IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on wafers ...
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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the final speaker line-up and agenda for its annual Xen Summit North America conference. The event will be held, August 27-28 in San Diego, California and is co-located with ...
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HTC and Microsoft, have introduced Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones that will be the signature devices for the software maker’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. The Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones will have 4.3-inch screens and ...
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NEC's new high-end server contains swappable battery packs,intended to provide backup power without the need for an external uninterruptible power supply(UPS)in data centers. The new rack-mounted server is part of NEC's ...
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IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...
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 ...
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A pricing battle is looming in the desktop chip market after Advanced Micro Devices shipped aggressively priced Trinity desktop chips, which might prompt a price-reduction response from Intel, analysts said. AMD has priced the Trinity ...
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MNA reported that South Korea's imports of oil from Iran increased 2.9%in November from October,when it resumed shipments from the Persian Gulf nation. According to data posted on the Korea Customs Service's website,purchases last month ...
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IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Silicon ...
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EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centres and is developing software to tie all those components together. The company is using technology it gained through its acquisition of XtremIO earlier this year to build an ...
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A Russian start-up company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data centre owners to migrate software designed for x86 platforms to ARM-powered servers without the need to recompile it. Because of their ...
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Asus today unveiled a completely new line-up of Windows 8 products, including notebooks, tablets, all-in-one PCs and a unique dual-screen device. According to Asus, the new range enables new forms of functionality and applications ...
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ARM on Tuesday introduced its first 64-bit Cortex-A50 series processor designs as the company tries to preserve its dominance in smartphones and tablets while catching up with Intel in servers. The new ARM processors, Cortex-A57 and ...
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ARM has joined forces with Microsoft to tune the Windows OS to work on processors based on ARM’s 64-bit architecture, the company said this week. Ian Forsyth, programme manager at ARM, could not comment on a specific release date ...
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Intel on Tuesday said its revenue and profit dropped during the third quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier, and blamed a tough economy for poor sales of its products. The company's profit was $2.97 billion for ...
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