The slowdown in the PC market decisively caught up with Intel today following second quarter results in which revenues fell by 5.1 per cent compared to the same quarter in 2012. The company posted revenues of $12.8bn in the second quarter ...
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Decreased processing speeds, unexpected freezes and shutdowns, and even permanently fried hardware have been afflicting readers (and staff) of Computing in the past week as the UK's heatwave shows no sign of abating. Here are our top 10 ...
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Brian Corbett of Ireland's Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC) has received an Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for 2013. He is the third Tyndall researcher to win the annual honor. Tyndall has now won three of the ...
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In June, ABI Research made waves with a report that claimed Intel's "Clover Trail" Atom chip?consumed just 60 percent of the power?of a competing ARM chip, with comparable performance. Now, another analyst has claimed that's simply not ...
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Monday morning, Microsoft announced that a plethora of new channel partners will?soon carry the company's Surface tablets. Mere hours later, one of the new resellers – CDW – was caught offering a previously unannounced variant ...
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The programmable logic controller, also known as, PLC, consists of a central processing unit (CPU), and a few subordinate input/output (I/O) modules. The CPU unit is responsible for carrying the logic program for the machinery, receive ...
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As mobile device shipments overtake those of PCs,cross-platform tool developer Xamarin hopes to get more enterprises to adapt their apps for Android and iOS with the help of its.Net Mobility Scanner. Xamarin's new tool shows how much of a ...
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The new NFC controller LSI is scheduled to enter mass production in October 2013. Toshiba has launched an NFC controller LSI 'T6NE2XBG', which is said to improve security for mobile payments through proximity wireless communication. ...
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The successor to LG's Optimus G smartphone, due sometime in the third quarter, will run a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced late Wednesday. The 800 series chip is notable for integrating support for faster ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
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Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first ...
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When?OS X Mavericks?arrives later this year, a new version of Safari will come along for the ride. Apple's latest Web browser boasts smoother scrolling, a new Top Sites implementation, and several under-the-hood improvements.? These ...
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The 8-core CPUs are designed for gaming and multimedia professionals AMD has unveiled a 5GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590, which is claimed to be the most powerful member of its FX family of CPUs. Initially available in PCs through ...
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Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing ...
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Targeting gaming and multimedia enthusiasts, AMD announced a 5GHz processor at E3 in Los Angeles.A The AMD FX-9590 is an eight core CPU. Another new processor, the FX-9370, runsA at 4.7 GHz. Both processors will be available in July and ...
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