It seems two separate Surface builds aimed at consumer and enterprise aren't enough for Microsoft, as rumours mount of a third, gaming-focused flavour of the Microsoft tablet. According to The Verge, multiple sources within Microsoft's ...
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Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
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IDG News Service - Intel gained PC microprocessor market share over Advanced Micro Devices during the third quarter, but worldwide shipments of x86 chips declined at rates not seen in more than a decade, according to Mercury Research. ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft is building a 7-in.mini Surface tablet focused on gaming,possibly called the Xbox Surface,according to various reports. The device would likely run a custom ARM processor with fast RAM for gaming or possibly an ...
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IDG News Service-British chip designer Imagination Technologies plans to acquire the operating business of processor maker MIPS Technologies,as well as some of its patents,in an effort to strengthen its position on smartphones.At the same ...
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Microsoft today announced a new scheme to sell discounted Windows 8 devices into UK schools. The project, called Shape the Future, will see the company team up with Intel and classroom IT specialists RM Education with the goal of getting ...
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Computerworld - One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed. But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of ...
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AT&T will sell two Samsung tablets starting Friday:the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for$499.99 and the ATIV Smart PC for$799.99. Both are eligible for a$100 discount when purchased with any Samsung Galaxy smartphone on a two-year contract. The ...
Looking beyond PCs and tablets,Lenovo on Monday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group,which deals in servers,storage,networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on Intel's ...
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Japan's Sharp,a major supplier of LCD displays to Apple and other manufacturers,has warned that it may not survive if it can't turn around its business,an admission that caught few off guard. The Osaka-based manufacture said there ...
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Oracle has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)offering,a new private cloud product,an updated database and a new iteration of its Exadata server at Oracle World in San Francisco today. Further reading Case Study:Twitter's ...
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Taipei, Oct. 29, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) on Oct. 23 bought for over NT$3.2 billion (US$106 million) 14.32 hectares of land at the Jhunan Park, an extension of the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, ...
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IDG News Service-As the U.S.launched what's expected to be the world's fastest supercomputer at 20 petaflops,China is building a machine that is intended to be five times faster when it is deployed in 2015. China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer ...
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IDG News Service-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 ...
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