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Intel unveils 10Gb Network Interface Card

Posted in EETimes Latest News by on the April 30th, 2008

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In supporting the 10GBASE-T standard, the new device provides 328-foot network transmission over CAT 6a cable, as well as 180 feet over CAT 6 cable.

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Interop: Motorola predicts end of wired enterprise networks

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Deploying and running a wireless network would cost $232,000 the first year, while a similar wired network would cost $3.8 million, one company exec suggests.

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High-temp superconductor power hits Long Island

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Long Island Power Authority and American Superconductor Corp. have activated a high-temperature superconductor power transmission cable system.

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Stanford kicks off parallel programming effort

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Six companies are contributing a total $6 million to kick off a three-year project at Stanford University to explore fresh models for parallel programming, one of three efforts recently funded by a computer industry increasingly concerned software will not be able to keep pace with the evolution of multicore processors.

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Nvidia unleashes Cuda attack on parallel-compute challenge

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More graphics processor providers should look at enabling the use of the Compute Unified Device Architecture (Cuda) programming language on their devices, says the chief scientist at Cuda developer Nvidia Corp., which is looking to open the language to speed massively parallel computing.

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Can CUDA language open up parallel processing?

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More universities should provide courses on programming for massively parallel computing and more graphic processor (GPUs) providers should look at enabling the use of the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) programming language on their devices according David Kirk, chief scientist at Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.)

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Losses continue, bright spots ahead at Alcatel-Lucent

Posted in EETimes Latest News by on the April 30th, 2008

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Though impacted negatively by weakness in the dollar versus the euro, the company said it will continue to pursue 3G, 4G, and WiMax.

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‘Missing link’ memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?

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HP Labs’ Stanley Williams has invented the world’s first memristor, the ‘missing link’ in circuit theory–a fourth passive-device type after resistors, capacitors and inductors–as predicted by University of California at Berkeley professor, Leon Chua.

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‘Missing link’ memristor created: Rewrite the text books?

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HP Labs’ Stanley Williams has invented the world’s first memristor, the ‘missing link’ in circuit theory–a fourth passive-device type after resistors, capacitors and inductors–as predicted by University of California at Berkeley professor, Leon Chua.

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Computer engineer Hans Reiser convicted of murder, faces 25 years to life

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Reiser was convicted this week of killing of his wife Nina, whose body has not been found since her disappearance in 2006.

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