After consideration of other major hardware providers Nokia announced today that their future Windows’s based phones will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip-set. Nokia and Qualcomm have worked together on various platforms since they ended their IP dispute back in 2009.
In this weeks issue of TechWatch we have an in-depth review of Intel’s new 22 NM 3-D Tri-Gate process, a look at the HPU/APU impact on the future of graphics, Kathleen Maher discusses Corel’s new CorelCAD software. We review the latest financial announcements of the industry including Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm. You can read more about and download the latest … Read more
Last week’s announcements about new tablets, were hardly news. There are announcements every week now about new tablets. The latest announcement from Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos saying his company will release a tablet based on Google’s Android platform just seemed to ratchet up the silliness quotient. In an interview with Consumer Reports, Bezos said to “stay tuned” on the company’s … Read more
Equipped with 512 CUDA parallel processing cores, the new Tesla delivers 665 GigaFLOPS of peak double-precision performance and 178 GB/sec memory bandwidth. Systems with M2090 will be available imminently from OEMs. HP has introduced the new ProLiant SL servers with up to 3 Teslas per system.You can read more about the GPU here.
Graphics Add-in Board shipments increased a modest 0.2% from last quarter. Overall shipments of graphics AIBs for the quarter came in slightly above the last quarter at 19.03 million units compared to 18.84 million for Q4’10. Shipments in Q1 2011 did not exceed the same quarter a year ago. Read more on the new Q1 2011 AIB report here.
The Endeavor is set to deliver an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station during its 16 day mission in space. The space shuttle program which first took flight on April 12, 1981 has only one flight left on the schedule. The shuttle computers only carry one megabyte of memory up into space.
The Z68 chipset offers new overclocking and caching features for PC enthusiasts who want more control over Sandy Bridge based systems. The 20GB Intel SSD 311 is optimized for the new Intel Smart Response Technology caching feature in Z68 which helps speed boot times, application loads, and many other PC uses.
Siemens PLM is rebooting after its acquisition in 2007 and an industry-wide recession that gave everyone a chance to rethink the way they build products and go to market. Siemens PLM, with the old guard in charge, is ready to make new progress. Read more about Siemens and the PLM User Group conference here.
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In the largest deal in the history of Microsoft the software company swoops in to acquire Skype. Skype the leader in IP voice calling and video conferencing was being wooed by both Google and Facebook before Microsoft made their $8.5 Billion offer. Many are balking about the huge price tag but only time will tell if this was the right … Read more
Nvidia announced the acquisition of UK-based maker of baseband chips for 3G and 4G handsets, Icrea for $367 million in cash. This is a really big deal – not for the purchase price but for the impact it’s going to have on the industry. Now the playing field in mobile devices is shaping up to a big three (or four) … Read more
Nvidia buys Icera for $367 Million; Icera based in Bristol, England, produces baseband processor for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets and well as a host of patents. Will this put Nvidia in direct competition with Qualcomm for the mobile market? Jon has his say – see his blog
