Google’s New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype
Friday, 27 May 2016
Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O. Built for machine learning applications, TPU has been running in Google’s data centers for more than a year. Google’s AlphaGo software, which thrashed an 18-time international Go champion in a match earlier this year, ran on servers using TPUs.
What Intel’s new sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ chips mean for PC users
Sunday, 24 January 2016
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could watch two, or even three, full-length movies on your laptop during a long flight without worrying about running out of battery? What if your laptop could display graphics well enough to play the most resource-intensive online games while you’re on the go? Thanks to the latest crop of Windows
Top five things to know about flash and storage tiering
Tuesday, 08 December 2015
Automated storage tiering boosts storage efficiency and saves money, but why is tiering different from caching, why is it suited to use with flash and how do suppliers differ? Implementing a successful storage solution is always a balance between capacity, performance and cost. Given unlimited resources, all data would be deployed on the fastest media
Microsoft pulls Windows 10 support from Intel’s Galileo boards
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Microsoft says it is pulling support for a pared-down, IoT version of Windows 10 from the latest version of Intel’s Galileo board computer because it doesn’t have the hardware capabilities to support the OS. Intel’s Galileo is an uncased board being used by makers to build robots, appliances, wearable devices and other devices. The latest