Semiconductor giant Intel is to open its fabrication facilities to ARM, after Altera announced that it had contracted with Intel to produce 64-bit ARM chips. The move opens the way for ARM microprocessors to be built to Intel's latest ...
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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 ...
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Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture. The server chips are targeted at microservers that will be able to serve ...
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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 ...
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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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Intel announced new server chips on Tuesday, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company's latest Haswell microarchitecture. Intel's Xeon E3 chips are targeted at low-end servers and ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily designed ...
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After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-power processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Atom chips are primarily ...
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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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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
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A rugged server from NCS Technologies introduced on Friday can withstand drops, will work in extreme temperatures and can be deployed via parachute into crisis areas or war zones if needed. The Bunker XRV-5241 is a 1U rack server designed ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is taking a step away from traditional server design with the new Proliant SL4500 server, which mixes processing, networking and storage units to optimize performance of applications like OpenStack and ...
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IDG News Service - 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 ...
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