Renesas Electronics' latest system-on-a-chip has eight ARM processing cores to help next-generation, in-car infotainment systems handle multiple streams of 1080p video and augmented reality apps. The R-Car H2 system-on-a-chip is based on ...
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Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture. Oracle sells two lines of Unix ...
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The new 3D animated movie "The Croods" may be about a stone-aged family, but DreamWorks said it is by far its most sophisticated production to date, topping all others in compute cycle hours. The movie, out in theaters last Friday, ...
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Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
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Founded in 2003, eldoLED is a privately owned company headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. eldoLED intelligent drive solutions are accelerating the LED transformation by delivering the ...
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Mercedes-Benz believes it is set for a significant period of growth in Australia with its new range of compact vehicles. The German car maker has this week staged the international launch of the CLA four-door coupe (main picture), the ...
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Kohl’s Department Stores announced a partnership with Catherine Malandrino, who will be the third designer for the retailer’s DesigNation limited-edition collection. As part of the Kohl’s DesigNation concept featuring ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, ...
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A processor with a hardware video accelerator can provide an interesting alternative to a traditional DSP-based multimedia system design, writes Israel Shem-Tov, high-end applications engineer at Future Electronics (Israel). Recent years ...
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China is standardising on Ubuntu for the country's open source operating system. Government agency, the China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP) has selected Canonical’s Ubuntu for a reference architecture to be ...
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Two of theatre consultancy Charcoalblue's major projects, The New Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury and The Newcastle Theatre Royal, have won recognition from the prestigious Civic Trust Awards, which were held at City Hall in Cardiff and ...
Simon Segars will become CEO of ARM when Warren East retires on July 1, the company said on Tuesday. Segars is currently ARM’s president. As CEO, he will take charge of a fast-growing company whose processor designs are used in most ...
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
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Big Data isn't just about the datacentre. Data architecture, data processing and data management are all important. That's according to Alan Priestley, director of strategic marketing EMEA for Intel, who was addressing the audience at ...
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