You’ll soon be able to 3D print your own Raspberry Pi-powered laptop
From body parts to aircraft wings, barely a week goes by without hearing that something new has been made on a 3D printer, but this might be one of the most ambitious projects yet. Detailed in a...
View ArticleARM introduces update to Cortex-M family
ARM has released a new Cortex-M processor, the M7, which it says will offer a 100% improvement in compute and digital signal processing performance compared to existing ARM-based MCU lke the M4. The...
View ArticleHP introduces a 64-bit ARM-based server
HP will launch two ARM-based servers as part of the ProLiant Moonshot portfolio. One of the servers, the HP ProLiant m400, will feature 64-bit ARM chips. The m400, which is optimized for web caching,...
View ArticleBelkin’s Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock offers tidier, faster connections
For tablet and notebook users who constantly find themselves wishing for additional ports, Belkin has got you covered. The connectivity device manufacturer has released the second iteration of its...
View ArticleSamsung targets office workers and gamers with curved 27-inch monitor
The jury is still out on whether curved TVs are the devil’s work or home entertainment bliss, and PC monitors are next in line for a thorough inspection. There is an argument that curved PC monitors...
View ArticleAMD cosies up with Oracle over Hadoop
AMD performed the first public demonstration of Apache Hadoop running on its Opteron A1100 development platform; these are 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 processors that are targetting the highly lucrative...
View ArticleAnalysis: Here’s why Oracle could buy AMD tomorrow
AMD has been the subject of acquisition speculations, more often than not in the past and with yesterday’s joint presentation with tech giant Oracle, many will wonder whether now isn’t the right time...
View ArticleRicoh integrates with Blackboard to make education printing easier
Ricoh has partnered with education technology company Blackboard to integrate Ricoh’s cloud storage environment with Blackboard’s education tools. The partnership is designed to help teachers more...
View ArticleMicrosoft confirms Windows 10 will ship with DirectX 12 – and you can test it...
Microsoft has bolstered Windows 10‘s gaming chops from the get-go by confirming that its upcoming OS will ship with the latest version of its graphics API, DirectX 12 (DX12). In a post on the DirectX...
View ArticleIBM says its new server line can outperform Intel’s by 20%
IBM will launch a range of servers that process data faster (and 20% less expensively) than Intel Xeon v3 Processor-based servers, the company said in a statement. The Power8 processor-based servers,...
View Articlein depth: What to consider when purchasing a business printer
Color quality, capabilities and speed Printing a quick recipe for Wednesday night’s taco night is a bit different than printing quality documents for an upcoming pitch meeting. There are several...
View ArticleInterview: How Tintri’s flash storage solution takes a smart approach to...
You can’t accuse California-based Tintri of choosing an ill-fitting name: it literally translates to "lightning" in Irish Gaelic, which begins to make sense when you discover that the company sells a...
View ArticleInterview: Flash flood: when smart storage teaches virtual machines to swim
You can’t accuse California-based Tintri of choosing an ill-fitting name: it literally translates to "lightning" in Irish Gaelic, which begins to make sense when you discover that the company sells a...
View ArticleYou will soon be able to finally buy a 24-inch QHD monitor
Do our eyes deceive us? Apparently not: a 24-inch QHD monitor really has landed on the market, and it comes courtesy of Taiwanese monitor maker BenQ. The BL2420PT has a 2560 x 1440 pixel-resolution, a...
View ArticleSamsung supercharging enterprise servers with industry’s first 8Gb DDR4 chips
Samsung is looking to get its nose in front of the competition by producing the industry’s first 8Gb DDR4 DRAM chips on 32GB modules. Designed for use in enterprise servers, they are being produced...
View ArticleHP reportedly readying device that can ‘sprout’ pseudo-holograms
If you’ve been following the news around HP lately, you’ll know that the company has split into two companies, with one focusing on personal computers and printing and the other on corporate hardware....
View ArticleHP adds application delivery, video transcoding and web infrastructure to...
HP has added three new devices to its lineup of HP ProLiant Moonshot servers. The new products include application delivery, video transcoding and web infrastructure tools. HP’s new application...
View ArticleIBM exits semiconductor business
IBM has sold its semiconductor and commercial microelectronics businesses to GlobalFoundries; the deal will see the latter get a $1.5 billion (£930 million, AU$1.71 billion) one-off payment from Big...
View ArticleIntel’s updated server chip road map shows SoC delay, new Xeon D-1500
Intel refreshed its public processor roadmap just over a week ago and while it does not reveal anything fundamentally new, it does show that the follow up to its Atom server SoC, the C2000, has been...
View ArticleWorldwide 3D printing shipments to double over the next year
Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that shipments of 3D printers will double every year to reach 2.3 million in 2018. That may sound like a lot of zeroes, but the figure is just a small fraction of...
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