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Microsoft debuts portable data center to bring cloud computing to remote environments
Microsoft Corporation has announced on its website the development of a portable data center that can be used to bring cloud computing to remote environments. In their announcement, Microsoft describes their Azure Modular ...
Oct 21, 2020
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Looking beyond smartphones; Qualcomm launches new tech for 5G network gear
Qualcomm is best known for making processors that power the cellular connection in smartphones. But with the emergence of faster 5G technologies, the company now plans to broaden its reach with a new lineup of chips and software ...
Oct 21, 2020
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Nvidia says it will build UK's most powerful supercomputer
Graphics chip maker Nvidia said Monday it plans to build Britain's fastest supercomputer that healthcare researchers can use to work on medical problems including COVID-19.
Oct 05, 2020
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Microsoft turns to holographic solutions for cloud storage
When people think of holograms, they may think of the small insignia on credit cards that appear to move as you rotate the card. Or they may think of recent rock concert spectacles featuring realistic 3-D performances by ...
Sep 24, 2020
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AMD brings Ryzen and Athlon to Chromebooks
AMD announced Tuesday a series of Chromebook mobile processors that are based on optimized Ryzen hardware and VEGA graphics. The CPUs are based on 14 nm and 12 nm process nodes and will give the popular entry-level notebook ...
Sep 23, 2020 report
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Samsung begins mass production of 16Gb LPDDR5 memory chips on world's largest semiconductor line
Samsung Electronics has announced on its blog page that the company has begun mass production of its 16Gb LPDDR5 mobile memory chips on a new production line. In its announcement, the company claims that the production process ...
Sep 01, 2020 report
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Microsoft announces ND A100 v4 VM series—a new series of AI virtual machines
Microsoft has announced the development of its new ND A100 v4 VM—an AI virtual machine series designed to give its customers a massive AI processing boost. Microsoft made the announcement on its Azure blog, saying that ...
Aug 21, 2020 report
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New DDR5 SDRAM standard sees performance boost, dual-channel DIMM
They were two years behind schedule but the industry group overseeing memory technology development and standardization has finally announced the officials specs for the new DDR5 SDRAM standard.
Jul 16, 2020 report
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Nvidia brings Ampere A100 GPUs to Google Cloud
Just over a month after announcing its latest generation Ampere A100 GPU, Nvidia said this week that the powerhouse processor system is now available on Google Cloud.
Jul 09, 2020 report
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Fuji envisions 400TB tape drive
Fujifilm announced a technological breakthrough that will allow it to construct a massive 400 terabyte tape cartridge by the end of the decade.
Jul 03, 2020 report
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Building a path to extreme-scale computing
High-performance computing (HPC), typically used for solving advanced problems through modeling, simulation, and analysis, is increasingly deployed in scientific and engineering research. In addition to compute-intensive ...
Jul 01, 2020
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Nvidia unveils PCIe 4.0 version of Ampere A100 GPU
Following on the heels of last month's display of its next generation, high end Ampere A100 GPU, Nvidia this week unveiled a PCIe 4.0 version of the graphics unit.
Jun 24, 2020 report
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Need for speed: Japan supercomputer is world's fastest
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, built with government backing and used in the fight against coronavirus, is now ranked as the world's fastest, its developers announced Monday.
Jun 22, 2020
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New chips to bring Mac computers into iPhone ecosystem (Update)
Apple said Monday it would build its own chips to power its Mac computers to create a "common architecture" that allows the devices to run the same apps as those on the iPhone and iPad.
Jun 22, 2020
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