Upcoming Atom chips from Intel will appear in tablets priced as low as $150, the company's CEO said Wednesday, vowing that Intel will not get caught flat footed again by "the next big thing." Intel's low-power Atom chips are vital to its ...
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Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. The company is introducing two low-power ...
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“The server world is changing,” said Lou di Nardo, CEO of Exar, at the Globalpress Summit in Santa Cruz, “the customers are defining the system they want. There’s a focus on low-power servers which is creating a ...
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The Boston Viridis ARM based servers will use the Breeze tool of Cambridge software company Ellexus to migrate x86 applications to ARM. "Our software, Breeze is being promoted by Boston and ARM as a tool to ease the migration from x86 to ...
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Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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Canonical, the open source software company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has unveiled the next stage in its plan for a unified operating system. The Ubuntu tablet forms one-quarter of Canonical's strategy to produce a ...
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Michael Dell will launch his private-equity-backed plan to take Dell, the company he started in 1984, private as early as next week. The founder and CEO of the PC vendor is expected to offer $24bn (£15.3bn) or more with the backing ...
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Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro, ...
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To break its slump in the server market, Advanced Micro Devices is embarking on an aggressive strategy that calls for ARM and x86 chips by 2014 and continued improvements to its Opteron line in the meantime. The company on Tuesday ...
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IDG News Service - A Russian startup company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data center owners to migrate software designed for x86 platforms to ARM-powered servers without the need to recompile it. ...
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Quanta QCT on Thursday announced a new low-power cloud server based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor code-named Centerton, and said the server would ship by the end of this year. The Stratos S900-X31A is the second major server to be ...
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Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
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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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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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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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