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While the whole world is likely waiting for the debut of NVIDIA's first consumer-grade, Fermi-based graphics processing units, the company's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, goes along and dismisses some of the recurring rumors that have been circulating on the Internet. One of these rumors claims that the Santa Clara,... |
9 November 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest vendor of computer processors, has just announced that it has reached a new milestone, having managed to ship the 500 millionth x86 processor. According to the company, the milestone has been enabled by its 40 years of innovation, pro... |
24 July 2009
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VMware Fusion lets you run your favorite Windows applications and devices seamlessly on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, Fusion lets you run all your favorite Windows applications, even integrating those apps' features with Mac OS X. The people at VMware have updated the popular virtua... |
25 June 2009
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Sun Microsystems has issued a major update to its powerful Open Source virtualization solution for Mac OS X, VirtualBox. The new release adds the ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental) as well as Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests, to name some key enhancements. &ldq... |
19 June 2009
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VIA Technologies has recently announced that it will be showcasing a new solution, specifically designed for the digital signage market, which will allow for multi-screen HD content to be played using a single platform. According to the x86 processor platform innovator, the HD board will be showcased at the East Wing... |
11 May 2009
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The netbook computer phenomenon has succeeded to draw the attention of the majority of companies in the IT industry, ranging from system builders to chip manufacturers. The increasing popularity of this form factor has enabled companies that use the ARM architecture to consider the development of portable computer sy... |
6 May 2009
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Sun Microsystems, the maker of Java, has recently updated VirtualBox, the free yet powerful x86 virtualization tool, along with the VirtualBox SDK, currently at version 2.2.0 Build 44647 Beta 1. According to the release notes, VirtualBox now offers experimental support for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) hosts running both ... |
18 March 2009
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The One Laptop Per Child organization, which has spawned the low-cost portable computer system known as the OLPC, is said to be considering the adoption of ARM's microprocessor architecture, consequently replacing the x86 one, currently used in the OLPC laptop. ARM-based processors could power the upcoming XO-2 ... |
13 March 2009
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Intel is currently the uncontested leading manufacturer of consumer chips, followed by AMD, which is still far from providing a high-performance competitor for the former’s high-end chips. The Santa Clara-based chip maker has recently entered the low-cost, low-power market, with the release of its highly succes... |
5 September 2008
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Chip startup Montalvo boldly raised up against Intel earlier this year in an attempt at delivering a miraculously efficient x86 processor. However, the company seems to be facing another wall in its market conquest, as its design lamentably fails in speaking the same language with the rest of the processors.The compa... |
10 April 2008
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US-based networking company Covergence has devised a new and groundbreaking method of delivering software into branch offices. The new concept is based on application virtualization, so users should be able to access their applications from a remote server. This initiative would allow corporations to manage and deplo... |
28 January 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Every x86 compatible processor has a number of hardware-based instructions that are grouped in sets and are integrated in the design of the CPU by its manufacturer. From the old and venerable MMX instructions extension set that was designed years ago in order to give Intel processors a better performance in the multi... |
25 August 2007
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There are basically two trends on the computer server market, each with its inherent advantages and disadvantages, so consumers are constantly shifting around trying to find the best possible solution for their needs. On one side, we have the powerful behemoths of massive computing: the mainframes and the dedicated l... |
9 August 2007
04:34 GMT |
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International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM for short, is one of those companies that has made a name for itself by being here, since the dawn of ages, specializing on the server business, more than anything else. But they have also entered other domains, manufacturing processors for almost all of the game c... |
24 April 2007
07:19 GMT |
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