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Asia dominates global outsourcing list
News Nineteen cities from the region have made it to the top 50 list of emerging global outsourcing cities, with Cebu City in the Philippines in first place.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Business, City, Outsourcing, Philippines, Shanghai, Business Process, BPO, product development
Shanghai to lead the way for AMD
News New Opteron processor marks chipmaker's shift to 45-nanometer technology, and boasts features that will help AMD "capture leadership position", says exec.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Software engineering/development, Virtualization, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Shanghai, Cloud Computing, OEM, AMD Opteron, Istanbul
Why Windows 7 should be free in China
Insight commentary Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Open source, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Baidu.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, China, Income, Open source
Ceasefire in the China-Taiwan chip war?
News After years of legal feuding between Taiwan's TSMC and China's SMIC, chipmakers' latest round of fighting may be coming to an end.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Global strategic management, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., Taiwanese chipmaker, California, Chip, Chip Company, Hong Kong, Shanghai
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.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Multiprocessor servers, Forecasting, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Phenom, Shanghai, Intel Celeron, quad processor
Siemens onboard for high-speed trains in China
News Japan and European countries like France have had them for decades. But now the race to build high-speed trains seems to have taken off in two of the leading world economies.
Tags: Hardware, Train, Siemens AG, Shanghai, Chinese Ministry Of Railway, Japan, China, Adobe PDF, U.S., Olympic Games
Cagayan, my valley home is dear to me
Blogs The title above is the first line of the official anthem of Cagayan, my home province here in the Philippines. I've been...
Via Nano to take on Intel's Atom
News Via has released an energy-efficient CPU aimed at competing directly with Atom, Intel's latest mobile processor.
Tags: Mobile processors, Green IT, VIA Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Mobile, Shanghai, Notebook, Intel Atom, processor
Sun launches Shanghai-based servers
News The company has launched an updated line of Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade systems powered by AMD's first 45-nanometer Opteron processor.
Tags: Servers, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Shanghai, Sun Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire X4440, Sun Fire X6400 M2, Sun Fire X4240, Sun Fire X2200 M2
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.
Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PCI Express, Server, AMD Opteron, performance, processor, product marketing, data center, chipset
3G touted to drive China's mobile uptake
News Country's Ministry of Industry and Information expects 3G to drive new mobile subscriptions, despite other reports projecting slow initial adoption.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Network infrastructure, 3G (Third Generation), China Mobile Ltd., China Unicom, phone, 3G, China Telecom, W-CDMA, TD-SCDMA
How to finance a green-tech revolution
News Venture-backed tech companies create lots of buzz, but many companies that create green jobs rely on different--and troubled--funding sources.
Tags: Green IT, Business, Investment, Manufacturing, Investor, Renewable Energy, Government, financing, venture capital, CEO
China supercomputer in world top 10
News update Opteron-based Windows HPC machine from the Shanghai Supercomputer Center is ranked No. 10--the best showing from Asia--in the latest Top500 list.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Processors, Operating systems, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Asia, India
No word on made-in-Asia 32nm Intel chips
News update Chip giant announces US$7 billion investment in U.S. fabs for 32-nanometer, but it is not clear if there will be similar investments in the region.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asia, International Data Corp., PC Processor, Chip, Chip Company, processor
Roadrunner, Jaguar cement supercomp lead
News IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar retain top two positions on latest Top500 supercomputer list, which also saw four new systems in the top 10.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., performance, processor, supercomputer, Germany
