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Montalvo Systems is secretly designing a new breed of energy-efficient multicore processor. The company has finished the design of a chip aimed at mobile computing. When it gets finished, it will be compatible with all the x86 software that can run on both AMD and Intel chips.Despite the software compatibility, the c... |
15 February 2008
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Nvidia has just finalized the acquisition of physics processing card manufacturer Ageia and seems to get ready for yet another merger that will change the IT industry forever. Technology analyst Doug Fredman has estimated that Nvidia is secretly gearing up in order to buy its competitor AMD. Although the scenario mig... |
14 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems has announced that it has re-scheduled the launch date for its Rock processor a year later. The next generation of the company's UltraSPARC server chip was delayed to the second half of 2009 in order to allow the company to perform additional, extensive tests. The company's initial estimati... |
8 February 2008
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Sure thing, this year's International Solid-State Circuits Conference brought a multitude of novelties in the processor industry. We have seen Intel's two billion transistors behemoth, as well as Sun's 16-core server chip, and there are many yet to come. The latest surprise in terms of processors comes... |
7 February 2008
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Processor designers have agreed upon the fact that multi-core processors will dominate the market in the upcoming years, but failed in achieving consensus on how to implement them. The discussions took place at yesterday's International Solid State Circuits Conference, with participation from senior chip designe... |
7 February 2008
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IBM has been reported to open two new offshore outsourcing centers in India. It may seem surprising, but the company is facing serious problems regarding workforce availability, since finding and retaining quality IT staff has become a challenge.The company announced that it has already opened the gates of a new glob... |
6 February 2008
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It seems like thinking big is pretty outdated these days and if you want to keep up with the trend you must go giant: Intel's two billion transistors on a single processor or Sun's 16-core chip are the supportive evidence. However, nothing compares to IBM's initiative, that is neither big, nor huge - i... |
6 February 2008
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The title might seem a bit of a shocker, especially with all that's been going on as of late with Yahoo and Microsoft's bid, but in all respects, it is only a viable marketing idea that the Mountain View-based company has decided to monetize in order to expand its customer base. As easy as that, it attended... |
5 February 2008
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Three-dimensional computer chips are industry's new black, and promise unmatched speeds, lower power consumption and smaller chips. No wonder that every company that can afford a research and development facility is tackling the problem their own way. Honda and IBM joined their swords in the quest of the first 3... |
31 January 2008
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The upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco has rushed the major CPU manufacturers into detailing upon their new technologies that are being cooked as we speak. The ISSCC is one of the largest events in the chip design industry and the showcased products become reality within a few mon... |
29 January 2008
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PC and server vendor Dell last week announced the availability of a new blade chassis and server. It seems that each time a new server kicks in, the allegedly perfect equilibrium between the major server players (HP, IBM, Dell and Sun) snaps and all hell breaks lose.This is somewhat normal, as the server business is ... |
29 January 2008
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Moscow State University unveiled the details of an agreement with server vendor IBM to install and deploy a Blue Gene/P supercomputing cluster. The BlueGene supercomputer will be Russia's first device of its kind in the BlueGene/P series and will be installed at the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cy... |
26 January 2008
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IBM has announced that the company has reached a licensing agreement with PC vendor Lenovo regarding the company's server technology. According to the companies' statements, Lenovo is planning to build single-CPU and dual CPU servers based on IBM's System X server technology. The agreement stipulates t... |
24 January 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices had its shares suddenly rising eight percent due to rumors alleging it will be purchased by the IBM consortium. Although market analysts estimate that the chances of the "Big Blue" taking over the chip manufacturer were slim, spokespersons of both companies refused to comment upon the rumor.Wor... |
24 January 2008
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Server expert IBM and networking specialist Cisco have jointly announced the opening of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, as an extension of IBM's already existing Montpellier HPC Center.The new facility will be used by the companies' customers and business partners for testing or benchmarking anal... |
22 January 2008
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The European supercomputer top is about to change as of today with the advent of the new "abacus" called Hector. Located back in UK, Hector is the fastest supercomputer in the kingdom, and, at the same time, one of the most powerful computing clusters on the old continent. It sums up the power of around 12,000 deskto... |
15 January 2008
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Good news from IBM as the preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2007 just kicked in. According to the company's officials, fourth-quarter revenue stood at $28.9 billion, an increase of 10 percent over the same period in 2006, and have surpassed any expectations. The result is partly due to an aggressive ... |
