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MUMBAI: After Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty, now actor Salman Khan is eyeing ownership of an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team.
The actor, who has been in informal talks with IPL chairman Lalit Modi for a few months now, officially met Modi today at a suburban Mumbai hotel.
According to Modi, two new team franchises will be added to the existing eight IPL teams in 2011. The auctions for the same will begin early next year. Khan is interested in buying a new team rather than invest in an existing one.
Khan discussed the nitty-gritties of what it takes to own an IPL team, the timelines, procedures and investment required for it. Khan was also interested in knowing the cities that were available for ownership.
According to Modi, the price tag attached to a new IPL team would be in the region of $200 - 300 million. It may be recalled that Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra shelled out close to $15 million for a 12 per cent stake in Rajasthan Royals.
While Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla own Kolkata Knight Rider, Preity Zinta has a stake in Kings XII Punjab along with Ness Wadia. Prominent businessmen who are owners of IPL teams are Vijay Mallya and Mukesh Ambani.
While it remains to be seen whether Salman Khan's deal goes through or not, the stakes are definitely much higher now than before.
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Aishwarya Rai launches Longines at Hyderabad
Longines, the famous Swiss watchmaker has opened a new shop-in-shop devoted exclusively to its watches, at Kamal Watch Company in Banjara Hills. Longines Ambassadress of Elegance Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was keen to celebrate the occasion with members of the press and public.
Longines Asia Pacific Sales Manager, Claude Jaunin said: “we are delighted to open a new window for our patrons in Hyderabad. We are very positive about our partnership with Kamal Watch Company. I am sure it will be a mutually beneficial association”.
A contemporary environment in which Longines design philosophy is evident in every detail, the place offers a perfect setting for the presentation of the highly acclaimed Longines collection to the Indian Public.
Admiring her Conquest Ceramic timepiece, Longines Ambassadress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan commented: ‘This series is designed for those who push themselves to the limits...perpetuate the spirit of adventure, to discover new horizons, to dare to go farther than others. Clearly they are very inspiring”.
The Longines Conquest is the quintessential expression of the brand’s sporting elegance. Special attention has been paid to the aesthetics of the bezel, the cabochon crown and the links, all made of ceramic. This exceptional material combines timeless glamour with novel technical features. As a subtle marriage of steel with ceramic, performance with elegance, the Longines Conquest includes technical characteristics that meet the requirements of the most demanding sportsmen and women. Both sober and sophisticated, this model is guaranteed to be noticed at the most fashionable soirees.
It is in this spirit and bearing in mind the brand’s own heritage, that Longines has designed the models in the Conquest line. Its aim is to seduce today’s sportsmen and women, who concentrate on efficiently and performance without sacrificing elegance. The subtle balance between ceramic and steel is a perfect allegory of this spirit.
Priced at Rs 35,500, the expert craftsmanship of this blend of ceramic and steel illustrates the philosophy and attitude of Longines in associating with elegance and performanceGlobalfoundries Starts on 22nm Fab & Announces First non-AMD Customer
Somehow I’d managed to dodge meeting with Globalfoundries since the company was formed earlier this year. For those of you who don’t know, AMD is now officially a fabless semiconductor. AMD provided its two existing fabs to the new company and its partner, ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company) provided $6B. ATIC owns 65.8% of the new company and AMD owns the rest, although the two share voting rights.
AMD’s biggest limitation has always been capital. Intel currently has four fabs that will be producing 32nm chips by the end of 2010, AMD currently has (err, had) a single 45nm fab in Dresden. There’s simply no way AMD could compete in the fab game with Intel, so it chose to partner up with ATIC, take $6B of their dollars, and spin off its fab business.
Intel's 32nm fabs for 2010
Until this morning, Globalfoundries only had a single customer - AMD, but that just changed with the announcement that STMicro would be using their fabs. Currently Globalfoundries only has AMD’s two fabs in Dresden, Germany, only one of which is producing modern 45nm SOI wafers. But that too is about to change.
Ceremonial shovels, at a ceremonial ground breaking
My first official meeting with GF came just this past week, in Saratoga County, NY. That’s the site where its brand new post-AMD fab will be constructed and it’s sort of a big deal. I was there for the ceremonial ground breaking, but concrete doesn’t get poured until September, the shell won’t be finished until 2010 and the fab won’t be done until 2011. Globalfoundries won’t be able to ship revenue generating wafers until 2012. But that’s ok, with $6B in the bank and a strong commitment from wealthy ATIC the company couldn’t be in a better place.
