Nintendo Switch vs Wii U: What has Nintendo learnt from the Wii U? Read on to find out the biggest differences between the two Japanese titans. The Nintendo Wii U will probably be remembered for two things. Firstly, for ushering in HD ...
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Oracle's Unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors late last month marked what could be the start of an expected shift toward standardizing the vendor's two families of Unix servers on a single chip architecture. ...
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Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture. Oracle sells two lines of Unix ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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IBM and Oracle shared more details this week about new RISC chips they're building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain more ...
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IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain ...
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Toshiba has developed a low-power, high-speed version of MRAM memory that it says can cut power consumption in mobile CPUs by two-thirds. The company said Monday that its new MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) can be used in ...
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IBM and Orace reveal their new RISC chips IBM and Oracle unveiled their respective Power7+ and T5 RISC chips for servers at Hot Chips 2012 symposium in the US. Expected to be released by the end of 2012, IBM's new, eight-core Power7+, ...
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The new MRAM can be used in smartphones as cache memory for mobile processors, replacing the SRAM Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has developed a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) element which the ...
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Everspin Technologies today announced what it is calling the industry's first Spin-Torque Magnetoresistive RAM(ST-MRAM)chip,which offers an alternative to non-volatile DRAM sub systems. Everspin said the new memory type is not targeted to ...
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Atmel is sampling its first 2Mbyte embedded flash Cortex-M4 processor-based microcontroller. The SAM4SD32 runs at 120MHz operating frequency and features cache memory for accelerated code execution out of flash. "We are continuing to ...
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