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IBM may have sparked interest lately by making cognitive processors, but it has again looked to the storage segment ,where it hopes to set a massive new record in terms of sheer capacity.IBM definitely stirred the sleeping curiosity of many feelings by announcing that it had made cognitive computers, systems that ca... |
26 August 2011
10:09 GMT |
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A new computer chip that is being developed by technology giant IBM allows a computer to actually learn the game of Pong and the strategies that lead to victory and might have a big impact on the gaming world in the long run.
The chip is called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics or SyNAP... |
22 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Whether due to recent findings that the PC is declining or not, IBM has announced a breakthrough in the field of cognitive computing, one that might actually spawn computers that can learn by themselves.IBM has been experimenting with new chip designs for quite some time and it looks like it might pull off something... |
19 August 2011
04:48 GMT |
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Thirty years have passed since the invention of the first personal computer, but celebrations may have been cut short by a not-so-optimistic statement on the part of an IBM executive.Some may not remember, but it was IBM that created the very first personal computer to ever grace the world with its presence.Dubbed I... |
13 August 2011
04:26 GMT |
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IBM and the University of Illinois recently announced they have terminated the contract signed between the two parts for the development of the Blue Waters supercomputer, as the former said the costs associated with the development and support of the machine are far too great.The Blue Waters supercomputer was expecte... |
9 August 2011
07:07 GMT |
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NAND Flash memory is, at the moment, seen as the fastest storage solution on the IT market, but IBM decided it would make short work of that very technology by inventing something that seriously trounces the competition.
Currently, the PC storage solutions market is divided between hard disk drives and NAND Flash... |
30 June 2011
02:34 GMT |
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McGill University today announced an $8.3-million CDN contract with IBM in Canada to acquire a supercomputer cluster, which, after being installed, will become the most powerful supercomputer in Quebec and the second-most energy-efficient data centre in Canada.The new supercomputer is based on IBM's iDataPlex so... |
15 June 2011
10:49 GMT |
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Gone are the days when Microsoft had no rival in terms of market value among the companies in the United States. The software giant has dropped to the number three spot among top technology players, being now valued less than not just Apple but also IBM. And by the looks of it, the software giant’s slide will... |
24 May 2011
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It appears that better and faster transistors made of graphene aren't all that IBM is working on, since its recent press release speaks of a new set of POWER7 servers for demanding emerging applications.Though not really focused on the consumer market, IBM is one of biggest names on the business, enterprise and... |
12 April 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Graphene really seems to be setting itself up as the eventual replacement for silicon, especially now that IBM is revealed to have managed the creation of a transistor much faster than any created so far. Graphene is a single layer of carbon arranges in hexagons and has, for quite some time, been tested upon.The goa... |
8 April 2011
07:49 GMT |
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For quite a while now graphene has been the object of many studies as scientists try to better understand this material and use it as a replacement for silicon in future computer chips, and a recent discovery comes to strengthen graphene's role in transistor manufacturing since researchers have just found out th... |
6 April 2011
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It looks like HP isn't the only 'blue' company to be accused of bribery, as IBM has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with bribing quite a few officials between 1,998 and 2003. The IT market is definitely no stranger to lawsuits, as legal battles have been sprouting and closin... |
21 March 2011
06:01 GMT |
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IBM is not known for issuing public challenges, unlike other companies, but it seems it broke this policy, or skimmed on its edges, in its recent dealing with HP on the market for integrated software and services.As end-users know, the IT industry, besides being the playground of companies and consumers alike, is al... |
14 March 2011
08:10 GMT |
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The Oak Ridge National Lab plans to add another Cray built petaflop capable supercomputer, dubbed Titan, to its HPC machine lineup in 2012, which is to be powered by a slew of Nvidia Tesla general purpose GPUs.
According to a Knoxville News Sentinel report cited by HPC Wire, this is the third Cray supercomputer to... |
9 March 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Texas Instruments is getting ready to manufacture the next generation of semiconductors as the company is currently perfecting a new method of growing graphene sheets which will eventually enable it to produce faster, smaller and lower power electronics based on carbon instead of silicon.
According to EETimes, Te... |
4 March 2011
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Samsung's foundry operation has just announced that the company is getting ready to run 20nm test-chip shuttles for its customers beginning with the second half of this year, making it one of the first semiconductor manufacturers to use this new fabrication node.
