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Tilera launches ultra-powerful 100-core processor
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Semiconductor company Tilera is manufacturing a 100-core computer processor that offers four times the power of Intel's Nehalem-Ex, while using a third of the power. Tilera's new 100-core processor is set for a commercial release early in 2010. The processor us based around 40-nanometer technology. "This is a general purpose chip that can run off-the-shelf programs almost unmodified," says Anant Agarwal, chief technical officer of Tilera, the company that is making the 100-core chip. "And we can do that while offering at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power as a Nehalem." Will Strauss, principal analyst at ...
Opinion: Fact: big companies make duff products
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Big tech companies make duff products. That's a fact. I don't mean they usually or even fairly regularly make duff products. It's just that for any large outfit with a big range of frequently refreshed kit, it's impossible to avoid occasionally dropping the ball. Sooner or later, they're going to let something slip. That's particularly true in the context of devices as technically complex as PCs and the digital peripherals that go with them. For that reason, you'd be well advised to tread carefully with the naming and shaming, fingerpointing and general recrimination larks. But sometimes you come across something that goes beyond isolated incompetence and ...
Big queues for new PC World and Currys megastores
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Hundreds of people queued through the night to take advantage of special offers to mark the opening of new megastores for PC World and Currys A joint Currys/PC World store in Fulham attracted nearly 700 people according to the DSGi group, while a Birmingham PC World – the biggest megastore for the brand – attracted 500 people. Why the queues? Because of offers on things like a Snooper Sat Nav for a shade under £50 and a £349 Compaq CQ5266 desktop Hundreds of jobs Andrew Milliken, Transformation Director, DSGi international, comments "'As well as giving shoppers great value and a fantastic shopping experience, these new stores have created over ...
In Depth: Why computers suck at maths
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Computers might struggle to exhibit intelligent behaviour, but blindly performing arithmetic calculations is surely their forte. Or is it? The failure of Google's online calculator and Excel's apparent inability to give correct answers to simple calculations are both well-known problems among programmers, but these aren't really bugs in the normal sense of the word. Instead they're just a consequence of the fact that computers suck at maths. Computers perform calculations in quite a different way from the methods that humans use to do arithmetic – and that means that they habitually come up with the wrong answer. Here we investigate some of the shocking consequences of ...
