The European Commission is setting up a £1.8bn pool to fund a 10-year research and development project into embedded or "pervasive" computing in the hopes of capturing a larger slice of a market growing at 14% a year and already worth £45bn.
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Hewlett-Packard has released three targeted print systems designed to address the needs of the financial services, higher education, and retail sectors located in the EMEA region.
Kyoto University in Japan is deploying a new energy saving supercomputer from Fujitsu that will deliver a theoretical peak performance of 61.2 teraflops (trillions of operations per second).
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a chip design that is much more energy efficient than processors currently used in mobile devices.