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ARM is strong-arming the server market with the smallest server. Calxeda released the EnergyCore ARM server-on-chip, or SoC, eating up a mere 1.5 watts. When idling, the SoC only requires 0.5 watts. HP is committing itself to manufacturing servers based on the technology. This is great news for Calxeda, since HP is the world’s largest manufacturer of servers. The SoC creams its closest competitor, Intel, who makes a 20-watt x86 server chip.
Calexda is counting on the successes of ARM in mobile devices to somehow magically apply to their attempts to challenge Intel in the commodity server market. They boast that their chip is ideal for scalable analytics, web serving, mid-tier infrastructure (in-memory databases and caching), big-data apps, and media streaming.
Calexda appears to be going after the leftovers in the server market, though, due to the 32-bit address of their chip. It is based on the ARM Cortex processor, but Intel will challenge them on exactly this point about addressing. Still, the form factor is small and the energy consumption puts Intel to shame. There is definitely a niche for this midget 32-bit chip. +Continue Reading
Intel is going for the jugular! They are trying to pull the stool out from under the Tablet Industry by offering $300M to further develop the potential of ultrabook technology. Ultrabooks are light and thin laptops that compete as an alternative to tablets.
Technically, according to Intel’s creation of the term ultrabook, the laptop must be thinner than 20mm, lighter than standard laptops, and less that $1000 in order to qualify for the classification. The company hopes ultrabooks will meld together the performance of laptops and the handy features of tablets, though they are unclear what these special features are, aside from touchscreen. This is where the release ventures into the arena of propaganda.
The money will go toward companies that advance either software or hardware for ultrabooks. +Continue Reading
A new study carried out by Gartner has found that computer sales will decrease to approximately 9.3% this year. The main reason behind the decrease is the fact that users are starting to keep their computer for longer periods of time in order to cut down their expenses. This came as a surprise since the same firm had made estimations that computer sales would increase rather than decrease. They continued to explain that the decrease was also influenced by the increasing sales of the popular iPad, among other tablets.
The study continued to find that tablets are not necessarily substituting computer sales but rather delaying them. Ranjil Atwal, research director, stated that mini-notebook sales have evidently decreased, and this has affected the overall computer sales. He highlighted that iPad purchases as substitution to regular computers was minimum, but still affected the final reports. +Continue Reading
Intel announced Thursday in a press release that they are going to acquire McAfee, Inc, a well known security-antivirus company and this deal will cost them $7.68 billion. The deal was approved by both Intel and McAfee directors and is going to be official after the McAfee shareholder approval. Renée James Intel senior vice president, and general manager of the group said “this acquisition is consistent with our software and services strategy to deliver an outstanding computing experience in fast-growing business areas, especially around the move to wireless mobility.” Dave DeWalt, president and CEO of McAfee said “we believe this acquisition will result in our ability to deliver a safer, more secure and trusted Internet-enabled device experience.” +Continue Reading
We wrote about this subject, long time ago when it was just a leak news, but now everything is official and has been presented during MWC 2010 at Barcelona.
It seems that Intel and Nokia will join together to produce MeeGo, a Linux open source based project that bound Moblin and Maemo.
MeeGo will target tablets, netbooks, laptops, mobiles, connected TV’s and much more and will coexist will existing Symbian OS.
At the press conference, Intel and Nokia said MeeGo is build on the capabilities of the Moblin core OS and supports Maemo in the mobile industry and the adopted Qt application and UI framework for software developers.
MeeGo includes:
- Performance optimizations and features which enable rich computational and graphically oriented applications and connected services development
- No-compromise internet standards support delivering the best web experiences
- Easy to use, flexible and powerful UI/app development environment based on Qt
- Open source project organization managed by the Linux Foundation
- State of the Art Linux stack optimized for the size and capabilities of small footprint platforms and mobile devices, but delivering broad linux software application compatibility
The first MeeGo release will be available in Q2 of 2010.
Read more here or here .
It seems like the most important chipset producer-Intel and the biggest mobile company-Nokia joined together to create future mobile phones.
We don’t know any details yet and it seems the companies try to hide a little this important partnership. It is expected that Nokia will replace the Symbyan S60 platform with a Linux based one powered with technology from the Intel processor.
Intel, the leading microprocessor producer is incorporated in the 80% of personal world computers.
The company had designed a new chipset called Atom, special for mobile devices that access the Web and send e-mail. We believe the main goal of this big partnership is to create unique mobile phones with great Internet experience, more than a smartphone and close to our personal computers.
Read more here and here.
ARM is strong-arming the server market with the smallest server. Calxeda released the EnergyCore ARM server-on-chip, or SoC, eating up a mere 1.5 watts. When idling, the SoC only requires 0.5 watts. HP is committing itself to manufacturing servers based on the technology. This is great news for Calxeda, since HP is the world’s largest manufacturer of servers. The SoC creams its closest competitor, Intel, who makes a 20-watt x86 server chip.
