ARM chips to rival PS3, Xbox 360 in 18 months?
ARM has been beating the performance drum again, this time telling the Inquirer that a new Mali GPU design due out in 18 months will make its chips the equal of current-gen gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 and...
Feature: Ask Ars: Help! I need VoIP service for my virtual office!
In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our community's answers. Each week, we'll dig into our question bag, provide our own take, then...
Intel takes wraps off 50-core supercomputing coprocessor plans
Intel's Larrabee GPU will finally go into commercial production next year, but not as a graphics processor. Instead, the part will make its debut in a 50-core incarnation fabbed on Intel's 22nm and aimed squarely at one of the...
ARM server startup tries jumpstarting datacenter software ecosystem
The ARM onslaught attack on the datacenter proceeds apace, as ARM server vendor Caldexa (formerly Smooth Stone) announces that it's teaming up with Canonical and nine other software vendors to form a "Trailblazer Initiative" aim...
HP sues Oracle over Itanium support; Oracle maintains Itanium is toast
Not content with suing Oracle over the hire of its former CEO, Mark Hurd, HP is now suing Oracle over the database company's announcement that it will discontinue support for Itanium.
Reuters reports that HP has filed a clai......
AMD’s second Fusion CPU gives glimpse at future of CPU/GPU
At long last, AMD has launched the second of its so-called Fusion "APUs," where APU stands for "accelerated processing unit" and refers to a single chip that hosts both a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and...
Feature: Research@Intel: The cloud’s future is many-core and GPU accelerated
More so than just about any event outside of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's annual R&D day provides the clearest and most worthwhile look into the collective psyche of the world's largest chipmaker. Designed to...
Report: Wii U 50 percent more powerful than PS3 (and it should be)
The next-generation console wars are officially upon us, as an analyst claim that the Wii U is 50 percent more powerful than the PS3 makes the rounds of a web that's hungry for any shred of information on Nintendo's...
Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper
If you want real long-term backups of digitized ebooks, then look no further than dead tree. At least, that's the consensus of the Internet Archive project, which has announced an incredibly ambitious plan to store...
Poll Technica: do the new TouchPad videos have you lusting for one?
Late last week, HP announced that its first webOS-based tablet, the HP Touchpad, will launch in the US on July 1. As part of the prelaunch buzz-building effort, the company has released nine new videos...
AMD announces Trinity, talks Llano, launches Z series at Computex
In a surprise announcement at Computex in Taiwan, AMD unveiled its plans to produce a Bulldozer-based APU, codenamed Trinity. The company also launched its Z series chips, aimed at Windows tablets, and announced the official bra...
Intel exec throws fuel on the "Intel to fab Apple chips" rumor fire
At an investor event in London, remarks by Intel CFO Stacy Smith gave a boost to the recent rumor that Intel may be in talks with Apple to fabricate the ARM-based chips that go into iPhones and iPads....
