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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 Intel's new 'Bay Trail' chip to bring budget convertible PCs to the market
Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery...
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 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 | 3/04/2013 Second-gen Nexus 7 coming around July; it will run Qualcomm chip, sources say
The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a ...
Article | 2/04/2013 HP to announce Project Moonshot hyperscale servers next week
Hewlett-Packard next week will unveil a class of hyperscale servers as part of Project Moonshot, the company's attempt to build densely packed low-pow...
Article | 26/03/2013 Renesas hopes to put powerful ARM processor in cars
Renesas Electronics' latest system-on-a-chip has eight ARM processing cores to help next-generation, in-car infotainment systems handle multiple strea...
Article | 25/03/2013 Imagination, TSMC collaborate on graphics chips with 3D transistors
Graphics processors with 3D transistors could come to smartphones and tablets through a technology collaboration between Imagination Technologies and ...
Article | 21/03/2013 IBM moves toward post-silicon transistor
Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how...
Article | 19/03/2013 Nvidia to speed up graphics processors with Maxwell, Volta
Nvidia wants graphics processors to create avatars with realistic human faces, and power visual searches in which images can be identified to produce ...
Article | 19/03/2013 Warren East explains why he's leaving ARM
Warren East, the outgoing CEO of UK chip design company ARM, has never displayed the bravado of his counterparts across the Atlantic, and that was on ...
Article | 19/03/2013 Nvidia unveils new Tegra chips for smartphones, tablets
Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors.
Article | 19/03/2013 ARM appoints Segars as CEO after Warren East retires
Simon Segars will become ARM CEO when Warren East retires July 1, the company said Tuesday.