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Intel just released its new 48-core x86 processor on Dec, 2. Though not being the first to unveil a super multicore chip while Tilera already offers 32- and 64-core general-purpose processors (albeit non-x86) and previewed a 100-core version in October, Intel’s new processor is intended to totally research aims.
This new chip consists of 1.3 billion [...]

Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that introduces a new energy saving state called “sleep talking. “Sleep talking” may become a new approach to save large amounts of energy for personal computers. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode…