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Japanese researchers downplay super CPU effort

News Alliance aims to create software standard for multicore chips in devices, including mobile phones and car navigation systems.

Tuesday, September 29 2009 05:54 PM

Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Embedded System, CPU, Chip Company, API, processor, researcher

Microsoft eyes multicore boost from Windows 7

News New operating system should be able to make better use of modern multicore chips--in part through changes to adapt Windows to big servers.

Tuesday, October 13 2009 12:44 PM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Parallel Pattern Library, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Windows 7

Intel's next-gen memory closer to reality

News Intel and Numonyx announced practical advancements they believe will make phase-change memory meet its performance and capacity promise.

Thursday, October 29 2009 10:56 AM

Tags: Memory, Personal Computers, Processors, Intel Corp., Computer, Chip, Storage, Memory, processor, hard drive

AMD launches low-power six-core Opterons

News New processors, the first six-core chips under AMD's power-efficient HE line-up, are now available in Hewlett-Packard systems.

Wednesday, July 15 2009 11:07 AM

Tags: Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Quad-core, AMD Opteron, Web Server, Server, processor

ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip

News World's most popular processor architecture continues to push its performance while aiming for mobile Internet dominance over Intel.

Thursday, October 22 2009 10:19 AM

Tags: Processors, ARM, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Insight 64, software, Chip, Video, performance, processor

Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing

News Carnegie Mellon researchers believe flash memory and feeble processors can do what conventional servers can't: power Internet sites at low power and low cost.

Sunday, October 18 2009 08:25 PM

Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Computing, FAWN, David Andersen, Storage, Server, Intel Atom, Carnegie-Mellon University

AMD delivers its own server platform

News Low-power platform, formerly codenamed Fiorano, offers server builders combination of six-core Opteron with choice of three chipsets from AMD.

Wednesday, September 23 2009 09:13 AM

Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PCI Express, AMD Opteron, Server, performance, processor, product marketing, data center, chipset

Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata

News Database giant has used Sun FlashFire technology in a version of the data-warehousing appliance.

Thursday, September 17 2009 09:13 AM

Tags: Processors, Components, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Sun Microsystems Inc., antitrust, Oracle Corp., disk, agreement, Components

Oracle event signals Sun hardware aspirations

News Database giant isn't standing still, even as EU investigates its Sun Microsystems acquisition and HP and IBM promote programs to woo Sun customers.

Tuesday, September 15 2009 09:36 AM

Tags: Components, Processors, Larry Ellison, European Union, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Oracle Corp., Components, Processors

IBM outlines Power7 chip plan

News Company reveals details of the chips which will appear in its Power Systems server line, announcing an application to manage a range of virtual servers.

Thursday, July 23 2009 09:00 AM

Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., Unix, Chip, Environment, Server, systems management, processor, virtual server, director

Why virtualization is struggling to keep up

Insight perspective The relentless increase of processors per chip will rapidly reach a point well beyond the levels for which key software has been engineered, says Gartner analyst.

Saturday, April 04 2009 10:10 PM

Tags: Virtualization, Processors, Operating systems, Chip, operating system, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, software, processor, scalability

EC reveals details of Intel antitrust breaches

News The European Commission has published its full decision against Intel, releasing evidence of how the chipmaker engaged in anti-competitive practices.

Tuesday, September 22 2009 08:34 AM

Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PC Company, CPU, payment, antitrust, Dell Computer Corp., agreement

Intel cuts prices by up to 48 percent

News Price cuts have been applied to many Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium, Celeron and Xeon chips, as the company gears up to compete with rival AMD.

Wednesday, January 21 2009 09:30 AM

Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Multiprocessor servers, Forecasting, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Phenom, Shanghai, Intel Celeron, quad processor