On Competing with TSMC
AMD couldn’t last competing in the foundry game with Intel. The chart below just shows how expensive it gets:
At 32nm a single fab can cost $4B and in just two years it’ll need to be upgraded (to the tune of around a billion) to support 22nm production. For AMD to support the costs alone and remain competitive with Intel, it would have to virtually own the x86 microprocessor market. Even when AMD held the technology crown, that didn’t happen.
The other alternative is to subsidize the cost of these expensive factories over multiple customers. This is where things get interesting. AMD alone may not be able to fill a fab and make the investment pay off, but AMD + Sony + Toshiba + NVIDIA + etc... can definitely make it work.
Globalfoundries' potential customers and when they plan on going fabless
Currently, fabless semiconductor manufacturers like NVIDIA (and the graphics division of AMD) go to foundry companies like TSMC for their manufacturing needs. In return, they get nearly the latest manufacturing processes (TSMC is at 55nm for volume and 40nm while Intel is at 45nm moving to 32nm) and don’t have to worry about building expensive fabs.
There are problems with this approach. For starters, TSMC has been having troubles moving to 40nm - as you may have heard. Just as important, you don’t get the most advanced manufacturing process technically available. There’s also the fact that TSMC has very little real competition in the industry; all of the GPUs you’re used to reading about are made at TSMC.
The machine to the left of the man's head in the center of the pic is a 193nm lithography machine. We weren't allowed to take close photos, but that machine costs around $75M. Fabs are expensive.
Companies like Sony, Freescale, Samsung, Toshiba and TI all currently fab their own chips. These chips are far less complex than a Nehalem or a Radeon HD 4890 and are thus made on 130nm, 90nm or 65nm processes. The SoC (System on Chip) in the iPhone 3GS is built on a 65nm process by Samsung at its own fab. Being able to move to 45nm or 32nm alongside Intel would give Apple, Samsung and even ARM in general a tremendous competitive boost in the market place. A 45nm iPhone 3GS would use less power or even run at higher clock speeds.
The need for a modern fab partner increases as you look at Intel’s motions towards competing in the smartphone space. Once Atom finally makes its way into smartphones, Intel could have a manufacturing advantage over the ARM partners - allowing for quicker scaling to lower power and higher performance designs. In other words, companies making smartphone SoCs need a good foundry option to compete with Intel.
AMD's 785G Chipset - Revolutionary or Evolutionary???????
Remember when ATI made crappy chipsets that no one bought, and all AMD systems were built with NVIDIA or even VIA chipsets? Yeah, that memory is fading for us too.
Today we get to officially unveil the 785G, the latest in integrated graphics chipsets by AMD for AMD. As the name implies, there is very little separating 785G from its predecessor (780G) and we’re quite ok with that. In fact, the only reason not to get a 780G is addressed by the 785: the new chipset supports 8-channel LPCM audio over HDMI. The lack of TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bit-streaming remains but neither is this feature supported on other chipsets. We also see a jump from HDMI 1.2 to 1.3 standards.
The rest of the major improvements are strictly related to video playback duties. We jump from Universal Video Decoder (UVD) 1.0 on the 780G to UVD 2.0 capabilities on the 785G. The video decode engine supports decoding multiple HD streams (useful for picture-in-picture on a Blu-ray movie) and additional post processing effects if you are not a big video purist. Also new is the 785G's ability to perform detail enhancements on the fly.
The graphics side has not really changed that much. The new GPU is based off the RV620 core and is roughly the same size/complexity as the old one. In other words we get the same 55nm node process and almost the same amount of transistors, just a tad over 205 million.The 785G’s PowerPlay technology is improved with the core constantly adjusting clock speeds based on GPU utilization with a 60MHz target when idling compared to 500MHz at full load. AMD adds DirectX 10.1 support but stream processor count and clock speeds have not changed. Thus gaming performance remains mostly unchanged.
And in this corner: Intel
AMD is targeting Intel’s G41 with this 785G, and by simply by adding 8-channel LPCM and UVD 2.0 support it is no longer at a feature deficit for the HTPC audience. In fact, we cannot find one area where the 785G comes up short compared to the G41.
