The addressable market for chip-level optical interconnects could eventually run into billions of units, as revenues rise to almost $520m by 2019 then $1.02bn by 2021, according to the report 'Revenue Opportunities for Optical ...
Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors. "The most significant improvements are performance-related," wrote Google engineer Andrew Gerrand, in a post announcing the new ...
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XMOS has added an ADC to its multicore processors for industrial applications, such as sensors, actuators and motor controllers. The Bristol-based company will release 6, 8, 10, 12 and 16-core microcontrollers with ADCs, calling this the ...
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Java and its linchpin JVM (Java Virtual Machine) still have much room to get better even after debuting 18 years ago, say experts who would like improvements in such areas as locality, application isolation, and parallel operations. The ...
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Cross- industry standards body, the Multicore Association has announced the availability of its Multicore Task Management Application Program Interface (MTAPI) that supports the coordination of tasks on embedded parallel systems. "To ...
If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, according to the maintainers of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest systems. System architects of ...
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Nokia's dismal earnings report announced Thursday has left smartphone industry observers looking for better news at the Nokia World conference Sept. 5-6 in Helsinki. There are hints that Nokia could launch Windows Phone 8 on its Lumia ...
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MIT researchers have figured out a way to help developers more easily rearrange their image processing code so that it can execute faster and use fewer computational resources. Such a technique could prove especially beneficial for mobile ...
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YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language ...
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Intel yesterday announced SSD DC S3700 solid-state drives with up to 800GB of capacity, designed to deliver improved performance and power efficiency. The SSDs offer two times faster read and 15 times faster write speed over the Intel SSD ...
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ARMv8 architecture includes 64-bit execution UK based semiconductor and software design firm ARM has announced integrated semiconductor products company Cavium as an architecture licensee for the ARMv8 architecture. The ARMv8 ...
The U.S.Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system,a Cray XK7,has been anointed as the world's fastest supercomputer in the newly released 40th edition of the Top500 compilation of the world's fastest ...
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While upcoming upgrades to the Enterprise and Standard editions of Java are expected to lack some hoped-for improvements,the upgrades still will have a lot to offer,including enhancements for HTML5 and multicore processors,Oracle officials ...
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Intel looks set to face its biggest challenge in the blade server market next year.The first serious microprocessor challenge to Intel's leadership position will not be from ARM-based processors,but Freescale Semiconductor which is already ...
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