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- 21 September 2011
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News: EMC adds unstructured big data analytics to Greenplum platform
EMC announced new software capability on its Hadoop Data Computing Appliance that allows users to mix and match unstructured and structured data analytics platforms.
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News: Nvidia's Quad-Core Kal-El Chip Packs Hidden 'Companion' Core
Nvidia today unveiled the technical specs for its upcoming "Kal-El" quad-core mobile processor. The world's first mobile quad-core chip actually has a secret fifth core, which the company refers to as a "companion core," to handle less demanding tasks like Web browsing. By including this extra core, Nvidia says you can expect better energy savings and performance on tablets or smartphones.
- 20 September 2011
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News: LaCie ships Thunderbolt-compatible external drive
LaCie today announced its first external hard drive that's compatible with the new, high-speed Thunderbolt interconnect that's being used on Apple's next generation computers.
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News: LaCie's Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt now shipping
On Tuesday, LaCie finally made the Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt hard drive available to the public through the Apple Retail Store and the Apple Online Store. The LaCie drive was originally announced in February.
- 19 September 2011
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News: Weekly Wrap: Firmware updates, Thunderbolt gadgets, more
It's been another busy week here at Macworld, and not just because of a steadily escalating prank war between editors Philip Michaels and Dan Miller. We've covered interesting iOS and Mac apps; Lion tricks and issues; accessories; Windows 8; and plenty more. In case you missed any of the good stuff this past week, here's a roundup of our biggest and best stories (in easily-digestible list format!) to bring you up to Thunderbolt speed.
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Video: Video: Intel Ultrabooks run Sandy Bridge-based processors
Promised in time for Christmas Intel pushed Ultrabooks at its developer forum in San Francisco last week. Ultrabook is an Intel trademarked name for systems that meet certain specifications for thickness, battery life and processing power for example. They're designed for people who want more functionality than a tablet, but still need something light and fast. So these systems are going to be based on the Sandy Bridge processor. Ultrabooks will come from a number of manufacturers including Toshiba, Acer, Asus and others. Intel has laid out its plan for processor upgrades for ultrabooks in the next few years. So next year we're going to be introducing Ivy Bridge into the market and that's the same basic architecture that we have on Sandy Bridge today but it's going to (unintelligable) to our 22nm process with those really cool 3D transistors that you may have heard about already. And even with Ivy Bridge coming next year, Intel is already looking to 2013 and the introduction of a new chip that will be even more power efficient.
- 16 September 2011
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News: Intel boosts laptop battery, graphics with Ivy Bridge
Chip and system-level improvements that Intel is making with the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will result in laptops out next year with longer battery life and better graphics, the company said this week.
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News: Value of Intel-Google partnership on smartphones remains to be seen
Intel this week promised that a smartphone based on its Atom processor will hit the market in the first quarter of 2012, while Google pledged to make future Android releases work on Intel's mobile chips. To analysts, the latest Intel-Google partnership wasn't all that significant.
- 15 September 2011
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News: Intel attracts criticism on ultrabook pricing strategy
Intel hopes to redefine the PC market with a new category of thin and light laptops called ultrabooks, but at around US$1,000, their hefty price tag leaves questions about the products' viability, attendees at the Intel Developer Forum conference said this week.
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News: Intel runs PC on CPU powered by solar cell
Intel on Thursday showed an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs on solar power.
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News: Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers
Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive to be used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing environments.
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News: Semiconductor market slumps as PC sales slow, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor sales have slowed in 2011, and the market is on pace for a small decline compared to last year, market research company Gartner said on Thursday.
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News: Intel's Thunderbolt with fiber optics years away
Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.
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News: Microsoft: No Windows Server for ARM
While Microsoft is embracing the ARM processor architecture for its next Windows client operating system, Windows 8, the company has no immediate plans to develop an ARM-based version of its next Windows Server, the company executive in charge of Windows Server confirmed Wednesday.
- 14 September 2011
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News: Intel announces new 710 series enterprise SSDs
Intel on Wednesday announced the new 710 series solid-state drives, which the company is pitching as a replacement to hard drives in enterprise servers.
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News: Thunderbolt strikes at 2011 Intel Developer Forum
Several companies are displaying new Thunderbolt-based hardware at the 2011 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, giving users of Thunderbolt-equipped Macs new hope that they will finally be able to take full advantage of the high-speed connection technology.
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News: IDF Day 1 Recap: Ivy Bridge, and the X79 Factor in Photos
Did you miss yesterday's Intel Developer Forum announcements? Catch up in our day one recap--and read our previous IDF coverage here.
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News: Intel hopes for smartphone breakthrough with Google
Intel hopes to boost its business selling chips to phone makers -- now the domain of rival ARM -- through a partnership announced this week with Google to develop future Android OS versions for mobile devices with Intel chips.
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News: Acer, Asus to bring Intel's Thunderbolt to Windows PCs
Acer and Asustek Computer next year will deliver Windows PCs with Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect, which for a time was available exclusively on Apple's Macintosh computers, Intel said on Wednesday.
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News: Anobit doubles performance, capacity of SSD using consumer flash
Israeli start-up Anobit on Wednesday is announcing its second generation of SSDs based on consumer NAND flash technology. The company has doubled capacity to 800GB, halved the size of its circuitry and added a SAS connector.
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