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Chip wars: Is there life after 1GHz?
News A system bus provides the data pipeline between a processor and internal components, such as system memory. The chip, which will begin at gigahertz-plus speeds, will also offer integrated cache, a 400MHz system bus and dual-Rambus RDRAM (Rambus...
[March 8, 2000, 8:59]
Via confirms Willamette chipset plans
News In an related announcement, Toshiba America Electronic Components launched several high-speed 256-mbit DRAMs using Rambus, DDR and fast cycle (FC) RAM. The move is important because Via's chipset would support Double Data Rate (DDR) memory, which...
[July 20, 2000, 7:19]
Spansion redevelops mobile phone chip architecture
News Some handsets were using a combination of NOR and NAND, and a single component that is going to execute and read the code and store the data costs less than two components combined. One of the largest providers of flash memory has announced a...
[April 3, 2007, 12:25]
The thousand-fold game of leapfrog
Leader Right on cue, the first components of 3P are appearing. Back in the early 1980s, technologists sighed over "3M" computers — workstations that combined a megabyte of memory, a megapixel display and a megaflop of processing power.
[July 26, 2005, 15:45]
SGI's midrange Unix server gets an update
News For government and defense markets, SGI's Origin 350 systems can be stacked in a single rack along with storage components that collectively can receive, process and archive data. SGI announced on Tuesday its Origin 350 Unix server, a descendant of...
[April 16, 2003, 10:47]
Raising the Bar for Video Surveillance With Barracuda ES Hard Drives
White Papers Steelbox wouldn't settle for run-of-the-mill storage components in its Steelvault series of network attached storage arrays. These storage arrays provide from 1 TB to 24 TB of video images and utilize their dedicated power, processor, memory and I...
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
IBM thinks big about nanotechnology
News Nanotechnology is the science of building semiconductors and other computer components by arranging just a dollop of molecules, and proponents such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard say that it will revolutionise computing.
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
Intel, ST get together for the memories
News The two companies are also cooperating on standardising the components for marketing, with initial markets seen in mobile phone and other portable devices. Memory technology combining the best of Flash and RAM is coming closer, with Intel and ST...
[June 12, 2006, 17:10]
Infiniband trials 'due in the spring'
News Infiniband will let manufacturers build and sell servers in a modular way so buyers can connect and configure them depending on the job -- rather like hi-fi components. Early work on interoperability has seen a database cluster up and running with...
[December 7, 2001, 16:49]
Intel shows off Silverthorne and Tukwila
News As components in processors get smaller, they are more prone to electronic errors caused by radiation, he said. Intel has unveiled a slew of details on its portable and enterprise processors, new memory technologies and wireless development, as...
[February 4, 2008, 17:14]
Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP review
Reviews Microsoft cannot afford a repetition with Windows 7, and so has optimised all of the OS's major system components. This significant increase in performance has several causes: faster system startup and shutdown compared to XP and Vista; improved...
[July 30, 2009, 7:39]
Photos: Intel's Silverthorne, Tukwila review
Reviews Wireless power amplifierOrdinary amplifiers for non-digital signals need lots of analogue components, get hot and aren't very efficient. Intel has released details on its portable and enterprise processors, new memory technologies and wireless...
[February 5, 2008, 15:28]
Intel reclaims place in Google servers
News Google has begun buying Intel server components in high volume, said Pat Gelsinger, a co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, speaking about the Google relationship on an internal Intel blog entry on Wednesday seen by ZDNet's...
[January 26, 2007, 8:31]
Swinging nanotubes point way to next-generation RAM
News The company said that it solved the alignment problem by processing the wafer after the tubes were applied, using lithography and etching to remove the out of position components, and having a great deal of on-chip redundancy.
[June 13, 2003, 14:37]
IBM Power blade postponed till June
News Last, the JS20 is a blade server, a type of system that slides snugly alongside others in a chassis that provides shared components such as power supplies and networking switches. A memory problem has triggered a three-month delay in IBM's JS20...
[May 25, 2004, 8:40]
PC makers embrace new Intel chipset
News The 865 series of chipsets, formerly code-named Springdale, accelerates the flow of data between the processor and various computer components, leading to richer graphics and better performance from applications such as audio- or video-editing...
[May 21, 2003, 10:24]
Start-up creates tiny hard drives for gadgets
News A reduction in components cuts costs. Currently, flash-based memory players containing 256MB of flash sell for $175 to $200, she said. The Longmont, Colorado-based start-up has developed a 1.5GB, 1-inch diameter hard drive for consumer-electronics...
[June 4, 2003, 7:28]
Apple 1 goes up for auction
News The board on offer comes with Apple Basic on cassette, keyboard, display, cables and power supplies -- all the components to make it a fully working computer, although the lucky winner will have to write their own applications software.
[April 17, 2002, 12:01]
HP opens new front in PC price war
News HP is offering a solid base configuration for the entry-level user -- someone who doesn't demand much from a PC -- by using somewhat dated components," Duboise said. The PC giant also used slightly older, and therefore less expensive, components...
[June 27, 2003, 14:42]
Linux gains acceptance in mission-critical defence app
News HIL simulation is a critical product development process that provides for thorough testing of components in a virtual environment in which other subsystems are replaced by mathematical models. Components to be tested are inserted into a closed...
[November 30, 2005, 15:50]
