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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

The market for using GPUs as general-purpose processors (GPGPUs) really opened up in 2009, when OpenGL publisher Khronos Group released Open Computing Language (OpenCL). Nvidia says its hardware, software, and services can cut early-stage drug discovery from months to weeks. But it’s a segment that’s more than doubling each year.

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Why Shenzhen is a hotbed for startups

Galido

In 2017 the city of Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing cities of the planet and a global manufacturing hub which produces a host of electronic items like drones, electric cars, smartphones, cameras, computer, hardware, software and more. billion in 2016 and this is surely a very exciting prospect for all hardware start-up enterprises.

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Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial

The Verge

Phil Schiller said outright that he had no idea if the App Store had brought in more money than it spent since 2009 “because that’s not how I look at the business.” (For But the most exciting turn came when Xbox boss Lori Wright took the stand , testifying that Microsoft doesn’t make money from Xbox hardware.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Hardware Sizing for MOSS 2007 – HP Tools

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

The course was very timely and relevant to me, provided me some excellent tools with which I have been more effective in aspects of my job, etc. Archives May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 More. Enterprise 2.0

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Crypto-currencies and their promise for enterprise technology professionals

CTOvision

It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open source software in 2009. This is of course an untenable situation. In addition, anyone can process transactions using the computing power of specialized hardware and earn a reward in bitcoins for this service.

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A VMworld 2012 Wrap-Up

Scott Lowe

Of course, there were also plenty of other wrap-up/summary posts as well. Arista: I also chatted briefly with Arista about the hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoint (VTEP) support they were demonstrating. As many others have pointed out in the comments to my post on OTV-VXLAN traffic flow , the addition of hardware VTEP support (i.e.,

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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

Fountainhead

Monday, September 7, 2009. Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. Plus, there was usually a local disk, of course. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss. Host Bus Adaptors).

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