Dell is trying to bring the ARM and x86 processors closer by supporting a new systems management technology, a step toward making both the CPU technologies interoperable, the company said on Wednesday. Dell will back the Open Compute ...
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ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
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IDG News Service - Dell has built a prototype server based on a 64-bit ARM processor from Applied Micro Circuits, which showed the system at a conference in Silicon Valley on Thursday. Dell has already said it was testing servers based on ...
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The European Union is moving to build a high-performance computing industry to challenge U.S. dominance, but it doesn't want to play catch-up. It wants to leapfrog and it is seeing whether ARM Holdings technology can give it that edge. ...
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Nvidia plans to integrate CPU cores alongside graphics cores in Tesla high-performance chips, which is a change from current Tesla chips that have only graphics processors. Tesla is targeted at supercomputing and enterprise applications. ...
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ARM's efforts to jump from smartphones and tablets to servers received a vote of confidence from chip company Calxeda, which announced Wednesday that it has ramped up efforts to push 64-bit ARM processors into servers by 2014. ...
Early prototype 64-bit ARM servers could be available for testing purposes by the end of this year or possibly at the latest by the middle of next year, ARM said on Monday. ARM will try to make inexpensive 64-bit server hardware available ...
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Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
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ARM has joined forces with Microsoft to tune the Windows OS to work on processors based on ARM’s 64-bit architecture, the company said this week. Ian Forsyth, programme manager at ARM, could not comment on a specific release date ...
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Launched back in 1985, the venerable i386 processor has served countless PC users around the globe long and well, but recently the developers of the Linux kernel decided to drop support for it. This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support ...
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Samsung’s recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market, analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM’s first ...
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It’s clear that Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook, didn’t study marketing in school. At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel’s new low-power Atom processor, he described the chip as ...
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Computerworld-It's clear that Frank Frankovsky,vice president of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook,didn't study marketing in school.At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel's new low-power Atom processor,he described the chip ...
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New 64-bit ARM technology-based processor integrates AMD SeaMicro Freedom supercompute fabric to offer processing applications for modern data centre Semiconductor firm AMD is planning to develop new 64-bit ARM technology-based processors ...
Just two weeks after revealing its plans for adopting ARM for low-power server technology,chip designer AMD has put itself up for sale–with a slew of industry companies,including Intel,Google,Samsung and Facebook–mentioned as ...
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