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IBM Adds DB2 to Lotus Foundations SMB Package
(PC World)
PC World - Just a few weeks after Microsoft pulled the plug on its Windows Essential Business Server (EBS), IBM has beefed up its own pre-integrated package for small and medium-sized businesses, called Lotus Foundations. |
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TriQuint Semiconductor hikes 1Q forecast
(AP)
AP - TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., which provides chips for mobile gadgets such as Apple's iPhone, hiked its profit forecast for the quarter on Thursday, a sign that demand is improving. |
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Ahead of the Bell: LSI upgraded at Kaufman
(AP)
AP - Chip maker LSI Corp. is poised for a series of strong quarters on healthy demand for personal computers, servers and network equipment, according to one analyst. |
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Biden to visit NC manufacturer of semiconductors
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Intel's Xeon 5600 May Retire a Lot of 'Geezer Servers'
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Intel is pushing its Xeon Processor 5600 series as the most secure data-center processor on the market. The company launched the server and workstation chips on its 32nm logic technology, which relies on second-generation high-k metal gate transistors to boost speed and lower energy consumption. |
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Is This an Xbox 360 'Slim' Motherboard?
(PC World)
PC World - Petite, that's how you might describe this rumored Xbox 360 motherboard, snapped and leaked on Chinese site A9VG's message boards and picked up by Kotaku. The motherboard reportedly packs the CPU and GPU onto a single chip--that'd be it purportedly hiding under the CoolerMaster fan--whereas existing Xbox 360 boards position the CPU and GPU across from each other at the board's center (see below). |
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Intel, global chip shares jump
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AMD, Intel Bringing More Cores to More Servers
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Tuesday's big chip news was the introduction of Intel's new six-core Xeon 5600 chip, along with new servers based on the chip from Dell, HP, and IBM. While the news itself wasn't surprising, what it will usher in in terms of server performance bears watching. |
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Intel unveils new server chips ahead of AMD
(Reuters)
Reuters - Intel Corp released its newest server chips on Tuesday, as it seeks to maintain its dominance over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc, and prepare for an expected rise in demand. |
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Low-Power Xeon 5600 Boosts Servers, Workstations
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Intel rolled out a new range of Xeon processor chips Tuesday that are based on the chipmaker's 32nm logic technology featuring second-generation high-k metal gate transistors. Called the Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series, the new server and workstation devices promise to decrease energy consumption in data-center applications even as they boost processing speeds. |
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Five Reasons to Embrace Intel Xeon 5600 Processors
(PC World)
PC World - Intel unveiled an array of new Xeon 5600 server processors. Like the Core i7 980x desktop processors, the Xeon 5600 chips deliver up to six CPU cores on the more efficient 32nm architecture. |
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Ahead of the Bell: Chip demand still improving
(AP)
AP - Driven by the personal computer, television and smart phone markets, demand for semiconductors continues to improve and is ahead of what's generally expected for this time of year, according to Oppenheimer analyst Rick Schafer. |
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InfoWorld review: Intel's Westmere struts its stuff
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In the year since Intel released the Nehalem-EP quad-core Xeon CPU, all the hubbub surrounding that chip and its new design has proven accurate. Bigger, better, faster, more -- a whole lot more than anything that Intel had ever released before. But that was then, this is now, and as they say, what have you done for me lately? |
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Intel's New Xeon 5600 Chips Outperform Predecessors
(PC World)
PC World - Intel introduced a line of Xeon server chips that operate up to 60 percent faster than previous server processors, the company said on Tuesday. |
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HP, IBM, Dell Launch Servers With New Intel Chips
(PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption. |
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Intel Xeon 5600 Secures, Speeds Cloud Computing
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Nearly a year after the company launched its Nehalem processor into the Xeon space, Intel on Tuesday announced the Xeon 5600, the so-called "Westmere EP". |
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Pericom Semiconductor names financial chief
(AP)
AP - Chip maker Pericom Semiconductor Corp. said Monday that Aaron Tachibana, former chief financial officer of Asyst Technologies Inc., will join the company as CFO. |
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MagnaChip Semiconductor planning IPO of $250M
(AP)
AP - MagnaChip Semiconductor LLC, which recently emerged from bankruptcy protection, on Monday filed its intent to raise as much as $250 million in an initial public offering. |
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GlobalFoundries' New Singapore Arm Pays Down Debt
(PC World)
PC World - GlobalFoundries, the former chip manufacturing arm spun off from Advanced Micro Devices, has moved fast to put its financial house in order after acquiring Singapore contract chip maker Chartered Semiconductor. |
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This Week in Geek: Caffeinated Cars, Six Cores, Games, and a Series of Tubes
(PC World)
PC World - It's been a busy week for those of us in the Land of Geek, what with a new processor from Intel, a major trade show, plus more new tech and gadgetry than you can poke a stick at. Here are a few of the stories we covered over the past week or so. |
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