The paradox of the HP TouchPad continues as USA Today has some fairly strange things to share with the world, things that may not leave Android tablet makers very enthused. USA Today’s internal app has been downloaded many times since its release, but the ratio of Android vs. TouchPad downloads is the interesting part. Apple
Intel has recently announced that its next-generation 22nm processors based on the Haswell architecture will support Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX), a new instruction set designed to allow cores to work more efficiently together. These new synchronization extensions (Intel TSX) are useful in shared-memory multithreaded applications that employ lock-based synchronization mechanisms. In a nutshell,
Small form factor computer maker Shuttle is preparing to launch three new XS-Series nettop PCs based on the desktop version of the Intel Atom Cedar Trail platform. All three models, dubbed the XS35V3, XS35GT V3, and XS36V, use the same Intel Atom D2700 processor which, thanks to its 2.13GHz operating clocks and dual-core design, happens
The market for hard disk drives continues to be defined by overly high prices and insufficient supply, symptoms that aren’t going to be healed until the later parts of this year (2012). People have heard or read repeatedly about how the hard disk drive unit market is in dire straits and how it will continue
Despite all the marketing that NVIDIA has done for its products, it looks like at least one analyst group thinks that the company doesn’t quite cut it. Up until a few days ago, NVIDIA was one of the companies on Sterne Agee’s “Catalyst Driven Idea List”. This is no longer the case, the 111-year old
