http://phys.org/electronics-news/hardware/ en-us Phys.Org provides the latest news on consumer electronic hardware, electronic gadgets, hardware and electronics. (Phys.org) —What better place to use the "new vintage" computing theme than in Napa Valley where the Cray User Group meeting took place on Tuesday, The tie-in this year is Cray's new vintage of supercomputers for a business segment that Cray calls the "technical enterprise." In brief, Cray has seen an opportunity to accommodate the need for complex computing simulations of supercomputers but engineered (in the form of economized packaging, networking, cooling and power options) at a price that businesses can entertain. Cray used the Tuesday event to announce a lower-priced version of a Cray XC30 system, for business customers. The new supercomputer is the XC30-AC, shipping with Intel Xeon processors, which will sell as a low-cost model priced from $500,000 on up. http://phys.org/news287245203.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 08 May 2013 15:20:19 EST news287245203 The University of Florida today unveiled the state's most powerful supercomputer, a machine that will help researchers find life-saving drugs, make decades-long weather forecasts and improve armor for troops. http://phys.org/news287161833.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 07 May 2013 16:10:43 EST news287161833 Intel Corp. on Monday unveiled a new line of computer chips as part of the tech giant's efforts to gain traction in the fast-growing mobile sector. http://phys.org/news287072141.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 06 May 2013 15:15:48 EST news287072141 AMD today announced the new AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on the AMD next-generation "Jaguar" CPU architecture and AMD Radeon 8000 Series graphics. The new AMD Embedded G-Series SOC platform further signifies a strategic push to focus on high-growth markets outside the PC industry, with an emphasis on embedded systems. The announcement was made at this year's DESIGN West expo. http://phys.org/news285928155.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:29:31 EST news285928155 (Phys.org) —The semiconductor technology company Adapteva earlier this month featured its parallel-processing board for Linux supercomputingts at a major Linux event, and the board is targeted to ship this summer. The board will be going out to those who pledged money in last year's Adapteva Kickstarter campaign and to other customers. Not a minute too soon. To hear the story of computing as Adapteva tells it, the future of computing is parallel. Big-data and other demands pose a processor challenge and Adapteva recognizes a problem in energy efficiency that is calling for action. Adapteva is on a mission to "democratize" access to parallel computing. http://phys.org/news285872009.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:20:02 EST news285872009 Google announced Friday a $600 million expansion of its Lenoir data center, bringing the company's total investment in North Carolina to $1.2 billion. The announcement came little more than six years after the California-based Internet search giant broke ground at its 215-acre site in the North Carolina foothills. At the time, the company said it hoped to expand on its initial $600 million investment. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and other officials on hand for Friday's groundbreaking said the construction of a third building on the campus underscores Google's long-term commitment to western N.C. http://phys.org/news285844774.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:50:01 EST news285844774 The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that its Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has completed its transition to classified computing in support of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, which helps the United States ensure the safety, security and effectiveness of its aging nuclear weapons stockpile without the use of underground testing. http://phys.org/news285489133.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:32:24 EST news285489133 (Phys.org) —Officials at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced the selection of the Spider II data storage and retrieval system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to replace the existing system on the Titan supercomputer. They say it will give Titan the fastest such system in the world. http://phys.org/news285408062.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:01:25 EST news285408062 Buzz is building over Intel's secretive TV set-top box due out later this year, which the chipmaker claims will provide live and other content via the Internet, is easy to use, and boasts face-recognition technology so it can tell whose watching it and recommend programs they like. http://phys.org/news284919337.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:50:01 EST news284919337 Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched a Moonshot system that uses smartphone-style chips to power compact, efficient data center servers. http://phys.org/news284658342.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:45:52 EST news284658342 Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a project to help define the future research agenda for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). http://phys.org/news284309079.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:44:48 EST news284309079 (Phys.org) —Nebula has announced its first product, Nebula One. The new entry is defined in a promotional video (with symphonic, celestial music and a British voiceover for gravitas) as the world's first cloud computer. The product combines a hardware controller integrated with software for an all in one storage, compute, and networked services system. To hear Nebula's team describe it, the Nebula One is a product that can reinvent cloud computing. http://phys.org/news284188375.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:13:19 EST news284188375 (Phys.org) —Intel was not going to let an event like the Game Developers Conference from March 25 to March 29 in San Francisco, described on the conference site as the world's largest professionals-only game industry event, go by without talking up the merits of Intel's stepped-up graphics focus. Intel took advantage of the event's special audience to announce new capabilities through DirectX extensions for software developers. The extensions will speed up and ease game rendering. http://phys.org/news283940655.html Electronics - Hardware Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:20:01 EST news283940655 It's the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the premier U.S. nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, will be decommissioned Sunday. http://phys.org/news283939619.html Electronics - Hardware Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:07:08 EST news283939619 Gamers looking to play this year's hottest PC games at a highly affordable price—with in-game settings cranked up to high—got their wish today with the introduction of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU. Based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture and equipped with 768 NVIDIA CUDA cores, the GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU is available in 2GB and 1GB configurations at an estimated $169 and $149, respectively. http://phys.org/news283675905.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:51:53 EST news283675905 NVIDIA today introduced the industry's first visual computing appliance—enabling businesses to deliver ultra-fast GPU performance to any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network. http://phys.org/news282982710.