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AMD Sets Land Speed Record for Fastest Desktop CPU
Now the Guinness Book of World Records is judging performance in the central processing unit business. Advanced Micro Devices, which apparently needs all the publicity it can generate, announced Sept. 13 that it has achieved the Guinness World Record for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor," by overclocking the upcoming octa-core AMD FX Bulldozer-based…
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Intel Announces Google Partnership, Ultrabook Details at IDF
SAN FRANCISCO–Intel executives are continuing to push their mobile computing efforts on multiple fronts, including with a newly announced partnership with Google to optimize the Android operating system for the chip maker’s Atom processor platform. In his opening keynote Sept. 13 at the first day of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel President and CEO Paul…
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HP, Autonomy Acquisition: Is it Too Late Get Out?
HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) announcements last month took industry players and its own shareholders by surprise, with many questioning the wisdom of HP’s plans to dump its tablet computer, buy Autonomy and potentially get rid of its PC business, too. The concerns have led some to wonder if it’s possible for HP to get out of the…
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iPhone iPad Android to Trump PCs on the Net
iPhone iPad Android to Trump PCs on the Net By 2015 more U.S. internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices. No Title Mobile internet users will grow by a compound annual growth rate of (CAGR) of 16.6 percent between 2010 and 2015. No Title Worldwide, the…
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VMware’s Cloud Foundry Aims at PaaS
The point of platform as a service is to enable developers to focus solely on their application code and data, leaving the maintenance of the underlying stack to the service provider. One of the biggest potential problems with this approach is that of lock-in: Moving from one PaaS (platform as a service) to another, in…
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Broadcom Buys NetLogic for $3.7B
Networking chip maker Broadcom, which makes Bluetooth WiFi chips for iPhones and Samsung Galaxy tablet PCs, expanded its reach into the embedded systems market Sept. 12 when it revealed that it is acquiring NetLogic Microsysems for $3.7 billion in cash. Broadcom said the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2012. Terms…
