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Portable Storage Options for Nonprofits

Who says you can’t take it with you? Discover portable storage options for your data.

Freescale’s Multicore Strategy

Freescale Semiconductor has a new multicore communications platform that lays the groundwork for future PowerQUICC designs and other Power Architecture chips.

Editorial: 1TB

Like the introduction of very high performance processors that led to realistic games on the PC, the appearance of oversized hard drives may usher in new applications.

Intel’s Timely Turnaround

This excerpt from an In-Stat report analyzes Intel’s manufacturing capacity and roadmaps, with forecasts of future trends.

Global Warming’s Best Kept Secret

When most of us think about the Chinese impact on the environment, we consider their major manufacturing facilities spewing out carbon dioxide at an alarming rate with no sign of slowing anytime soon. China threatens to become the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases by November this year, partly because it manufactures products to satiate […]

Dell Receives the ‘Recycling Works Award’

The National Recycling Coalition in February awarded Dell the organization’s annual Recycling Works Award for the company’s efforts. NRC Executive Director Kate Krebs said at the time that Dell’s environmental initiatives “put them head and shoulders above any other electronics company.”
Dell recovered an impressive 78 million pounds, or nearly 40,000 tons, of IT equipment from […]

Fujitsu Calls Asynchronously

Fujitsu applies the Asynchronous Remote Procedure Call (ARPC) concept to programming embedded multicore configurations.

Western Digital and its Caviar GreenPower Hard Disk Drives

The new GreenPower drives from Western Digital are dropping power consumption by up to 38 percent. This power savings equates to reducing CO2 emission by up to 13.8 kilograms per drive per year - the equivalent of taking a car off the road for 3 days each year. For large organizations with hundreds of employees, […]

XMOS Redefines Silicon

U.K.-based startup XMOS Semiconductor is developing microprocessors that use hardware multithreading to perform embedded-processing.