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:18:41 EST news282982710 (Phys.org) —Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have performed record simulations using all 1,572,864 cores of Sequoia, the largest supercomputer in the world. Sequoia, based on IBM BlueGene/Q architecture, is the first machine to exceed one million computational cores. It also is No. 2 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers, operating at 16.3 petaflops (16.3 quadrillion floating point operations per second). http://phys.org/news282923672.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:54:40 EST news282923672 Toshiba America Electronic Components, today announces its newest device for the security/surveillance and automotive markets, a full HD (1080p) CMOS image sensor with industry-leading 100dB high dynamic range (HDR) , fast frame rate of 60 frames per second (fps) and also featuring better color reproduction in low-light conditions with color noise reduction (CNR) technology. The TCM5117PL is a CIS-type 1/3 inch optical format image sensor providing high-resolution picture quality in low-to-bright light conditions making it ideal for implementation in security/surveillance cameras and automotive systems. http://phys.org/news282817741.html Electronics - Hardware Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:10:01 EST news282817741 Samsung Electronics announced that its new Exynos 5 Octa application processor is scheduled for mass-production in the second quarter of 2013. The Exynos 5 Octa features an unprecedented eight-core ARM big.LITTLE architecture based on the Cortex-A15 CPU, technology built for efficient handling of multitasking abilities for high-end mobile devices today. http://phys.org/news282556652.html Electronics - Hardware Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:10:02 EST news282556652 (Phys.org) —Beyond reading body motions, Kinect is getting a workup by researchers at Microsoft, now showing substantial control additions. Microsoft Research this week showed how Microsoft Kinect for Windows may be used for picking up enhanced hand gestures. At this week's TechFest, the annual event revealing what Microsoft Research teams are up to, the Kinect capability for hand gesture recognition was unveiled. The presentation showed how Kinect for Windows allows more refined gestures that can translate on the computer screen as pinching, zooming, and panning around. http://phys.org/news281899891.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:01 EST news281899891 Renesas Electronics today announced the availability of its new SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) to Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 3 [Note] bridge SoC (system on chip, part number µPD720231) that enables the reduction of the total BOM significantly. The uPD720231 enables effective multi-gigabit per second (Gbps) data transfer between a USB 3.0 host system and a SATA device used in widely adopted external USB hard drives and solid state drives (SSD). http://phys.org/news281781054.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:31:05 EST news281781054 Infineon Technologies AG and Bundesdruckerei GmbH have developed a new security smart card with an LED display and a one-time password. This new technology is centred around a security chip in the card which generates a one-time password for each transaction and displays this on the integrated LED display. Requesting the one-time password in addition to the static password boosts the security of authentication and payment applications and protects against attacks on e.g. company networks and against card manipulation. http://phys.org/news281779760.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:09:32 EST news281779760 Canon announced today that the company has successfully developed a high-sensitivity 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor exclusively for video recording. Delivering high-sensitivity, low-noise imaging performance, the new Canon 35 mm CMOS sensor enables the capture of Full HD video even in exceptionally low-light environments. http://phys.org/news281693634.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:30:01 EST news281693634 Imec and Holst Centre presented at ISSCC an ultra-low power multi-standard 2.3/2.4GHz short range radio. The 1.9nJ/b radio is compliant with three wireless standards: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), ZigBee (IEEE802.15.4) and Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN, IEEE802.15.6). A proprietary 2Mbps mode is also implemented to support data-streaming applications like hearing aids. The radio is 3-5 times more power-efficient than current Bluetooth Low Energy solutions. http://phys.org/news280656277.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:40:01 EST news280656277 (Phys.org)—News from Intel on Ivy Bridge microarchitecture involves the rollout of eight new SKUs (processor unique identifier part numbers) to Celeron and Pentium families as well as a new Core chip. Translation: Intel's latest processors has now arrived at a budget-friendly line. With the release of pricing and specs for three Celeron family CPUS, G1610, G1610T and G1620, four Pentiums, G2010, G2020 and G2020T and G2130 and a new Core i3-3210, available now. http://phys.org/news278076494.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:50:01 EST news278076494 Intel Corporation announced a collaboration with Facebook to define the next generation of rack technologies used to power the world's largest data centers. As part of the collaboration, the companies also unveiled a mechanical prototype built by Quanta Computer that includes Intel's new, innovative photonic rack architecture to show the total cost, design and reliability improvement potential of a disaggregated rack environment. http://phys.org/news277628591.html Electronics - Hardware Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:03:20 EST news277628591 (Phys.org)—Call it the paper tablet. Or flexible e-paper touchscreen. Or an all in one computing experience made up of a cluster of papery, tablet screens, each behaving like an app. However you look at the PaperTab, it is difficult to avoid the word "revolutionary," and the prototype was Tuesday's talk at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. PaperTab is,a 10.7 inch, e-ink, flexible touchscreen display powered by an Intel Core i5 processor. The tablet looks and feels like a sheet of paper. Its "bendiness" delivers durability and also interactions, as by bending the sides, one can flip through pages. http://phys.org/news276942350.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:26:08 EST news276942350 NVIDIA today announced that Audi's newest auto-infotainment system featuring NVIDIA Tegra technology will be rolled out globally in select vehicles this year. http://phys.org/news276941502.html Electronics - Hardware Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:12:10 EST news276941502 Intel said it would step up efforts to make chips for smartphones and other mobile devices by targeting emerging markets and the rapidly growing "value" segment. http://phys.org/news276842123.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:35:33 EST news276842123 TV makers are trotting out sets with "Ultra HD" resolution at the International CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas this week. http://phys.org/news276841976.html Electronics - Hardware Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:33:05 EST news276841976