Thursday, May 5, 2011

Intel Busts Out of the Gate With 3D Transistor

Intel Busts Out of the Gate With 3D Transistor

Intel Busts Out of the Gate With 3D Transistor

Posted: 04 May 2011 03:47 PM PDT

Intel has reported a major technological breakthrough in microprocessor development: the world's first 3D transistor. The Tri-Gate transistor will continue the steady delivery of computing products that are ever more powerful, ever cheaper and ever smaller, the company said. What Intel has done is reinvent the transistor structure by using a a thin three-dimensional silicon fin that rises up vertically from the silicon substrate, unlike the two-dimensional planar transistor structure currently in use. Intel has also previewed a 22-nanometer node microprocessor that will be the first high-volume chip to use Tri-Gate.

Webby Awards Honor Fun and Games, Innovation - and Business

Posted: 04 May 2011 01:03 PM PDT

The winners of the 15th Annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday. Webby awards and People's Voice awards were handed out to honor the best of the Internet in dozens of categories. Funny or Die received the most awards with nine total wins including best humor website and multiple awards for its comedy videos -- one featuring Zach Galifianakis and another featuring Jim Carrey. Conan O'Brien's Team Coco won the Webby and the People's Voice award for best celebrity/fan website. Wieden + Kennedy nabbed a big victory in advertising. The agency was given the special honor, "Agency of the Year," for its seven wins in advertising categories.

Brewing Data Center Superfuel

Posted: 04 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Data center Quality of Service and Total Cost of Ownership has a major impact on an enterprise's business growth and profits. IT departments and application developers seek architectures and deployments providing high service availability and resilient performance scalability to meet rising service demand while controlling capital and operating expenses. Tremendous technology advances have been made in recent years. Commodity hardware trends in high-density computing exploiting multi-core processors and flash memory offer large potential improvements in data center performance.

In the Linux Garage, Xfce Is Your Tough, Reliable Jeep

Posted: 04 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Xfce is a niche desktop environment. But given the moves developers are making with changes to KDE 4 and Gnome 3, not to mention Ubuntu's new Unity desktop, Xfce may be just the ticket to take you to a calmer, more satisfying computing environment while staying with your favorite Linux distro. Think of the Linux desktop shell as a mode of automotive transportation. Your garage can hold several different car models from the same manufacturer. When you take a trip, any of these cars will get you to your destination.
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