China isn't just building supercomputers, it's creating an infrastructure to create a tech industry, according to Peter Beckman, a top computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and head of the DOE's ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced a new strategy that could lead to A games that A run in the future across PCs and games consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation. AMD's next-generation chip code-named Kaveri The company announced ...
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Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture. The server chips are targeted at microservers that will be able to serve ...
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Intel has released details about its forthcoming i-series microprocessors, dubbed "Haswell", which it claims will feature radically reduced power consumption. The details cover the high-end quad-core Core i7 and Core i5 microprocessor ...
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Microsoft and Apple last week kicked off promotions that may signal inventory clearing as they prepare their next generations of hardware. On Friday, Microsoft debuted a deal that hands a free keyboard-cover to buyers of its Surface RT ...
After months of teasers, Intel kicked off shipments of fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell, with the first batch being quad-core chips for laptops and desktops. The Haswell chips, which also include dual-core chips to be ...
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After 10 years, developers of Camino, a Mac-only browser built atop Mozilla's Gecko engine, called it quits yesterday. "Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern browser," stated a message ...
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Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
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Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. The company is introducing two low-power ...
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Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud. The graphics ...
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With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
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Oracle has changed the numbering of its Java security updates, prompting one expert to say, "As if Java updates weren't confusing already." The changes were posted in an Oracle support document last week. "Limited Update releases will ...
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Dell intends to move workstations into the data center and then serve up intense multimedia and engineering applications to remote users over the cloud or in virtualized environments via thin clients. To that end, the PC maker Thursday ...
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Intel’s upcoming Atom chips with new CPU architecture will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than their predecessors and break the “myth” that ARM processors are more power efficient, Intel ...
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Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. ...
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