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News Hester, 52, headed up an initiative at AMD called "accelerated computing", an effort to use particular circuitry on semiconductors in partnership with mainstream microprocessors to boost computing performance.
[15 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Paired microprocessors - with one of the pair taking over all functions while the other upgrades Your enterprise needs constant access to vital data. This means downtime is not an option. The solution is a disaster-proof storage - with the HP...
[04 Mar 2008]
whitepaper HP has been shipping HP 9000 servers with PA-RISC microprocessors since about 1990. Since that time, nearly 100 different models of servers have been introduced ranging from single-CPU entry-level machines to enterprise-class Superdome models that...
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper HP has been shipping HP 9000 servers with PA-RISC microprocessors since about 1990. Since that time, nearly 100 different models of servers have been introduced ranging from single-CPU entry-level machines to enterprise-class Superdome models that...
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper This approach is not allowing microprocessors to increase single thread performance at the rates customers have come to expect. For many years microprocessor single thread performance has increased at rates consistent with Moore's Law for transistors.
[14 Feb 2008]
whitepaper But the trend toward dual-core microprocessors, blade servers, and ultra-high-density racks can lead to a variety of unique power and cooling challenges for next-generation data centers. Join Paul Marcoux of APC and Moderator James Hilliard of...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Multiprocessing technology lets the user harness the power of multiple microprocessors running a single copy of the Windows 2000 operating system. Enterprise-class server models with multiple CPUs abound.
[25 Oct 2007]
News We predict energy consumption of microprocessors alone will rise for the next 10 years," he said. The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now account for almost a quarter of global CO2 emissions from information and...
[12 Oct 2007]
News Quad-core means a chip has four separate microprocessors. Chip-makers reckon their next generation of processors are stepping up to the challenges CIOs face: growing volumes of data, increasing demands on that data and rising energy costs.
[14 Sep 2007]
News The patch contains up to 90,000 microneedles per square inch, microprocessors and a thermal unit. What else can inkjet technology be used for? Injecting drugs into humans, according to Hewlett-Packard.
[11 Sep 2007]
whitepaper Multi-core microprocessors promise substantially improved system performance with commensurately reduced power and cooling requirements. However, multiprocessor programming can prove a daunting activity and involve a learning curve.
[26 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet Of those trillion sensors, the lion's share will be microprocessors: more than 500 billion of them. Yeah, I think I got their last album. Rockin'. You might be a fan of Norwegian girl bands but I'm talking about the other M2M - machine-to-machine...
[09 May 2007]
whitepaper This paper proposes Microarchitecture-Based Introspection (MBI), a transient-fault detection technique, which utilizes the wasted processing bandwidth during long-latency cache misses for redundant execution of the instruction stream.
[08 May 2007]
Round-Up The problem here is that Intel has unveiled a new family of microprocessors code-named 'Penryn'. Think Cornwall and you may think about ice creams, cider and probably thick-crust meat and potato pasties.
[04 May 2007]
whitepaper It is a multi-core multi thread design that promises to be faster than traditional microprocessors available in the market today. The Cell B.E.processor ushers in a new era of capabilities for Digital Media, and by extension other High Performance...
[28 Apr 2007]
whitepaper 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]
whitepaper However, until the advent of uClinux, developers of small, traditional embedded systems, usually based on microprocessors lacking an MMU, (Memory Management Unit) could not take advantage of Linux in their designs.uClinux is a variant of...
[03 Apr 2007]
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]
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]
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]
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