Latest Components News

• 20 June 2013

• News: Qualcomm targets China, emerging markets with new lower-end Snapdragon chips

  Chip maker Qualcomm is introducing six new processors meant for entry-level phones in China and emerging markets.

• News: Best Buy recalls 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire

  Best Buy has recalled about 5,100 replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, after 13 reports that the battery caught fire, a U.S. consumer safety agency said.

• News: Google Glass panic triggers rise in facial-recognition blockers

  Matter has anti-matter, Superman has Green Kryptonite, and now Google Glass has anti-Glass?

• 19 June 2013

• News: Intel chooses sides in wireless power market

  Intel has joined The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), an industry group that hopes its "flexible wireless power" specification for mobile wireless charging can become an industry standard.

• News: 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 the Hot Chips conference in late August.

• News: Four ways OS X Mavericks will save your MacBook's battery

  When Apple unveiled the iPad in 2010, I immediately fell in love with its impressive battery life, and couldn't wait until they day when the same longevity would come to my Mac.

• News: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 is a speed demon, but battery impact remains unknown

  Your current smartphone's processor may be fast, but Qualcomm is hoping to show you a whole new definition of mobile performance. On Tuesday, the company staged a benchmarking exhibition in San Francisco to demonstrate the raw speed of its Snapdragon 800 chip, designated for "premium" smartphone deployment later this year.

• News: Rogue public Cloud usage to be countered with proactivity

  In order to decrease the occurrence and mitigate the risks of rogue public Cloud usage, IT departments must be proactive in defining their Cloud strategy and assessing usage, according to Red Hat senior Cloud technology and alliances manager, Martin Zierer.

• 18 June 2013

• News: Tesla to demo battery-swap car tech on Thursday

  Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has more than just one plan to make it possible for electric car motorists to drive across the country.

• News: 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 devices.

• News: Nvidia's GPU neural network tops Google

  A year ago, Google constructed a "neural network" of servers that eventually learned how to recognize cats. On Tuesday, Nvidia said that a team of Stanford researchers had used its own graphics cores to create another approximately 6.5 times more powerful, using just 16 servers.

• News: 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.

• News: SMBs having problems with backup, recovery: study

  A recent study of small- and medium-sized businesses in the US and Europe revealed that many of them are facing challenges in implementing backup and recovery solutions that can help protect their businesses.

• News: AMD slates first ARM server chip, 'Seattle,' for 2014

  AMD plans to sample its first ARM-based processors for servers early next year, alongside paired CPUs and integrated graphics cores in an attempt to oust Intel's Xeon from its dominance in the server market.

• News: 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 processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and more powerful than its existing low-power x86 server processors.

• News: Efficiency will hold down storage growth, IDC says

  Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said.

• 17 June 2013

• News: Rambus, STMicroelectronics settle lawsuits, sign patent agreement

  Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements.

• News: 'Titan' falls: Today's top supercomputer is owned by China, powered by Intel

  China has regained the crown for the fastest supercomputer on the planet, according to the semiannual Top500 list, which claims that the Milky Way-2 supercomputer has doubled the performance of the previous leader, the American "Titan" supercomputer, in just six months.

• News: 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 computing. One scientist hopes to prove that Amdahl's law can be surpassed, and that it doesn't apply in certain parallel computing models.

• News: Samsung mass produces 1.4GB/s PCIe flash cards

  Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for untra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1,400MB/s throughput.

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