A leaked Nvidia slide suggests a spring 2011 launch window for the Tegra 2 3D mobile processor. – Chip maker Nvidia announced the launch of 3D Vision Pro, a 3D
stereoscopic solution designed to enable engineers, designers,
architects and computational chemists who work with complex 3D designs
to see their work in greater detail. The platform is currently
available from Nvidia channel partner…
Processor manufacturer VIA Technologies unveiled the Nano X2 processor targeted at mobile PCs. –
Vai Technologies, Inc, a manufacturer of power efficient x86 processor platforms, on Jan. 4 announced its latest Via Nano X2 processor for mainstream PC markets. Based on a 40-nanometer fabrication process, the Via Nano X2 delivers better computational performance and improved multi-tasking abil…
OLAP Servers deal with the analysis of large amount of data through online. These types of servers are considered as one of the important aids for running a business successfully.
Verizon Wireless is selling the Motorola Droid 2 Global, powered by a 1.2 GHz processor for $199.99 with a two-year contract. It’s also got quad-band GSM global roaming. – Verizon Wireless last week very quietly began selling the Motorola Droid 2 Global, a faster device than its predecessor and one that works around the world, for $199.99 with a two-year contract.
Like the Motorola Droid 2 Verizon began selling in August, the Droid 2 Global is based on Android 2.2, s…
Intel is making it easier for customers to customize processors in various embedded markets with the debut of the Intel® Atom™ processor E600C series. The configurable processor simplifies design, lowers development costs and offers greater flexibility for faster time-to-market. Formerly codenamed “Stellarton,” the processor pairs the Intel® Atom™ E600 processor with an Altera* Field Programmable Gate Array on a single package, ideal for application such as industrial machines, portable medical equipment and communications gear. View the multimedia press kit for more information.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 22, 2010 – With the debut of six products based on the Intel® Atom™ processor, Intel Corporation is making it easier for customers to go-to-market with differentiated, custom-made designs. The company today announced the configurable Intel® Atom™ processor E600C series, which features an Intel® Atom™ E600 processor (formerly codenamed “Tunnel Creek”) paired with an Altera* Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in a single package.
The new Intel Atom processor provides greater flexibility and faster time-to-market for customers, who can now more readily handle design changes without complicated hardware changes – helping to lower development costs. In addition, the new processor offers board space savings and better inventory control due to the single package, as well as a simplified manufacturing flow and single vendor support through Intel.
“Our customers’ needs are continually evolving and they look to Intel to provide leading-edge products and technologies that will help them differentiate and compete in the markets they serve,” said Doug Davis, Intel vice president, general manager, Embedded and Communications Group, Intel Corporation. “Our new configurable Atom series helps to address these customer needs and provides greater flexibility with a simplified product choice, through one vendor.”
Based on Intel® architecture, the Intel Atom E600C processor series provides original equipment manufacturers with the flexibility to incorporate a wide range of standard and user-defined I/O interfaces, high-speed connectivity, memory interfaces and process acceleration to meet the evolving needs of embedded device market segments.
The Atom E600C processor series comes with Intel’s extended 7-year-long life-cycle manufacturing support, and industrial and commercial temperature options, which makes it ideal for market segments such as industrial machines, portable medical equipment, communications gear, vision systems, voice over Internet protocol devices, high-performance programmable logic controllers and embedded computers.
Kontron*, a leading embedded computing technology solutions manufacturer, has Atom processor E600C-based prototype boards available now, with full production beginning in the second quarter of 2011.
Formerly codenamed “Stellarton,” the Intel Atom processors E665CT, E645CT, E665C, and E645C are scheduled to be available within 60 days. The E625CT and E625C are on track to be available in the first quarter of 2011. Prices range from $61 to $106 in quantities of 1,000.
More information about Intel Atom processors for embedded devices, including the complete product grid, is available in the Intel Embedded Press Kit.
Doug Davis Announces Intel’s First Configurable Processor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sz3LkoMRVQ
Altera* Teams with Intel on Configurable Intel Atom-based Processor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tpl07-l-I0
Product Engineer Outlines Configurable Intel Atom-based Processor Benefits for Embedded Industry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXJNMCXuhSU
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About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.
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Qualcomm showed off its redesigned Snapdragon processor, which is geared toward smartphones and tablets and will reportedly offer five times the performance at 75 percent less power. – Qualcomm introduced a fast, new version of its Snapdragon processor
at a New York analyst meeting Nov. 17, according to several media
reports. The new chipset, Qualcomms first to be based on a
28-nanometer manufacturing process, is intended for smartphones and
tablets and will feature a new CPU …
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 18, 2010 – Intel Corporation’s storage division has recently added new major wins with five storage vendors, illustrating the company’s momentum around developing advanced integrated storage features and capabilities.
Since Intel began targeting Intel® Xeon® processor-based storage systems for the enterprise storage market, the company has seen strong momentum toward the use of the efficient, scalable and innovative Intel® architecture (IA)-designed solutions for the most demanding, data-intensive storage needs in the datacenter.
“We’ve worked to forge strong relationships with major storage industry vendors over the years, collaborating with them to develop innovative and powerful Xeon processor technologies,” said David Tuhy, general manager, Intel Storage Group. “We expect significant innovation in the storage market and are pursuing next-generation IA architectures to support the dramatic growth of digital content.”
The explosion of data growth and the resulting management complexities are driving the industry to deliver a wide offering of storage automation and management solutions that take advantage of Intel’s popular processor line.
The list of industry storage vendors offering enterprise storage systems based on the Intel Xeon processor family includes EMC*, Hitachi Data Systems*, HP*, IBM*, Isilon*, NetApp*, Oracle* and PROMISE Technology*.
