MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has agreed to sell the Compute business – which ...
Tags: semiconductors, components
Applied Micro Circuits Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides silicon-based computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers), BrPhotonics (BrP) of Campinas-SP, Brazil (a joint venture ...
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Dell will give its first public demonstration of a 64-bit ARM server this week, the latest step in an industrywide effort to build servers based on low-power chips like those used in smartphones. Dell will show a server based on a 64-bit ...
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Intel is expected to announce availability next week of a low-power Atom server chip code-named Avoton, which is likely to appear soon in systems such as Hewlett-Packard's Moonshot. Avoton chips will become part of Intel's Atom C2000 ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
Tags: AMD, Server Strategy, ARM Chips
Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing ...
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Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
Tags: Smartphone Chips, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
“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 changing world of server manufacturing has got Altera and AppliedMicro together to jointly develop server chips. The server world is changing in that the big users of servers - Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc - are now defining their ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
Tags: ARM Servers, 64-Bit Processors
Applied Micro Circuits is aiming to make its 64-bit chip for ARM servers more powerful and flexible through a collaboration with specialized chip maker Altera. Applied Micro on Monday said it would combine its 64-bit X-Gene chips with ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
Tags: 64-Bit, Computer Products, ARM
Not fazed by a takeover battle looming on the sidelines, members of Dell’s research division are putting together the pieces for prototype ARM supercomputers that could be deployed in the future. Dell has a good idea what an ARM ...
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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 ...
Tags: chip, ARM, AMD, Computer Products
Facebook's Open Compute Project is being expanded to incorporate ARM processors, providing new options for companies shopping for low-cost hardware to build out cloud computing environments. Chip vendors from both the ARM and x86 sides of ...