network processors in comment and analysis
Devil's Advocate: A standardised PC on every desktop?
Comment They were intended as embedded processors for peripherals. Once Intel saw how their products were being used, they started to design processors suited to the purpose. But there was a reason for these... [18 Nov 2003]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment For example, the company hasn't got rich selling network processors and boards but it has learned how to build chips that can run reliably for long periods in demanding environments, and some of that... [07 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Drop those bad habits
Comment Here, a single chassis contains a number of 'blades', containing one or more processors, memory and storage capabilities, along with network connections. When we want a new service, we typically develop... [13 Jun 2006]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment Until recently, Fibre Channel has been the only networking technology ideally suited to storage, with speeds between processors and disk arrays of 1 or 2Gbps. Generally, FC is run over a dedicated... [02 Sep 2003]
Leader: Banks may regret Oyster e-money fiasco
Leader The Oyster scheme was a chance for the payment processors to sneak a little bit more of the cash market into electronic form. And when Tesco starts cutting the banks out of their own business, the payment... [09 May 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment It is interesting to note that in the launch material Intel explicitly mentions the potential use of servers built using both of these processors tackling, head on, jobs that have traditionally been undertaken on RISC... [16 Sep 2003]
The Ovum View: Wireless streaming - with strings attached
Comment Californian-based Luxxon provides streaming media technologies, including transcoding gateways and multimedia processors for handsets. This deal comes after a trial over Airtel's GPRS network in Spain at... [23 Jul 2001]
What will make or break Wi-Fi?
Comment Cutting the voltages and power consumption of processors is therefore only a partial solution to extending battery life. Chip makers AMD, Intel and Transmeta have been responding to this challenge with low-voltage... [25 Mar 2003]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or... [09 Jan 2008]
John Lamb's Week: homes and databases of the future
Comment Founded by Hermann Hauser, the Silicon Fen entrepreneur, and Charles Cotton, Virata has installed more than four million of its flagship Helium processors. Some freelancers may soon find themselves working at a new... [18 May 2001]
Lest old acquaintances be forgot: the return of Unisys
Comment This architecture supports dynamic partitioning, which enables the servers to run Unix and Windows in the same cabinet, and allows administrators to reallocate input/output (I/O), memory and processors on the fly. [15 Dec 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: ERM, Microsoft wants Unix converts and our old friend information overload
Comment At the same time as providing this migration path for Unix applications, Microsoft also confirmed it does plan to release its own 64-bit operating system capable of exploiting Intel's McKinley/Itanium 2 processors. [20 May 2002]
What if... we didn't have modern communications and IT?
Comment We also take fundamental things like PCs, word processors and corporate applications for granted. Most of us have seen whole offices come to a stand still when someone declares that the phones are out or the computer... [12 Jun 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Technologists don’t know best
Comment Idle PC processors tempt people into proposing grand schemes. A huge number of computers are more or less permanently connected to a vast, resilient network. Is it possible to work on a technology... [02 Jun 2003]
The chips are down - so look to the future
Comment The chips market is now about much more than PCs fuelled by Intel and x86 clone processors, just as it was before the last 15 years. Telecoms infrastructure and network interconnection is critical. Here,... [18 Oct 2001]
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