IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (THE INQUIRER) 29/05/2012

Renesas taps TSMC's 40nm process node for controller production

CHIP FAB Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has extended its deal with Renesas to produce controller chips using its 40nm process node.

Intel pledges 25x power efficiency improvement in laptop chips by 2020

CHIPMAKER Intel has said it will increase the energy efficiency of its laptop and datacentre processors to 25 times higher than 2010 levels by 2020.

CPU and GPU chips account for half of $111bn chip market

ANALYST OUTFIT IMS Research claims that half of the processor market is made up of chips that have CPUs and GPUs integrated on the same die.

HP paid $88m in 2009 to keep Intel developing Itanium chips

MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP paid Intel $88m in 2009 to continue development of the Itanium processor.

HP certifies Hypercloud DDR3 memory modules for Proliant servers

MEMORY VENDOR Netlist has announced its Hypercloud memory has been qualified for use in HP's Proliant Generation 8 rack servers.

Nvidia VGX to accelerate smartphone and tablet remote desktops

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has announced its VGX service that allows firms to virtualise GPUs on mobile devices.

Nvidia announces its Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU board

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CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has released the Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU accelerator board.

Nvidia announces Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU board

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has released the Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU accelerator board.

Nvidia announces Kepler-based Tesla M10 GPGPU board

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has released the Kepler-based Tesla K10 GPGPU accelerator board.

Intel launches Vpro Ivy Bridge chips and Panther Point chipsets

CHIPMAKER Intel has introduced its line of Vpro chips based on its Ivy Bridge architecture for business users.

AMD launches Trinity APUs for laptops

CHIP DESIGNER AMD has launched its second generation accelerated processor unit (APU) range of chips codenamed Trinity, based on its Piledriver processor architecture.

Intel launches quad-socket Xeon E5-4600 chips

CHIPMAKER Intel has introduced quad-socket Xeon E5 processors and announced the availability of 11 single-socket Xeon E3 chips.

Intel launches quad-core Xeon E5-4600 chips

CHIPMAKER Intel has introduced quad-socket Xeon E5 processors and announced the availability of 11 single-socket Xeon E3 chips.

Samsung slips NXP NFC chip into Galaxy S III smartphone

CHIPMAKER NXP has announced that its PN65 chip will be driving near field communications (NFC) in Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S III smartphone.

Infineon CEO resigns for health reasons

CHIPMAKER Infineon has appointed a new CEO following the resignation of Peter Bauer for health reasons.

Nvidia sees profits tumble despite Kepler success

CHIP DESIGNER Nvidia has posted a third successive year of falling first quarter revenue with a decline in profits of 55 per cent from the same quarter last year.

Don't upload photos of your cash to social media web sites

SOCIAL MEDIA USERS shouldn't post pictures of their cash on Facebook, police in New South Wales (NSW) have warned.

Twitter joke trial lurches forward

PAUL CHAMBERS, the man at the centre of the Twitter Joke Trial, will have his case heard before three judges after the UK High Court failed to come to a decision on his future.

EU will probe Chinese subsidies to Huawei and ZTE

TELECOM EQUIPMENT VENDORS Huawei and ZTE could be facing a European Union investigation into whether the firms have benefited from subsidies by the Chinese government.

Internet Defence League launches

THE INTERNET has a cluster of superheroes ready to defend it, the Internet Defence League (IDL).

RIM to cut 2,000 jobs in global restructuring

BLACKBERRY MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) will lay off thousands of workers following the resignation last week of the brand's global sales chief, Patrick Spence, it has been alleged.

First 50 Samsung Galaxy S III buyers will get free Olympics tickets

PHONE MAKER Samsung has revealed that the first 50 Galaxy S III smartphone buyers at its Stratford Westfield City store will receive tickets to the London 2012 Olympics.

John Browett joins Apple with reported £36m handshake

THE MAN hired to take over Apple's retail business has done so with a golden handshake reportedly worth around £36m.

Facebook phone rumours are on the line

FRESH RUMOURS about a Facebook phone abound following a report that ex-Apple engineers are being recruited to work on the sleeper hardware.

The top five rivals to Samsung's Galaxy S III

THE SMARTPHONE STAKES have gone up with Samsung's launch of its Galaxy S III handset, but it's not the only option out there.

LG builds the world's first HD LCD smartphone touchscreen

KOREAN DISPLAY AND PHONE MAKER LG has raised the bar in the smartphone stakes by making a 5in full HD LCD panel, the highest resolution LCD screen to date.

Sony Xperia U arrives on O2

UK MOBILE OPERATOR O2 has started selling Sony's cheap and cheerful Xperia U handset after it made it's debut in the UK last week.

AMD admits it has to work on improving Linux OpenCL support

CHIP DESIGNER AMD has admitted it has work to do in improving OpenCL support in Linux.

ICO will look into Google's Street View cars intecepting private data

INTERNET SERVICES FIRM Google might face further action in the UK for its Street View cars harvesting data from unsecured WiFi networks.

The top 10 Android mobile security apps

THE DAYS when mobile phones were mostly unbothered by malware and cyber crime attacks are over, and the owners of smartphones running Android are particularly at risk.

Motorola flaunts updated Android 4.0 user interface

GOOGLE-OWNED Motorola has flaunted its revamped user interface (UI) for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), which is much less obtrusive than its Gingerbread skin.

Nokia Lumia 610 can't handle Angry Birds

THE NOKIA LUMIA 610 looks set to be doomed ahead of its release, as the smartphone is unable to download and run Angry Birds.

Yahoo closes Livestand Ipad magazine service

YAHOO has killed off Livestand, the magazine style news-serving tablet application that it launched last year.

Nokia supplies traffic data to Microsoft for Bing Maps

UNSURPRISINGLY, Nokia has announced that it will supply traffic and geo-coding data to Microsoft's Bing Maps.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

IT News Head Lines (THE INQUIRER) 29/05/2012

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