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- May 16 ’17
HPE shows off The Machine prototype without memristors
In 2004, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Kirk Bresniker set out to make radical changes to computer architecture with The Machine and drew out the first concept design on a whiteboard.
At the time Bresniker, now chief architect at HP Labs, wanted to buil…
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- May 15 ’17
Samsung to detail new Tizen OS for smart home appliances, IoT devices
In the future, your Samsung vacuum cleaner, robot or washing machine will run on an OS called Tizen RT, slated to be introduced and detailed on Tuesday.
The OS for smart devices and gadgets -- in other words, internet of things (IoT) devices -- will b…
- May 15 ’17
Will Windows 10-on-ARM PCs support Mixed Reality headsets?
A Windows-on-ARM PC is getting closer to reality. Microsoft showed off a prototype mini-desktop with an ARM processor running Windows 10 at last week's Build conference, with the PC running applications like Office.
The PC was shown in a video posted …
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- May 12 ’17
HPE is bringing Optane storage to Unix servers
In the next year or two, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will add support for Intel Optane memory and storage to its latest Unix servers.
Optane is a new form of storage and memory that could replace today's SSDs and DRAM. It is significantly faster and de…
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- May 11 ’17
HPE offers an escape from the aging HP-UX OS via containers
Hewlett Packard Enterprises' HP-UX OS has been around for more than 30 years, and users may be looking to move on from the Unix-based OS.
Now HPE is offering a way out of the ancient OS using containers, which are small buckets running instances of ap…
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- May 11 ’17
Intel's Itanium, once destined to replace x86 in PCs, hits end of line
It's the end of the line for Intel's Itanium chip, a troubled processor family that spawned many product delays and bad blood between HP and Oracle.
Intel on Thursday started shipping its latest Itanium 9700 chip, code-named Kittson, in volume. It's t…
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- May 10 ’17
Nvidia's new Volta-based DGX-1 supercomputer puts 400 servers in a box
You won't need to buy a rack of 400 servers if you have one high-powered Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputer with a Volta GPU sitting on your desktop.
The DGX-1 supercomputer -- which looks like a regular rack server -- gets most of its computing power from ei…
- May 10 ’17
IBM's new PowerAI tools automate image recognition
IBM is trying to remove some of the complications related to image recognition with new tools to automate critical machine learning tasks.
A major update of the company's PowerAI tools has a feature called AI Vision, an auto tuner that makes it easy t…
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- May 10 ’17
Amid fight with Apple, Imagination's Series8XT GPU faces challenges
The graphics processor in Apple's upcoming iPhone could have been based on Imagination's new PowerVR Series8XT GT8525. Instead, the two vendors are locked in an open battle, and Imagination is threatening legal action against Apple, which is developi…
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- May 10 ’17
The 'Amazon effect' will drive autonomous vehicles, Nvidia CEO says
What's the relationship between Amazon and autonomous vehicles? Amazon is changing the way products and services are delivered to customers, and so will autonomous vehicles, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang believes.
The "Amazon effect," Huang said, will tur…
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