microprocessors in news
Data centres fuelling climate change?
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]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
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]
HP's inkjet tech seeks to replace hypodermic needles
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Apple to dump Big Blue
News Apple is set to announce that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned. Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994 but will begin a phased transition to Intel... [06 Jun 2005]
Intel anoints new CEO
News Even though the company is now organised around delivering "platforms" - complete bundles of chips to PC and phone manufacturers - these chip bundles will revolve around microprocessors. Paul Otellini took over as CEO at Intel's annual meeting on... [19 May 2005]
IBM's Unix power play - Power5 launches
News The higher-end Unix models are due by the end of the year, including a 64-processor model, said Ravi Arimilli, chief technology officer of eServer microprocessors and systems development and an IBM fellow. [13 Jul 2004]
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