Network fabric is now fast enough that some components of a server’s motherboard may now run separately. But would such a separation be of value to anyone besides the makers of alternative processors?
Intel has long led the way, but as it gets increasingly harder for the industry to follow Moore's Law, there has been a lot of debate about whether its lead is growing too large. With wireless customers clamoring for the latest technology for mobile processors, semiconductor foundries are suddenly shaking things up.
Yes, Internet Explorer 9 is better than Internet Explorer 8, but there are better Web browser choices out there.
This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's future mobile chips and demonstrated a few prototypes.
Last week's PDC was about more than just Microsoft's new cloud initiative (Windows Azure) and the next version of Windows (Windows 7). It also concentrated on what Microsoft is doing to assist programmers to tackle the big shift to multi-core computers. Harnessing the power of multi-threaded programming will be critical to achieving higher software performance in future.
AMD's earnings warning shows it has entered difficult times
While in San Francisco to participate at Adobe's Engage event yesterday and do some work at CNET's headquarters (CNET is the parent company to ZDNet), I stumbled up an AMD press conference at the W Hotel.
While Intel struggles to get their 80-core processor to work, a company you've probably never heard of has been quietly shipping systems with hundreds of cores. Last year at JavaOne I attended a presentation by Cliff Click of Azul Systems on scaling up an application that used to take weeks to run so that it could finish in minutes. After the Intel announcement, I tracked down Cliff to get his thoughts on multicore hardware and software.
I put together a photo gallery from my visit to the AMD Global Vision Conference this week, and bundled all the blog posts together in one spot. While there were some commercials for AMD's products and technologies, especially the new Torrenza Initiative, the majority of the conference was smart people talking about important issues, from education and the far reaching impact life science research to innovation and the future of entertainment.
The chipmaker plans to release a 2.4GHz version of its Xeon chip for one- and two-processor servers during its developer conference today in Taiwan
Google finally launches its Find My Device network. Here are the Android models that support it
One of the best Android watches I've tested is not made by Google or Samsung
3 million smart toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack after all, but it could happen
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B review: A capable, flexible and affordable DIY computing platform
Which Microsoft Surface PC is right for you?
Inside a fake $20 '16TB external M.2 SSD'