MIT Researchers Unveil 36-core Chip
MIT researchers have developed a 36-core experimental chip that allows each of its cores to communicate with each other in a "networking"- manner and significantly...
China's Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Retains Top Spot on TOP500 List
For the third consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1...
AMD to Release Liquid-Cooled CPU
AMD's response to Intel's latset Extreme Edition CPUs (Devil's Canyon) is the FX series, which will soon include a liquid-cooled model. Roy Taylor, vice president...
NVIDIA 64-bit GPUs Get Into Servers
64-bit ARM processors will start delivering breakthrough performance in servers, aided by graphics cards used in some of the world’s fastest computers. The first high-performance...
Kingston and PNY Cought "Cheating" On SSD Components
ExtremeTech.com has discovered that Kingston and PNY are changing the components in their SSDs once the initial reviews of their devices go online....
Surface Pro 3 Launches Today, Microsoft "Confirms" Surface Mini
The Surface Pro 3 is now available at retail stores, online and through authorized resellers in the U.S. and Canada.
Unveiled last month, the newest...
Japan Display To Produce 7-inch, 4K Display For tablets
Japan Display will start mass production of 7-inch display for tablets, featuring a 3,840 x 2, 160 pixels resolution and the company's Pixel Eye technology,...
AMD's APUs To Deliver 25x Efficiency Gains by 2020
AMD says that it will be able to deliver a 25x improvement in the energy efficiency of its Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) by 2020. Details...
Facebook Introduces Network Switch
On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it had created "Wedge," a new kind of computer networking switch, potentially capable of shifting data rapidly through the largest...
Intel Offers Customizable Chips For Data Centers
At the Gigaom Structure conference in San Francisco today, Intel's Diane Bryant announced that the company will now offer customizable chips for the data center...
