With the goal to bring the United States to catch up with China in the field of supercomputers, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the creation of two ‘super brains’ that will push the world closer to exascale computing. The DOE will have $325 million funding, which will be used in the construction of…
Just days after Lenovo purchased of IBM’s x86 servers business, IBM presents a number of new models based on its own Power8 Workstation processor. It’s about the first models based on Open Power Foundation, where companies like Google, NVIDIA, Canonical, Tyan, Samsung and Micron have been active contributors and thus will help to break Intel’s…
Graphics giant NVIDIA is planning to take videogames to the cloud with a new rack server that is optimized for computer graphics. The server, which is dubbed NVIDIA Grid, works in tandem with software on a client device. This allows games with graphics and complexity on par with current generation console and PC titles to be…
HTC announced its One smartphone portfolio tonight, refreshing its premium line with a trio of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) powered devices. The smartphone vendor is looking to regain some momentum after a tough fourth quarter, as its current handset portfolio shows signs of age. Fabian Nappenbach, director of Product Marketing, EMEA, for the company,…