architecture

Photos: Dubai's 'dynamic tower' in motion

News It's always been one of the enduring truths of architecture: buildings stand still. Credit: Courtesy of David Fisher and Dynamic Architecture Enter architect David Fisher and the firm Dynamic Architecture.

Tags: press, motion, conference, energy

2 July 2008, 9:18

Photos: Predicting a city's future

News Eight architecture firms tackle San Francisco in the History Channel's "City of the Future" contest. IwamotoScott Architecture, the winning design firm, created residential high-rise buildings that double as vertical algae-growing beds.Credit: CNET...

Tags: networks, model, channel, history

28 January 2008, 9:47

AMD unveils new Athlon chips

News AMD unveiled desktop chips on Tuesday based on its AM2 socket, setting the stage for future products based on a new architecture. The chipmaker is making modest advances to its chip-design strategy this year as it gets ready for chips in 2007 based...

24 May 2006, 11:21

Intel to unveil new Merom laptop chip

News Merom, a laptop processor and the third leg of Intel's Core architecture triumvirate, will also get a thorough airing at a launch party planned at the chipmaker's headquarters this Thursday (27 July), CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com has learned.

24 July 2006, 9:56

Intel's Core 2 Duo aces tests

News Back in February, before Intel had released details about the Core architecture used to build Conroe, Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms group, claimed that, in general, the Core architecture chips would...

17 July 2006, 10:53

Laptops embrace the Core 2 Duo

News This is the closing of the circle, of Intel moving in the client space to the Core architecture," said Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile platforms group. Intel has binned its older Netburst architecture chips for...

29 August 2006, 7:35

Photos: Turning spam into art

News For Dragulescu's Spam Architecture, patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text of spam are translated into three-dimensional modelling architecture. Here is more spam architecture. The ASCII values found in the text of spam messages determine...

27 July 2006, 10:00

eBay to open its doors with eBox?

News In an interview with CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com on Monday, he described the technology and the company's goals in undertaking the services-oriented architecture.eBox aims to make it quicker to build applications by providing pre-built...

13 June 2007, 10:03

Bruised Intel looks forward

News Merom, Conroe and WoodcrestBy the end of the year, Intel will release a full array of processors based on a new architecture that derives somewhat from its laptop lines. Multicore plumbingSticking all those cores on a single chip, however, will...

8 March 2006, 9:53

Intel strikes back with next-gen chips

News The awkwardly titled Next-Generation Micro-Architecture (let's call it NGMA) has yet to receive a catchy name like Netburst, the Pentium 4 architecture it is replacing. But Eden believes it will quickly grab the attention of PC vendors, chip...

20 February 2006, 11:02

Unfazed, IBM pumps up Power chip programme

News But IBM, far from being daunted, instead set the stage for a showdown with Intel by declaring just how ambitious its Power plans are: "IBM's strategy is to spread its open-chip technology and establish Power Architecture as the dominant industry...

10 June 2005, 10:01

AMD's new Puma stalks Intel's Centrino

News By adopting a new architecture, the company says it can cut power consumption further without worrying as much about making changes that might affect how the architecture works in the server world, for instance.

18 May 2007, 9:42

Setting the stage for China's tech future

News With good reason: it ranks at or near the top of the field in China in a wide array of tech disciplines, including computer architecture, communications and software. With strong courses in computer architecture and software, Peking has nearly 4...

31 May 2005, 9:22

Windows becoming 'too monolithic'

News The analysts said: "The more interesting question here is whether one OS can address [cloud computing and real-time architecture]. But can this same approach be extended to embrace cloud computing and real-time architecture demands?

Tags: silver, vista, computing, architecture

14 April 2008, 8:59

'Second Life' to integrate voice chat

News I will be using it a lot, an incredible amount," said Terry Beaubois, the director of the Creative Research Lab in the College of Arts and Architecture at Montana State University. At the same time, Beaubois, who has been teaching architecture...

28 February 2007, 9:32