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Up one levelIntel Unveils Nehalem-EX Octal-Core Server CPU
Intel just held a press conference in which the company spoke about its next-generation server processor, currently code-named Nehalem-EX.
Server Sales At 12-Year Low As Dell Leads Decline
The economic downturn is killing server sales, with worldwide server revenue tumbling 24.5 percent in the first quarter to its lowest quarterly total in 12 years, with sales of blade servers dropping for the first time, according to IDC.
Sun pushes SSDs in servers to reduce costs, improve performance
Sun has laid out more of its plans for using solid-state drives in its servers, which it says will help customers to reduce energy costs and improve application performance in the datacenter. The company is offering SSDs that customers can slide into their storage bays and, in the future, plans to integrate them onto the server motherboard itself to provide faster data access for I/O-intensive applications, said Michael Cornwell, lead technologist of flash memory at Sun.
Intel's Nehalem EX to gain error correction technology
Intel's eight-core Nehalem EX server processor will include a technology derived from its high-end Itanium chips that helps to reduce data corruption and ensure reliable server performance, the company said Tuesday.
Sun Is Said to Cancel Big Chip Project
According to two people briefed on Sun’s plans, the company has canceled its Rock chip project, putting an end to one of its biggest revitalization bets.
OLPC set to dump x86 for Arm chips in XO-2
One Laptop Per Child is set to dump x86 processors, instead opting to put low-power Arm-based processors in its next-generation XO-2 laptop with the aim of improving battery life.
New graphics firm promises real-time ray tracing
The potential for real-time ray tracing has been a major talking point in 3D graphics ever since Intel announced its plans for the x86-based multi-core Larrabee discrete graphics chip at IDF in 2007. However, a new graphics company called Caustic Graphics reckons that it’s already uncovered the secret of real-time ray tracing with a chip that it says “enables your CPU/GPU to shade with rasterisation-like efficiency.”
Chip sales improve for second month in a row
The three-month moving average of global chip sales is expected to come in $15.2 billion in April, up by 3.4 percent from the $14.7 billion reported in March, according to analysts at Carnegie Group (Oslo, Norway).
Intel's Lynnfield chip expected to ship in late August
Intel's upcoming Lynnfield processor will be in the spotlight at the Computex exhibition in Taipei next week, as hardware makers and computer vendors gear up for the release of the chip later this year.
NVIDIA Tegra: The Mobile Charge
NVIDIA is announcing its Tegra line of products which are aimed at the mobile market and are designed as essentially a “system on a chip”.
EE Times: IBM water cools 3D chips
IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory on Thursday (June 5) demonstrated three-dimensional chip stacks that are cooled with water.
EE Times: Latest News The truth about last year's Xbox 360 recall
When Microsoft Corp. announced a mammoth global recall of its Xbox 360 a year ago, the software giant never disclosed the exact source of the game console's heat problem that led to the fiasco.
Military Supercomputer Sets Record
An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
A 30-picowatt processor for sensors
University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have developed an ultra low power microchip which ‘uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.’
Light-emitting particles to support new form of computing
U.S. physicists are using particles called excitons to develop transistors that could be better suited to fast communication.
One tonne 'Baby' marks its birth
Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester.
AMD delivers TeraFLOPS graphics chip
AMD says it has achieved two firsts in visual computing: the launch of the first teraFLOPS graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4850, and the first graphics card featuring ultra high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 4870.
Nvidia countersues Intel in licensing battle
Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) countersued Intel Corp (INTC.O) for breach of contract on Thursday, alleging that Intel made misleading statements designed to undermine Nvidia's licensing rights.