In September, Hitachi launched the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), which includes quad-core Intel Xeon processors in combination with Hitachi storage design and input/output (I/O) management, for efficient data management in virtualized environments. This solution joins the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 family and the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), which both also utilize Intel Xeon processors.
Announced in early October, IBM’s Storwize V7000 midrange storage systems incorporate the Intel® Xeon® C5500/C3500 processor in a compact modular design. IBM also announced its IBM Scale Out NAS (SONAS) product in February, which utilizes Intel Xeon C5500 processors and is designed to provide a clustered NAS system for Common Internet File System (CIFS), Network File System (NFS) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) services.
NetApp’s new FAS/V6200 series and FAS/V3200 series launched this month, based on the Intel Xeon 5600 series processor, help customers meet their business requirements while responding to the rapid growth and pace of their business. These new storage systems double the performance of previous models, and are capable of delivering greater scalability, availability and expandability. They also help customers make the transition to a more flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure — the foundation for cloud computing.
In September, Oracle announced its next-generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line using Intel® Xeon® 5600 and 7500 processors that combine performance, density and storage analytics with an innovative storage architecture and easy deployment and use.
PROMISE Technology announced its VTrak Ex30 Series enterprise-class storage systems earlier this month and has reported a 4x performance gain in its products by incorporating the Intel Xeon C5500/C3500 processors.
Additional information about Intel processors designed for enterprise storage is available at intel.com/go/storage.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.
Intel, Intel Xeon and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.
* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
The Armada XP quad-core processor is optimized to consume low power at 1.6GHz. – Integrated silicon solutions specialist Marvell announced the release of its quad-core processing cloud computing platform, Armada XP (Extreme Performance). The Armada XP, an ARM processor integrates four Marvell designed ARM compliant 1.6GHz CPU cores along with a host of I/O peripherals. The Armad…
CRN’s Annual Report Card lets solutions providers rate their vendors in a number of categories. CRN reported that Intel’s “whopping” score in “quality for processor and platforms”…. was “the highest for any criteria in the entire survey.”
The Nvidia Quadro 2000 ($599) and Quadro 600 ($199) are built with the company’s new Fermi architecture. – Chipmaker Nvidia announced the expansion of its line of Quadro
professional graphics solutions based on the companys Fermi
architecture, including the mid-range Quadro 2000 with 192 Compute
Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) processing cores and the entry-level
Quadro 600 with 96 CUDA processor …
If you wish to enhance the performance of your processor, then installing Windows 7 on your computer is a wise decision.
The OKL4 Microvisor and the Cortex-A15 processor target high-end mobile and wireless devices. – Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), a provider of embedded virtualization software
for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, announced off-the-shelf
support for the newly introduced ARM
Cortex-A15 MPCore processor from ARM.
The OKL4 Microvisor is immediately available for the Cortex-A15 process…
Samsung Electronics’ Orion processor is designed to handle rich media applications like HD video playback and 3D games; it features a pair of 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 cores. – Semiconductor solutions specialist Samsung Electronics has introduced its
1GHz Arm Cortex A9-based dual-core application processor, code-named Orion, for
advanced mobile applications. The dual-processor chip platform was designed
specifically to meet the needs of high-performance, low-power mobil…
Apple will update the iPad with an ARM Cortex-A9-based processor, as well as release a 7-inch version, according to Digitimes Research. Rumors of a new iPad and Verizon iPhone have been circulating. – Apple will launch an upgraded iPad in early 2011, alongside a smaller
version of the popular tablet, according to a report from Digitimes Research.
Digitimes Research predicts that the upgraded iPad will feature an ARM
Cortex-A9-based processor and 512MB RAM, and
will launch in the first quarte…
At the ISC 2010 show, Intel officials introduced "Knights Corner," a processing architecture aimed at the parallel computing applications inherent in the HPC field. Knights Corner incorporates what Intel officials have learned through the “Larrabee” GPU project, as well as previous many-cores processor initiatives. – Intel engineers are taking what they learned with the now-shelved
“Larrabee” graphics chip project and with their multicore single-chip
cloud computing strategy to create a co-processor architecture aimed at
the high-performance computing market.
At the International Supercomputing 2010 show May…
As chip feature sizes get ever smaller, they become more susceptible to noise sources and radiation which can result in non-recurring errors called soft errors. Also, after a chip has been in operation for an extended period of time, degradation effects such as hot carrier injection, electromigration and negative-bias temperature instability can contribute to increases in failures in the field. One way to test for such types of errors is “on line” testing, in which tests run continuously whenever the chip is in operation. But most forms of on line testing such as those using redundancy codes come at a cost in terms of chip area, power consumption, and/or performance. Intel researchers are proposing a low cost and low intrusive approach based on looking for existing information redundancy, rather than adding such redundancy for on line test purposes. Such inherent information redundancy can be exploited to achieve on line testing with low intrusiveness and at negligible cost. Details are being presented this week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2010.
The Intel® Intelligent Digital Signage Proof-of-Concept, with the Intel® Core™ i7 processor, showcases how digital signage technology can enhance the retail customer experience – such as in a store, bank or airport -with a multi-touch, multi-user interface. At its Tech Heaven event, Intel recently demonstrated this 7-foot-6-inch concept with an LCD display and holographic glass that allows consumers to explore merchandise, find out about promotions, submit feedback on products, read customer reviews, view past purchasing histories and share what they have discovered with their friends via social media and mobile phone integration. Multiple consumers can use the glass display to simultaneously explore augmented reality-enabled maps of each floor of a store. See press kit for more on Smarter Devices with Intel® Embedded and learn more about how Intel innovation is changing the way we live, work, and play.
