Steyr-day St. Valentine's Day marked the 60 year celebrations
St. Valentine - The tractor industry is currently in a festive mood.
The President of the world's leading agricultural and construction
equipment manufacturer Case IH, Harold D. Boyanovsky, announced during
his visit to the Steyr plant in St. Valentin on Tuesday night before
400 invited guests feast for the first half of the best net profit
ever. 2007, a turnover can be lowered from 17 billion U.S. dollars,
with a yield of 11 to 12 percent. The occasion was the opening of the
Steyr-house exhibition, which this year is all about the 60th
anniversary of Steyr tractors.
Boyanovsky was before the impetus for the group. After a relatively
difficult period 2000/2001 would now unfold CASE IH and its full
potential in every area, "First Class" will be, said the CEO, who was
the anniversary celebration a special trip from Chicago (USA),
pressetext over. CASE IH is on all the main markets for tractors and
construction machinery, either the number 1 or 2 Every fourth and
every third tractor Mähdräscher world come from the home CASE IH, as
every third Backhoe loaders and every 4th Skid steer loader.
CASE IH is currently fulfilling all plans in accordance with FIAT, the
parent company. Key factor and are important assets to the employees
and the trademarks, Boyanovsky said in view of the tradition at Steyr.
Proud he was t
hat 80 percent of all CASE IH would Taktoren on the
European market from St. Valentine, so it was natural and only natural
that the European headquarters in the previous year of CASE IH to St.
Valentine's Day (on the border between Lower Austria and Upper Austria
has been postponed).
For the policy stressed Josef Plank of Lower Austria, 60 years Steyr
were 60 years of successful industrial history. "Steyr is a piece of
Austrian identity." The purchase of a tractor Steyr is therefore not
only an economically-rational act, but also a very emotional act Plank
expressed the hope that the agricultural machinery producer
offensively'd come in an exciting and sustainable future and the
success of St. Valentine's new dynamic and positive developments in
rural areas causes. This is urgently needed, especially in today's
increasingly globalized world.
CNH Austria presented at this year's Open House in St. Valentin its
entire tractor range - from the very beginning of 1947 (the Type 180)
to the latest technology powerhouse. The new Case IH and Steyr Europe
CEO Andreas Klauser and plant manager Hans-Jochen Kessler explained
before the invited guests on Tuesday, the festival highlights from six
decades of tractors in St. Valentin - in book, film and in the form of
an exhibition on the premises. With the award of valued employees,
dealers and partners who are here since the beginning, the festival
was a fitting close
AMD: The CPU and GPU in one chip - "Barcelona" in three variants
AMD on Thursday introduced at a meeting with analysts and journalists,
his new strategy in the future CPUs and graphics processors to be
merged into a single chip, which is to be started in all devices, from
workstations to come up with HD TV mobile phones.
Following the acquisition of ATI, the new strategy AMD help deliver
enhanced products in the rapidly growing home entertainment and mobile
communications areas. This strategy is known as the AMD "Bulldozer and
Bobcat" strategy, such as Phil Hester, chief technology officer at
AMD, explained. "Bulldozer" stands for all the products for server,
workstation and desktop PC market. "Bobcat" (Skid Steer) products used
in handheld and consumer electronics market.
The new processors, according to information on the architecture of
the AMD x86 processors for desktop PCs and servers, built sometime in
2009 and launched on the market.
AMD believes that the growth potential is greater for the mobile
devices, because here come more and more devices on the market that
the owners can watch videos. In the home entertainment area to enjoy
games consoles, HD TV and TV set-top boxes, high popularity and need
chips for displaying high resolution graphics.
The meeting took AMD to even more details about its quad-core CPU
"Barcelona" to reveal that will launch later this quarter. According
to "Barcelona" in three models come onto the market in the
current-efficient variant (with a maximum of 1.9 GHz), in a normal
variant (2 GHz) and an SE-model (up to 2.3 GHz). Details about the
awards and an exact date of publication but did not disclose to AMD.
