Advanced Micro Devices' financial struggles continued in the fourth quarter, with revenue sinking 32 percent due to slow chip sales and charges tied to restructuring and inventory adjustments. AMD reported revenue of US$1.16 billion for ...
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Intel saw its sales and profits drop in 2012 as the company was hit by slower demand for personal computers and its continued inability to make it big in the smartphone and tablet markets, although its data center business continued to ...
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Intel is taking the first steps to implement thin fiber optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers, replacing the older and slower electrical wiring technology found in most computers today. ...
Dell is trying to bring the ARM and x86 processors closer by supporting a new systems management technology, a step toward making both the CPU technologies interoperable, the company said on Wednesday. Dell will back the Open Compute ...
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IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
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IDG News Service - Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in ...
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Intel will make a major mobile push at the Intel Developer Forum next week as the company tries to remain relevant in a market where tablets and smartphones are becoming an alternative to PCs for everyday computing. Intel is at a critical ...
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ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced Wednesday that it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014. ...
Early prototype 64-bit ARM servers could be available for testing purposes by the end of this year or possibly at the latest by the middle of next year, ARM said on Monday. ARM will try to make inexpensive 64-bit server hardware available ...
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IDG News Service - Chip maker Calxeda has received an investment to the tune of US$55 million to develop low-power server chips with ARM processors, the company is expected to announce on Tuesday. Calxeda makes a chip called EnergyCore ...
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To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices has adopted an aggressive strategy whose goals include the introduction of new ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron chips. The company recently ...
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Intel hopes security features from McAfee will help the company differentiate its mobile chips from its rivals', according to Intel's software chief Renee James. The security threats posed to handheld devices are escalating, and chip ...
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Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
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Intel on Tuesday said its revenue and profit dropped during the third quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier, and blamed a tough economy for poor sales of its products. The company's profit was $2.97 billion for ...
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