Emerging Tech

October 20, 2003

Japanese electronics leader NEC and mobile microprocessor mainstay ARM have announced a long-term collaboration initiative toward new multiprocessor-based cores for mobile devices and other multimedia applications. NEC and Britain-based ARM said they will codevelop and comarket the next-generation multiprocessing core based on technology from both companies. Also, though they did not indicate when they will begin shipping the new CP...

DOD Testing Next-Gen Internet Protocol

October 17, 2003

The U.S. Department of Defense will begin testing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a technology that many have called the next-generation Internet and that the DOD has said is critical to national defense. The DOD is teaming with hardware and software vendors -- including Fujitsu, Cisco, IBM, Mic...

The Ongoing Struggle for Graphics Supremacy

October 16, 2003

Graphics technology leaders ATI and Nvidia have been rolling out new innovations at a steady pace in the past several years, competing for desktop partnerships and mind share. The two companies have often been compared to Intel and AMD in the way they've battled furiously, but ATI and Nvidia don't h...

AMD Beats Apple's G5 and Intel's P4

October 15, 2003

Recent high-end performance tests show AMD's 64-bit Athlon and dual Opteron processors beating Apple's G5 and Intel's Pentium 4, but analysts have downplayed the results, citing lack of available 64-bit applications in addition to market timing. While Apple has claimed its Power Mac G5 is the world'...

Transmeta Takes New Efficeon Processor To Market

October 15, 2003

Furthering its unique technology that uses on-chip software to economize processor energy, Transmeta has introduced the Efficeon TM8000 family of chips, which the company hopes will broaden its markets. The new Efficeon TM8000, announced at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, builds on...

ClearSpeed Unveils Multithreaded Array Processor

October 14, 2003

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for floating-point applications. According to ClearSpeed, the new chip can provide more than twice the processing spe...

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