Chipmaker AMD has just detailed its new eight-core Opteron 3200-series CPUs, meant primarily for cloud and web hosting servers. Based on its current Bulldozer architecture, it can be had in four- or eight-core variants and is rated at 2.7GHz. A Turbo Core mode bumps the clock speed up to 3.7GHz, though only at half the […]
Fujitsu Semiconductor and SuVolta have demonstrated a new process and technology that promises to greatly reduce the power consumption of SRAM. The new technology could be used to create SRAM capable of operating at ultra-low-voltages of 0.4V, less than one-half of today’s power consumption levels. The new lower voltage SRAM could soon be seeing its […]
Apple and ASUS are cutting deeply into the European computer market, per a new report released today by Gartner. Apple was now in the top five in Western Europe, having seen its shipments this past summer jump 19.6 percent over the past year to get it 7.6 percent. ASUS was the only other company in […]
Predictions by analysts that Windows Phone​ would crest 20 percent by 2015 are not only realistic but cautious, Windows Phone marketing lead Achim Berg said in an interview late Thursday. He expected to go beyond that as a combination of new hardware partners and greater publicity garnered attention. While not giving an estimate to Bloomberg, […]
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that Windows Phone 7 ‘s Mango update had been finished. The new mobile OS has reached its Release to Manufacturing (RTM) stage and is being sent off to phone makers for production-level hardware. Carriers also use the RTM build to make sure the OS doesn’t create problems on their networks. Actual […]
Fujitsu as promised put out a major firmware update for the FinePix X100 that addresses a slew of complaints for the otherwise well-received camera. The 1.1 update. The pseudo-rangefinder now lock down its drive mode, flash, macro, and white balance settings and will remember these along with more settings, including when the camera is shut […]
A computer developed by Fujitsu and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science has claimed the title of the world’s most powerful supercomputer on the Top500 list. The Fujitsu K Computer is a series of 672 computer racks with a total of 68,544 CPUs. The K Computer handles 8.162 petaflop/s (quadrillion floating point operations per […]
Fujitsu plans on bringing out a new tablet, Sylistic Q550, running Windows 7 Professional and an Intel Atom Oak Trail processor. The device will be aimed at the enterprise market and may even sport a fingerprint reader. It will also have an SD card slot and a trusted platform module (TPM) for corporate buyers worried […]
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