Acer announced it has signed the Open Handset Alliance and launch a smartphone based on Android by the end of the year. Google open source mobile platform has been supported by many industry players and Open Handset Alliance now has more than 40 members including mobile operators, phone manufacturers, software, semiconductors and businesses. Although progress in development has been slow, with only two Android devices now available and several others to follow in the coming months, the operating system is starting to gain traction This has been fueled by the recent release of the Android 1.5 platform, also known as [...]
AMD Released Six-core Opteron
Last time we know the Intel processor vendor will release 8-core of CPU, now AMD has introduced a version of six of its Opteron server chip designed for the most demanding of working data, such as databases and server consolidation using virtualisation. Code Istanbul six-core chip is available immediately, a few months ahead of schedule. It is expected to appear in four systems from Dell, HP, IBM and Sun in the near future. Istanbul provides up to 34 percent more than last year’s performance in Shanghai quad-core chip running at the same clock speed as AMD. It falls into the [...]