Tags Results for 'processor'

Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet - (Saturday 31st of December 2011 01:15:01 PM)

Back in October, we discussed news that India had launched a $35 tablet. Now, JohnWiney writes
with a story in the Globe and Mail about the device's development. Quoting: "Part of the
difficulty in social planning such a device is that the underlying  [...]

ARM unveils Cortex-A7 processor, 'big.LITTLE' computing - (Thursday 20th of October 2011 11:27:00 AM)

Fancy a glimpse of the future? That little psychedelic beauty on the right is ARM's brand
new Cortex-A7 processor. Its spec sheet might not seem so colorful at first glance, because it
doesn't really do things any faster than current high-end smartphone  [...]

Shocker! Microsoft to produce dual-core, LTE Windows Phones, other modern things - (Monday 10th of October 2011 05:29:00 PM)

This just in: Microsoft is ready to take the plunge into mobile modernity... at its own
pace. During a recent audience with All Things D, Windows Phone president Andy Lees revealed a
few details about Redmond's future crop of handsets, which will evidently  [...]

NC State researchers team with IBM to keep cloud-stored data away from prying eyes - (Friday 07th of October 2011 01:24:00 PM)

The man on your left is Dr. Peng Ning -- a analog science don at NC State whose team, along
with researchers from IBM, has full-blown an contingent new method for safely securing
cloud-stored data. Their approach, known as a "Strongly Isolated bookkeeping  [...]

Intel reveals 'Claremont' Near Threshold Voltage Processor, other conceptual awesomeness at IDF (video) - (Thursday 15th of September 2011 05:32:00 PM)

Thought Intel was done busting out new slabs of The Future at IDF? Wrong. Justin Rattner,
the firm's chief appliances officer, just took the stage here in San Francisco in order to
showcase a trifecta of new concepts, all of which were borne out of  [...]

Researchers wed quantum processor with quantum memory, quaziness ensues - (Saturday 03rd of September 2011 02:57:00 AM)

Quantum bookkeeping has a long way to go before bewitching truly mainstream, but that
doubtlessly hasn't stopped us from indulging in dreams of a qubit-based existence. The latest
bit of fantasy fodder comes from the health center of California, Santa  [...]

IBM's cognitive computing chip functions like a human brain, heralds our demise (video) - (Thursday 18th of August 2011 02:06:00 PM)

After having created a supercomputer capable of hanging with Jeopardy's finest, IBM has
now taken another step toward human-like artificial intelligence, with an
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Will Intel's Core i7 Sandy Bridge E CPUs ship without fans or heatsinks? - (Tuesday 16th of August 2011 03:27:00 AM)

Over the past few months, we've peeked Intel's roadmap more than once, but all told we've been
treated to scant few details about its high-end desktop line, Sandy Bridge E (that's "E" for
enthusiasts). Today, though, VR-Zone is reporting that the next  [...]

IBM and NCSA end their Blue Waters affair, go back to just being supercomputing friends - (Tuesday 09th of August 2011 04:45:00 PM)

It seems that IBM and the national Center for Supercomputing Applications at the health
center of Illinois have hit a snag in their once fruitful relationship. After nearly four years
of partnering for the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer, the NCSA's  [...]

Engadget Primed: are multi-core chips worth the investment? - (Friday 29th of July 2011 09:15:00 PM)

Primed goes in-depth on the technobabble you hear on Engadget every day -- we dig deep into
each topic's history and how it grease our lives. Looking to suggest a piece of automation for
us to break down? Drop us a line at primed *at*  [...]

Freescale expands its family of i.MX50 chips, goes beyond e-readers this time - (Tuesday 12th of July 2011 03:03:00 PM)

We had a feeling that Freescale was onto existent when it debuted the i.MX508, a
system-on-a-chip that carried the promise of $150 e-readers (and the reality of $129 ones).
Given that, we can see where the execs at Freescale would be feeling a bit  [...]

Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China's Tianhe-1A - (Monday 20th of June 2011 12:37:00 PM)

Remember the K -- the Fujitsu supercomputer that city of god to do a whopping ten petaflops
by the year 2012? Well, it hasn't reached that opening just yet, but gospel to the latest Top
500 supercomputer list, it's still faster than any other machine  [...]

EnerJ power-saving system prioritizes CPU voltage, may reduce energy consumption by 90 percent - (Friday 03rd of June 2011 03:07:00 PM)

It takes a lot of energy for go over systems or data centers to patch up critical errors, but
what if we devoted less power to fixing less urgent issues? That's the basic idea behind EnerJ
-- a new power-saving system that could cut a  [...]

AMD Llano quad-core APUs and Zambezi octa-core CPUs get priced, the former listed inside an HP dv6 - (Tuesday 24th of May 2011 08:48:00 AM)

Don't mistake the relative quietness from AMD on the APU front for inactivity. Ever since
promo* the first shipment of its Llano Accelerated Processing Unit in April, the company's been
working behind the scenes to ramp up availability to OEMs, and  [...]

Startup Wants To Put 64-Cores In Your Smartphone - (Thursday 05th of May 2011 03:30:06 AM)

Angry tapir writes "Startup chip design company Adapteva has announced the multicore Epiphany
processor, which is designed to accelerate applications in servers and low-power devices such
as smartphones and tablets. The RISC-based processor is scalable  [...]

AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 - (Thursday 05th of May 2011 03:30:06 AM)

MojoKid writes "Although much of the buzz lately has revolved around AMD's approaching Llano
and Bulldozer-based APUs, AMD isn't done pushing the hide with their extant processor designs.
Over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies  [...]

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