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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Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new series of 64-bit microprocessors intended to drive the company into the server market. The launch comes a day after Intel's rival in desktop and server computing microprocessors, AMD, revealed its plans ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said Sunday its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
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Scientists at IBM have showcased computer chips featuring carbon nanotube technology,and apparently built with standard manufacturing techniques. This new approach,hopes IBM,will open up the way for commercial mass-production of carbon ...
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Kalray has completed the design of a three billion transistor processor array and it used a Mentor Graphics functional verification, physical design and verification, and design-for-test flow. The France-based fabless semiconductor ...
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Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--Market research firm Gartner predicts Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to likely take over all of Apple's processor contracts from Samsung by 2014. During a recently held forum on semiconductor ...
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Clariant Ltd. and Wilmar International Limited have signed an agreement to establish a 50-50 joint venture as the global platform for production and sales of amines and selected amines derivatives. The joint venture will be headquartered in ...
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Insufficient wool production is the main hindrance in the growth of international wool industry, said Chris Wilcox, chairperson of the marketing intelligence committee of the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO), in an interview ...
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New processors for projection and LED sources to make public debut in Amsterdam Calibre UK will get 2013 off to a breathtaking start as it celebrates 25 years in business at Integrated Systems Europe. The Yorkshire, UK-based manufacturer ...
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IDG News Service-AMD has called a press conference in San Francisco on Monday where it's likely to announce plans for a SeaMicro server based on an upcoming 64-bit processor design from ARM. AMD CEO Rory Read is expected at the event,and ...
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The United States isn’t the only place debating “reshoring” of manufacturing from China these days -- Taiwan’s large plastics industry is also taking a hard look at whether rising costs in mainland China will bring ...
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Hewlett-Packard's Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid will cost from $849.99 when it starts shipping in the U.S on Nov. 14, the company revealed on Wednesday. The Envy X2 is one of several products that use Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system ...
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Along with the long-rumored iPad Mini, Apple yesterday also refreshed its two best-selling Macs, the 13-in. MacBook Pro and the iMac. The MacBook Pro got most of the attention, as it followed its larger sibling, the 15-in. notebook by the ...
Ceramic LED Lights: Substantially Lowering Manufacturing Costs Keeping LEDs Cool To enable today's LED lighting engines to achieve their highly touted life-spans, their operating temperatures must be kept within specifications, commonly ...
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