After a lull, the race to add more processor cores to chips continues. Tilera is developing a new chip that will have more than 100 processor cores as the company looks to outperform ARM and Intel processors in Web-specific tasks. The ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its latest Pavilion laptop with Google's Chrome OS as the PC maker tries to improve laptop sales by offering an alternative to the Windows OS. The Pavilion 14 Chromebook ...
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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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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- LaCie today announced at CES the 5big storage box, a RAID array with Thunderbolt that comes in 10TB and 20TB capacities. The LaCie 5big array comes with dual-core 2.13GHz Intel processors. The dual Thunderbolt ...
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Intel executives plan to accelerate new mobile device experiences across the company’s growing portfolio of smartphone, tablet and Ultrabook offerings, it said at CES in Las Vegas this week. The announcements included a new ...
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IDG News Service-Asustek Computer on Tuesday introduced the VivoTab Smart,a tablet computer with a 10.1-inch screen that will be available with Windows 8 starting at$499. The tablet resembles Asustek's existing Transformer Pads,which have ...
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Dell is back in the tablet market after laying low for a few months, announcing the XPS 10 tablet, which has an ARM processor and Microsoft's upcoming Windows RT OS. The XPS 10 is intended for work and play, said Alison Gardner, director ...
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Five months after its release,Apple's Mountain Lion became the most widely-used version of OS X,a Web measurement firm said Tuesday. According to California-based Net Applications,OS X 10.8,better known as Mountain Lion,accounted for ...
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As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilize a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for "personal devices," 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said today. "This ...
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Computerworld - Clustered storage vendor Scale Computing today upgraded its scale-out storage cluster to include compute resources dedicated to applications and a hypervisor component that allows storage and memory to be easily managed and ...
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Intel will make a major mobile push at the Intel Developer Forum next week as the company tries to remain relevant in a market where tablets and smartphones are becoming an alternative to PCs for everyday computing. Intel is at a critical ...
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Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
IDG News Service - This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first ...
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The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers, released last month, also ...
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Microsoft on Monday announced new keyboards and mice optimized for tablets and laptops running the Windows 8 operating system. The new devices are lighter and more mobile, and will work with tablets running the latest versions of Windows ...
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