Stories about: ASIC

IBM is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors.

Hewlett-Packard researchers may have figured out a way to prolong Moore's Law by making chips more powerful and less power-hungry.

Cray plans to create a new supercomputing platform combining four different types of processing capability in a blade server architecture. The platform will run Linux on Advanced Micro Devices's Opteron processors, and should be on the market by 2010, a spokesman said Monday.

World Cup soccer tournaments have traditionally been used to help launch new technologies, such as color television and wireless communications. This year's event in Germany is no exception -- even if a couple of promising technologies such as a chip-enabled soccer ball and broadcast mobile TV will miss the kickoff.

A consortium of six of Australia's major providers of general insurance has inked a multimillion dollar contract with IBM to deliver the industry's first centralised electronic compliance Hub.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) are warning Internet banking customers about the rise of fraud occurring via SPAM emails and fake Web sites.

Having all but won the Fibre Channel switch battle, Brocade Communications Systems has set its sight on a new market. The switch maker today revealed seven storage management software companies have signed up to develop for its forthcoming family of SilkWorm Fabric Application Platforms. Convincing independent software vendors to write software to a new virtualization platform is the first salvo in this battle with Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems.

A new Internet document classifications system which employs linguistics theory to identify online breaches of the Corporations Act is set to become the latest weapon in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) arsenal against Australian Web scammers.

The X1 supercomputer from Cray Inc. is now available with ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chips designed by Cray and manufactured by IBM Corp., the companies said on Thursday.

Dell Computer, IBM and Sun Microsystems plan to build servers based on the high-speed InfiniBand I/O technology. Hardware from Dell and IBM is due to hit the market next year, and Sun servers will be available in 2004.

Web servers used for e-commerce, financial services and other tasks that make intensive use of SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption are often slowed by having to devote processor time to decrypt, interpret and process encrypted traffic.