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 HP Discovers Potential "God Particle" of Electronics: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the Sounds Cool dept.:
...today, Hewlett Packard announced a new electrical component born of theoretical physics. The device, a nanoscale component called a "memristor," requires no power to retain data, which it can store more densely than a hard drive and access about as fast as a computer’s RAM memory—potentially allowing it to replace both components in the future.
Memristors can function in either a digital mode, in which a memory cell is “on” or “off,” or in analog mode, in which each cell holds some value in between. These values grow every time the cell receives an electrical signal, mimicking the way neurons in the brain build stronger memories the more they are stimulated.
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HP unveils small laptop for schoolkids (Linux): Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the Slapping OLPC? dept.:
One more of the world's biggest technology companies is clamoring to enter the growing market for pint-sized computers targeted mainly for pint-sized customers. Hewlett-Packard Co., the No. 1 seller of personal computers worldwide, said Tuesday it's throwing its weight behind a new class of miniaturized laptops, a fledgling market already populated with products from Intel Corp., the world's largest semiconductor company, and Asustek Computers Inc., the world's largest maker of computer motherboards.
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AMD Releases Open Source Performance Library: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the PR dept.:
AMD today announced that it has open sourced it’s AMD Performance Library (APL). Now referred to as “Framewave version 1.0,” the goal of this new open source project is to further enable the performance-optimized APL and expand its functionality beyond the existing core media capabilities, ensuring developers have an accelerated conduit to high performance application development. Contributions by partners, customers and the broader open-source software development community will accelerate library optimizations and feature enhancements in-line with their respective needs while AMD software engineers will continue to be dedicated contributors to the Framewave project.
With functionality today that spans from simple arithmetic routines to rich domains such as image and signal processing, Framewave provides a quick path to high performance development. It also offers aggressive internal threading features which manage sophisticated threading models to exploit multi-core and multiprocessor systems. With thousands of routines dedicated to image and signal processing, Framewave helps enable faster development of projects such as media players, codecs, image editors, audio applications and media streaming.
“As a long time supporter of open innovation and collaboration, AMD’s release of its APL code to the Framewave open source project represents another milestone contribution to the open source community. We believe that Framewave will quickly become a significant resource for developers, helping them to build faster, highly optimized and multi-threaded applications more efficiently,” said Earl Stahl, vice president of Software Development, AMD. “Developer collaboration is one of the cornerstones of AMD's software vision, so we are excited to see what innovations the community will develop leveraging Framewave."
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Dell Issues Mac Air-ish, Ubuntu Powered Laptop: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols may need glasses dept.:
Linux laptop users suffering from Apple MacBook Air envy now have a chic, hot laptop to call their own: the Dell XPS 1330n with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.10.
Note: I'm a lover not a hater, but c'mon!
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Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the Embrace & Extend? dept.:
Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.
The fallout ends a long-simmering spat that began even before the Santa Clara-based chipmaker joined the OLPC board in July, agreeing to contribute money and technical expertise. It also comes only a few days before the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where a prototype of an OLPC-designed laptop using an Intel chip was slated to debut.
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Shuttleworth: Gadgets!: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the Gadgetbuntu dept.:
...This world is increasingly defined not so much by the PC, as by the things we use when we are nowhere near a PC. The music player. The smart phone. The digital camera. GPS devices. And many, perhaps most, of these new devices can and do run Linux. Free software in the embedded market is becoming a commodity, in the same way that MS-DOS and then Windows made the PC a standardised software environment.
Except that Linux in the gadget sector is still very much a black art, a highly fragmented story where devices are all use vaguely similar but ultimately different free software - at every level, from the kernel on up to the GUI.
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Trolltech Phone & Stack Win Industry Awards: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the Linux Calling dept.:
According to Trolltech, the Linux/Qtopia-powered Greenphone received "best embedded Linux product or initiative" at the UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, presented at LinuxWorld, London. The device is a working GSM/GPRS mobile phone that can be re-flashed with modified Linux-based firmware, via a mini-USB port. It's meant to jumpstart a third-party native application ecosystem for Linux-based mobile phones, Trolltech says.
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Open source routers, not Cisco, winning over some IT managers: Hardware Posted by: comforteagle
From the ...The Way to San Jose? dept.:
IT managers are actively exploring ways to strip out Cisco Systems Inc.'s routers and replace them with open source routers. Open source routers are less expensive than market-leading proprietary products, but equally capable, said these IT pros when responding to a recent SearchOpenSource.com article on routers.
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