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Intel And Nvidia Co-sponsors In Parallel Programming InitiativeMay 2, 2008 - in News
Palo Alto (CA) -Stanford is the next University that receives support from major IT companies to develop new techniques, tools, and training materials to exploit the parallelism capabilities of multi-core processors.
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External RAID StorageMay 1, 2008 - in Reviews
iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.
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Dell XPS H2C Invades Alienware TerritoryMay 1, 2008 - in News
Round Rock (TX) - Dell today upgraded its flagship desktop PC with the latest and greatest hardware to offer what the company calls one of the most advanced gaming platforms on the planet.
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HP Labs Finds Breakthrough With Basic ElementApr 30, 2008 - in News
Palo Alto (CA) - HP today announced that it has proven the existence of a new basic element, an intriguing breakthrough that could lead to big advancements to anything that uses electronic circuits.
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Lenovo's X300 vs. Apple's MacBook AirApr 30, 2008 - in Reviews
When Apple launched its MacBook Air, it was rumored that Lenovo would follow up with a 13" ultra-portable laptop. Lenovo did just that in February when it launched its X300. We focus on the X300, but include comparisons with the MacBook Air.
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AMD Promises New CPU Architecture SoonApr 29, 2008 - in News
Milan (Italy) - It is fair to say that Barcelona has not turned out the CPU core many hoped it would be and lots of people inside AMD would rather forget about this evolutionary step and quickly move on to the next architecture.
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FSB Limits Exposed: Intel CPUs Don't Scale Very Well In UC Berkeley TestApr 29, 2008 - in News
Berkeley (CA) - Researchers from the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (CRD/NERSC) recently submitted a paper to the IEEE, highlighting the subject of scaling an optimized Lattice Boltzmann Simulation on popular supercomputer architectures.
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Intel To Build Supercomputers With CrayApr 28, 2008 - in News
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel is taking its supercomputer efforts to the next step and established a R&D partnership with Cray, which has been using mainly AMD's processors for its supercomputers in the past few years.
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Dell, HP, Lenovo Offer WinXP Beyond June 30Apr 28, 2008 - in News
Windows XP is proving to be the operating system that refuses to die, as major manufacturers such as Dell, Lenovo and HP are going to continue to offer Windows XP beyond Microsoft’s June 30 “End of Life” deadline.
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AMD Aims To Increase Desktop Processor Sales With Business Platform PitchApr 28, 2008 - in News
Sunnyvale (CA) - There is no denying that desktop CPU sales are on what seems to be an unstoppable decline. Now AMD is trying to get more creative to pitch their desktop products to business.
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AMD: CPUs, GPUs, Layoffs and The EnemyApr 23, 2008 - in News
AMD is in $4.3 billion worth of trouble, and the bill is only growing bigger. AMD desperately searches around for ways to save, clear debt, break even and find cash to invest. Now how to shake off Intel?
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Apple To Acquire Multi-Core Processor Developer PA SemiApr 23, 2008 - in News
Cupertino (CA) - Apple today confirmed that it will be purchasing PA Semi, a fabless developer of multi-core processors, for $278 million.
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GPU supercomputer: Nvidia Tesla cards to debut in Bull systemApr 22, 2008 - in News
Paris (France) – French website PC Inpact delivered juicy details about a new supercomputer that is currently designed in France. So far, we only knew that the system will use 1068 CPUs. Now we know that it will be based on 8-core Nehalem processors as w
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AMD Picks Up CPU Market Share In Q4 2007Apr 22, 2008 - in News
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD’s aggressive strategy to regain share in the CPU market has shown some effect in the fourth quarter of last year: iSuppli believes the manufacturer has posted a slight gain in Q4. However, the firm’s success may be limited as Intel
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Intel Atom-based Eee PCs In June, 10" LaterApr 22, 2008 - in News
Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen has revealed the company plans to launch Eee PCs based on Intel’s Atom processor platform in June, and will introduce models with a 10" display later in 2008. Asustek is believed to have ordered 2.5-3 million Atom
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Psystar Back in Business; Systems Now ShippingApr 21, 2008 - in News
Miami (FL) – So, is it a hoax or not? Mac clone builder Psystar has experienced in just one week all the good and bad today’s Internet has to offer: The possible availability of a cheap Mac clone spread like wildfire through the Internet last week, confu
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AMD Reports Another Hefty Loss: $358 Million In Q1Apr 18, 2008 - in News
AMD today reported the sixth quarterly loss in a row.
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Install A Solid State Drive In Your NotebookApr 18, 2008 - in Reviews
We explain how to install a Solid State Disk (SSD) in your notebook computer, while retaining a hard disk for data storage.
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Analysis: AMD Asset Lite Strategy Will Create MAD AMDApr 17, 2008 - in News
To what end is AMD's corporate culture contributing to its decline? We contacted several current and former staffers along with partners in and around AMD's ecosystem to ask just that question.
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IBM Finds More Performance And Less Power In 32 Nm ChipsApr 14, 2008 - in News
East Fishkill (NY) - A chip alliance led by IBM expects semiconductors to bring a substantial boost in performance and a reduction in power consumption with the arrival of the 32 nm chip generation.
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AMD Announces First 'fixed' Quad-core Opteron Systems 7 Months After LaunchApr 9, 2008 - in News
About one year ago, pretty much all tech publications were speculating about a possible launch date of the quad-core Opteron processor, code-named "Barcelona.
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IBM Watercools Successor Of Record-breaking Power6 SupercomputerApr 9, 2008 - in News
San Francisco (CA) - IBM announced the replacement for its record-breaking Power 570 supercomputer.
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Sun Announces New T2 Sparc Enterprise ServersApr 9, 2008 - in News
Sun and Fujitsu announced two new enterprise servers based on UltraSparc T2 processors.
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Chartered Extends Technology Development Collaboration With IBM To 22 NmApr 3, 2008 - in News
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has announced the extension of its joint development collaboration with IBM to include 22nm bulk CMOS technology.
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HP Introduces Barcelona ServersMar 31, 2008 - in News
Hewlett-Packard announced a new server blade based on its ProLiant DL160 series, which is available with AMD quad-core Opteron (Barcelona core) servers.
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Walter Yeh Talks About ComputexMar 25, 2008 - in Reviews
Walter Yeh, Executive VP of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) talks about the attraction of Computex for local and foreign businesses, better traffic control for Computex and the Green initiative in Taiwan.
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Asustek Launches Compact Server Based On Intel 45 Nm TechnologyMar 24, 2008 - in News
Asustek Computer recently launched its latest 1U server, the RS100-E5/PI2, a quad-core/dual-core Intel Xeon 3000 series platform, which supports Intel 45 nm processors with a FSB up to 1333 MHz.
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Tabula RasaMar 13, 2008 - in Picture Story
Tabula Rasa exchanges swords and orcs for guns and aliens. Click here for large version
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Can Heterogeneous RAID Arrays Work?Mar 13, 2008 - in Reviews
Storage experts typically recommend homogenous RAID arrays, but what happens if you do not use identical hard drives?