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 [...]
The quantum computer has been a dream of computer scientists for a long time. Based on the quantum theory, quantum computers may bring a fundamental to current computing models. However, research on quantum computers has been mainly focused on theoretical and laboratory experimental verification of the quantum model, but a solid-state realization has remained an outstanding challenge…
It has been a while that researchers have trying to make the mobile phones not to be just a communication tool but a smart device that can understand the holder’s behavior. Recently, researchers from Dartmouth College made a far step forward. They developed a tool that is able to determine the current “scene” by analyzing the sound picked up from the microphone of the mobile phone.
Currently when accessing the Internet through wireless connections, such as using a netbook or cell phone, on a fast moving environment, the performance should be significantly limited. Recently researchers at Winlab, Rutgers University and NEC Laboratories have designed R2D2, a new system designed to fit this situation.
The fastest computer so far in Europe, JUGENE, was unveiled in Gauss Center at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. JUGENE is also the first petaflop supercomputer in Europe, which can perform more than 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) mathematical operations per second…
Based on the Quantum mechanics, Quantum cryptography brings a fundamental revolution to online security. Quantum cryptography is a completely secure means of communication, and is now very close to being used practically thanks to researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory…
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…
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