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Chips and processor hardware
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March 06, 2012
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Mar'12
CW500: Getting to grips with big data
Experts from Standard Life, Deloitte and Intelligent Business Strategies share some useful tips for CIOs on understanding big data
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February 29, 2012
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Feb'12
Datacentres and mobile devices drive 7% server shipment rise in 2011
Server shipments rose 7% in 2011 as businesses built datacentres and smartphones and tablets were increasingly used to access web content
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January 10, 2012
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Jan'12
CES 2012: Intel demos Windows 8 touchscreen ultrabooks
Intel used its keynote presentation at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate the merits of ultrabooks from Acer, Toshiba, Asus and LG.
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December 16, 2011
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Dec'11
Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer
JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.
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November 29, 2011
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Nov'11
Framework accelerates safety-critical defence systems development
Manufacturers and academics are collaborating in a 3.5 million project to create a software modelling framework that will speed up the development and certification of safety-critical systems used in aerospace and defence.
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November 24, 2011
24
Nov'11
How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency
Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.
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November 18, 2011
18
Nov'11
MIT scientists take a step closer to artificial intelligence
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an analogue silicon chip with 400 transistors that emulates the activity of a brain synapse in the first step to building truly intelligent systems.
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November 03, 2011
03
Nov'11
HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.
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October 26, 2006
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Oct'06
IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people
For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell – there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward