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IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner runs on 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips on IBM Model LS21 blade servers, and 12,960 Cell engines on IBM Model QS22 blade servers. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one... [11 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News According to IDC, semiconductor manufacturers are scrambling to pack more components within chips, which help drive costs down by lowering supply chain complexity and saving on phone real estate, making the... [09 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News He said: "Because of cost competitiveness in the market, a lot of top semiconductor providers have taken aggressive approaches to integrating the chips - they're starting to combine the circuitry onto a single die, which... [06 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News Chips built in a three-dimensional stack formation offer more pathways for info to be processed and can shorten the distance chip information needs to travel by as much as 1,000 times, according to Thomas Brunschwiler, a... [06 Jun 2008]
Betfair CTO moves on
News Betfair CTO Rorie Devine is leaving the company by "mutual consent" in an amicable parting of ways after five years at the online betting exchange. Betfair's CEO David Yu said Devine has transformed the company's technology team during... [21 May 2008]
Photos: Feeling chipper about green IT
Photo Shelves of number-crunching servers at Rackspace Hosting's data centre in Slough will be running on nothing but organic waste, including wood chips, fibre and paper. Burning wood might be a chip off the old block but it... [20 May 2008]
The future, in 3D
News Another technology shift on the horizon in Kurzweil's view, which will affect not just mobiles but all computing devices - and will pick up from where Moore's Law leaves off - is the transition from flat circuits to three-dimensional... [19 May 2008]
UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change
News Suffolk also has high hopes for further CO2 cuts from near-future chips that can reduce power demands by adjusting their clock speed to match the task. The government is to lead the way in Green IT by launching a... [08 May 2008]
AMD chips into business market
News AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. The new line-up of business chips will include AMD Athlon and AMD... [29 Apr 2008]
Sun Microsystems Case Study: West Bay Semiconductor Inc.
White Paper Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, West Bay Semiconductor is focused on making the high-density optical networking chips for the growing optical networking systems market. One of West Bay Semiconductors key objectives is... [11 Apr 2008]
It's All in the Wrist: Improving Patient Safety With Bar Code Wristbands
White Paper Wristbands can be incorporated into physical security systems, which is often done by using wristbands with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. RFID chips can be embedded within bar code... [10 Apr 2008]
Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector: SPW Tools Play a Significant Role in OFDM DVB-T Chip Development for Set Top Boxes
White Paper Motorola, the first to market DVB-T demodulation technology and one of the world's leading developers of Digital TV chips, is involved in the most innovative device designs under development. The challenge for Motorola... [10 Apr 2008]
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Solving the Dilemma of 32-Bit Versus 64-Bit Server Architecture
White Paper Many traditional IT shops now face a variant of the very same question posed by The Clash: to stay with RISC chips, or go with new 64-bit Intel AMD processors delivering almost equal or better computational power. [28 Mar 2008]
GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame
News The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for GPS receiver chips, with one billion chips now forecast to ship annually by 2013, says analyst house ABI Research. As more... [20 Mar 2008]
The Green Revolution in Data Warehousing: The Power, Cooling and Footprint Advantages of the Netezza Analytic Appliance
White Paper Today's tightly packed servers consume more power and give off more heat than their predecessors as the latest generations of x86 chips drive enormous amounts of data through microscopic circuitry. The Netezza... [12 Mar 2008]
