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It looks like analysts really are enthusiastic about the chances of tablets, with Transparency having even issued an official announcement in which it makes predictions regarding the next four years.
Transparency Market Research believes that the level of annual tablet sales will grow by around 38.8 percent every y... |
10 February 2012
08:11 GMT |
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AMD has said in the past, several times, that it is fully committed to x86, but this no longer seems to mean that a partnership with ARM is totally impossible.
Advanced Micro Devices has always been a rival to Intel on the market for central processing units based on the x86 architecture.
However, the ARM archite... |
6 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Among the products that were showcased at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night during Steve Ballmer’s keynote, we can count the Windows 8 operating system.
The platform, made official in September last year, during the BUILD conference, is expected to become commercially a... |
10 January 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Android is spreading its influence to parts of the worldwide IT market other than the mobile segment, with VIA, in this case, helping it along. The Android operating systems is one of the most widely used software platforms in the world. It is very often encountered on smartphones and has also become the OS of cho... |
15 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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It looks like Intel is really trying to expand the feature set of its processors, having entered an agreement with Inside Secure for NFC features. There are things that Intel can't do on its own, so it has to enter partnerships with various other companies. Part of it is because of the patent system that hand... |
15 December 2011
03:13 GMT |
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 9.0 RC3. According to the developers, this iteration should be the last release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 9.0. The final release builds should be available in a week or so."The third an... |
9 December 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Nvidia seems pretty confident that the high energy efficiency of the ARM architecture makes it a much better alternative for HPC computing than x86 and therefore is currently working on bringing this arch in the high-performance computing and server markets.In an interview with EETimes, Sumit Gupta, Director for High... |
8 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Android-x86, the famous port of Google's famous Android platform for the x86 (32-bit) architecture has just reached version 4.0. Android-x86 is a Live CD Linux distribution created mostly for the Eee PC netbooks, but can also run on any other 32-bit (x86) platform.Android-x86 4.0 is based on Android 4.0.1 (Ice C... |
1 December 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Yesterday's report about how AMD had decided to stop competing with Intel predictably stirred a lot of question and speculations, but at least some fears may be assuaged.
To offer context, AMD said it wasn't going to try and compete with Intel anymore and, instead, turn to the low-power chip market.
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30 November 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Many people may not have thought much of it before tablets set themselves loose, but it seems Intel and ARM are both, to some extent, reaching into the other's territory, the latter more than the former. There used to be a time when Intel and AMD, with their x86 CPUs, had full control of the consumer PC market... |
11 November 2011
11:08 GMT |
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That Intel was working on the Medfield was something well enough known, but the company might just be refashioning its product plans in regards to the mobile market.
It was just reported that the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant has decided to change its roadmap to include a processor specifically made for ... |
11 November 2011
08:21 GMT |
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As Intel keep launching new CPUs and preparing others, older chips are, naturally, phasing out of the picture, as will soon happen with the first-generation Core central processing units.
Some users may be aware of the fact that, not long ago, some CPUs got cheaper as new ones made their appearance.
Verily, it... |
8 September 2011
07:48 GMT |
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Windows 8 is expected to catalyze a shift on the microprocessor (MPU) market, negatively impacting the adoption of traditional x86 CPUs, but nourishing strong growth for ARM processors.
IHS iSuppli forecasts that Intel’s x86 architecture, which includes both 32-bit and 64-bit central procession units, will... |
20 July 2011
07:27 GMT |
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After being confined to the server and embedded market space for quite some time now, China's Loongson processors based on the MIPS architecture will soon make their way into the consumer market, as the first notebooks to be powered by these chips are expected to enter mass production in August.A prototype of th... |
22 June 2011
15:31 GMT |
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End-users may know of the rumor that arose, a while ago, about AMD possibly starting to make ARM chips, and while subsequent statements seemed to debunk the implication, the idea seems to still be up in the air.Advanced Micro Devices has been a maker of x86 processors for a long time, acting as pretty much the only ... |
12 May 2011
03:13 GMT |
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That ARM wants its chips inside personal computers is no news, but it looks like at least one analyst firm actually sees this happening, with a visible result expected over the next few years.At the moment, the PC market is still firmly owned by the x86 central processing unit architecture, which Intel and Advanced ... |
5 May 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Rumors often get people to start thinking about possibilities, even more outlandish ones, but it looks like a certain, recent one was short lived, as Advanced Micro Devices decided to put the record straight.As end-users know, AMD is the one real rival that Intel has on the market for x86 processors, especially now ... |
30 April 2011
05:53 GMT |
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After taking almost full control over the mobile space, ARM is now targeting the x86 architecture as the company plans to introduce its upcoming Cortex A15 cores not only in smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices, but also in servers.
The Cortex A15 is the name used by ARM for its next-generation mul... |
20 April 2011
02:29 GMT |
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For years, ARM and Intel have been yearning for a means to beat the other on their own turf, and it seems that the recent developments on the IT market have caused this so-called rivalry to escalate to new heights.
ARM and Intel have practically been operating in different areas for quite a few years now.
