IDG News Service - HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The HTC One X+ smartphone. The new model is ...
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The race to manufacture the most power-efficient and fastest chips is gaining momentum, with contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries on Thursday announcing technology advances that analysts said could allow the company to catch ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. The new Pavilion Sleekbooks will come in ...
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It's been quite the all-star cast of companies joining the Linux Foundation over the past year or so, and next week will see the addition of another doozy. Following in the footsteps of Broadcom, Nvidia and Samsung -- all of which joined ...
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TSMC's 28nm yield is now over 80%,according to Taiwan's Chinese language newspaper the Commercial Times. The Commercial Times quoted sources from TSMC's equipment suppliers for the information. According to another Taiwan newspaper,the ...
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After the shortages of 28nm from TSMC,there is now a tightening supply at 40nm,says Taiwan's DigiTimes. Shortages of 28nm affected the financial results of customers such as Qualcomm,Nvidia and Altera.Now it is said that MediaTek,the ...
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IDG News Service-After more than 25 years the venerable VGA port is finally disappearing from computers,but the interface is proving tough to phase out completely and will linger for years in projectors,monitors and TV sets. The VGA(Video ...
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ROG Maximus V Extreme includes five PCI Express 3.0 slots ASUS has introduced a new motherboard, ROG Maximus V Extreme which is based on Intel Z77 chipset and supports a range of 2nd and 3rd generation Intel Core processors. The ...
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A teardown of the Nexus 7 tablet reveals Google is likely to break even on the $199 8GB version of its tablet while earning a modest profit on the 16GB version, which is priced at $249. IHS iSuppli said the 8GB version of the Nexus 7 has ...
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Nvidia said it is investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums, another significant data breach following recent compromises at Yahoo and LinkedIn. A group calling itself Team Apollo posted on Pastebin around 800 ...
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Amit Rohatgi,principal architect for mobile at MIPS Technologies, considers the Android apps development landscape and offers a positive view of the significant progress that has been made towards unification. We often hear in the media ...
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The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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IBM has climbed back to the top of the global supercomputer list with Sequoia,a 1,572,864 core BlueGene/Q system installed at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-which has achieved 16.32Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. ...
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Asus has introduced an Intel x86/Windows variant of its Transformer tablet-cum-netbook to run alongside ARM/Android versions. Called the Transformer Book"it is the world's first convertible ultrabook-allowing users to instantly switch ...
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Computex Taipei 2012 is scheduled for June 5-9 with 1,800 exhibitors and 5,400 booths,and is expected to attract 36,000 buyers and 10,000 professionals from overseas.The show is estimated to reach a total trade of US$28 billion,according to ...
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