Latest Components News
- 24 May 2013
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News: Smartphone chips could replace server processors in HPC, researchers say
Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top supercomputers.
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News: Corning says Gorilla Glass trumps sapphire screens, but the truth is more nuanced
Corning has begun a pre-emptive strike against a competitor to Gorilla Glass, its product widely used in the displays of many smartphones.
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News: Box buys iOS app to improve its own
Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.
- 23 May 2013
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News: Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life
Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their "Ivy Bridge" predecessors, Intel said on Thursday.
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News: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780: a Titan for the rest of us
When Nvidia announced its graphical powerhouse, the $999 GeForce GTX Titan, in February, eyeballs widened. Fortunately Nvidia now offers the lower-performance GeForce GTX 780, which also cuts the price by a third, to $649.
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News: Box buys iOS app to improve its own
Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.
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News: EU aims to beat US in chip race
Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner on Thursday set out plans for the European Union to produce more micro- and nano-chips than the United States in the next seven years.
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News: As Ethernet turns 40, some seek to take it to the cloud
As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the cloud.
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News: Cloudian connects with Citrix for easier cloud rollouts
Cloudian is integrating its platform with Citrix's CloudPortal Business Manager as it aims to make it easier to roll out and manage storage as a service.
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News: AMD reveals next-gen mobile CPUs, claims unprecedented graphics performance
AMD hopes to have a big second half in 2013, launching three new CPUs featuring integrated graphics that perform on par with the company's discrete GPUs. On Thursday, AMD revealed key details of these next-generation mobile chips, code-named Temash, Kabini, and Richland.
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News: AMD willing to embrace Android
Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips.
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News: Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-like gaming and wireless displays to laptops with Windows 8 and its successor, Windows Blue.
- 22 May 2013
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News: MSI's GX70 gaming laptop sports AMD's fresh, new flagship APU and GPU
Avid gamers pay attention: MSI's newly announced GX70 gaming laptop packs a pair of potentially powerful firsts from AMD. The notebook sports AMD's fresh new "Richland" A10-5750M accelerated processing unit, along with the recently unveiled flagship Radeon HD 8970M mobile GPU.
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News: Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery
Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.
- 21 May 2013
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News: Kyocera connects Cloud Connect 2.0 to Google Drive
Kyocera Document Solutions has upgraded its remote solution, Cloud Connect, to support Google Drive.
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News: Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive
HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.
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News: Toshiba shrinks 64Gbit flash chips, but still lags Samsung
Toshiba said it will soon begin mass producing a new type of 64Gbit NAND flash that is the smallest and fastest in its class, though it still lags rival Samsung Electronics in the development of an even denser flash technology.
- 20 May 2013
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News: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says
Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a vote of confidence for Intel chips in mobile devices.
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News: Samsung readies world's most pixel-packed laptop display
Retina who? Not to be outdone on the display front, Samsung is showing off a 13.3-inch LCD notebook panel with a whopping 3200-by-1800 resolution screen.
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News: Shrinking chips challenge Moore's Law
Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but the challenge of keeping up with it is growing as chips get smaller, says a company executive.
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