Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
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In October, 2010, China built the world's fastest supercomputer, and three months later President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, said that America was facing a Sputnik moment. Obama renewed calls for higher levels of R&D ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc says that vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) devices using wafers produced at its Cardiff, UK facility have broken the 40Gb/s barrier at high temperatures, which is reckoned to be a ...
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Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market. The company’s newest machine, the Cray XC30-AC, starting at $500,000, was built for mid-sized organisations that need some ...
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The University of Salford is to conduct theoretical work on third-generation solar cells, which aim to use to semiconductor nanostructures to significantly increase the electricity produced by sunlight – from about 10% efficiency to ...
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's federal budget, released Wednesday, calls for increases in federal research and development spending. The overall spending increase, though shows a decline when adjusted for inflation. The White House ...
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Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell's research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
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IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...
Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
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Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce matching search results. Those are already possible with Nvidia's fastest graphics ...
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Researchers from AT&T Labs will present the results of a record-setting fiber-optic transmission experiment next week at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference in Anaheim. According to a ...
Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in Amman last week, unveiled by Zaid Abudayeh, ...
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IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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IDG News Service - Intel's aim is to lead the way in creating the first exaflop supercomputer, so it is making architectural improvements to its processors with the hope to reach that goal between 2018 and 2020. The chip maker is ...
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The US Department of Energy is planning to install 100+ petaflop supercomputers within the next four years as the famous national laboratories at Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore upgrade to more powerful machines. The labs, which ...
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