After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily designed ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-power processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily ...
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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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The Cortex-A57 is ARM's highest performing processor ARM and TSMC have jointly taped-out the first 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 processor on TSMC's 16nm FinFET process technology. The completion of the final phase of the design process clears ...
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Backed by 100 technology companies, the three largest memory makers announced the final specifications for three-dimensional DRAM, which is aimed at increasing performance for networking and high-performance computing markets. Micron, ...
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Renesas Electronics' latest system-on-a-chip has eight ARM processing cores to help next-generation, in-car infotainment systems handle multiple streams of 1080p video and augmented reality apps. The R-Car H2 system-on-a-chip is based on ...
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Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch will serve as Apple's Vice President of Technology. (Image: Adobe) Computerworld - Apple's hiring of Adobe's former CTO Kevin Lynch opens some intriguing possibilities for the Cupertino, Calif. company's future ...
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Scientists have taken the next step in the evolution of the computer chip, developing self-healing integrated chips. A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology) said they now can envision smartphone and computer chips ...
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Infineon has released samples of its ARM Cortex-M0 based LED lighting microcontroller family. Included in the family, called XMC1000, are MCUs that include a peripheral, the brightness and colour control unit (BCCU), that can dim and ...
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Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. "I'm well ...
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Products from several smartphone vendors and processors from the likes of Nvidia are helping drive down the cost of LTE-enabled devices. LTE smartphone shipments will grow from about 90 million units last year to 275 million in 2013, ...
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Kontron has said it will support the two flavours of the CompactPCI interface, these are CompactPCI Serial and CompactPCI Serial Mesh. CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) is for implementation in 3U form factors with PCIe, GbE, USB and SATA ...
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Intel will start shipping its high-performance Atom smartphone chip with 3D transistors to device makers later this year, who will then test the chip for use in handsets. The Atom chip, code-named Merrifield, will improve performance and ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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Processors are geared towards entry and mid level smartphone segments. Qualcomm has released the Snapdragon 400 and Snapdragon 200 processors for the mid-tier and entry level smartphone segments. The Snapdragon 400 processors with CPU ...
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