http://newsletter.sigmicro.org daily 1 2008-05-10T13:50:42Z http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/intel-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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-05-29T14:45:05Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-05-29T15:03:12Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-03-17T16:00:14Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/intels-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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-05-29T14:52:37Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-06-19T08:46:54Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-03-17T15:54:23Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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.” No publisher russ_joseph 2009-03-17T15:57:58Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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). No publisher russ_joseph 2009-05-29T15:08:33Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/intels-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. No publisher russ_joseph 2009-05-29T15:11:03Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/its-not-x86-but-who-cares 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”. No publisher russ_joseph 2008-06-27T14:07:45Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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. No publisher russ_joseph 2008-06-27T14:12:24Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/computex-2008-via-and-nvidia-begin-beautiful-friendship No publisher russ_joseph 2008-06-27T14:13:04Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/ee-times-latest-news-the-truth-about-last-years-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. No publisher russ_joseph 2008-06-27T14:15:46Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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. No publisher russ_joseph 2008-06-27T14:15:29Z Link http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/industry-news-items/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.’ No publisher russ_joseph 2008-06-27T14:16:50Z Link