A major planned upgrade to the most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Chinese-built Tianhe-2, has been effectively canceled by the US government. The original plan was...
US government blocks Intel, Chinese collaboration over nuclear fears, national security
TSMC announces lithography milestone as EUV moves closer to production
TSMC and ASML have announced a key milestone in extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) tech this week at the 2015 SPIE conference (SPIE is an international professional society for photonics...
Sequoia Supercomputer Breaks 1 Million Core Barrier
The Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science, using the Sequoia supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a...
Hard drive failure rates point to clear winners and losers in 2014
One of the most common questions we’re asked about hardware reliability is whether there’s a real difference between the various storage manufacturers. This information is typically locked up...
What Pundits Think: Cloud Predictions 2015
While some trends in the cloud market in 2015 will signal maturity – trends like consolidation and cloud service portfolio pruning, for example – some are shifts...
How One Startup Just Changed the Game in the Internet of Things
We've known and loved littleBits for some time, and now, they just got a lot more useful with the introduction of cloudBit. CloudBit is a module, a.k.a....