14 January 2008
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HP has made quite a fortune from selling Intel Itanium-powered servers. That is why the company should be worried, as rival IBM predicts that the chip manufacturer will phase the Itanium processor in the near future, as it tends to be less and less competitive on the market."The end of life for Itanium will occur in ... |
10 January 2008
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A group of lawyers for 90 current and former residents of New York state joined their swords against the computer giant IBM in a lawsuit alleging that chemicals from an IBM plant have caused multiple and severe health issues among the population. The residents of the area near the IBM plant complain that the disposed... |
4 January 2008
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Supercomputer specialist IBM announced that it acquired the Tel-Aviv storage company XIV for an undisclosed price. The privately-held storage technology company has about 40 employees and is the latest achievement in IBM's purchasing spree that started recently in order to consolidate its expansion on the storag... |
3 January 2008
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IBM have licensed their latest 45-nanometer technology to Chinese foundry provider Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC). The 45-nm bulk CMOS technology will be used by the largest Chinese chipmaker for building the next generation of processors to power mobile devices, graphics and consumer applicat... |
27 December 2007
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Email searching often proves irrelevant and tiresome, because you can only specify the words or the contacts that you want the search results to show and the list might be long as Santa's naughty children list. And when you're on the go, the last thing you want to do is to be sorting through a couple of hun... |
21 December 2007
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Hitachi, Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, is rumored to think of selling its hard-disk manufacturing units. Recent news emerging from the hard-disk manufacturer says that Hitachi is currently in talks with U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake about the possibility of selling it a stake in its hard drive... |
21 December 2007
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Infineon Technologies and IBM have reached an agreement upon the latter purchasing an embedded flash memory manufacturing process license. IBM is ready to deploy the 30-nm version of the process to the company's units in North America. At the same time, Infineon has announced that it would use the IBM foundry fo... |
20 December 2007
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Toshiba have announced that they would join the group led by IBM to research and develop the next generation of 32-nanometer circuitry. Research and production costs for switching to the 32-nanometer node are roughly estimated at about $3 billion and major semiconductor manufacturers have teamed up to split the initi... |
18 December 2007
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The 45-nanometer process rush seems to have ended right after Intel launched the Penryn series. Foundries have sketched a mass-production plan, but major vendors are already chasing another ghost: the development of high-k dielectrics and metal gates for the 32-nm node. The high-k and metal gates are the major obsta... |
17 December 2007
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India has become more and more appealing for big hardware and software corporations that raced in setting development, research or manufacturing units on Indian territory. AMD has recently opened a new research and development engineering facility in Bangalore, while IBM got quite a piece of revenue from the Indian m... |
17 December 2007
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Chelsio have just unveiled their T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, expected to enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single IBM BladeCenter platform. The device has recently been approved for use with IBM BladeCenter enterprise servers. The new expansion card, code-named S320EM-BCH, is a ... |
15 December 2007
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The processor stage is a round-the-clock race for delivering the latest technology working at highest speeds and, of course at the lowest price. AMD had a little too many pit-stops lately, which gave Intel enough room to expand over the market. AMD is planning on catching up with the technology and made a march towar... |
12 December 2007
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IBM has announced that they have joined AMD, Chartered, Freescale, Infineon and Samsung in their efforts to extend the high-k/metal gate 32-nanometer node. Previously, the same companies have collaborated for achieving the same technology for the 45-nanometer node. The companies' attempt is part of the response ... |
11 December 2007
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IBM today made it public that the company is filing a patent infringement lawsuit against the Taiwanese Asustek corporation. The complaint states that Asustek is currently using IBM's patented products and components to build their computers. IBM has already requested an exclusion order that is meant to restrict... |
7 December 2007
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IBM has developed a technology that, if proven successful, would bring the world one step closer to the most unbelievable SF predictions. If electric current was a breakthrough, how would you consider substituting it with... light? The new technology is alleged to allow different CPU cores exchange signals through li... |
6 December 2007
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Google and IBM announced a new initiative supported by both companies which is supposed to lure students and researchers to their technologies and get them involved into a complex software development process that might reveal better technologies for the market. The two giants will provide the entire equipment for th... |
9 October 2007
