IBM ends chipmaking business sale negotiations with GlobalFoundries
IBM has rejected Globalfoundries offer to acquire its chipmaking business, according to reports. The offer presented to IBM by Globalfoundries was reportedly too low and the two sides could not agree...
View ArticleIntel promises Broadwell will spawn a ‘wave of innovation’
With the introduction of its latest processor, the Intel Core M (or "Broadwell," for those keeping up), Intel is just following the law – Moore’s law. Moore’s law states that the density of...
View ArticleOracle unveils 32-core SPARC M7 super chip
Oracle has announced its latest processor at the Hot Chips conference last week and this one is a serious candidate for the title of most complex chip ever. The M7, which follows the M6, will have 32...
View Article3D printing for consumers? Still not there yet
Analyst firm Gartner says that we will have to wait for at least five years (i.e. towards the end of the current decade) until 3D printing becomes mainstream and is embraced by consumers. Gartner...
View ArticleIn Depth: How Intel plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleHow Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleNew Intel Core M CPU will supercharge future tablets and laptops
Intel’s senior vice president and GM of personal computing, Kirk Skaugen, has launched its next generation of processors, coined the Core M. The new processor range will focus on three mobile segments...
View ArticleEvery new Maingear desktop will have a next-gen Nvidia Maxwell graphics card
Maingear clearly isn’t one to dip its toes in the water first before taking the plunge: the gaming hardware maker just revealed its desktops are going all-in on next-gen Nvidia graphics. From now on,...
View ArticleSamsung gives up on laptops and Chromebooks in Europe
LG executives in Europe will have a little more trouble finding Samsung products to vandalize very soon. The Korean manufacturing juggernaut has decided to bail on the European laptop market. They’ll...
View ArticleARM introduces update to Cortex-M family
ARM has released a new Cortex-M processor, the M7, which it says will offer a 100% improvement in compute and digital signal processing performance compared to existing ARM-based MCU lke the M4. The...
View ArticleWorldwide 3D printing shipments to double over the next year
Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that shipments of 3D printers will double every year to reach 2.3 million in 2018. That may sound like a lot of zeroes, but the figure is just a small fraction of...
View ArticleIntel’s wearable CPU family to get shot in the arm
Anonymous sources have leaked what look like genuine roadmaps of Intel’s Quark product family on the popular Chinese social network Weibo’ these point out to an acceleration in the rate of...
View ArticleQualcomm to enter ARM server chip market
Qualcomm’s CEO, Steve Mollenkopf, has identified the server market as a $15 billion opportunity and will deliver products to address that market. Mollenkopf, speaking at the company’s annual analyst...
View ArticleIndustry voice: The hidden risks in consumer-grade storage components
Finding the most appropriate and balanced way to improve storage performance is a major focus for many organisations. But even once that hurdle has been overcome, there are more challenges to be...
View Article3D printing: gimmick or small business opportunity?
Introduction and disruptive manufacturing In Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, Chris Anderson, author and former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, writes: "The idea of a ‘factory’ is, in a word,...
View ArticleHow Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleIn Depth: How Intel plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleHow Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleIn Depth: How Intel plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
View ArticleHow Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
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