GlobalFoundries has successfully taped-out a qualification vehicle based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 dual-core processor.
According to GloFo senior VP Mojy Chian, the Expertise Qualification Vehicle (TQV) will permit the wonderful fab to optimize its 28nm HKMG system for customer designs based on ARM’s next-gen chip.
“This is a significant milestone on the road to high-volume 28nm manufacturing and expertise leadership for next-generation products ranging from smart mobile devices to high-performance wired applications,” explained Chian.
“By working closely with ARM in the early stages of know-how qualification, they will enable our customers to quickly bring …

After being somewhat late to the game with its first line of stereoscopic 3D TVs, Sony is gunning to be proactive in the 3D laptop market, planning a computer with full 3D capabilities for release next year.
Cnet has a report of a prototype for the device being shown off at this week’s IFA conference in Berlin, one of the biggest technology events in Europe.
The laptop, to be sold under Sony’s Vaio brand, has a 3D button that would assumedly be able to transform a 2D picture into …

Researchers have developed a new method of predicting solar storms that they say could help to avoid power and communications blackouts.
The next major solar storms are expected in 2012 and 2013 as part of the sun’s 11-year weather cycle. A 2008 US National Academy of Sciences report estimated that modern reliance on electronics and satellite communications means a major storm could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.
Up to now, solar weather prediction has been carried out manually, with experts looking at 2D satellite …

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For much of the last three decades of the PC it has been all about the CPU, while the graphics card was largely a concern of engineers, media creators, and gamers.
But that has started to change dramatically. We are clearly entering a world where iPads, Google and HP Tablets, and future multi-media Kindles replace books as the market for platforms that can create, edit, and modify still as well as multi-media content.
But it isn’t just that visual aspects of computing are changed but because graphics processing can approach …

Hiren’s Boot CD is an all-in-one bootable CD solution that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations. I am talking about hard drive failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data recovery. HBCD (as Hiren’s Boot CD is called) is a God-send in situations like these. It has a multitude of tools divided into a number of categories like partitioning tools, backup, recovery and BIOS/CMOS tools to name a few.
Each of these categories have a number of tools listed under them. …

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The leading Anti virus solutions provider AVG has unveiled another utility for recovering your Windows machines from the potential virus infections. This is a portable Linux based tool which can be boot from a CD or USB device to recover your machine in case of a deep rooted virus attack.
This rescue CD enable you to remove the virus , repair the crashed PC and make it bootable again. In short, this utility is a blend of anti virus …

SD, DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 are all different types of RAM (Random Access Memory). RAM is a kind of computer memory that temporarily stores information, improving your systems performance. Or in other words RAM simply holds data for the processor. The processor also has its own memory known as the L2 cache, the cache lies between the processor and the RAM. The processor sends and retrieves data from this cache, when this cache overflows data is sent to the RAM.
There are mainly four …