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SAP, IBM and Sun Microsystems are partners in identity management. It's all about the new GRC web services that SAP AG announced - they're facilitating seamless integration of SAP GRC Access Control with ID management software solutions.Access Control is an application that monitors and enforces user access... |
4 October 2007
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Nokia Siemens Networks has just transferred several parts of its Research and Development Center activities to a subsidiary of IBM. This includes four Business Lines of the Service Core and Applications Business Unit that will also come with the experience gathered over the years.Nokia Siemens Networks intends to fol... |
2 October 2007
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This is really good news, and I'm happy to write about this, since security-related good news has been so rare as of late. You've noticed the fact that evil hackers could use computers to cause a lot of damage, but hey, security experts aren't just sitting around either. They've started using powe... |
28 September 2007
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Today is a bad day for Microsoft. Google just introduced presentations to Google Docs, an online feature designed to rival Office PowerPoint. But this is not the end for the Redmond company, as Office's situation is bound to get worse. IBM also announced that, starting today, its Lotus Symphony office software w... |
18 September 2007
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In a recent report, the IBM corporation informs us that the number of stealthy, targeted online attacks continues to grow in 2007. This means that - apart from the fact that people aren't secure enough and that security software developers are overwhelmed - hackers are striving harder and harder to get financial... |
18 September 2007
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Scientists from the IBM Research laboratories in Zurich, Switzerland just announced that they developed an innovative technology that will allow the next generation of printers to use much smaller particles which will directly translate into a great printing accuracy and huge definitions, up to 100,000 dots per inch.... |
11 September 2007
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Today the OpenOffice.org community announced that IBM will collaborate with OpenOffice.org on the development of new OpenOffice.org software, including accessibility enhancements and will be making future contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org.Rich Green, Executive Vice President at ... |
10 September 2007
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IBM has been making supercomputers for a long time now and they have a lot of experience in this domain. Their machines' computing power is huge, but it has been recently surpassed by new-comer Storm. It may sound as this "Storm" is a creator of such machines, but actually - it's not. It's a virus.Thin... |
7 September 2007
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IBM as the "king of the hill" on the server market is now officially announcing a new chipset architecture, named X4, for high performance x86 compatible server systems, just in time to be integrated alongside the new Intel platform for multiprocessor systems. The X4 architecture will be used on IBM servers that inte... |
6 September 2007
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From the very beginning of the computer industry IBM was the leader on the mainframe and server departments and this trend is keeping even today as the big blue company faces strong competition from equally well-established and known hardware manufacturers like HP and Dell. While IBM remains the top server and mainfr... |
3 September 2007
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The blade server design is one of the most popular and successful designs around the server market as it allows a greater degree of flexibility than other models and comes with several practical advantages like decreased price, ease of expandability and so on while maintaining a high performance.In order to maintain ... |
31 August 2007
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After a period when nothing seemed to work right for Dell, now it looks like, on at least one market segment, Dell regained its footing and started again on the right path. On the end consumer market, Dell faces some pretty serious problems as its top of the line mobile computing systems are having problems with thei... |
30 August 2007
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Data center virtualization is nothing new as big enterprises and corporations are using it all the time in order to cut costs and keep their servers busy around the clock instead of using a far greater number of separated hardware and software platforms. As the virtualization trend hits the small and medium businesse... |
29 August 2007
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What are supercomputers very good at? Well, among other things like simulations, resolving math problems, pattern recognition and so on they are very good at predicting weather changes, so all the weather forecasts for the Beijing Olympic Games will be based on an IBM supercomputer that will continuously update its f... |
27 August 2007
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Emerging markets are always important for computer manufacturers and vendors as they can find there new revenue sources and even places to vent some of the older products that are no longer demanded on the traditional markets. For well known and established companies it is important to get to every emerging market as... |
24 August 2007
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The server market is now a very lucrative business for well known and established hardware manufacturing companies like HP, IBM, Sun and Dell. Dell had recently not such a good time on that market as its main rival, HP, quickly took over almost all the business with its blade server design that is way better than the... |
24 August 2007
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Embedded systems are now a force on the computer market as they are expanding from simple circuits to more and more complex forms. At the same time, the operating systems designed for them are getting more complex too. One company that develops operating systems aimed at embedded hardware components is the 1300 perso... |
20 August 2007
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