Seoul (ip-192.com): A new processor for mobile applications has been released by Samsung. Orion features two 1GHz Arm Cortex A9 cores. Each core comes with a 32KB data cache and a 32KB instruction cache. A 1MB L2 cache will allow applications to run concurrently in a multi-tasking environment. The new processor is capable to encode/decode [...]
Markham (ip-192.com): It has been a long "Goodbye" but now it's official: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will retire the ATI brand. AMD acquired the major Canadian designer and supplier of graphics processing units and motherboard chipsets in 2006. As a fabless semiconductor company, ATI specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor [...]
Santa Clara (ip-192.com): To beef up processing power, netbooks from manufacturers including Acer, ASUS, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba ship now with a new Dual-core Intel Atom processor. The new chip provides a more responsive experience in the same compact form factor and DDR3 memory support. "In their short history, the netbook category [...]
Santa Clara (ip-192.com): In an unexpected move, Intel announced that it will buy security technology firm McAfee for $7.68 billion. The purchase represents a premium of almost 60 percent, based on the closing price of McAfee shares on Wednesday. Intel said that it will pay $48 per share in cash. The agreement has already been [...]
Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell Inc. has been accused of selling millions of faulty computers to large corporations including Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, and the Mayo Clinic, and an unknown number of small businesses, the New York Times reports. Dell employees did know that the machines did have a high potential to fail, the paper reports, citing [...]
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): AMD's Opteron 4122 is the first 4-core server chip to break the $100 price barrier. The chip is part of AMD’s 4100 family of chips that come in 4- and 6-core variants to power 1 and 2P systems. What the Sunnyvale, California based company calls CoolCore technology makes them suitable for thermally constrained [...]
