Profile of Chandler Harris
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Articles by Chandler Harris
6/17/2011
Gartner says capital spending will rise 10.2% this year, but an oversupply in the market will lead to slowdowns over the next two years.
6/17/2011
Calxeda's Trailblazer Initiative has lined up 10 "big data" partners on an ecosystem to close ARM's gap with Intel in the enterprise server space.
6/13/2011
Icera's baseband processors for 3G and 4G smartphones and tablets, combined with Nvidia's Tegra 2 applications processor, extends the chip maker's reach in the OEM mobile market.
6/9/2011
The Harmony Unified Processor architecture combines the CPU and GPU into one unified core, the China-based semiconductor maker claims.
6/9/2011
The company spent nearly 80% more on chips last year to meet demand for its consumer products, and now consumes 30% of all NAND flash memory in the world, reports IHS iSuppli.
6/9/2011
The small blast occurred in an Arizona semiconductor plant being readied for 22-nm chip production.
6/8/2011
AMBA 4 specification supports multicore computing through system-level cache coherency across clusters of processors.
6/7/2011
SuVolta’s new processor designs call for 50% power savings compared to traditional chips, with an eye toward phones, tablets, and laptops.
6/7/2011
Analysts continue to downgrade PC sales forecasts, but also warn that other than iPad, tablets are not selling as fast as the industry had hoped.
6/6/2011
The chipmaker's Fusion processors have sold out due to increased demand for smaller, more powerful computers.
6/2/2011
Featuring SATA III interfaces, both solid state drives are designed for smaller, portable devices like ultra-thin laptops and tablets.
6/2/2011
Texas Instrument's OMAP 4470 processor is powered by a pair of 1-GHz ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore engines and two 266-MHz ARM Cortex-M3 cores for multimedia performance.
6/2/2011
The Z-series "Desna" accelerated processing unit supports hardware graphics acceleration in a low-energy design.
6/1/2011
The 4Gb DDR3 DIMM chips are placed in 32 Gb memory modules based on 30 nm-class chip architecture.
5/31/2011
The computers will be powered by Atom processors, which Intel says will outpace Moore's Law as they shrink from 32 nanometers to 14 nm over the next three years.
5/27/2011
Fueling rumors that Intel will manufacture custom chips for Apple, CFO Stacy Smith said the company is open to manufacturing processors for competitors.
5/27/2011
AMD 16-core, Opteron processors, Nvidia Tesla graphics processors, and a Linux-based operating system are the foundation of Cray's fastest machine.
5/26/2011
The semiconductor company saw its shares post modest gains in early trading as it seeks to regain its former glory in a tough chip market.
5/25/2011
The vendor upgrades its premium OptiPlex model and introduces a thin client for "task-oriented workers."
5/24/2011
Still, 56% of enterprises in North America and 30% in Europe don't have a good disaster recovery plan, says a CA Technologies survey of 200 companies.
5/20/2011
The ThinkPad X1 is Lenovo's thinnest laptop at 0.85-inches thick and can charge its battery to 80% of capacity in 30 minutes.
5/20/2011
Virtualization and consolidation are among the key strategies of IT managers facing the threat of running out of data center space, power, and cooling.
5/18/2011
The nascent memory resistor technology holds the promise of making computing systems much faster and power efficient.
5/17/2011
The 512-core M2090 graphics processing unit is the world's fastest parallel processor for high performance computing, according to the company.
5/17/2011
The 300-dpi, high-definition LCD panel uses red, green, blue, and white subpixels and requires 40% less power than traditional RGB displays.
5/16/2011
The company also introduced HP Network Management Center 9.1 with enhanced features for managed service providers, cloud computing, and unified communications management.
5/13/2011
The Windows 7 launch prompted a sales spike that boosted PC sales figures last year, leading to the current drop, says NPD study.
5/12/2011
The QuadCore, which is aimed at mainstream laptops and desktops, runs at 1.2 GHz and uses about 27.5 watts of power.
5/12/2011
Downtime in a data center can cost an average of $505,500 per incident, according to a Ponemon Institute study.
5/11/2011
The LAN controller and security software enable easier management of access points and reduce the amount of hardware needed, the company says.
5/11/2011
The computer maker introduced six notebooks and its DataPass service that allows the PCs to connect to 3G mobile networks.
5/10/2011
The $367 million acquisition bolsters Nvidia's position in the fast-growing baseband processor market.
5/10/2011
Products, including networking and storage offerings, are targeted at companies looking to scale bandwidth and utilize more virtualized services.
5/6/2011
Microsoft led with a 22% market revenue share, driven by Windows 7, Office 2010, and strategies for enterprise platforms, found Gartner study.
5/5/2011
Chip makers this year are expected to ship 10.3% more PC microprocessors than a year ago, according to IDC.
5/3/2011
The 3.5-inch GoFlex is the first commercially available external hard disk drive to deliver capacities of up to 3TB.
5/2/2011
The Containerized Data Centers house 16 racks and include chilled water cooling systems for enterprises that need a quick, flexible, and mobile computing power.
4/29/2011
Silicon Photonics Link technology is expected to provide higher speeds than DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, and USB 3.0.
4/29/2011
Computer motherboard makers can use Nvidia's SLI technology to boost graphics processing on systems that use AMD's upcoming FX-series processors.
4/29/2011
Fabless semiconductor company Optomai targets the high-speed optical market to resolve power consumption, cost, and size issues faced by 40-Gbps and 100-Gbps systems.
4/28/2011
BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets will get enhanced scheduling and calendar capabilities in the wake of RIM's purchase of Tungle.
4/27/2011
Intel, Samsung, and Toshiba benefited from the chip market's largest ever one-year rise in revenue, reported Gartner.
4/26/2011
Intel's Core i5, i7, and i7 Extreme Edition are among the options offered on the Dell Precision M4600 and M6600 laptop computers, and the Dell Precision R5500 rack workstation, which are designed for graphics-intensive computing.
4/25/2011
Microsoft's Windows Embedded Standard 7 Service Pack makes its first appearance in a HP thin client in the t5740e.
4/22/2011
VidyoMobile can connect users of Apple's iPhones, iPads, and iPods, as well as Android-based smartphones and tablets, with desktop PCs and video conferencing rooms.
4/21/2011
The startup's Gx chips are designed to replace multiple processors, lowering system costs and energy consumption in large data centers.
4/20/2011
Tablets and smartphones with the next generation ARM processors, which run at speeds up to 2.5GHz, are expected to begin shipping late next year.
4/19/2011
Solid-state drives with faster read and write speeds have been discovered inside newer models of Apple's thin, lightweight laptop.