Sunday, July 14, 2013

?1bn to double UK automotive supply chain jobs

The government and automotive industry are investing ?500 million each to double the number of jobs created or secured in the automotive supply chain by creating an Advanced Propulsion Centre.

The commitment is backed by 27 companies in the sector, including supply chain companies, and is expected to secure at least 30,000 jobs.

This is part of a strategy for the UK to secure the long term future of the industry over the next 20 to 30 years by growing the UK share of the value chain.
The money will be spent on the APC over the next ten years to research, develop and commercialise the technologies for the vehicles of the future.

Supply chain is a key theme, and government and industry are focussing on working together to grow the UK supply chain and win more overseas business.

Mike Baunton, SMMT Interim Chief Executive said: ?In partnership with government, we have now developed a roadmap to secure further long-term growth that is detailed in the strategy document launched today.
?Our goals are to grow vehicle production and component supply with more investment, jobs and advanced technology developed in the UK.?

Richard Hill, Head of Automotive Sector at RBS and member of the Automotive Council, said: ?To support the growth of this vital sector RBS has invested in building a dedicated auto team with excellent understanding of the industry and which is developing bespoke funding facilities to meet the needs of each car manufacturer?s supply chain structure.?

Source: http://www.supplychainstandard.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=4570

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Microsoft might be revising the Xbox One hardware before it even releases


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All DRM stuff aside there seems to be more drama inbound for the XBOX One. The Xbox One's hardware isn't all too impressive when compared to its main competitor, the PS4 ...

Microsoft might be revising the Xbox One hardware before it even releases

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ugh.

What a mess of confusion and identity this box has, I'd hate to work on the marketing/PR for it.

Is it a games console or not? Pick a lane.

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Let me get this right, they will "upgrade" their hardware in order to be competitive with the PS4, but the Xbox will still cost 100$ more?
This is stupid.
If i have to choose i'd still buy the PS4 if they have the same specs.
And with the 100 bucks i'd get me a 2nd controller and a game maybe.

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Putting more DDR3 RAM into the GPU won't help much. It needs to be GDDR5. Either way, i'm not buying an Xbone. F*** M$

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Let me get this right, they will "upgrade" their hardware in order to be competitive with the PS4, but the Xbox will still cost 100$ more?
This is stupid.
If i have to choose i'd still buy the PS4 if they have the same specs.
And with the 100 bucks i'd get me a 2nd controller and a game maybe.

yup.

I'm not buying a new games console until some games come out that I'd want to play.

Already got great games on the console I got for when friends head over, I got no need(s) to get me a new console yet.

Give it a year or two and I'll bet that'll change, maybe sooner, maybe not.

IF GTA 5 was a launch title...man that'll be a strong persuader for me.

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If I wasn't a dedicated and thoroughly satisfied PC gamer, I'd not even consider the XBox One but would automatically go for the PS4, and not because of the CPU speed, or the quantity of RAM, but because of the price. $100 is nothing to laugh at!

And on a side note, what's with the "Meanwhile in Taiwan ... " caption for the picture? Sony is a Japanese company, unless it's some sort of inside joke.

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And on a side note, what's with the "Meanwhile in Taiwan ... " caption for the picture? Sony is a Japanese company, unless it's some sort of inside joke.

Dunno. All the stuff is made is Taiwan is it not?

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First of all, how is Titanfall already hitting 5 GB of RAM? Does that mean it'll need that much for PCs too when it launches on PCs? (Do note that 5 GB includes graphics data since the XBOX One and the PS4 have unified memory pools, so likely 4 GB system + 1 GB graphics or something like that).

Secondly, Sony is from Japan, not Taiwan. The chips are likely fabricated in Taiwan through TSMC though. However, most components are likely made and assembled in China.

Thirdly, even if you increase the RAM size, it doesn't account for the potential bottleneck of DDR3, the ESRAM at 32 MB is still pretty small. Sure, it acts as a buffer, but not sure if developers can fully realize the SRAM. I heard from other sources that Microsoft has been tweaking the ESRAM to match and in some cases exceed the bandwidth provided by GDDR5.

Some people have also pointed out about latency issues with GDDR5, the XBOX 360 uses GDDR3 exclusively, developers don't seem to have latency issues with the XBOX 360. The clock speed basically negates the latency problem. DDR3 has a higher latency than DDR2, yet it's still faster even with the added latency...

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Games only have access to 5GB of the 8GB total system memory.....which doesn't make much sense to me. Do the OS and any other, non-gaming tasks, actually need 3GB? If so, that would make the Xbox OS more resource heavy than any version of Windows.


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Games only have access to 5GB of the 8GB total system memory.....which doesn't make much sense to me. Do the OS and any other, non-gaming tasks, actually need 3GB? If so, that would make the Xbox OS more resource heavy than any version of Windows.

i believe the xbox 1 has 3 operating systems on it from what the reveal said so i would guess they reserved 1gb to each one.

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Games only have access to 5GB of the 8GB total system memory.....which doesn't make much sense to me. Do the OS and any other, non-gaming tasks, actually need 3GB? If so, that would make the Xbox OS more resource heavy than any version of Windows.

It's unfair for Microsoft to say that there's 3 OSes, there's really 2 sitting on top of a hypervisor. Likely the hypervisor takes up some memory and then the "XBOX OS" and "Windows 8-based OS" takes up memory too (since both are booted upon start-up).

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Why do people care about the latency difference between ddr3 and gddr5.... The mhz more than makes up for it hence why sony are using it. They wouldnt use it if it was worse than ddr3 as ddr3 is cheaper anyway...

and 32mb of ESRAM , dont care what you tell me 32mb in this day and age aside from Lx cache on processors is not enough to do a god damn thing. It creates another section the data will go through therefore making it more annoying to code than the ps4... NSAbox, no thankyou.

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if they upgrade ram to be more i bet sony will do mad rush to do the same maybe even for the gpu ram speed.

ATM MS is in brain storm mode to try and fix what the made mess of which they do alot of as of late

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Why do people care about the latency difference between ddr3 and gddr5.... The mhz more than makes up for it hence why sony are using it. They wouldnt use it if it was worse than ddr3 as ddr3 is cheaper anyway...

and 32mb of ESRAM , dont care what you tell me 32mb in this day and age aside from Lx cache on processors is not enough to do a god damn thing. It creates another section the data will go through therefore making it more annoying to code than the ps4... NSAbox, no thankyou.

GDDR5 is faster speeds, higher latency but more suited for smaller chucks of memory DDR3 is lower latency, lower speeds, but more suited for larger chunks of memory, Or so people that compare the 2 keep saying the normal user isnt gona see difference.

Hence DDR3 is used as PC main ram cause it deals with Large chunks of data and GDDR5 is used in GPU as they mainly use smaller chunks of data.

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Nah sony dont have to do a thing. Their OS only uses 1GB leaving 7 and also they are beating the xbox by roughly .6-7 Tflops. They have won no matter what xbox one do.

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Nah sony dont have to do a thing. Their OS only uses 1GB leaving 7 and also they are beating the xbox by roughly .6-7 Tflops. They have won no matter what xbox one do.


They dont but they could which would put MS in bigger hole btw .6~.7 Tflops isnt a whole lot

Anyway I think the most the can do is increase ram speed change ram amount this late would make then have to dump what ever they started to produce and if they didnt start producing them by now there will mass shortages.

But then I could care less about what MS does I wont buy the console I dont care for this Camera/Motion crap MS is pushing down peoples throats and charging extra as a result. That and after the 360 and 4 RROD on system I played way less then my PS3 was enough for me to say never again any MS console, and I was already boycotting MS hardware.

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uh .6-7 Tflops is quiet a bit... im talking 1.3ish for xbone and 1.84 if i recall for the ps4. Nothing that RAM can fix. Slight CPU overlock would increase it minimally.

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This article is a copy/paste from the one on the Examiner.

Hilbert, is the source yours? Or are you just reporting the rumor?

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in my eyes it is not not for console anyway seeing there already highly optimized for just that system and not 100's of different configs. PC might benfit more but that my opinion Changing ram speed and or add more would make just as little change too.

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If gamespot or one of those other site like gamebomb etc report this would find it slightly more believe able

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 index and the Dow industrials closed on Thursday at record highs, a day after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank will keep a loose monetary policy for some time to lower the unemployment rate.

Bernanke said after the market's close on Wednesday the U.S. jobless rate of 7.6 percent overstated the health of the labor market. He said a "highly accommodative" policy is needed for the foreseeable future, triggering a rally in equity futures.

The S&P closed above its previous all-time high of 1,669.16 on May 21 and the Dow surpassed its high of 15,409.39 on May 28.

"Having Bernanke come out obviously worked, giving the market some stability," said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey.

"It's almost as if the markets need to hear this over and over again."

After closing at its previous record, the S&P 500 in June posted its first negative month in eight as Bernanke hinted the U.S. central bank could begin this year to wind down a bond buying program partly responsible for the rally in stocks.

"The selling that we saw after May 22 was clearly the unwinding of leveraged bets which put tremendous pressure on markets," Krosby said.

More than 85 percent of shares on the New York Stock Exchange and almost 70 percent of those on the Nasdaq rose on Thursday. All 10 of the S&P 500 industry sectors advanced, with five of them rising more than 1.5 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> rose 169.26 points or 1.11 percent, to 15,460.92. The S&P 500 <.spx> gained 22.4 points or 1.36 percent, to 1,675.02 and the Nasdaq Composite <.ixic> added 57.55 points or 1.63 percent, to 3,578.3.

In late June, the S&P had fallen as much as 5.8 percent from its closing high after Bernanke's comments and the expectation of a winding down of the stimulus. Gains have come from improving economic data, anticipation of a better-than-expected earnings season and reduced concern about cuts to the Fed's $85 billion in monthly bond purchases.

Bernanke's remarks calmed concerns in the Treasuries market, and stock investors flocked to housing-related stocks on bets on a decline in mortgage rates.

The PHLX housing index <.hgx> jumped 4.9 percent, its largest daily gain since December 20, 2011.

D.R. Horton jumped 9.2 percent to $22.98 and at least six other homebuilder stocks rose 7 percent or more.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc jumped 11.8 percent to $4.45 and was the S&P 500's top performer after Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded the stock. The PHLX semiconductor index <.sox> rose 2.1 percent to its highest in almost six years.

Celgene Corp , up 7.9 percent to $134.90, was among the top performers for both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 <.ndx> after the company said a late-stage trial of a cancer drug met the main goal of improving survival in newly diagnosed blood cancer patients.

Microsoft rose 2.8 percent to $35.69 after the company announced a reorganization designed to streamline the software company's operations.

RadioShack Corp fell as much as 22.6 percent after trade publication, Debtwire, reported the electronics chain is considering hiring a financial adviser to help improve its finances. Shares closed down 7.1 percent at $2.63.

Earnings reports are expected on Friday from JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo .

Thomson Reuters data show analysts expect S&P 500 companies' second-quarter earnings to have grown 2.5 percent from a year earlier, with revenue up 1.5 percent.

About 6.5 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, slightly above the 6.4 billion daily average so far this year.

(Additional reporting by Alison Griswold; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Kenneth Barry)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/futures-jump-wake-bernanke-comments-112529389.html

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1 of 5. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) speaks next to Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) Joint Opening Session at the State Department in Washington July 10, 2013.

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