Intel shaved about a billion dollars off its third-quarter revenue forecast on Friday, blaming the global economy for slowing sales. It will announce full results for the quarter on Oct. 16. The company had previously predicted ...
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Qualcomm saw a double-digit increase in sales this year and is now the world's third-largest chip maker, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 ...
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Qualcomm is preparing two new quad-core processors for the mainstream smartphone market, with support for several Chinese standards. The U.S. chipmaker said it will release the two new CPUs, designed for 3G networks, to its Snapdragon ...
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Intel is dishing out a total of $29,000 in cash prizes to Android developers in an effort to encourage coders to write games for tablets and smartphones using Intel chips. Developers are expected to provide a short background and ...
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While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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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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The open-source Postgres database continues to be refined for enterprises: The latest version, released Monday, contains a number of new features and performance enhancements designed to ease professional large-scale usage. "Postgres has ...
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Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter of this year, Canalys Research said in a study released on Tuesday. Combined shipments of tablets and PCs totaled ...
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Dell is expanding the range of laptops with Linux, with its new Precision mobile workstations being offered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 OS as an option. The company announced two models, the Precision M4700, which has a 15.6-inch ...
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Apple sold more PCs worldwide last quarter -- 21 million -- than any rival, retaking the lead it lost the quarter before, U.K.-based Canalys said yesterday. And because Microsoft lacks a tablet operating system, sales of Windows-powered ...
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Intel today confirmed a new partner in Integrated Device Technology (IDT) to develop and create chipsets for its wireless charging capabilities. The chipmaker first unveiled the technology in 2008, but thanks to the help from IDT's ...
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Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics. Zeier joined Accenture eight weeks ago, having spent the last few years at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
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SAN DIEGO, CA, September 20, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SoleraTec LLC, a provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage products, is introducing the new Phoenix Firebird family of media asset management archiving appliances ...
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ARM and Imagination Technologies have united to acquire semiconductor designer MIPS Technologies, with ARM paying the lion's share of the purchase price to snap up MIPS' patent portfolio, while Imagination will acquire MIPS' operational ...
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