Supercomputer on a Chip Nears Completion
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Toshiba president Tadashi Okamura has confirmed that the designs for the "CELL" microprocessor are nearing completion. The CELL is a collaborative effort between IBM, Sony and Toshiba to design a next-generation, grid-enabled multimedia processor.
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70-megabit memory chip with 35-nanometer transistors is due out in 2005
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to demonstrate its version of a new approach to processor design on Tuesday, with a chip that is expected to offer faster computing and relatively less power consumption.
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It's becoming clear that the low-power Silverthorne processor is more than a new chip. It is a building block for Intel's future road map.
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Big Blue breaks into the quadrillion calculation range with new Blue Gene/P supercomputer.
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Researchers have built a prototype of a 'desktop supercomputer' that runs 100 times faster than today's PCs.
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A small, fully functional, 70-megabit static random access memory computer chip crammed with more than 500,000,000 transistors has been developed by researchers at Intel Corp.
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Details are expected on Tukwila, the next-generation 64-bit quad-core CPU, at a chip conference this week.
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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA - The space race may be over, but engineers at NASA's (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Ames Research Center Tuesday staked their claim in another type of challenge: the never-ending contest to build the world's fastest supercomputer. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the NASA supercomputing facility in Moffett Field, California, the U.S. space agency unveiled its 10,240-processor Linux-based supercomputer, named Columbia, and cited benchmark numbers that show it performing faster than any other system.
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Chipmaker's speedy Pentium 4 gets even faster.
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A Scottish engineer has figured out how to tame microscopic wires, making it easier to build smaller microprocessors, which will eventually lead to smaller supercomputers.
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Setting up a battle for the future of computing, engineers from IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details Monday of a microprocessor they claim has the muscle of a supercomputer and can power everything from video game consoles to business computers.
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The chip maker finishes design work on Penryn, a chip that could be crucial in helping Intel to maintain a new-found performance lead
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A chip capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) is unveiled by Intel.
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Computer manufacturer IBM has been given the go ahead to build the world's most powerful supercomputer.
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The Apple-based System X supercomputer at Virginia Tech has been upgraded to run at 12.25 teraflops. The system placed third on the list of the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputers last
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IBM used its Blue Gene supercomputer to model an improved transistor in its race with Intel to build faster chips.