Apple Tuesday released four new models of its iMac desktop computer that leave unchanged the aluminum and glass design, but that now boast powerful quad-core Intel processors and Apple's high-throughput Thunderbolt I/O interface.
Intel this week defended its fee-based processor upgrade program, saying it is a way to add incremental performance without having to tear the system apart for a CPU upgrade.
Microsoft and Google have turned to Taiwanese chipset vendor MediaTek to boost their traction in smartphones aimed at China and other emerging markets.
In the enterprise, the iPad seems to have a liberating effect on the way people work, and how they engage with each other. It has less to do with CPU cycles and RAM and more with the touch UI, dimensions and weight, and battery life. Here's why.
MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones with an upcoming processor design it presented at the HotChips conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday.
The next generation of Intel's Atom family of processors will eschew a faster CPU in favor of an architectural overhaul will result in better performance over today's Atom-based netbooks and net-top PCs.
The iPhone 5 smartphone has the A6 CPU, which industry experts say is the first in a line of many upcoming Apple custom processors that will better balance performance with battery life in iPhones and iPads.
Microsoft is facing increasing pressure to bring its mainstream Windows operating system to the ARM mobile CPU. But analysts say the company should take a different route.
As storage and other key data center technologies continue to become more abstract - more virtualized - IT can and should expect to get more out of their systems. IT should expect CPU utilization to increase. IT should expect disk utilization to increase.
The kernel can't know if you want those low-priority processes to use all the CPU power on the system, or if you want them to pile up on one CPU and save power on the rest. Developers debate the best way to set the system's power rules.
Intel's upcoming Atom chips with new CPU architecture will be up to three times faster and five times more power efficient than their predecessors and break the "myth" that ARM processors are more power efficient, Intel said.
The battle going on right now between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices for the hearts and minds of CPU lovers everywhere reflects a similar state of affairs in storage. I'm not referring to the fight for sockets on desktop motherboards, but rather to the processor wars we're seeing in the server segment.
Apple has announced that a fix for an iOS 6.1 bug that's been choking some enterprise Microsoft Exchange servers is on the way. The deceptively minor problem in Exchange calendars triggers massive activity spikes on the Exchange servers, with ballooning transaction logs and CPU utilization. The server can sometimes block iOS 6.1 users.
This week: For no reason the high CPU utilization rate due to DPCs has gone. Again. A reader suspects Microsoft updates, and Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich suggests a diagnostic tool. Finally I recommend some OS X disk drive tools.
Apple unveiled its new high-end iPhone, and stunned observers by implementing a 64-bit CPU architecture and operating system for it. It also unveiled a lower-cost plastic model that’s half the price of its aluminum cousin.
Apple unveiled its new high-end iPhone, and stunned observers by implementing a 64-bit CPU architecture and operating system for it. It also unveiled a lower-cost plastic model that’s half the price of its aluminum cousin.
MediaTek is promising smartphone buyers they will get more bang for their buck now that it plans to introduce its LTE chipsets and use ARM's upcoming 64-bit processor designs.
Imagination Technologies will deliver its first Warrior CPU core to device makers by the end of the year, beginning a campaign to make the MIPS architecture a more potent rival to ARM and x86.
Much has been made of the Apple MacBook Air's smallish hard disk (and even smaller flash memory drive). I use one regularly and haven't found the 80-gigabyte drive to be an impediment, but I'm using it primarily for e-mail, Web surfing and writing - nothing that requires really heavy lifting on the part of the CPU or for storage. However, I think that the MacBook Air and computers like it may represent the future of computing for international travelers.
AMD's new "Berlin" server APU will bring an innovative technology called HSA, or heterogeneous system architecture, when it launches in early 2014, and the company is already working hard to lay groundwork for its adoption.