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SDN Market to Reach $3.1 Billion by 2017: Infonetics

The software-defined networking market will hit $3.1 billion by 2017, with half of those revenues coming out of North America, according to market research...

Silver Peak Intros Traffic Control Tool for Hybrid WANs

Silver Peak wants to make it easier for businesses to ensure the performance of their applications on hybrid wide-area networks.The company is rolling out...

Micron the Big Winner as Memory Drives Semiconductor Market: IHS

The worldwide semiconductor market is poised to make a significant rebound in 2013, due in large part to a growing demand for memory that...

Alcatel-Lucent Turnaround May Be Taking Hold

Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, which seems to have been in perpetual reorganization since its creation in 2006, may be seeing its turnaround efforts finally...

Cyber Monday Sales Most Likely to Be Done on PCs: Ovum

Tablets and smartphones may be the key drivers behind the sharp decline in PC sales worldwide, but the bulk of holiday shoppers looking for...

Western Digital Dual Drive Combines SSD, HDD

Western Digital wants to give PC users the best of both worlds in their storage.The company's new WD Black2 dual-drive combines a 1TB hard-disk...

ARM: No Plans for 128-Bit Chips

Don't expect the engineers at ARM to start churning out a 128-bit chip architecture any time soon, despite speculation generated by a recent report.The...

Intel CPUs, Nvidia GPUs Power Most Efficient Supercomputers

The combination of Intel processors and Nvidia graphics accelerators powers the world's top 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers.According to the Green500 list released Nov. 20...

AMD Gets $3.1M for Exascale Computing Research

Advanced Micro Devices is receiving $3.1 million from the Department of Energy as part of the federal government's push toward exascale computing.The money is...

Intel Retail Stores Opening This Month

Starting this weekend, Intel will take its consumer tech efforts to the streets.The company will open up the first of three temporary retail stores...