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Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and dual-die 12-core Opteron processors. The new processors will be manufactured in a 45 nm process that will be introduced with the Shanghai quad-core later this year.
When Intel rolls out its Nehalem processors later this year, AMD appears to be better prepared […]

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Beyond the horizon, a Dodeca-Core cpu exists? (Dodceca - combining form meaning “twelve,” used in the formation of compound words.)
Do you still remember the days when looking for a CPU was a pretty boring and easy task? Look for the highest frequency processor you could find and wa-la! You’ve just got yourself the beast-iest number crunching […]

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Like something straight out of the movies, MIT’s NEXI body has human-like expressions and speech, which is either really cool or really creepy
Scientist continue to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, deploying robots and computer AIs into increasingly complex and varied situations.
Many observers on robotics and artificial intelligence, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, remain skeptical […]

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A chip that could lead to longer-lasting, self-charging mobile devices and more. 
Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have designed a new chip for portable electronics that could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than present technology. Given its reduced power consumption, the new chip could lead to cell phones, handheld computers, and remote sensors […]

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Researchers at the University of Bangor have developed technology that could increase the speed of home broadband one hundred times over. A device the size of a DVD player, created by Dr Jianming Tang and his team at the University’s School of Electronic Engineering, can allegedly squeeze 100 times the data transfer rate from a […]

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10 Watts, 4 Watts — why stop there? Intel debuts 0.6 Watt x86 processor

A flurry of announcements and roadmaps from Intel this week shed light on the company’s 5.5 Watt Penryn and the 4 Watt Diamondville processors. The company went one step further today, claiming it can get a fairly powerful x86 processor down […]

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Nokia, together with the University of Cambridge, have came out with a concept phone which is radically flexible and able to morph or change itself — by using advance nanotechnology. The Morph concept is touted to revolutionize the future of phones and mobile devices where these devices need not have the conventional brick or clamshell […]

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Austin (TX) - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is now running the world’s most powerful supercomputing system for open science research. Ranger is expected provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over […]

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Getting a reception would be the last thing on your mind if you happen to be half way to the top of the tallest mountain in the world. I don’t think you’d even bother to bring your phone up the treacherous climb! However, a technology breakthrough will change the way mountaineers communicate.
China Mobile have successfully […]

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So you’ve just got your new computer with your hard earned cash. If you’ve DIY-ed your rig, you’ll be in a tight position when you’re choosing one of the important component of your new computer — your operating system. You could choose to go with free OS like the various flavours of Linux distros or […]

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