According to the EETimes website, Samsung'... |
23 February 2011
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During the ISSCC conference, which takes place right now in San Francisco, California, IBM has detailed its 5.2GHz z196 flagship CPU, which features an 18% higher clock than the previous 4.4GHz z10 processor, while also maintaining a similar thermal envelope.
IBM managed to achieve this feat by moving from 65nm to... |
22 February 2011
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IBM has just announced that no less than eight Universities have contributed to the development of the question answering (QA) technology behind the Watson computing system, which will compete against humans on the quiz show, Jeopardy!, airing between February 14 and 16 of 2011.
The eight Universities are the Mas... |
11 February 2011
10:12 GMT |
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The proliferation of IBM's Power7 processors throughout the company's product range has lead to the cancellation of the Power 520 or Power 550 servers, based on the older dual core Power6 or Power6+ processors, the computing giant just making the news official through an announcement letter.
The Power 52... |
11 February 2011
06:49 GMT |
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High performance computers have surely managed to achieve impressive performance levels, but experts in the industry state there is still a lot more room for such solutions to grow, recent reports suggesting the first 100-petaflop systems could be built in just six years from now, while the first exascale supercomput... |
10 February 2011
04:23 GMT |
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There seems to be no end in sight for the race to build some of the world's fastest supercomputers, and now IBM has revealed the fact that it will actually create yet another such uber-powerful computing solution for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
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10 February 2011
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Since IT companies always have to innovate if they are to stay in business, IBM and Samsung decided it was high time they signed a cross-license pact so that they may both use the other's patent portfolio.License agreements are a common thing on the IT market, and there are even companies that deal exclusively ... |
9 February 2011
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Considered as one of the major breakthroughs in chip manufacturing, silicon photonics is far away from becoming a reality, an IBM researcher just affirming that at least 10 years have to pass until this technology will become a reality.Speaking during the SPIE Photonics West 2011 conference, Bert-Jan Offrein, manager... |
3 February 2011
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Intel has recently announced that it plans to co-fund a research and production centre at the University of Washington that will specialize in silicon photonics, a technology that promises to change the electrical connections between components found inside a computer chip with faster optical connections.
As Bit-t... |
3 February 2011
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Introduced as a major breakthrough in chip manufacturing, graphene doesn't seem to have all that much going for it lately, as after IBM said that the material wouldn't replace silicon in future transistors, another hurdle comes its way, researchers just discovering that molybdenite is far better suited for ... |
31 January 2011
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Intel may have gotten most of its recent attention from the Sandy Bridge collection of consumer CPUs, but ISSCC is now approaching, where, along with IBM, it will show off high-end server processors as well.ISSCC is the abbreviation for the International Solid State Circuit Conference, set to be held, this year at l... |
26 January 2011
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Boasted as one of the greatest innovations in processors manufacturing, graphene isn't yet ready to take the place of silicon in the CPU fabrication process, an IBM researcher revealing that such a transistor can't actually be completely switched off, raising energy efficiency and gate signalling problems.W... |
24 January 2011
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Yesterday, Common Platform members announced that the coalition will move to gate-last technology when it makes the transition to the 20nm manufacturing node, plans for 32nm and 28nm chip fabrication remaining unchanged at this time.
The Common Platform Initiative is made out of IBM, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung E... |
20 January 2011
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Collaborations are definitely not unheard of on the IT market, and IBM and ARM seems to have just entered one, their goal being to come up with new semiconductor technologies for mobile devices.No long ago, Intel came out and said it will actually be able to beat ARM at its own game, that of low-power but capable mo... |
18 January 2011
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Since processors, one might say, have reached the point where their might is more than enough for whatever users may need, more emphasis is being placed on efficiency, and it seems Samsung and IBM want to optimize this particular aspect.Ever since mobile computers really took off, there have been laptops with capabi... |
13 January 2011
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IBM developerWorks, a large website hosting developer resources, was defaced last Saturday by an Indonesian hacker who left a message taunting the admin.The incident was first reported on the Full Disclosure mailinglist and according to the discussion there, most pages under the /developerWorks/ directory were affect... |
11 January 2011
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It would seem that the research and development efforts invested into a certain project that IBM is working on, one that deals with a new way of storing data, have seen some very promising results.Nowadays, the most typical means of storing data are magnetic hard disk drives and solid state drives.Both options have ... |
28 December 2010
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Regardless of whether or not they prove true, predictions about what the future will bring are made all the time, and IBM just announced what it thinks will be accomplished by the year 2015. Each year, IBM performs a survey of 3,000 of its engineers with the goal of estimating five technological breakthroughs that w... |
28 December 2010
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Since there is a constant search for better high-performance computers, IBM decided to start working on its newest supercomputer, one that is set to be based in the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany.
