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Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

...aged 70. Photo credit: Wikipedia While the introduction of Intel's 4004 microprocessor in 1971 is widely regarded as a key moment in modern computing... Read more

13 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Via launches chip patent suit against Apple's iPhone

...the company said in a statement on Thursday. The patents involved cover microprocessor functionality in the above mentioned products, Via said, singling out US Patent... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Edward Moyer
SILKYPIX  Developer Studio 4.0.58

SILKYPIX Developer Studio 4.0.58

...technology creates the best RAW images. Silkypix Developer Studio develops using all microprocessor power when using a PC equipped with multiple CPU's Read more

24 May, 2012

Intel carves out highest market share for a decade

...company's rise was spurred by soaring demand for its PC-oriented microprocessors, and for its NAND flash memory used in consumer and wireless products... Read more

26 March, 2012 by Lance Whitney

HP appeals to EU over Oracle's Itanium decision

...investigate whether Oracle acted improperly by ending support for Intel's Itanium microprocessor. In June, HP launched a lawsuit against Oracle, alleging that the database... Read more

24 November, 2011 by Lance Whitney

Laptop batteries pose security risk, researcher says

...researcher demonstrated how he was able to gain complete control of the microprocessor embedded in batteries used in Apple Macintosh laptops and then remove or... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Declan McCullagh
IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

...winner. Microsoft became the IBM of software, Intel became the IBM of microprocessors, Cisco the IBM of communications, Dell the IBM of personal computers, HP... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Schofield
Intel to invest $5bn in Arizona plant

Intel to invest $5bn in Arizona plant

...s sales come from outside of the US, three-quarters of its microprocessors are manufactured within the US. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected... Read more

21 February, 2011 by Sam Diaz
The cloud: lessons from history

The cloud: lessons from history

...about Computer Automated Operations in the 1980s, at the beginning of the microprocessor revolution. As ever, a small number of big companies are manoeuvering to... Read more

8 October, 2010 by Staff

ARM's smartphone muscle powers jump in profits

The Cambridge-based chip designer has reported rises in fourth-quarter profits, underpinned by success in smartphones and embedded systems and as it moves into Windows 8-based devices and servers Read more

31 January, 2012 by David Meyer

ARM to lead EuroCloud green datacentre project

The project will look at using the Cortex-A9 chip and 3D chip packaging to design an energy-efficient server for delivering cloud services to mobile devices Read more

22 June, 2010 by Richard Thurston
Implementation of User Interface for <endeca_term>Microprocessor</endeca_term> Trainer

Implementation of User Interface for Microprocessor Trainer

...based user interface system and to study input, computation, and output for microprocessor trainer. The other two activities beyond computation: input and output or I... Read more

1 August, 2011
Design and Analysis of a Fault Tolerant <endeca_term>Microprocessor</endeca_term> Based on Triple Modular Redundancy Using VHDL

Design and Analysis of a Fault Tolerant Microprocessor Based on Triple Modular Redundancy Using VHDL

...like ATM machines, satellites, spacecraft etc. In this paper a fault tolerant microprocessor is developed by using checker units with a fault secure ALU and... Read more

1 March, 2011
Optimal Speedup on a Low-Degree Multi-Core Parallel Architecture (LoPRAM)

Optimal Speedup on a Low-Degree Multi-Core Parallel Architecture (LoPRAM)

Modern microprocessor architectures have gradually incorporated support for parallelism. In the past the degree... Read more

1 January, 2011
Simple But Effective Heterogeneous Main Memory With On-Chip Memory Controller Support

Simple But Effective Heterogeneous Main Memory With On-Chip Memory Controller Support

...and 3D integration are promising technologies to bring more memory onto a microprocessor package to mitigate the "Memory wall" problem. In this paper, instead of... Read more

1 November, 2010

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"cites" even. Ouch!

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

7 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

10 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

16 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry