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RSS processor in newsVirtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Speaking at the launch of AMD's new Opteron quad-core server processor in Barcelona - which is touted by the chip-maker as very virtualisation-friendly by enabling more virtual machines to be run per server - Ingle said:... [14 Sep 2007]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News AMD is set to officially launch Barcelona in September, six months behind schedule due to the quad-core server processor's "complicated" design, according to CEO Hector Ruiz. AMD chose to put four... [21 Aug 2007]
Adobe: 'We're not making Office killer'
News Adobe is an investor in Virtual Ubiquity, a company that is writing a sophisticated online word processor built with Adobe's Flex development tools. Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity... [21 Aug 2007]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News The university has upgraded its IBM BladeCenter with 700 JS21 blades, equipped with 3,040 IBM PowerPC 970 processor cores, each running at a 2.3GHz clock speed. The University of Reading now has the most powerful... [11 Jul 2007]
Second open-source mobile unleashed
News The touchscreen GSM phone, made by FIC, boasts Bluetooth 2.0, integrated assisted-GPS, microSD-based expandable storage and a Samsung processor. In the so-called "mass market" phase of the Neo1973, a new version of the... [10 Jul 2007]
PC World escapes punishment over chip ads
News Part of the ad read: "Core 2 Duo twice as fast… Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology with Core 2 Duo processor. The person who complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), whose name was not revealed,... [06 Jul 2007]
Microsoft unveils touchscreen-PC-cum-tabletop
News At its core, Milan is powered by a fairly standard high-end Vista PC with an off-the-shelf graphics card, 3GHz Pentium 4 processor and 2GB of memory. The Microsoft Surface tabletop PC, for which Redmond has created both... [30 May 2007]
Intel: 'Software must learn to do Moore'
News Programs and systems can also both speculate on what tasks a user might want and use processor performance that way. After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop... [29 May 2007]
AMD touts lean, mean 'Centrino-busting' chip
News After Griffin's release, AMD will follow with Fusion, a chip that integrates graphics into the processor core in 2009, he said. Puma, meanwhile, will continue the power management theme by coming with a feature, called... [18 May 2007]
Give IT managers incentive to go green, says HP
News The dx2250, which retails for around £229, comes with a 64-bit AMD Athlon X2 dual-core processor and features HP's Cool'n'Quiet technology, which the vendor claims reduces processor heat and makes for a... [02 Apr 2007]
Revealed: World's largest security breach
News The security breach involving CardSystems, a third-party processor of payment data for banks and merchants, resulted in the exposure of credit card numbers for 40 million accounts - a figure comparable to the TJX case. [30 Mar 2007]
Intel to make chips in China
News Initially, Intel will make chipsets - which shuttle data back and forth across the processor to the microprocessor of the computer - and possibly communications chips. Intel has announced it will open a wafer fabrication... [26 Mar 2007]
Red Hat to sell open-source buddies' wares
News Rhel 5 costs $349 per year for a server with up to two processor sockets and basic support, which includes 30 days of phone support during business hours and a year of web-based support. Red Hat, planning a new expansion... [15 Mar 2007]
HP means business with energy efficient PCs
News The dc5700, which costs $800, and the dc7700, priced at $959, both include an Intel Core Duo processor, an 80GB hard drive, 1GB of memory, a DVD/CD-RW drive and Microsoft Windows XP Pro. The dc5750, which goes for $609,... [13 Mar 2007]
Seagate hypes laptop with built-in data lock
News In addition to an 80GB Seagate drive, the ASI machine will feature a fingerprint reader, 15.4-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile 2.0GHz processor, Nvidia graphics with 256MB memory, 1GB RAM and a DVD rewritable drive,... [12 Mar 2007]
