Tag archive: Shanghai

When it comes to elevators, surely there comes a point when it’s time to say, “That’s fast enough, thanks.” Any such comments have evidently fallen on deaf ears at Mitsubishi, as engineers working for the Japanese company have designed what they believe to be the world’s fastest elevator. Set for use in the under-construction 632-meter (2,073 feet) Shanghai Tower, the elevator will hurtle through the building at a blackout-inducing (though one… Read More

China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said in a report Thursday that urges governments to ease the way for such initiatives. The report by the China Greentech Initiative, a group of more than 80 leading technology companies, non-governmental organizations and policy advisers, pinpointed opportunities from 300… Read More

A 25-year-old old employee of China's Foxconn, a mammoth manufacturing company that builds many products for Apple as well as other manufacturers, has committed suicide over the loss of a prototype 4th-generation iPhone that was in his care. The worker jumped to his death from the 12th floor of his apartment building in the southern city of Shenzhen early in the morning of July 16, according to the state run regional paper Southern… Read More

Intel may have been the first chipmaker to introduce a six-core processor with the Xeon 7400 series, but it won’t be for long. AMD played catch-up on Wednesday by unveiling its new Opteron processors for servers, which will jump from four cores to six while retaining compatibility with the old socket 1207 platform. The company demonstrated the new processors earlier this week. The so-called Istanbul uses the same 45nm processor as… Read More

Chipmaker AMD has formally rolled out its new 45nm Quad-Core Opteron processors. Dubbed “Shanghai” and aimed at the high performance workstation and server market, the new CPUs are designed to offer advanced virtualization capabilities—so one processor can, in effect, host several systems, potentially running different operating systems—and more efficient operation: according to AMD, the new chips offer up to 35… Read More

At this week's Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, Intel officially unveiled the second generation of its low-cost Classmate PCs, which the company is now re-branding as “netbooks” to emphasize their wireless networking and Internet access capabilities. The new Classmate PCs offer screens from 7 to 9 inches in size and run off Intel Celeron M processors, and support either Windows XP or Linux operating systems.… Read More

At its second Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, chip developer Intel officially took the wraps off its new Atom line of low power processors, designed to drive mobile Internet-enabled devices and other in-pocket, connected devices. Previously code-named "Silverthorne" and "Menlow," the new Atom chips should be available later this year, and will be manufactured using Intel's 45nm process with hi-k metal gate… Read More

At a news conference yesterday celebrating ten years of operating in China, Dell CEO Michael Dell said his company plans to significantly increase its presence in China's and India's rapidly-expanding personal computer markets, and part of the company's efforts will include developing new models specifically for those regions. Dell also said his company plans to source more than $50 billion in components from China,… Read More

You might not have heard of Mixi, but it’s big in Japan, one of the largest social networks there, in fact. Now it’s ready to spread its wings and head intoChina, with plans to set up a Shanghai subsidiary this spring, according to Thomson Financial.   Mixi was founded in 2004 and has becomea major force in social networking among the young in Japan, and claimed to have over 13 million members, up five million from a year ago,… Read More

Last July, chipmaker Intel joined the board of the One Laptop Per Child project, in a move widely seen as a play to usurp AMD's position at the heart of the OLPC XO laptop to be built by Taiwan's Quanta. Now, Intel says it has plans to develop a new microprocessor architecture explicitly for the OLPC project and other low-cost notebook computers, and plans to unveil the design at its developer forum to be held in Shanghai in… Read More

Google is continuing its quest for world domination. The search giant has announced that it’s bought a stake in the Chinese community site Tianya.cn.   That takes Google not only into China, currently the world’s second-largest Internet market, but also into social networking.   Although thesize of Google’s stake hasn’t been confirmed, reports put it at anywhere from 10-60%. No financial details have been… Read More

Computer maker Gateway has announced it will be offering desktop and notebook PCs exclusively for the Chinese market. Digital China will be the company's exclusive distributor, and Gateways's initial offerings will be premium systems featuring Windows Vista Home Premium and Intel Centrino Duo and Core 2 Duo processors. "China is home to some of the world's most savvy computer users and we're confident they… Read More

Last weekend’s Live Earth concerts might have been criticized for their green credentials, but there’s one way they were a huge winner. The nine concerts, inspired by former Vice President Al Gore, held in cities spanning the globe, drew a record 10 million video streams.   Designed to raise awareness of climate change and global warming, concerts were held in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro,… Read More

The state-run newspaper China Daily reports that Zhang Zhengrong, a Chinese doctor who oversees Shanghai's hotline for pregnant teens, says that 46 percent of the 20,000 teenage girls who have called the hotline over the last two years have had sex with boys they've met via the Internet. The China Daily said, "Most of the fathers disappeared after learning about the pregnancy, and some of the mothers did not even know the… Read More

Microsoft is apparently working toward launching its Xbox 360 video gaming console in China, assuming it can get a stamp of approval from Chinese authorities and regulators. According to reports, Microsoft is working with both computer distributors and Internet service providers in mainland China with an eye towards authorizing official sales agents for the gaming system in the country. However, Microsoft is also talking with regulators… Read More