Simon Segars will become CEO of ARM when Warren East retires on July 1, the company said on Tuesday. Segars is currently ARM’s president. As CEO, he will take charge of a fast-growing company whose processor designs are used in most ...
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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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Simon Segars will become ARM CEO when Warren East retires July 1, the company said Tuesday. Segars is currently ARM's president. As CEO, he will take charge of a fast-growing company whose processor designs are used in most tablets and ...
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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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ARM Holdings, the hugely successful Cambridge-based microprocessor designer, has announced that CEO Warren East is to retire in July this year, and will be replaced by ARM president Simon Segars. East joined ARM in 1994 to establish the ...
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Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors it announced on Tuesday. The new Tegra processors will be called Logan and Parker, and will succeed the Tegra ...
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ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing x86 applications to work on ARM servers, which can then be tested via a cloud service. As part of the ...
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Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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Fujitsu promises that its Lifebook E Line laptops will use all the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay and AC adaptors, despite coming in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches. ...
It's a shift from the old idea that you buy games on a DVD, put them in a little black box on your lounge room shelf and play alone, or, if you're lucky, with your family members. It is the new spirit of gaming espoused by Sony Computer ...
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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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Fujitsu promises that although the new business laptops in its Lifebook E Line come in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches, all will use the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay, ...
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ARM is promising close to 70% processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile World Congress provided the first glimpse of how the technology works. The concept of Big.Little ...
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XMOS has designed a multicore microcontroller which will cost under $3 in 100 unit quanities. The xCORE XS1-L4-64 integrates four 32-bit logical processor cores producing 400MIPS performance. “This is the price point of other ...
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Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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