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RSS processor in newsIntel's Atom cracks into PC World
News The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's Atom processor. Intel's Atom processor is a new design of x86 chip, intended to provide desktop performance at a couple... [08 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers. HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels... [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Companies that used to use large-scale, x86-based multi-processor systems are now "buying larger systems to achieve economies of scale", Rasit said. Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm... [02 Jul 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station, for building devices using Intel's Atom processor. Canonical this week released its first publicly available... [26 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News According to university press officer Alex Waddington, the computing speed was 1.2 milliseconds per instruction, equivalent to a clock speed of slightly under 1kHz - more than two million times slower than a typical desktop processor today. [20 Jun 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News The fastest supercomputer in the world - used to monitor the US nuclear weapons stockpile - is based on the IBM QS22 blades, which are built using advanced versions of the Cell processor in Sony's PlayStation 3. [19 Jun 2008]
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News The powerful onboard processor on the Infosys machine would build a series of 2D shots taken, for example, from a digital camera, into 3D holograms using algorithms called 'Fourier' transformations to calculate the extra third dimension. [19 Jun 2008]
Latest Asus Eees announced
News Both based on Intel's low-power 1.6GHz Atom processor, the Eee 901 and 1000 should have better battery life than their predecessors, especially as they feature six-cell 6600mAh batteries as opposed to the Eee 900's much-derided four-cell 4400mAh... [16 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News Chia was announcing the release of a mobile TV-out processor targeted at emerging markets, which he claimed is more suitable for low-end devices than current similar processors because of its low-power consumption and ability to optimise low... [09 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Lotus Symphony, based around the open-source OpenOffice.org, has been available as a free beta download since September 2007, and the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs are already bundled in IBM's Notes products. [09 Jun 2008]
Ubuntu Linux goes mobile
News Smaller devices based on Intel's Atom processor have proved popular with PC makers recently. A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile internet devices and subnotebooks. [04 Jun 2008]
BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G
News Based on a 624MHz processor, the device comes with a full Qwerty keyboard, a gigabyte of onboard storage and storage expandability via microSD/SDHC. RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity. [13 May 2008]
Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Mark Kobayashi-Hillary from London said it was "strange to see the old C64 faring so badly" adding that "it had the polyphonic SID chip, the VIC chip that could simultaneously handle eight sprites (more if you started using raster interrupts) and... [30 Apr 2008]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more efficient use of IT is one of the company's main priorities for the future, despite the fact the company has been widely criticised for producing processor-hungry software. [06 Mar 2008]
Intel: Say hello to the Atom family…
News One - previously known as Silverthorne - is a low-power mobile processor destined for the next generation of mobile internet devices. The other, code-named Diamondville, is a single-core processor for ultra-low-cost laptops. [03 Mar 2008]
