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Article | 19/06/2013 Intel joins Samsung, Qualcomm in wireless power consortium
Intel has joined the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), a consortium founded by Qualcomm and Samsung, as the chip maker looks to bring wireless charg...
Article | 19/06/2013 Oracle, IBM to unwrap new Unix server processors at conference
Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at th...
Article | 18/06/2013 Nvidia to license its graphics cores
Nvidia is to start licensing its graphics cores more widely in a bid to cash in on the need for powerful graphics in smartphones, tablets and other de...
Article | 18/06/2013 Icahn acquires larger stake in Dell, proposes new buyout deal
Carl Icahn has acquired a larger stake in Dell and called for a better buyout offer than the proposal of $US13.65 per share from Michael Dell and Sil...
Article | 18/06/2013 Nvidia updates programming tools to boost mobile device speed
Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner.
Article | 18/06/2013 HP shakes up management team of PC division
Hewlett-Packard has shuffled the management of its PC division as it tries to sharpen its focus on growth markets.
Article | 18/06/2013 AMD reboots server strategy with first ARM chips
Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server proc...
Article | 17/06/2013 Rambus, STMicroelectronics settle lawsuits, sign patent agreement
Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements.
Article | 17/06/2013 Scientist out to break Amdahl's law
Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial comp...
Article | 13/06/2013 US prosecutors propose kill switch to prevent smartphone theft
U.S. prosecutors are proposing that smartphone makers offer a "kill switch" in all new phones produced by the start of next year as part of an initiat...
Article | 13/06/2013 Nvidia hopes Shield eventually overtakes Xbox, PS4
Nvidia's Shield is complementary to gaming consoles for now, but the company hopes that wide adoption of Android gaming ultimately could make the US$3...
Article | 12/06/2013 Smartphone chips to power prototype supercomputer
Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry se...
Article | 7/06/2013 Intel exec says Silvermont trumps ARM in power, performance
A top Intel executive said the power and performance battle with ARM is over, because Intel's upcoming chips based on its Silvermont architecture are ...
Article | 6/06/2013 Intel shows 'world's fastest thumb drive'
Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds ...
Article | 5/06/2013 AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS
After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tab...

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