AMD details next-gen architecture for 16-core server chips

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday shared details about its next-generation chip architecture code-named Bulldozer, which will form the basis for its upcoming 16-core server processors.

Processors based on Bulldozer will include more cores and perform up to 50 percent...

Arm's Next Chip Design to Support Virtualization

From PC World: Arm Holdings will soon release a new processor design that can run virtualization software, a development that could help expand the use of Arm-based chips in low-powered servers, the company announced Monday.

The virtualization capabilities will be introduced with...

Intel, Nokia Join Forces for Smartphone Hologram Video Calling

From DailyTech: Back in February at the Mobile World Congress, Intel and Nokia announced that they were merging their Moblin (Intel) and Maemo (Nokia) Linux distributions into a single distribution dubbed MeeGo. MeeGo was intended both to be an ideal graphics-rich OS for smartphones...

Google's Goggles headed to iPhones this year

From CNET News.com: Good news for iPhone users who had lusted over the Android-only app Goggles from Google. It's set to hit the App Store sometime in the next three months.

A report by The Register, which was covering the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Monday, makes...

iMac the next touch-screen Apple device?

From CNET News.com: Apple's put a touch interface on so many of its other products, could an iMac be next?

If a patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is any indication, the answer is possibly yes. Patently Apple, a blog that keeps tabs on Apple's USPTO...

AMD Appoints Ex-Intel Veteran as Server Chief Technology Officer

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday that it had appointed Donald Newell as vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of its server business unit. Donald Newell will help defining AMD server product roadmap and will report to Rick Bergman, senior vice...

HP Offers $1.6 Billion for 3PAR, Tops Dell's Offer

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard has offered to buy 3PAR, a vendor of virtualized storage systems, for US$1.6 billion in cash, topping a bid of $1.15 billion made by Dell last Monday.

HP made its offer in a letter to 3PAR President and CEO David Scott on Monday morning.

The offer...

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