On t... |
15 January 2011
06:45 GMT |
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When it comes to energy efficiency and performance, ARM-based and x86 chips are as different as they can be, but analysts think that, in the future, the gap between these two architectures will narrow, becoming almost inexistent in a few years time.
This change will be fueled by the rise in popularity of high-perf... |
14 January 2011
10:04 GMT |
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It would seem that, despite the ongoing rivalry between ARM and x86 CPU architectures, the architectures may lose importance as emphasis becomes stronger on the mobile applications and OS.Based on the trends that can be seen on the IT market right now, it is assumed that, by 2014, about 75% of all mobile processors ... |
29 December 2010
04:29 GMT |
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If you have been keeping up to date with the latest developments in the processors world then you surely know that just a few months ago Intel sampled a massively parallel 48-core chip to academic institutions, the chip giant now stating that using the same architecture, the company is able to built a processors with... |
22 November 2010
05:23 GMT |
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It seems that, even despite a certain recent announcement, the NVIDIA CUDA technology is never truly going to run perfectly on x86 chips, developers being, at least for now, limited to just testing the reliability of the CUDA-based software approach.Some end-users may be aware of the fact that, not too long ago, NVI... |
29 September 2010
09:36 GMT |
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For a long time, the CUDA technology on NVIDIA's video boards has been the only means by which CUDA applications could be run at their full potential, but this state of affairs may no longer be when the CUDA x86 compiler arrives.The main purpose of the NVIDIA CUDA architecture was to allow computationally inten... |
22 September 2010
04:40 GMT |
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As some end-users may know, Intel tried to create a GPU based on the x86 architecture some time ago, but it ended up scrapping those plans and, now, confirming almost beyond any doubt that no actual Larrabee GPUs will ever see the light of dawn.The Larrabbe was, essentially, Intel's project that was supposed to... |
18 September 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Many rumors have been circulating the web concerning NVIDIA and its supposed strategy regarding x86 technology, but a more recent interview between the company's CEO and CNET reveals that the Santa Clara, California-based GPU maker will focus on ARM instead of trying to recover from having been out of the x86 bu... |
13 August 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Since it hasn't been allowed to make chipsets for x86 CPUs for a while. NVIDIA has been promoting its Tesla GPU computing modules on the HPC front and has been optimizing its graphics cards to offload tasks from the CPU, but analysts appear to think that the company may not make it in the long run if it doesn&#... |
11 August 2010
08:58 GMT |
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AMD believes that the IT industry is nearing a stage where HPCs (high-performance computers) will need to adopt a new type of configuration if they hope to keep getting stronger and more efficient. At present, many supercomputers are exclusively powered by x86 processors. Nevertheless, GPU computing modules have alr... |
26 June 2010
05:07 GMT |
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In late 2009, after years of research and development efforts, Intel saw itself with little choice besides announcing that the Larrabee graphics project was never going to be completed. Hope was slightly rekindled a few months later, when a TechEye report said there was still a roadmap in place that included plans fo... |
26 May 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Until late last year, Intel had been working hard on creating a graphics processing unit (GPU) based on the x86 architecture that would have been able to compete with products from NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices. These plans, however, seemed to have collapsed into oblivion when the Santa Clara chip maker announced... |
13 March 2010
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According to one of the more recent studies completed by IDC, the worldwide demand for central processing units based on the x86 architecture "achieved all-time record levels for a single quarter" during the fourth quarter of 2009. What is especially notable about the past quarter, however, is the fact that Advanced ... |
26 January 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Despite the current developments and the latest advancements in x86 chips power efficiency, analysts seem to think that, even though Intel currently controls the netbook market with its new Atom chips, this dominance may be short lived. ABI Research suggests that the ARM architecture may make a strong incursion into ... |
23 January 2010
03:46 GMT |
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VIA has used the modular design principles in the Mobile-ITX form factor, which was launched around the beginning of December 2009, to create a device capable of offering industry-leading I/O flexibility in the most compact of form factors. Known as the VIA EPIA-T700, the new computer-on-module enables the easy creat... |
19 January 2010
08:07 GMT |
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Intel is known as the greatest central processing unit maker in the world and its chips are so widespread and common that it is widely believed that the company's x86 chips could provide a very strong competition to the ARM architecture. This idea is prominent even despite the fact that there really are no Intel... |
13 January 2010
10:29 GMT |
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When the FTC filed its antitrust charges against Intel Corp. about two weeks ago, some parties believed that Intel's x86 license might be in danger. NVIDIA was quite pleased with the events and rumors that ARM chips might finally see a wider adoption started to sprout, even though the FTC quickly responded by sa... |
29 December 2009
06:43 GMT |
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According to a detailed research by In-Stat, single-core processors will become obsolete by 2013 even in handheld computing devices such as smartphones, CE (consumer electronics) devices and MIDs. With notebooks being, currently, the only mobile devices based on multi-core processors (with a few exceptions), multi-co... |
9 December 2009
09:06 GMT |
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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
05:04 GMT |
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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
06:49 GMT |
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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
10:00 GMT |
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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
07:01 GMT |
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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
03:39 GMT |
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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
10:12 GMT |
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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
05:03 GMT |
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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
05:08 GMT |
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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
07:02 GMT |
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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
04:13 GMT |
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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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