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NewsCow power and other ideas for reducing IT's energy costs
CIOs are facing twin stresses in the data center these days: Usage is growing and so is the pressure to reduce energy consumption and costs. These imperatives, along with increasing environmental Read more...
Newsweek: IT companies go green in a big way
Newsweek has released its first annual Green Rankings report of the nation's largest 500 companies based on their environmental performance, policies and reputation. Technology companies are very Read more...
Apple may have a job for you
Apple Inc. is always on the move and always innovating. Now it is looking to create new capacity to design its own computer chips, a move that could enable the company to offer exclusive features for Read more...
Embedded chips to fuel Internet's growth
Intel believes the growth of the Internet will be fueled in the next few years by low-power embedded chips. Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president at Intel, said during a speech at the Intel Developer Read more...
Intel unveils Centrino 2 platform
In the latest salvo against arch-rival AMD, Intel is releasing a total of five new processors as part of its Centrino 2 platform that is designed to do tasks like high-definition video playback, yet Read more...
Google on power efficiency in servers
A Google engineer who studies the power consumption of the servers in its data centers has thrown cold water on the current approach adopted by chip manufacturers trying to churn out more "low power" Read more...
IBM turning to water for cooling its processors
IBM
this week demonstrated using water to cool three-dimensional stacks of
processors. While still years away from
production, this technology could well be implemented for its multicore servers
as Read more...
Via goes mainstream with new Isaiah processorVia Technologies is preparing its first high performance x86 chip targeted squarely at the mainstream. Historically, Via focused in niches like that of ultra-compact PCs, or small mobile devices Read more...AMD unveils low-powered Opterons
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has unveiled five low-power quad-core server processors, hoping to attract the attention of IT executives concerned about power efficiency and conservation. The x86 Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Power strip doubles as energy monitorJust how energy-efficent--or energy-hungry--is your computer, display, storage device, etc.? Here's one way to find out: the Cost Controller power strip, which gives you a readout of your gadget's Read more... | Press ReleasesMicrochip Wins Best of Electronic Design Award for 8-bit MCUs With Configurable Logic in 6- to 20-pin PackagesCHANDLER, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced that its 8-bit PIC10F32X and Read more >> Server Technology Announces Data Center Power Firmware Integration with IBM® Systems Director Active Energy ManagerRackmount Power Distribution manufacturer integrates new firmware with latest version of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager to provide more complete view of energy consumption within the data Read more >> ThinkEco Selects DataArt as Integrated Solutions PartnerCustom Software Development Firm Creates a Roster of Green Applications to Remotely Monitor Power Consumption NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DataArt, a custom software development firm that builds Read more >> Toshiba Introduces Super Speed USB 3.0-Compliant USB Flash MemoryTransfer Rate 22 Times Faster than Previous ModelsLAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This week at International CES 2012, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, will be Read more >> SATA-IO Releases New DevSleep Feature for Always On Always Connected Functionality in Ultra-Portable Computing DevicesNew standard significantly lowers power consumption and extends battery life for high-speed devices BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), the Read more >> |
