Intel Eyes Datacenter, IoT with Altera Deal
Intel is targeting the integration of its processors with FPGAs in the datacenter and for the Internet of Things (IoT) with its $16.7 billion deal announced Monday (June 1) ...Full Article
New Unisys ClearPath System Outperforms Mainframe Offerings
Unisys completed its decade-long transition of two product lines to an all-Intel platform with today's introduction of the ClearPath Dorado 8300 Series, its most powerful system to date and ...Full Article
IoT Caveats for Chip Makers
If nothing else, the Internet of Things certainly does generate a lot of research reports. The latest comes from the respected management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. that zeroes ...Full Article
Samsung Enters IoT Fray with Dev Platform
The other shoe has dropped in the race to define the conceptual framework called the Internet of Things as technology juggernaut Samsung Electronics unveiled its vision that is built ...Full Article
IEEE: Computing ‘Earthquake’ Needed As Scaling Stalls
Computer scientists worried about the end of computing as we know it have been banging heads for several years looking for ways to return to the historical exponential scaling ...Full Article
Intel’s New Xeon E7 Family Targets Big Data
Intel wants to address enterprises' mission-critical, analytics, and big data processing needs with the advent of its new Xeon E7-4800 v3 and E7-8800 v3 x86 chips. The Santa Clara, ...Full Article
New TI SoC Halves System Costs
Texas Instruments is challenging makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and targeting high-performance vertical markets with today's release of its Keystone-based 66AK2L06 System-on-Chip (SoC). The solution, which uses the JESD204B interface ...Full Article
IT Help Wanted, Especially Security Experts
They say security breaches are like heart attacks: You don't start exercising until you've had one. It appears that a lengthening series of high-profile security breaches using increasingly sophisticated ...Full Article
GigaSpaces Upgrades In-Memory Platform, Eyes Retail
In-memory computing proponents are citing use examples like online retail shopping to make their case for what they claim is an emerging infrastructure based on in-memory data grids. Among ...Full Article
New Windows Vulnerability at Large, Security Vendor Says
Security developer Cylance recently uncovered a new technique for stealing log-in credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or server – including those running previews of the not-yet-released Windows 10. ...Full Article
