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Article | 12/04/2013 Dell: Little momentum in ARM servers until 64-bit processors

The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they ...

Article | 12/04/2013 Adoption of DDR4 memory facing delays

The memory market is feeling the effects of a fall in PC shipments with the subsequent stabilization of DRAM prices, which industry observers say will...

Article | 11/04/2013 Products with faster USB speeds to reach market in 2014

Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014...

Article | 11/04/2013 End is in sight for Intel's Atom netbook-specific processors

Intel's Atom processors designed for netbooks could be on their last leg, with analysts saying that the chip maker could be tweaking its product road ...

Article | 10/04/2013 Struggling PC makers and Windows 8 push PC market into free fall

A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a f...

Article | 10/04/2013 USB says new specification to double transfer speed in the works

PCs and mobile devices connected to peripherals via USB ports will in the future be able to transfer data at twice the speed possible today.

Article | 10/04/2013 Intel brings Haswell to servers with Xeon E3 chip

Intel announced new server chips on Tuesday, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company's latest Haswell m...

Article | 10/04/2013 Intel aims for easy server upgrades

To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance co...

Article | 8/04/2013 HP to customise Moonshot offerings, offer ARM and Xeon chips

Hewlett-Packard in the future will offer customized Moonshot servers at different prices and also offer configurations with ARM and Intel Xeon process...

Article | 8/04/2013 Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect

Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals...

Article | 8/04/2013 HP's first Moonshot server with Atom processors priced at $61,875

Hewlett-Packard's new densely packed low-power Moonshot server has finally come out of the company's labs and is available to customers in the U.S. an...

Article | 8/04/2013 In Pictures: AT&T Innovation Showcase

A sampling of some of AT&T's top research projects, highlighted at the company's Innovation Showcase in New York.

Article | 8/04/2013 Intel Atom chips poised for power, performance boost with Avoton

After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-process...

Article | 5/04/2013 Slideshow: AT&T Innovation Showcase in pictures

AT&T showed off some emerging mobile and cloud technologies this week at its Innovation Showcase event in New York City.

Article | 4/04/2013 Mobile app sends calls to voicemail by reading brain

A mobile app under development can filter phone calls and reroute them directly to voicemail by reading brain waves, cutting the need for users to pre...