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Worldwide server market estimation in 2013
Gartner has estimated in the third quarter of 2013, worldwide server shipments grew 1.9 percent year-on-year, while revenue declined 2.1 percent from the third quarter of 2012. “The worldwide server market remains in a relatively weak performance mode as we move through the second half of the yea
5 min readConnecting ARM mbed to Axeda Machine Cloud is made easy
To address the growing market of Internet of things, Axeda and ARM have co-developed the Axeda Go kit for ARM mbed. Axeda Go guides developers through the steps for connecting an mbed board, provisioning an mbed device on the Axeda Machine Cloud and installing sample code into an mbed workspace. Axe
3 min readX-Apple mechanical designer joins Tesla
Doug Field, a mechanical engineer who recently served as Vice president of Mac Hardware Engineering at Apple has joined Tesla Motors as Vice President of Vehicle Programs, responsible for driving development of new vehicles. “Doug has demonstrated the leadership and technical talent to develop a
2 min read6th consecutive fall in PC shipments across the world
The desktop and the notebook PC market is not growing the way it has grown earlier to the successful launch of Tablet computer. Whenever a new microprocessor launched by Intel or a new software launched by Microsoft, there used to be a big jump in the sales of both the desktop as well as notebook co
6 min readMicrosoft and Nokia: a live-in relationship turned into marriage
Microsoft has agreed to acquire Nokia's device business for approximate US$ 7.17 Billion. It is happening amid a market situation where software company Microsoft is having hard time in selling its hardware product Tablet PC; Slate, and Nokia is having hard time regaining its share in mobile phone m
5 min readNVIDIA to provide WHQL-certified Windows 8.1 drivers to OEMs
NVIDIA said it will provide WHQL-certified Windows 8.1 drivers to OEMs when Microsoft releases the new operating systems to OEMs. In the coming weeks, NVIDIA will post the new drivers for Windows 8.1 on NVIDIA.com, so that GeForce customers can enjoy all of the new Windows features as soon as 8.1 i
1 min readAdd voice recognition/speech-to-text feature to your SOC design
Time is ripe for the keypad to say good-bye from your computers, mobile phones, consumer electronics systems. The natural interface such as touch-interface is already preferred over keyboard to interact with the computers. Spoken voice is even more a natural preference to interface with the electro
3 min readCommodity hardware and Linux OS helps in building supercomputers at low-cost
The cost of supercomputers is less expensive due to the availability of open source Linux OS. SUSE is offering enterprise class server operating system in Linux. SUSE Linux enterprise server OS is used by more than one third of the top hundred supercomputers in the world. SUSE says in past few ye
3 min readPC chip market improving slowly; Intel and AMD grew revenues in Q2 2013
The two major indicators of PC semiconductor chip market, Intel and AMD's revenues are released for 2nd Q 2013. Intel has reported a second-quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, operating income of $2.7 billion, net income of $2.0 billion and EPS of $0.39. "In the second quarter, we delivered on ou
4 min readCombination of gaze and touch to control your laptop
The two user interface experts Tobii Technology and Synaptics have made a prototype laptop controlled by Synaptics ForcePad touchpad and Tobii Gaze eye-tracking technology. “This is an extremely exciting time in the evolution of human computing. The combination of gaze and touch literally redefi
2 min readAMD to make server chips by embracing both x86 and ARM instruction set
AMD said it has made substantial improvements in compute per-watt per-dollar and total cost of ownership. AMD has disclosed its 2014 server processor portfolio including ARM server processor. AMD Opteron code named “Kyoto,” feature integrated CPU and GPU compute (APU) offerings substantial impr
2 min readGlobalfoundries ramping up production of Rockchip's 28nm tablet SoCs
Globalfoundries is ramping up the production of multi-core ARM Cortex-A9 tablet SoC chip on its 28nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology for its customer Rockchip. The tablet SoC chips from Rockchip began sampling to OEMs in early 2013 and are now ramping to support a wide range of manufac
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