http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed an innovative, low power operating system (OS) for many-core processors, targeting application in embedded systems, including automotive products and digital consumer products. An evaluation of the OS on the company's own many-core processor recorded a 24.6% power reduction against the standard OS when running a super resolution program that scaled 1920×1080 pixel images to 3840×2160 resolutions. Details of the new OS were presented at "Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE 2013)" in Grenoble, France on March 20. http://phys.org/news283163831.html Technology Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:37:20 EST news283163831 ASUS today announced ASUS Transformer AiO, the world's first All-in-One PC with a detachable display that can also be used as a standalone tablet around the home. ASUS Transformer AiO consists of a desktop PC Station with a 3rd generation Intel Core desktop processor for outstanding Windows 8 performance, and a detachable 18.4-inch display with its own NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor for use as a self-contained tablet with Android 4.1. ASUS Transformer AiO gives users the mobile flexibility of a tablet with the performance of a powerful desktop PC, all in one compact and stylish package. http://phys.org/news281865318.html Electronics Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:55:28 EST news281865318 (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 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:26:08 EST news276942350 ASUS last week launched the VivoTab Smart tablet with 10.1-inch HD display and full Windows 8 experience. http://phys.org/news276416900.html Electronics Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:31:29 EST news276416900 (Phys.org)—Samsung will turn heads at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February when it describes the first mobile applications processor to use ARM's big.LITTLE concept. This is an important opportunity and timing for Samsung, as the ISSCC is a major event for the semiconductor industry. The approach is expected to become widely used in smartphones. Samsung's processor is to use ARM's big.LITTLE architecture. This translates into a SoC built with a 28 nanometer manufacturing process, with one cluster tuned for sheer performance while the other cluster is optimized for battery life. These are two quad-core clusters, one for high performance applications such as video gaming and the other for energy efficiency. http://phys.org/news272736831.html Electronics Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:14:09 EST news272736831 You may have already placed a video call from your computer or from your smartphone. In the future you may make such calls from your television. http://phys.org/news264333039.html Electronics Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:10:01 EST news264333039 Samsung Electronics Co. is taking another shot at the dominance of Apple's iPad with a tablet equipped with a digital pen and a faster processor at the same price tag. http://phys.org/news264248284.html Electronics Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:18:12 EST news264248284 If you want a tablet but can't afford an iPad, Google's new Nexus 7 is not a bad choice. http://phys.org/news261465159.html Electronics Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:50:01 EST news261465159 Taiwan's HTC on Monday unveiled the smartphones that it said would allow users to "retire" their digital cameras, as it sought to fight back against rivals Apple and Samsung. http://phys.org/news251973921.html Electronics Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:45:36 EST news251973921 Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world. http://phys.org/news249759147.html Electronics Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:32:50 EST news249759147 Asian mobile telecom giants Huawei and LG on Sunday launched a new generation of ultra rapid smartphones, in a race to catch up with market leaders Apple and Samsung. http://phys.org/news249485377.html Electronics Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:29:50 EST news249485377 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance by an average of more than 20 percent. http://phys.org/news247831484.html Technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:04:55 EST news247831484 The first of Nokia's new generation of smartphones isn't flashy and certainly isn't an iPhone killer. But it's a nice device, and at $40 with a two-year contract, a bargain. http://phys.org/news247492785.html Electronics Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:10:01 EST news247492785 If last week's Consumer Electronics Show is any indication, the next major computing device to enter consumers' homes will be a "smart" television - whether viewers like it or not. http://phys.org/news246286857.html Electronics Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:01 EST news246286857 (PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft and Samsung have announced the Microsoft Surface computer, called SUR40, as available for preorder, through the Samsung website, in 23 countries. The unique multi-touch screen is shown in a compact, stylish design as a table top but also can take the form of a vertical wall mount. The product is four inches thin, which makes it easy to use in either type of deployment. On walls, the SU40 can be hung or used any other way in custom enclosures. There are standard legs available for table use or a customer can design and attach their own. The SUR40 release is scheduled for early 2012.Those who attended the CES show his year had the opportunity to see this computing device that is a result of a Microsoft-Samsung collaboration. The first Surface PC was released in 2008. http://phys.org/news241075193.html Electronics Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:50:02 EST news241075193 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia says its upcoming Kal-El chip (Tegra 3) will have five cores, not four. The news appeared this week when the Santa Clara company announced a white paper describing the architecture of this system-on-a-chip for mobile computing. http://phys.org/news235886431.html Electronics Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:50:03 EST news235886431 (PhysOrg.com) -- Samsung has released the NC215 solar-powered netbook in Korea. The netbook carries a solar panel on the lid, which can turn two hours of sunlight into one hour of netbook run-time. http://phys.org/news233414131.html Electronics Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:16:17 EST news233414131 (PhysOrg.com) -- Can defective chips be reused? An EU-funded team of scientists says they can. http://phys.org/news226746856.html Technology Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:14:51 EST news226746856 (PhysOrg.com) -- SeaMicro has announced that they have developed a low-power usage server. The machine, which has been dubbed the SM10000-64, includes 256 of Intel's latest Atom N570 dual-core processors. The SM10000-64 is outfitted with 512 Atom processing cores that run at 1.66GHz. These processors can deliver 850GHz of processing power, according to the representatives at SeaMicro. Each of the cores is expected to be capable of running two threads of data simultaneously, a feature that is expected to significantly boost application performance. http://phys.org/news218132435.html Electronics Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:50:01 EST news218132435 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has announced their brand new quad-core mobile processor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new processor was given the interestingly superheroic name Kal-El. Just in case you did not read a lot of comic books as a kid, this is the name that Superman was given by his parents on his home planet of Krypton. http://phys.org/news217094146.html Electronics Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:56:19 EST news217094146 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created an ultra-fast 1,000-core computer processor. http://phys.org/news213357782.html Technology Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:03:44 EST news213357782 ASUS today announces the launch of the Eee PC 1015PEM with the latest Intel Atom N550 dual core processor. This processor gives the 1015PEM a level of performance that surpasses other Atom-based netbooks available today. http://phys.org/news203580013.html Electronics Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:01:20 EST news203580013 Two Intel executives today outlined the latest Intel system-on-chip (SoC) products for embedded applications and described new research to allow homes and small businesses to better use and manage energy. The forthcoming SoC product features an Intel Atom processor core that, for the first time, will let other companies create PCI Express-compliant devices that directly connect to the chip, which offers new flexibility for embedded applications. http://phys.org/news190540635.html Technology Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:20:01 EST news190540635 An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems. The upgrade, funded with $19.9 million under the Recovery Act, will enable scientific simulations for exploring solutions to climate change and the development of new energy technologies. http://phys.org/news177608722.html Electronics Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:30:02 EST news177608722 (PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family. http://phys.org/news175267985.html Electronics Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:33:40 EST news175267985 (PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate Internet content and other services to digital TVs, Blu-ray players and other entertainment devices. http://phys.org/news173104820.html Electronics Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:44:25 EST news173104820 (PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has added two new Phenom II desktop chips to their product line. The Phenom II Dragon line desktop processors use AMD's new 45-nanometer technology and consists both of a triple-core (X3) and quad-core (X4) components. http://phys.org/news153398724.html Electronics Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:46:00 EST news153398724 (PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intel´s recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was mentioned in a conference. http://phys.org/news146400330.html Technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:45:30 EST news146400330