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
Intel-Altera Deal Would Boost IoT Efforts
If, as reported over the weekend, Intel Corp. moves to acquire programmable logic and embedded processor specialist Altera Corp., industry watchers predict it would boost the world's largest chip ...Full Article
Flash Memory Goes 3D
As traditional NAND flash storage technology approaches the end of the line, chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology jointly began investigating new approaches to cell design that could be ...Full Article
Facebook Targets Datacenter with Server SoC
Facebook used this week's Open Compute Project summit to introduce a system-on-a-chip targeting the emerging micro-server market. Code-named "Yosemite," the "server-class" SoC was developed along with Intel Corp. as ...Full Article
