VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

AMD has appointed Donald Newell as Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Server. A distinguished engineer with more than 20 patents filed, Newell has previously served as a senior principal engineer leading the System-on-Chip (SoC) and datacenter networking architecture groups within Intel Labs before joining AMD to lead its server roadmap and platform design programs. "Don Newell brings a strong combination of leadership skills, engineering and design expertise, and strategic direction," said Bergman. "We are fortunate to have Don on board as we prepare for the delivery of the 'Bulldozer' core in our AMD Opteron processors, scheduled for launch in 2011."During his 16 years with Intel, Newell led development of both SoC and server platform architecture innovations for areas ranging from cloud computing to handheld devices. Newell also initiated and drove the I/O Acceleration Technologies (IOAT) from initial research to product inter...

Current developments in WiMax technologies are offering mobile personal broadband users to create whatever they want on a variety of devices from the laptop to cellphones making a huge difference to user experience. Revealing this at the WiMax India 2010 Conference, Dr. Hung Song, Vice-President of Samsung, displayed several tiny modems that could transform laptops, cellphones and other knowledge devices to wireless mode connecting to Internet through WiMax points. The recent WiMax spectrum auction has fetched the Government US$8.56 billion. Department of Telecom Secretary and Telecom Commission Chairman P. J. Thomas referred to the Government programme of connecting all the six hundred thousand villages in a bid to reach out to the rural people. Over two and a half lakh panchayats would have broadband connectivity and wireless broadband access would be the most effective and efficient means of achieving this. "The mobile revolution is now rolling and WiMax will ac...