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Chips and processor hardware
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March 19, 2013
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Mar'13
ARM CEO Warren East steps down
Warren East, CEO of semiconductor firm ARM, is retiring from the company after almost 12 years in the leadership role
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November 23, 2012
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Nov'12
UKtech50 winner: Warren East, CEO of ARM
ARM CEO and UKtech50 winner Warren East talks to Computer Weekly about fostering the market innovation necessary for the digital age
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October 17, 2012
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Oct'12
Intel sales and profits fall in third quarter
Computer chip maker Intel has reported falls in both sales and profits in the third quarter due to the "tough economic environment”
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August 16, 2012
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Aug'12
IBM acquires Texas Memory Systems
IBM buys flash storage specialist Texas Memory Systems for an undisclosed sum and promises to invest in further product development
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August 07, 2012
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Aug'12
Interview: Warren East, CEO of chip designer ARM
ARM chief discusses the growth of machine to machine technology, patent wars and why he hopes the company will stay independent
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July 25, 2012
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Jul'12
Broadcom touts ‘5G Wi-Fi’ mobile chip
Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom announces the first mobile chip based on the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, set to launch in early 2013
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July 18, 2012
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Jul'12
Intel warns of slowdown amid falling PC sales
Chip maker Intel warned of a slowdown over the next quarter as it announced its sales and profit for its latest three-month period.
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June 26, 2012
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Jun'12
Cambridge University turns to computer games to unlock secrets of the universe
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?
Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.
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June 18, 2012
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Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers
Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
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June 13, 2012
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Jun'12
The cloud will move supercomputers into the mainstream
Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs into mainstream business, says Amazon
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June 12, 2012
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Jun'12
Cisco UCS blade servers integrate Fusion-io PCIe flash cards
Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers
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June 12, 2012
12
Jun'12
2012: Will this be the year TPM finally comes of age?
Will 2012 be the year that TPM finally delivers on its potential to provide a hardware-based "root of trust" for enterprise information security?
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April 12, 2012
12
Apr'12
European PC sales boosted by Windows 7 upgrades
European PC sales grew faster than expected in the first quarter of 2012 as corporate users started Windows 7 upgrades, according Gartner.
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April 03, 2012
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Apr'12
STFC ploughs £30m into high performance computing centre with IBM
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has signed a £30m deal with IBM to develop high performance computing (HPC)
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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
10
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
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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
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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