IBM's revenues remained relatively flat in the second quarter 2012, although the company reported strong growth in its cloud, analytics and smarter planet initiatives. Total revenues for the quarter fell by 3% to $25.8bn due to currency ...
Tags: IBM, net income, software, cloud
Advanced Micro Devices has lured Jim Keller from his role as platform architect at Apple to head its processor group as the struggling company tries to reshape its chip strategy and stem a loss in processor market share. Keller was part ...
Tags: AMD, Apple, platform architect, processor group
Prices are dropping on tablets running Android 4.1 OS, with Indian company Karbonn Mobiles announcing a tablet priced at around $125 and using Google's latest OS, code-named Jelly Bean. The Smart Tab 1 tablet is the second with Android ...
Tags: tablets, Android 4.1 OS, Google, Jelly Bean
IDG News Service - MIPS, continuing its push to make a mark in low-cost tablets, is quickly trying to bring Android 4.1, also called Jellybean, to its processors. "We are working aggressively on bringing Jelly Bean to MIPS, and expect ...
Tags: MIPS, tablet, Android, corporation communication
ARM and Imagination Technologies have united to acquire semiconductor designer MIPS Technologies, with ARM paying the lion's share of the purchase price to snap up MIPS' patent portfolio, while Imagination will acquire MIPS' operational ...
Tags: ARM, Imagination Technologies, MIPS Technologies, patent war
MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor, the China-based mobile CPU developer have worked with Karbonn Mobiles of India to offer a low cost Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' tablet. In India it is priced at Rs. 6999 (approximately $125). ...
Tags: India, tablet, $125, Android 4.1
The Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully moved its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system, and all the work was done in-house. The decision to keep the work in-house prompted much debate and skepticism, but there was no ...
Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the final speaker line-up and agenda for its annual Xen Summit North America conference. The event will be held, August 27-28 in San Diego, California and is co-located with ...
Tags: Xen, Xen hypervisor, Xen Summit North America conference, technology
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 UK based chip manufacturer for phones and tablets, Imagination Technologies has agreed to buy California-based chip designer, MIPS Technologies for $60m to compete ...
Tags: transaction, patent property, CPU capability, expansion
Imagination Technologies risks being gazumped in its$60m(£37.6m)bid to acquire microprocessor designer MIPS Technologies after the board of MIPS opened talks with rival CEVA. The news follows a significantly ...
Just two weeks after revealing its plans for adopting ARM for low-power server technology,chip designer AMD has put itself up for sale–with a slew of industry companies,including Intel,Google,Samsung and Facebook–mentioned as ...
Tags: Ailing AMD, Chip Maker Calls, Jp Morgan
IDG News Service-British chip designer Imagination Technologies plans to acquire the operating business of processor maker MIPS Technologies,as well as some of its patents,in an effort to strengthen its position on smartphones.At the same ...
Tags: Imagination Technologies, Chip, smartphones, MIPS
Earlier this year,the Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully completed a five-year effort to move its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system,and IT personnel did all of the work in-house. The agency began work on the ...
Tags: Ohio Department, Public Safety, mainframe applications
MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones with an upcoming processor design it presented at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. MIPS is known for chips used in home ...
Tags: Processors, MIPS, ARM, Tablet
Intel is porting the Android 4.1 operating system,also called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones and tablets using low-power Atom processors,the company said this week. The company did not provide a time frame for when the Android 4.1 port ...
Tags: Intel, Google updating Android 4.1, Atom tablets, smartphones