New engineering will shrink the CORE 2 hardware to the size of a quarter for inconspicuous wear.
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It is true that the core operating hardware for buildings, from home furnaces to complex office HVAC systems, is dramatically more efficient than 20 years ago, and getting better still.
The solution includes an Audience Advanced Voice Processor core and a hardware accelerator engine, optimized to run computationally intensive audio algorithms with low power consumption.
The most likely move right now appears to be to Linux (a freeware follow-on to Unix developed by Unix core developers) and dedicated hardware.
Hot Hardware lauded the Core i7 CPU and NVIDIA Kepler graphics, and they had a tough time controlling their adoration for the Samsung PLS panel that stole the show.
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Family Bank has recently implemented an Oracle FLEXCUBE core banking system running on IBM hardware and the IBM AIX operating system.
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In essence, the company sits in a good place to combat a lot of the issues movie studios have had with HD video distribution -- Insider is tied to the new 2nd generation Core processors, and thus provides hardware protection, rather than software protection of the content.
Now, one hardware company thinks hard-core gamers are ready to take their action on the move, too.
Core components use resilient industry-standard hardware and software technologies, designed from the outset to root out potential causes of downtime before they do damage.
All three feature the same set of internal hardware: a dual-core 1.6GHz Rockchip CPU and an unnamed quad-core GPU. The pre-production units we handled were running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and all feature high-res IPS screens.
The Nextbook 7GP includes high performance hardware such as a Dual Core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB DDR3 RAM, a high definition (1024 x 600) capacitive multi touch screen, front and back cameras, and an HDMI-out port to send 1080p HD video to an HDTV or computer.
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The plan as of now is for the first piece of station hardware, which looks like the central core of Mir, to be launched from Baikonur in June, with the first U.S. piece, called Node 1, to be launched on the shuttle in early July.
Most will, like Google, be software-based and have cheap components at their core, but you should expect a couple of amazing hardware innovations too.
Most will, like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), be software-based and have cheap components at their core, but you should expect a couple of amazing hardware innovations too.
It doesn't help matters when you're trying to render that inefficient code on extremely low-end hardware, like the sub-1GHz single-core chip inside the ZTE Open.
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Although all of the Google TV launch devices have their differences, at their core they're all running Android on an Intel CE4100 media processor, which is essentially a 1.2GHz Atom core that's been beefed up with some extra graphics hardware capable of capturing and decoding 1080p video.
Galaxy Note 10.1 is designed with advanced hardware technology, including a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of internal RAM.
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His recently completed Project Inverted, just highlighted by ASUS, puts most of the hardware on the outside: the Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, Core i5 processor, fan cooling, memory, Radeon HD 6870 video card and watercooling pipes all sit in plain sight.
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At its core, this is a question about what it means to own a piece of hardware.
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That positioning is now its albatross, since its casual core of players are now more comfortable playing on smartphones and tablets instead of dedicated hardware.
The most surprising leap may be in graphics: while we knew the GPU core would be much faster, we're now seeing that the new Intel hardware can output to as much as a 2, 560 x 1, 600 display and record stereoscopic, 1080p 3D video in the event that 3D-capable tablets come back into vogue.
Savvy mobile users will not be satisfied with slow performance or short battery life, and innovations such as hardware-accelerated multimedia engines, more efficient power management techniques and multi-core architectures will all be key to ensuring that devices are able to fully take advantage of the newly broadened data pipe.
Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.
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Hardware-wise, there's a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200 quad-core processor, with a 4.5-inch Super LCD2 display (at 960 x 540 resolution), an 8-megapixel primary camera capable of up to 720p video capture and a front-facing 1.6-megapixel shooter.
In terms of hardware the main difference between the two is the the CPU, with the Durabook offering an Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 at 2.4GHz, paired with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.
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