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MOUNTAIN VIEW — Unless you were hiding under a rock for most of the day yesterday, you're aware by now that Google held a press event at which the search giant pulled back the curtain on ChromeOS, the OS that's really a browser (and is based on the ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  NVIDIA

IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at IBM have presented at paper at the SC09 supercomputing conference describing a milestone in cognitive computing: the group's massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, now has the ability to simulate a brain ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM

Cray rides AMD's Opteron to top of supercomputer list

You might think that Cray, the company whose name has practically been synonymous with "supercomputer" three decades, would be a regular fixture at the top of the Top 500 Supercomputer List. But you'd be mistaken. Today's first-place win by Cray marks ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMD,  Intel,  Jaguar,  Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  IBM

Ars Technica Holiday Gift Guide 2009

Geeks, technophiles, early adopters, giant nerds—these are hard people to shop for, because by definition they're always more up on the latest and greatest than their peers. That's why every year at Christmas time, loved ones and significant others ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ars Technica,  Harry Potter

Now that AMD and Intel have settled, the fight really begins

This past Friday, Intel and AMD announced a settlement in their acrimonious antitrust dispute, with AMD clearly coming out on top to the tune of $1.25 billion in cash and a host of concessions. Both companies hosted conference calls that Friday morning, ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  AMD,  Stephen King

AMD avoiding Larrabee route on road to CPU/GPU "Fusion"

At a financial analyst day on Wednesday, AMD gave out a little more detail on its "Fusion" plans, making the word "Fusion" the centerpiece of its marketing push for the post-honeymoon, post-GlobalFoundries, AMD/ATI relationship. The first product to ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMD,  Intel

AMD shakes up x86 CPU world with two new designs

The slide below shows Bobcat, the codename for AMD's new-from-the-ground-up microarchitecture that's aimed at portables and SoCs. Bobcat will compete with Atom and with VIA's Nano, though it has much more in common with the latter than the ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMD,  Intel

Smartphones beat recession, Nokia still on top

There are a few consumer markets that are surprisingly robust, despite rising unemployment and a fragile economy. One of of these markets is apparently shoes, and the other is smartphones. For a gadget that not only costs a chunk of change up front, ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.

The Cloud: a short introduction

There's a kind of supply-and-demand dynamic that applies to technical terms—when a few knowledgeable insiders are hoarding a word, it maintains its meaning, but when the masses get hold of it and abuse it, it's quickly emptied of value. This is ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  9 Nov 2009

A close look at the new antitrust allegations against Intel

Intel has been fighting a vicious antitrust battle in Europe for years, is battling AMD in US court, and now New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has opened up an American front in the Intel war by filing an antitrust suit against the chipmaker. The ...

From JON STOKES, Ars Technica,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  AMD,  Andrew Cuomo,  Jane Austen,  NVIDIA

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