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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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it had hired former Intel researcher John Gustafson as the chief architect for graphics products, continuing an executive shuffle among chip companies. Gustafson will drive the road map for AMD's ...
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Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
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Apple is investigating ways to ditch Intel chips in future Macs and replace them with its own ARM chips like the ones in the iPhone and iPad, according to Bloomberg. The report cites 'people familiar with the company's research' who ...
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Samsung makes $56 more selling each new $499.99 Wi-Fi-only Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet than Apple gets by selling the iPad for the same price. That's because Samsung's cost for materials is just about $260, while Apple's costs were $316 when ...
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Intel has said it’s on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year, brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for Unix ...
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It’s clear that Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook, didn’t study marketing in school. At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel’s new low-power Atom processor, he described the chip as ...
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Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first model of which is now shipping to customers, the company said on Monday. Chips in the Xeon Phi range, ...
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Intel on Monday said it is developing high-performance server chips that in the future will serve up faster results from cloud services or data-intensive applications like analytics, all while cutting electricity bills in data centres. ...
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Effective interrupt control is achievable in low power microcontrollers,writes Joseph Yiu,embedded technology specialist at ARM Interrupts are a major feature of most embedded microcontrollers and effective real time response to interrupts ...
Computerworld-It's clear that Frank Frankovsky,vice president of hardware design and supply chain at Facebook,didn't study marketing in school.At a press event Tuesday announcing Intel's new low-power Atom processor,he described the chip ...
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Combines the new 'Piledriver' CPU architecture with DirectX 11-capable AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics Semiconducter company AMD has launched new Embedded R-Series accelerated processing unit (APU) platform designed for mid to high-end ...
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The new processors are claimed to offer up to 2.4 times performance scaling and 33% faster I/O speed over the previous generation Chipmaker Intel has launched its new Itanium processor 9500 series which the company claims twice more ...
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New chips will enhance server communications Intel is planning to incorporate a converged fabric controller into its Xeon server chips to be developed in next five years, which is expected to enhance server communication while offering ...
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The new hard macro delivers a balance of performance and power Microprocessor developer ARM has released its Cortex-A15 MP4, a quad-core 28nm processor which allows manufacturers to use them in notebooks and enterprise devices without ...
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