"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.

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"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.

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"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.

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Social interaction is central to PS4 experiences, so new features were built into the actual foundation of the system's hardware architecture.

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But he accepts that the Raspberry Pi foundation, having successfully launched the hardware, now needs to focus on its original educational objective.

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Qualcomm and Samsung became Founder members of the HSA Foundation, adding their support to AMD's vision of delivering a common hardware standard for heterogeneous computing.

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