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IBM sets sights on faster, efficient "light" chips
IBM has come up with a technology that could one day let different cores on a processor exchange signals with pulses of light, rather than electrons, a change that could lead to faster and far more energy efficient chips. Read more »
HP set to debut last in-house chip
Hewlett-Packard is set to debut as soon as next week its first Unix servers with the last member of the company's PA-RISC processor family, a lineage that's being supplanted by Intel's Itanium. Read more »
Linux gets 3D graphics boost from AMD
Advanced Micro Devices has become the second of the three major graphics chip companies to decide it's a good idea to cooperate with Linux programmers and users. Read more »
Sun plans broader reach for UltraSparc chip
With the expected launch of its new UltraSparc T2 chip Sun will once again sell microprocessors, but this time round it has plans to expand beyond the server market. Read more »
Nanotechnology makes small the new big
The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology. Read more »
Sparc specs released under GPL
As promised in January, the Verilog plans for the UltraSparc chip have been made available. Read more »
IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights
IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top 10. Read more »
Apple confirms switch to Intel chips
After years of trying to get people to switch to Macs from Intel-based computers, Apple Computer itself has switched. Read more »
Intel pledges 80-core chips in five years
Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. Read more »
IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »
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Red ring of death is closer than you think
It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong. Read more »
Programming for Cell
As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »
Faster XML ahead?
The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from mobile phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military. Read more »
Wireless Visionary: Wi-Fi speeds into the future
Although Wi-Fi has turned into one of the hottest young technologies, Vic Hayes says the real excitement will start after the computer industry hurdles the 100mbps speed barrier. Read more »
Digging code: Software archaeology
At first glance, business software developers have little in common with Indiana Jones. But the emerging field of software archaeology applies some of the same skills, if not the dashing adventure. Read more »
Is Red Hat going to be the next Microsoft?
How could a little company that provides Linux open source software hope to topple Microsoft? Could Red Hat become the next dominant (not necessarily domineering) operating systems provider? Read more »
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