Pocket Avatars is a new messaging app from Intel that uses sophisticated face-tracking technology to turn users' faces into goofy cartoons.…
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Intel will offer a customizable chip to keep data center clients happy
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don't gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA.…
Read MoreWhy Microsoft is building programmable chips that specialize in search
Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren't centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from Altera.…
Read MoreIn the wake of Intel’s deal with San José, what makes a smart city?
Cities around the world are investing in sensor networks and the software to manage them, but what actually makes a city smart as opposed to merely connected?…
Read MoreCavium introduces its ARM-based server chip family that does it all
Cavium is latest company to launch an ARM-based server chip for the data center, but the networking chip specialist is doing so with an entire family of ARM-based chips for compute, storage and networking.…
Read MoreThe Samsung Z is the first Tizen smartphone
Samsung announced the first smartphone running its Tizen operating system on Monday. It's a mid-range handset, and it's headed to Russia.…
Read MoreHere’s how Intel plans to keep webscale customers happy
We spill a lot of digital ink talking about the chips that will displace Intel's in the data center, but the chip giant isn't ceding that ground without a fight.…
Read MoreApple, Intel, Google and Adobe file $324.5M settlement over wages
A new court filing confirms tech companies have formally agreed to pay $324.5 million to settle a class action case over their secret anti-poaching agreement.…
Read MoreChip firms form prpl foundation to keep MIPS architecture in the pink
Imagination, the holder of the MIPS architecture license, and several other big-name chip firms have created prpl -- a foundation to make sure MIPS can compete when it comes to software resources and support.…
Read MoreAMD takes an ARM architecture license to offer both x86 and ARM instruction sets
AMD has unveiled what it calls its ambidextrous computing roadmap -- a strategy to combine both the x86 and ARM architectures to build products that are substantially different than what any other vendor can offer.…
Read MoreGoogle, Apple, Adobe and Intel will pay $324M to settle anti-poaching lawsuit
It's going to be an extra payday for thousands of Silicon Valley engineers after some of the region's biggest employers agreed to settle a lawsuit over an illegal pact not to hire each others' employees.…
Read MoreLook inside IBM’s bold plan to save the Power architecture
Nine months after IBM opened up its Power architecture, it is launching a new line of servers based on the technology and showing off a server built by Tyan that uses the processor too.…
Read More5 big speakers and 5 big ideas for building next-generation infrastructure
When it comes to cloud infrastructure, the underlying hardware and applications are only becoming more numerous and far flung. How then will concepts important to enterprise computing hold together?…
Read MoreThe internet of things is great for chipmakers and a challenge for Intel
Bringing everyday physical objects online is going to shake up the chip industry in a major way. There are new opportunities for startups and even Intel knows it has to change.…
Read MoreCloudera CEO: With more than half a billion in cash, we can do IPO right
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why the company entered into a deep partnership with Intel, just how much cash it raised and when it might go public.…
Read MoreAndroid this week: Moto G selling well; 64-bit Android from Intel; HTC One M8 first look
The Moto G is turning into the little budget engine that could, helping Motorola grab 6 percent market share in the U.K. Intel is wisely thinking of 64-bit Android to better compete against ARM chips while the HTC One M8 impresses at first blush.…
Read MoreThe industrial internet gets its own standards organization, drenched in puffery
Get ready from some serious hype. Five of the largest companies touting the industrial internet have teamed up to form a standards organization to show us what connectivity and data can do.…
Read MoreIntel jettisons its Hadoop distro and puts millions behind Cloudera
Cloudera and Intel have entered into an agreement that makes Intel Cloudera's largest strategic investor and makes Cloudera Intel's preferred partner for Hadoop distributions. It will forego its own distribution and start selling and engineering for Cloudera's software.…
Read MoreCustomers need the internet of things to be open, says Intel’s Boyd Davis
For the internet of things to succeed, its parts have to be interoperable, Intel's Boyd Davis said at Structure Data Thursday.…
Read MoreMachineShop raises $3M to get existing sensor data onto the internet of things
Getting machines online isn't a big problem in the sensor-laden world of the enterprise, but figuring out how to turn that data into a web-facing service is tough. MachineShop wants to help.…
Read MoreCloudera reportedly raising ‘at least’ $200M, with Intel leading the new round
Hadoop pioneer Cloudera is reportedly raising "at least $200 million" from a group of investors that includes Hadoop competitor Intel. If true, it raises some interesting questions about how the two companies might decide to co-exist.…
Read MoreThe new generation of hardware startups needs a different kind of chip company
The electronics inside today's hottest connected devices are often custom and difficult to engineer because the big chip firms don't offer the information entrepreneurs need. How can the industry fix this?…
Read MoreMarvell launches a hardware platform for web developers
Marvell wants to join other semiconductor firms in connecting with hardware developers with a platform launch on Indiegogo. It created a mini computer called Kinoma that runs a customer version of Javascript for connected devices.…
Read MoreTo secure your data you have to secure the device
Connecting devices to the internet, or to each other carriers significant security risks. While it may not be a core feature of a consumer product, how we tackle security is going to affect how the internet of things develops.…
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