microprocessors
RSS microprocessorsGertex Weaves a New ERP Landscape Using SAP Software on IBM System p5
White Paper To solve this, the company worked with IT-Informatik GmbH, an IBM Premier Business Partner, to implement an SAP landscape under Linux on two IBM System p5 systems with IBM POWER5 microprocessors. Gertex Textil GmbH is a medium-sized company... [05 Apr 2007]
Green supercomputer is 'go' in Scotland
News Called Maxwell, the computer has been built at the University of Edinburgh and uses field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) in place of conventional microprocessors. FPGA chips differ from standard microprocessors as the silicon can be rewired for... [20 Mar 2007]
Clearwire set for IPO?
News Clearwire also agreed to share with Intel a portion of its revenue from subscribers on its domestic mobile WiMax network who use mobile computing devices containing microprocessors based on Intel's mobile WiMax technology. [08 Mar 2007]
AMD picks IBM man as chip-making chief
News Starting last year, Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor started to produce microprocessors on behalf of AMD. AMD has appointed IBM veteran Douglas Grose as head of manufacturing, one of the company's most crucial executive positions. [05 Feb 2007]
Big Blue to help decode the Big Bang?
News The microprocessors will essentially help the antennas capture the signals, filter out extraneous data and then convert the signals into data. IBM and European astronomy organisation Astron are collaborating on designing a microprocessor that will... [06 Dec 2006]
Brampton Factor: Man and machine
Comment One of the problems with my project was that the outstations, based on simple microprocessors, would lose track of the SDLC protocol in use and just go to sleep. Martin Brampton discusses the complex relationship between humans and computers - and... [15 Aug 2006]
Silicon Innovation: Leaping From 90 nm to 65 nm
White Paper Intel is second to none in the design and high-volume precision manufacturing of advanced microprocessors and other platform ingredients. Intel has a long history of translating technology leaps into tangible benefits. [01 Aug 2006]
AMD to buy ATI for $5.4bn
News Beginning in 2008, AMD aims to create chip platforms that integrate microprocessors and graphics processors. Gomberg noted AMD has a track record in integrating technologies, showing an aptitude in integrating its microprocessors with memory... [24 Jul 2006]
IBM chief gets glimpse of what's to come
News A significant market for math processors and other specialty chips existed years ago but many functions got absorbed into general-interest microprocessors. IBM Research recently provided its Global Technology Outlook (GTO) to chief executive Sam... [29 Mar 2006]
The Minority Report: Macworld predictions
Comment During his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2005, Steve Jobs announced that the Macintosh computer would stop running on PowerPC chips and start using Intel microprocessors. [06 Jan 2006]
Software glitch stalls Toyota's hybrid
News New types of energy-efficient engines monitored by microprocessors will also come out. Toyota is asking 75,000 owners of Prius hybrid cars to come in and have their vehicle's software checked. A software glitch in some 2004 and 2005 Priuses can... [17 Oct 2005]
Benchmark Procurement Guidelines for Government PC Buyers
White Paper In many countries the technical specifications in public tenders for procuring personal computers PCs, notebooks, and servers often include particular brand or product names to describe microprocessors. [01 Sep 2005]
Architectural Extensions for Elliptic Curve Cryptography Over GF(2m)
White Paper This paper describes data path extensions for general-purpose microprocessors to accelerate the emerging public-key cryptosystem Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). ECC is computationally more efficient than the popular RSA cryptosystem and, thus... [02 Aug 2005]
Embedded computing: 150,000 more jobs in Europe
News Industry group Artemis, whose members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, predicts that embedded computing - the technology that sees microprocessors arriving in everything from phones to cars to shop tills - will grow by around 10 per... [04 Jul 2005]
Dell chief relishes a bit of Apple
News During Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced plans to ship Macs using Intel microprocessors by this time next year. Michael Dell, the founder and chairman of the number one computer maker, has... [17 Jun 2005]
