IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips are ...
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Chipmaker LSI is taking ARM-based processors to new frontiers with its upcoming AXM5500 family, which will be used in mobile base stations of all sizes. From today's smartphones, tablets and thin clients to tomorrow's servers, ARM-based ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new Office 2013 for ...
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Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world's fastest transfer speed. The company said ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac by as much as 17 percent, and has also stopped selling multi-licence packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new ...
Buffalo Technology has set the end of February as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what, Buffalo says, is the world’s fastest transfer speed. The company ...
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Intel today released a version of its SSD-based Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Linux servers, which it said can offer up to 18 times the performance for read-intensive applications, such as on-line transaction processing systems. ...
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Electric vehicle owners in Oakville, Ont., are now able to charge their cars while enjoying a Tim Hortons coffee, as the restaurant chain installed its first EV charging stations as part of a new pilot project. Charging stations are now ...
A Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team says it successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography provides a means of ...
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Beginning with the 2014 cruise season, the Port of Halifax says it will be the first port in Atlantic Canada to implement shore power for cruise ships. Shore power enables ships to shut down their engines and connect to the grid to get the ...
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Chess Controls Inc. has named Stephane Mayer regional sales manager for Timmins and Sudbury Mines in Ontario. Mayer, a College Boreal graduate in Greater Sudbury, Ont., joined Chess Controls more than six years ago as technical and ...
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Construction has begun at Oregon State University (OSU) on a $4.8-million facility to test a new nuclear energy technology that, says the university, “could be safer, more efficient and produce less waste than existing ...
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Hammond Manufacturing Ltd. has announced a partnership with two manufacturer’s representative firms to cover the rack and cabinet line in Western Canada. McKenna Agency will represent Hammond’s rack, cabinet and accessory ...
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MaRS Discovery District—an innovation centre located in Toronto, Ont.—has appointed Elyse Allan, president and CEO of GE Canada to its board of directors. (Also appointed was Elaine Campbell, president of AstraZeneca Canada ...
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Nathalie Pilon, president of Thomas & Betts Canada, announced that, after more than 37 years of service to Thomas & Betts, Patrice (Pat) Jomphe, VP Commercial Division, retired on January 31, 2013. His successor is Andre Boudreau, who is ...
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