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New AMBA 4 specification optimizes coherency for heterogeneous multicore SoCs

ARM today announced the latest AMBA 4 interface and protocol specification featuring the AMBA 4 AXI Coherency Extensions (ACE). Cache coherency is essential in multicore computing applications to efficiently maintain the ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gadgets: Verbatim SureFire, RockBuds earphones, Targus Lap Chill Mat

Bigger, better and faster is what you get from the new Verbatim SureFire portable hard drive.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs

IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, simulation shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3




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Mars Science Laboratory computer issue resolved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New EU project targets first 100GHz optical RAM silicon chips

A new EU project that aims to develop a 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) optical random access memory (RAM) chip has just kicked off. This chip will be the first of its kind.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hitachi ships two new 4TB hard drives

For many, the hard drive is the hub of a digital life. It’s a workhorse in your Mac or PC. It’s a place where you edit video, store digital memories, watch home videos and movies, and save your most important files. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mars Express observations temporarily suspended

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New bandwidth management techniques boost operating efficiency in multi-core chips

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed two new techniques to help maximize the performance of multi-core computer chips by allowing them to retrieve data more efficiently, which boosts chip performance ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

'Nanowire' measurements could improve computer memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may have revealed the optimal characteristics for a new type of computer memory now under development. The work, performed ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Review: For smartphones, what's too big or small?

(AP) -- With scores of smartphones available, one obvious way for them to stand out is with size. Two new phones take that to extremes: HP's tiny Veer 4G and Samsung's massive Infuse 4G.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell-related changes that may contribute to age-related cognitive decline identified

A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons with age, a phenomenon thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. The ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The next operating system

At the most basic level, a computer is something that receives zeroes and ones from either memory or an input device — like a keyboard — combines them in some systematic way, and ships the results ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Designing the hardware

Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To maintain the regular doubling of computer power that we now take for granted, chip makers have been giving chips more "cores," or processing units. But ...

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created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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