Intel’s G41 is a cost-reduced version of Intel’s G45 chipset. You lose PCIe 2.0 support (1.1 only) and integrated Gigabit Ethernet (only 10/100). Considering Intel recommends mating the ICH7 Southbridge to the G41for cost purposes, you also lose RAID support and two 3GB/s SATA ports compared to the AMD SB710.
| AMD 790GX | AMD 785G | AMD 780G | Intel G45 | Intel G41 | NVIDIA GeForce 9300 | |
| CPU | AMD Socket-AM2 | AMD Socket-AM2 | AMD Socket-AM2 | Intel LGA-775 | Intel LGA-775 | Intel LGA-775 |
| Manufacturing Process | 55nm | 55nm | 55nm | 65nm | 65nm | 65nm |
| FSB | N/A | N/A | N/A | 800 / 1066 / 1333MHz | 800 / 1066 / 1333MHz | 800 / 1066 / 1333MHz |
| Memory Controller | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2 x 64-bit DDR2/DDR3 channels | 2 x 64-bit DDR2/DDR3 channels | 2 x 64-bit DDR2/DDR3 channels |
| Memory Speeds Supported | N/A | N/A | N/A | DDR2-800/667 DDR3-1066/800 | DDR2-800/667 DDR3-1066/800 | DDR2-800/667 DDR3-1066/800 |
| PCI Express | 22 PCIe 2.0 lanes | 22 PCIe 2.0 lanes | 22 PCIe 2.0 lanes | 16 PCIe 2.0 lanes | 16 PCIe 1.1 lanes | 20 PCIe 2.0 lanes |
| Graphics | Radeon HD 3300 | Radeon HD 4200 | Radeon HD 3200 | GMA X4500 | GMA 4500 | GeForce 9300 mGPU |
| Core Clock | 700MHz | 500MHz | 500MHz | 800MHz | 800MHz | 450MHz Core / 1.2GHz Shader |
| Shader Processors | 8 (5-way) | 8 (5-way) | 8 (5-way) | 10 | 10 | 16 |
| Full H.264/VC-1/MPEG-2 HW Decode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
The Radeon HD 4200 is where all the action is with this update but the more things change, the more they remain the same. We still have the traditional Northbridge/Southbridge layout with the NB supporting a 2GHz HyperTransport link compatible with the latest Socket AM3 processors. The 22 PCI Express 2.0 lanes are still around along with the four lane PCI Express 1.1 lanes supporting the A-Link Express connection between the two bridges.
The NB splits its 22 lanes between a single x16 link for graphics and six x1 links for expansion slots and onboard peripherals. Technically, the 785G chipset can't split its x16 graphics link into two x8 links for CrossFire X operation. The 785G supports hybrid CrossFire operation, but only with the older HD 3450/3470 video cards. We recommend skipping this feature, for now.
| AMD SB750 | AMD SB700 | Intel ICH10 | Intel ICH7 | NVIDIA GeForce 9300 | |
| Additional PCI Express | None | None | 6 x1 PCIe 1.1 | 4 x1 PCIe 1.1 | None |
| USB | 12 ports | 12 ports | 12 ports | 12 ports | 12 ports |
| SATA (300MB/s) | 6 ports | 6 ports | 6 ports | 4 ports | 6 ports |
| PATA | 2 channels | 2 channels | None | None | 1 channel |
| RAID* | RAID 0/1/5/10 | RAID 0/1/0 | RAID 0/1/5/10 | None | RAID 0/1/5/10 |
| HD Audio Interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ethernet | Not Integrated | Not Integrated | Intel Gigabit LAN | Intel 10/100 LAN (Gigabit through external controller) | NVIDIA Gigabit LAN |
| Northbridge Interface | 4 lane PCIe 1.1 | 4 lane PCIe 1.1 | DMI 10Gb/s each direction, full duplex | DMI 10Gb/s each direction, full duplex | N/A, Single Chip Solution |
The SB710 is essentially an updated SB700 with ACC (Advanced Clock Calibration) support, or looking at it a different way, a cost reduced SB750 without support for RAID 5 arrays. The SB710 has six 300MB/s Serial ATA ports with RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 support plus a single IDE port supporting two drives so JMicron and Marvell are held at bay on these systems. Twelve USB ports and a high-definition audio interface round out the SB710 as native GbE support is still missing.
It would have been nice to see next-gen USB and SATA support but that will have to wait for the SB8xxx updates next year. However, compared to the ICH7 mated with the G41, the SB710 is positively feature rich at the same price point.
We could continue on with subtle hints about why this chipset is a better alternative than the Intel G41 or its 780G/790GX siblings, but the bottom line is that AMD has taken an evolutionary step with this chipset, one for the better. That said, let's see how it performs against the other chipsets in its class.
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