Currently, the most powerful supercomputer in existence, constructed with both microprocess... |
18 December 2010
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Since many of the world's top supercomputers are powered by Intel's Xeon server processor, it should come as no surprise that the chip manufacturer's interest in this particular field of extreme computing is quite high, its latest endeavor being a collaboration with IBM for the development of "SuperMUC... |
13 December 2010
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IBM recently announced its milestone that will supposedly make Exaflop Supercomputers more feasible, namely chips that use optical interconnections, but Intel now says that said processors may not be efficient to manufacture.
As users are likely used to by now, whenever a company announces a new milestone, its ri... |
4 December 2010
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Chip developers are always looking for ways that might help them create a processor that is faster and more power-efficient, and it appears that IBM just reached a milestone in its efforts to combine electrical and optical signals.What IBM did was build a piece of silicon that can hold both optical and electrical co... |
1 December 2010
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In today's highly environmentally conscious world it isn't enough for supercomputers to be extremely powerful, they also have to be green, so IBM has certainly reasons to brag about their high performance computers being crowned as the most energy efficient in the world, according to the latest Supercomputi... |
23 November 2010
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Although the Supercomputing 2010 conference has reached its final day, news still continue to come, after yesterday reporting on Nvidia's Echelon 10 teraflops processor architecture now being time to bring you information about IBM's new storage architecture designed in order to double analytics processing ... |
19 November 2010
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When it comes down to performance SSDs have taken the storage world by storm, but there are a group of companies out there that, unimpressed by the performance of the SATA interface, started to develop PCIe SSD drives, a group of hardware makers comprised from the likes of Dell, IBM and Intel wanting to make these t... |
28 October 2010
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At the IBM Information On Demand 2010 Conference, SpotOn Systems Inc. and MeLLmo announced a system integration partnership with the common goal of deploying MeLLmo’s Roambi ES3, which transforms IBM Cognos reports and data into secure, interactive mobile dashboards for iPhone or iPad.According to a report issu... |
25 October 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Even despite rumors implied that the creators of Cell chips, chips used in game consoles, would stop making such processors, IBM, at least, seems bent on trying its hand on a hybrid version that will eventually become part of the power-series roadmap.The three original makers of the Cell processors were Toshiba, Son... |
9 October 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Following a long-term collaboration between the two companies, IBM announced its imminent acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies in a joint press release.With a portfolio including more than half of the Fortune 500 list, BLADE will provide all the right tools for IBM to competitively go against Cisco, Dell and HP ... |
29 September 2010
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A group of scientists based at the IBM Almaden Research Center has recently been able to develop an observations method that allows them to observe the events going on inside atoms. This has been extremely difficult to perform until now, given the impressive speed at which these actions take place. But the ... |
27 September 2010
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IBM has released its August X-Force report informing that the number of disclosed vulnerabilities during the first half of 2010 increased by a substantial 36%, compared to the previous year.IBM X-Force analyzed and documented some 4,396 new vulnerabilities in the first half of 2010, attributing four percent of the di... |
27 August 2010
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Patent company Rambus, now well known for the many court actions it has filed against a variety of IT players, has once again taken it upon itself to sue IBM over alleged patent infringement, even though the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) already issued a ruling in the latter's favor.Rambus is known f... |
25 August 2010
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The European Commission is handling a fair number of antitrust litigations and it seems as though it just got two more to deal with. Apparently, IBM has now become the subject of scrutiny and it seems it now has to deal with its own share of antitrust charges. The EC claims that some of its rules were broken when it ... |
27 July 2010
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British police forces are trialing computer software which is able to pinpoint potential criminal hot spots from data fed to it. The system leverages statistical history and evaluates patterns to predict the places where crime is most likely to occur.Known as CRUSH (Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History), ... |
26 July 2010
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The big problem with supercomputers is that they use a great deal of energy. As such, companies that set up high-performance computing (HPC) installations do their best to reduce the environment footprint as much as they can. Even more unusual plans, such as using cow manure as a power source, have cropped up over th... |
5 July 2010
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The browser wars are as heated as it’s ever been, but Firefox is still the number one ‘alternative’ browser out there with a significant market share. But getting people to use Firefox is one thing, getting companies to do it is quite another. With plenty of other companies still relying on Int... |
1 July 2010
19:11 GMT |
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