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1. Apple's A-bomb against Palm: A 358 page iPhone patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Tuesday, 27 January 2009

   ... Two years and several would-be iPhone killers later and the mobile industry still lacks a cellphone that would employ multi-fingered gestures like pinch zoom that made the iPhone famous. It's not that ...

2. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 08 January 2009

   ... games that are immediately available and will work with in Steroscopic 3D. They have compiled their internal rating system, and below is a list of all games that are considered Excellent or Good:Excellent1701 ...

3. Top 500 supercomputer list out today, seven AMD systems in top 10, only one Intel

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 17 November 2008

   ... 1105 2483 PowerXCelland AMD64 2 Cray XT5 QC 150,152 1059 6951 AMD64 3 SGI Altix ICE 8200EX 51,200 487 2090 Intel 4 IBM eServer Blue Gene 212,992 478.2 2330 Power 5 IBM Blue Gene/P 163,840 450.3 1260 Power ...

4. Motorola has a $2000 phone. Do you care?

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 21 October 2008

   ... service fees go extra. It does not offer unusual functionality, but features precision engineering and high-quality materials. SLIDESHOW: Motorola's $2000 cellphone: Aura (12 pictures)  ...

5. Playstation 3 processor powers the world’s first Petaflop supercomputer

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 June 2008

   ... to provide a sustained performance of 75.8 TFlops. Roadrunner integrates 13,896 Opteron cores (6948 dual-core processors) as well as 12,960 Cell BE chips with a total of 116,640 PPE and SPE cores for a ...

6. Roadrunner: 130,536 cores break the Petaflop barrier

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 June 2008

   ... not only the first hybrid supercomputer using Cell processors, but also the first commercial system to exceed a performance of 1 PFlops. Armonk (NY) – IBM is prepared to deliver the Roadrunner supercomputer ...

7. Aptera's sub-$30K, 300 mpg car will be here in 2009

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 17 December 2007

   ... airbags, an energy absorbing and impact deflecting passenger safety cell with front crumple zones, an advanced drive computer with GPS navigation, large rear view camera and a complete vehicle diagnostic ...

8. IBM opens first Cell research center on college campus

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 27 September 2007

   Big blue has taken Cell research to the Indiana University/Purdue University in Indianapolis campus (IUPUI) for high performance computing.  Cell gets a research boost while several industries will ...

9. The AMD Barcelona back story

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Thursday, 13 September 2007

   ... statement (though it is hard to believe Intel hasn’t made at least some inroads).   The point is, and I hear this over and over again with AMD, that they are an excellent partner and even if ...

10. AMD’s four-three strategy to beat Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 01 August 2007

    ... of marketing excellence in the segment and they typically don’t use the Intel brand in their ads nor do they put it on their PCs. And if they do, as it is the case with Core 2 Duo processors, they ...

11. Update 3: E3 2007 game announcements and lineup

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 July 2007

    ... Rise of a Ninja Xbox 360 Oct 2007   Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360, PC Christmas 2007        ...

12. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 01 July 2007

    ... Miscellaneous facts about the NCSA, Trivia  Miscellaneous Facts #1 - I There are some ripple effects which propagate observably in large clusters when there are networking or hardware problems. ...

13. IBM announces quad-core servers, supercomputer cluster

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 November 2006

    ... environment which can be built with AMD Opteron-based x3455, x3655, x3755 and BladeCenter systems, Intel Xeon-based x3550, x3650 and BladeCenter servers, as well as IBM's own Power-based p5 and Cell processors. ...

14. Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 21 September 2006

    ... of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The system will combine 16,000 Opteron cores in x3755 servers with more than 16,000 Cell processors in Blade Center H units via Hypertransport ...

15. IBM rolls out first Cell-based blade server

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 September 2006

    IBM announced availability of what the company calls the first "generally available" computer system with a Cell processor. While the CPU is best known as the power plant of Sony's upcoming Playstation ...

16. IBM to build Cell supercomputer for DOE

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 06 September 2006

    IBM will construct a new supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The system will combine Cell and Opteron processors and deliver more than twice ...

17. Analysis: One small step for Dell, one giant leap for AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 May 2006

    In what will be recorded as a milestone event in the history of AMD, Dell yesterday stated in its quarterly conference call that it will be offering AMD Opteron processors in future high-end server models. ...

18. IBM to ship Cell-based blade server in Q3

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 February 2006

    IBM announced that it will begin shipping a new blade-server using the Cell processor in the third quarter of this year. The chip will be made available in the framework of the firm's BladeCenter H family ...

19. First Cell-powered computer ships

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 10 January 2006

      The first product based on IBM/Toshiba/Sony's Cell processor has shipped, reports Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury's Cell Technology Evaluation System (CTES) is a 470-pound behemoth with one or ...

20. The HP comeback is under way, led by blade servers, notebooks, and especially ink

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 November 2005

    ... is notebook systems, where revenue increased by 23 percent over Q4 2004, and shipments of notebook systems increased 48 percent over the prior year. "The team has done an excellent job turning around the ...

21. Cost savings drive adoption of Flash harddrives

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 04 November 2005

      A solid-state disk drive is the ultimate solution when mass storage needs to be fast and durable. Such drives are equipped expensive memory chips, which prevented the technology to penetrate a mass ...

22. Growth of PC market to be impacted by economic downturn, says IDC analyst

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 19 October 2005

    ... remains a dominant player "because they do an excellent job in producing on-demand, built-to-order desktops at a very low cost for customers they know very well." HP is another dominant player because ...

23. IBM unsheathes Cell blade server

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 27 May 2005

      IBM demonstrated a blade server board based on the Cell architecture at the E3 show this week, and reportedly plans to sell the boards in rack-based server systems. IBM demonstrated a blade server ...

24. Static Control and Lexmark prepare to Square Off in DMCA-Based Lawsuit

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 06 February 2003

    ... measure and an 'ink low' program to shut out replacement ink refills; or a cell phone manufacturer applying technological measures to replacement batteries." The basic provisions of Section 1201 of the ...

25. Casio's 20 hour fuel cell for notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 05 March 2002

      Casio has plans to introudce a new fuel cell in 2004 that it claims will run a notebook for 20 hours. Casio has plans to introudce a new fuel cell in 2004 that it claims will run a notebook for ...

26. Red-M Bluetooth Module for Handspring Visor

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 24 October 2001

    ... add on devices that will keep your PDA viable by giving it capabilities that new models have (or will have) built in. Now, if only someone would develop upgradeable cell phones, we'd all be in business. ...

27. Memory Stick Price Cuts

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 01 August 2001

    ... your cell phone? Those extras are adding up. Anyway, now you know it exists.  ...