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PC firms boost battery life via power-efficient parts
News Devices such as notebooks and mobile phones have become increasingly powerful in their computing capabilities but the source of power has been a "bottleneck", Bryan Ma, IDC's director for Asia-Pacific personal systems research, said on Friday.
[September 15, 2008, 11:29]
Google and Intel target efficient PC power supplies
News Google, Intel and a host of PC and component companies on Tuesday unfurled the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, an effort to increase energy efficiency in PCs. The PC power chain has to got to get in shape, according to a group of technology...
[June 13, 2007, 8:19]
AMD adds Alchemy to its chip arsenal
News AMD has a large presence in the market for embedded non-PC computing devices, with its X86-based processors. However, it does not have a processor for small, portable computing devices such as the Pocket PC.
[February 6, 2002, 15:55]
PC users enlisted to fight cancer
News By involving so much computing power, the scientists hope to screen 250 million potential cancer drug molecules to see if any of them are capable of bonding with -- and thus possibly disabling -- one of 16 protein molecules that are known to have...
[April 3, 2001, 11:02]
HP reduces business PC range
News A customer with basic needs, for example, might purchase an HP Compaq Business Desktop dx2000, while a customer needing more computing power and greater manageability, such as the ability to administer to the PC remotely, might step up to a dc5000.
[March 12, 2004, 8:55]
TI chief: Keep it simple
News Achieving the balance between communications and computing power is easy, chief executive Tom Engibous said. Just remember, he said, "wireless will be a communications medium, not a computing platform.
[May 1, 2001, 9:15]
IBM: Give hard drives the boot?
News By removing the drive, Big Blue could fit more blade servers into a single rack, increasing the computing power in the rack. The iBoot technology is similar in philosophy to that used in mainframe computing.
[May 31, 2002, 8:31]
2001: Peer-to-peer technology grows up
News Scientists at Oxford University made better use of the massive potential programming power that distributed computing offers. Distributed computing is important to Intel because it involves many individual computers sharing their collective process...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Intel unveils 'SpeedStep' Pentiums
News Intel's research showed that most notebook users spend the majority of their computing time plugged in, so SpeedStep is focused on providing notebooks with maximum performance while plugged in and maximum battery life while not.
[January 19, 2000, 9:31]
New software key to IBM desktop future
News In the future, according to IBM, computing capabilities will be delivered the same way utilities such as electricity or gas is: Instead of building and running their own computer departments, companies will hire third-parties to deliver a variety...
[November 20, 2002, 8:07]
IBM test-drives transformer computer
News The Meta Pad also aims to solve some of the problems of PDAs, such as lack of computing power, file compatibility and the need to synchronise data with a PC, as well as make possible a more economical wearable computer.
[February 7, 2002, 9:38]
Prince Charles backs 'green' thin clients
News Thin-client technology has been around for nearly as long as there has been a computing industry, but has enjoyed a resurgence of late thanks to the push to conserve energy. However, Kris Kumar, director of datacentre design specialists 3i Group...
[May 6, 2008, 17:40]
ARM sees opportunity in adversity
News Palm Computing, the handheld leader, is expected to launch ARM-based products late this year. Palm Computing recently issued a profit warning and says it will delay the volume production of some new devices.
[April 11, 2001, 11:24]
Sun's Microsoft suit: The fine print
News If left unchecked to exploit the power of its monopoly position, Microsoft intends to use the .Net Framework to move its current monopoly in the PC operating system market into a more expansive and potentially more dangerous monopoly that...
[March 11, 2002, 9:37]
How to build your own supercomputer, HP-style
News This means that, unlike with other clustered supercomputing projects, an organisation like a business could theoretically use the I-Cluster method to draw on idle computing power from around the company network to carry out computing-intensive tasks.
[October 4, 2001, 17:12]
Intel seeks profit in dual cores
News The change should give birth to new software by letting developers tap the additional computing power of an extra core in future applications, Otellini said. Going forward, Intel plans to boost its presence in the wireless computing and cellular...
[May 14, 2004, 9:00]
Bringing computing to India's masses
News Because of thriving exports and low PC penetration, India has become the epicentre for projects on the cutting edge of computing hardware. Professor Jitendra Shah, from the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing, is examining ways to...
[July 5, 2005, 13:40]
IBM to build fastest supercomputers to date
News Today, the list includes 134 IBM machines with a combined computing power larger than that of any other company in the rankings. The design details of Blue Gene/L still haven't been settled beyond a plan for it to have 65,636 computing nodes, said...
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
TechXNY: Crusoe squeezes into Meta Pad spinoff
News Antelope, a company that makes mobile computing devices for niche markets, said on Wednesday that it will use Transmeta's Crusoe TM5800 in an upcoming device based on IBM's "Meta Pad" technology, a device the size of a PDA that morphs into a...
[June 26, 2002, 16:50]
Next-gen Intel chip makes handheld debut
News This new PDA offers portability, ease of use and wireless connectivity -- it's a core offering in our mobile computing strategy," said Oscar Koenders, Toshiba vice president of worldwide product planning, in a statement.
[June 17, 2002, 13:58]
