---

The real world tale of Alan Wake's journey to PC is almost as tangled as the supernatural in-game story. This action thriller from Remedy, the studio that created Max Payne, was originally announced as a PC game. After a span of years without any significant information on the project, reports surfaced saying that Alan Wake on PC was cancelled. Then Alan Wake on PC was definitely cancelled.

---

---

Breaking News from the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine

I am pleased to report that our neuroscience faculty have made a dramatic breakthrough in the battle against Alzheimer's disease.

Tomorrow's edition of the journal Science will report on how Professor Gary Landreth and his team discovered that a cancer drug can quickly reverse Alzheimer's symptoms in animal models. Within 72 hours of administration, the medication halved the number of plaque deposits closely associated with this degenerative brain disease. More, it saw the signs of cognitive and memory deficits disappear within the same short time period.

The potential of this research to assist the 5.4 million Americans living with Alzheimer's disease is immense. I commend Professor Landreth for this extraordinary research, and look forward to learning of additional progress as he takes it to clinical trials.

I also thank you for your ongoing engagement with the work of our School of Medicine. Your interest and support play a key role in advances like this one. For more details, please see the release below. Sincerely,

Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD Dean, School of Medicine Vice President for Medical Affairs, Case Western Reserve University

---

---

Nvidia Kepler GK-104:

• Product name (top solution): GeForce GTX 680/780 (Not official)
• 28nm production at TSMC, the area approximately 340mm ² (Details)
• 4 Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC)
• 4 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) aka shader clusters per GPC, total of 16 shader clusters for GK104-chip
• 96 stream processors (SP) aka shader shader units per cluster, total of 1536 shader units for GK104-chip
• 8 texture units (TMU) aka shader texture units per cluster, total of 128 units of textures for GK104-chip
• 32 raster operation units (ROPs)
• 256-bit DDR memory interface (up to GDDR5)
• Core Clock (GTX680): 905-950 MHz
• Elimination of Hotclocks, no extra clock speed of the shader units more
• Single-precision arithmetic performance 2.9 teraflops , double precision with 1:6 = 486 DP GFlops processing power, 121 Texture Rate Gtex/sec
• Memory clock (GTX680): 2500 MHz, Memory bandwidth so that at 160 GB/sec
• 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory configuration

---

---

The Internet lost between 2 percent and 3 percent of its total volume of traffic in just one hour following the Jan. 19 raid that shut down the world's largest file-sharing service, according to a new report from DeepField Networks called File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era.
...
With the shift toward Putlocker, NovaMov and MediaFire, far more of those files are being shared across greater distances than before, because the big three download providers store their data primarily in Europe.

So "instead of terabytes of North America MegaUpload traffic going to US servers, most file sharing traffic now comes from Europe over far more expensive transatlantic links," according to Deepfield.

---

---

Reviewers who have probably received their AMD Radeon HD 7700 series samples by now, were taken aback when they found a prescription medication bottle in their packages. No NVIDIA-styled Press Deck booklet, or even former-ATI styled Ruby doll, but a medicine bottle, which reads "Verdetrol". The label directed them to insert the blue capsules inside it to the heat vents of the graphics card, when benchmarking, so it "acts as a performance enhancement".

The point in all this? Apparently AMD's Radeon HD 7770 features 1 GHz core clock speed out of the box, making it the first GPU ever to do so, and AMD wants to make a song and dance about it. What's more, AMD will use a special branding called "GHz Edition" to mark all its future SKUs that come with 1 GHz (or more) GPU core clock speed, indicating that AMD has more SKUs in the pipeline with ≥1 GHz core clock speed. It doesn't stop with this hysterical medicine bottle thingie, no sir, AMD even set up ateaser site dedicated to "Verdetrol".

---

---

In the coming week, AMD will release its Radeon HD 7700 series, which aims to increase its competitiveness in the sub-$200 market. The latest specifications exposé reveals AMD's new design strategy: Instead of increasing components such as stream processors and ROPs, which would increase transistor counts, and unnecessarily increase power draw, AMD is counting on a lesser number of better-configured Graphics CoreNext stream processors. While the previous-generation HD 5770/6770 "Juniper" GPU featured VLIW5 stream processors, the new "Cape Verde" GPU, which will go into making up Radeon HD 7770 and 7750, will feature GCN stream processors. Apart from architectural performance improvements, AMD is counting on increased clock speeds to do the trick. The specifications are listed below.

Cape Verde Physical

• Built on TSMC 28 nm process, ~1.5 billion transistors
• 10 Graphics CoreNext Compute Units (CUs)
• 640 stream processors
• 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs
• 128-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface

Radeon HD 7770

• All CUs enabled, 640 stream processors
• 1 GB GDDR5 memory
• 40 TMUs, 16 ROPs
• 1000 MHz core clock-speed
• 1125 MHz (actual), 4500 MHz (effective) memory clock-speed
• 72 GB/s memory bandwidth
• 1280 GFLOP/s single-precision floating-point performance
• Typical board power: 80W

Radeon HD 7750

• 8 CUs enabled, 512 stream processors
• 1 GB GDDR5 memory
• 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
• 800 MHz core clock-speed
• 1125 MHz (actual), 4500 MHz (effective) memory clock-speed
• 72 GB/s memory bandwidth
• 819 GFLOP/s single-precision floating-point performance
• Typical board power: 55W

---

---

Earlier adopted Financial (the Prolimatech) introduced are lightweight products, such as "Puma" and "Lynx" radiator. We receive the news that adopted Financial will soon launch two radiator, but this product is the introduction of high-end models for the LGA 2011 platform, it seems like tossing heat the players Dewan.

---