The new developer kit integrates the Sprint Mobile Broadband USB 598U Modem by Sierra Wireless with the mbed microcontroller development platform UK based semiconductor firm ARM, in partnership with communication services provider Sprint, ...
The advanced system intellectual property addresses demand for energy-efficient 'many-core' applications for the enterprise market ARM has introduced its new advanced system intellectual property (IP), CoreLink CCN-504 cache coherent ...
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The new co-processors will be in production in 2012 Intel has unveiled the architecture details of Xeon Phi Co-Processor designed for highly parallel technical applications. Xeon Phi co-processor is based on the Intel ...
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The new devices delivers an additional 70% reduction in power consumption while networks are active and up to 95% during downtime Semiconductor company Broadcom has introduced new System on a Chip (SoC) devices which can deliver the ...
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Microsoft is set to slash Windows Azure Storage prices by 28% from 12 December 2012. The news comes just days after Google cut its cloud-based storage prices by 20% and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 25% price reduction for Amazon ...
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The International Telecommunications Union(ITU),which has unilaterally"assumed"control of the governance of the internet,has agreed in sessions held behind closed doors on a new standard covering deep-packet inspection. Further reading ...
IDG News Service-Distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year,according to researchers from from DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic. Last year such high-bandwidth ...
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Intel on Thursday demonstrated multi-gigabit wireless docking technology that affords speeds of up to 7Gbps, 10 times the rate of the fastest Wi-Fi networks based on the IEEE 802.11n standard. At its annual Intel Developers Forum, the ...
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Sheffield start-up Iceotope can dramatically cut,by over 90%,the cooling overhead of data centres,and increases the computational density of server racks,by moving to liquid cooling. Conventional servers are cooled by air,with fans bowing ...
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Free-space laser comms to boost Marines'bandwidth 11 Sep 2012 US Navy awards$7M contract for ITT Exelis and Novasol to build a line-of-sight system to handle escalating data needs. Intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance:data crunch ...
Tags: ExelisNovasol(aka Innovative Technical Solutions), Lights, Lighting
Palomar instrument goes exoplanet hunting 18 Jul 2012 Project 1640 combines four components to combat speckle and distortion in images of distant stars. Seeing the light:Project 1640 in action A system now commissioned at Palomar ...
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In conjunction with the SEMICON West 2012 event in San Francisco,CA,USA(10-12 July),nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven,Belgium has announced what it claims is the first realization of functional sub-100nm photonics components ...
Tags: Nanophotonics, Silicon photonics wafers, Optical lithography
Delta Air Lines today announced it would extend its Wi-Fi coverage to international flights, including those serving the UK. Delta Air Lines already has Wi-Fi services on all internal flights in the US – over 3,000 a day – ...
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Avago launches 120Gbps parallel-optic modules for cloud computing and data centers Avago Technologies has announced the availability of production volumes of 120Gbps multi-channel optical transmitter and receiver modules ...
Developers of system-on-chip(SoC)semiconductor devices need to add larger amounts of memory on chip and to support ever higher data rates.This is particularly true in image processing and communications.What are the options available? ...
Tags: SoCs, SRAM, DRAM, semiconductor