iOS 6 arrives today, and eager users everywhere are getting ready to upgrade their devices. If youre concerned about the upgrade process, or simply want to know all your setup options before making the big switch, let us help you upgrade ...
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Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 and K20X, with the latter being used in Titan, a 20-petaflop ...
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Major Tool & Machine, Inc. retrofitted two of their machining centers in 2010, changing to a CNC technology platform that was completely new to the company. Ten more such large-scale retrofits have followed, bringing increased enthusiasm, ...
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Exynos 4 Quad is built on the High-k Metal Gate low-power process technology Samsung Electronics has introduced Exynos 4 Quad, a new quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. The ...
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CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate. The Square Kilometre Array(SKA)is a radio telescope being built ...
Tags: SKA telescope, exascale computer system, deep-space data, ASTRON, IBM
Global intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions provider Adept Technology has unveiled its new lead-free SmartController EX distributed motion controller, which has been designed for use with Adept robots. SmartController EX ...
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All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to ...
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Mainz,November 27,2012–The SCHOTT technology group has developed a nanostructuring technique for surfaces that already ranks among the important emerging technologies:so-called nanoimprint lithography.This technological platform ...
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Microsoft plans to release Windows Embedded Standard 8 next March,as the company aims to bring Windows 8 features to a whole host of devices outside the PC,including ATMs,information kiosks,advertising displays and even industrial machines. ...
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Kobo, a global leader in eReading with more than 10-million users, announced that its much-anticipated 7" Android tablet, the Kobo Arc, has hit shelves across Canada and the United Kingdom today and will be heading to France on Monday. The ...
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DataDirect Networks(DDN)has announced a clustered NAS storage platform,the SFA7700 hybrid flash storage appliance. The SFA7700 uses DDN's SFA OS operating system in a dual-controller storage platform.The base system supports up to 60 ...
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new series of 64-bit microprocessors intended to drive the company into the server market. The launch comes a day after Intel's rival in desktop and server computing microprocessors, AMD, revealed its plans ...
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Computerworld-Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets,but it could be five to 10 years before it hits the market. "If we're going to have this technology in five to 10 years,we could finally do ...
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