had four processing cores with a frequency of 3.7 GHz and eight blocks Compute Unit.
Kaveri APU — the world’s first processors built-in graphics on equal to compete with discrete graphics segment Low-end. It occupies 47% of the usable area of the crystal and performance level comparable with 3D accelerators Radeon HD 7730/7750 level. For example, the A10-7850k is “pull” GTA V on minimum graphics quality settings, but in Full HD resolution. Graphics and cope with Fallout 4.
Kaveri is an extreme development of AMD. “Red” for more than two years of not releasing anything new. But 2016 will be a landmark for the company. The processor giant will move to 14-nanometer process technology and will present a brand new computing architecture Zen.
AMD APU Kaveri