The recent spat between Samsung and Qualcomm with Samsung announcing an eight core IC for mobile phones and Qualcomm's CEO dismissing it as a publicity stunt, is put in context by ST-Ericsson Fellow Marco Cornero and Andreas Anyuru. ...
Tags: Samsung, Qualcomm, mobile phones
eRacks Open Source Systems has integrated the latest 4TB Western Digital and Seagate drives into their NAS50 network attached file server. Users can now store up to 1.6 petabytes in a customized two rack system. The NAS50 will enable users ...
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Samsung has come out with an eight core big.LITTLE IC which uses four Cortex A7 cores and four Cortex A15 cores. The A7s handle texting, phone calls, playing music and other relatively lightweight tasks, while the A15s handle the ...
Tags: Samsung, eight core, Exynos 5 Octa, Cortex A15, Cortex A7
IDG News Service - Samsung has announced its next Exynos processor for smartphones and tablets, an eight-core chip that uses a novel architecture to provide more performance without sucking up battery life. The Exynos 5 Octa is ...
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Samsung's Exynos-branded quad-core processors have been deployed by two Chinese smartphone makers, Meizu and LePhone-maker Lenovo. Samsung Electronics is aiming to increase chip supply to more Chinese and other emerging smartphone ...
Tags: Samsung, processors, smartphone, chip customers
Chinese chip firm Allwinner expected to discuss its quad ARM core A31 SoC at CES. At its heart are four ARM Cortex-7 processors with 256kbyte L1 cache and 1Mbyte L2 cache. On-die alongside these is a eight core PowerVR SGX 544MP2 ...
Tags: Allwinner, ARM Cortex 7, cache, company news
Indian growth rate of eight core sector industries declined to 1.8% in November, from 7.8% in the same month last year, due to drop in production of coal, natural gas and cement. The Eight core industries have a combined weight of 37.90 ...
Tags: coal, natural gas, cement, Steel, Petroleum Refinery Products
To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
Tags: AMD, server, x86 chips, Opteron Processors, low-power Opteron processors
While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements. Microsoft's 10 biggest buys Microsoft System ...
Tags: Microsoft, The Bar, SQL Server, 2012
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 ...
Tags: IBM, Oracle, RISC chips, server customers
Dell has developed a line of servers based on designs the company is using in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 ...
Tags: Dell, line of servers, supercomputer, Stampede
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 ...
Tags: Chip servers, DRAM, IBM, Oracle, Unix servers
Dell announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers ...
Tags: Dell, servers, supercomputer, Stampede
To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
Tags: AMD, cloud, cloud computing, server market, cloud servers
Dell has announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers use standard Intel x86 CPUs and offer ...
Tags: Dell, Petabyte, Petaflop, servers, supercomputers