Sentences with phrase «than a chip for»

Nvidia says the architecture's life began as a design for mobile products (i.e. laptops), rather than a chip for desktops.

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CBO is saying that children and their families who flock to Obamacare markets in the absence of CHIP would be more expensive for the federal government to cover than simply extending CHIP.

For starters, chip card transactions take slightly longer than traditional cards.

The increased computational power that is making all this possible derives not only from Moore's law but also from the realization in the late 2000s that graphics processing units (GPUs) made by Nvidia — the powerful chips that were first designed to give gamers rich, 3D visual experiences — were 20 to 50 times more efficient than traditional central processing units (CPUs) for deep - learning computations.

Services like Snacknation are the perfect way to order bulk snacks for the office that are tasty, fun, and even healthier than the regular old cookies or potato chips.

Those chips typically run run faster and better than those of rivals, in part because Apple is able to customize them for its phones and its own operating system, iOS.

For comparison, Apple says the A10X chip in the iPad Pro has a CPU that's 2.5 times faster and a GPU that's a whopping 4.7 times faster than the A8.

That doesn't tell us how much faster it is than the A9 used by the previous iPad, though, or even the A8X chip used by the iPad Air 2, so we'll have to reserve judgment until we get the new iPad in the lab for testing.

One other potential bright spot on the horizon for AWS carriers is the arrival of so - called pentaband phones, which have chip sets that can run on five different frequencies rather than the four that many smartphones currently accommodate.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

HPE supercomputing and A.I. head Bill Mannel said the latest version of the company's supercomputers include more Nvidia GPUs than they ever have and HPE is exploring different types of specialized chips like so - called field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips to help improve the overall performance for certain tasks.

To avoid big swings in the stock price, it's a good idea to look for chip makers that have no more than 40 % exposure to one customer, says Hodson.

The new chips, available for pre-order immediately and arriving on Apr. 19, are faster and cheaper than last year's models.

The Fitbit Ionic manages to fit — no pun intended — a GPS sensor, a heart rate sensor, a «multi-day battery» rated at more than four days, a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip for contactless payments, enough storage for music (plus Pandora support and Bluetooth headphone support), and water resistance into a device that's not much thicker than conventional wristwear.

Banks are pushing for the switch to EMV technology because cards with chips are more difficult to counterfeit than the traditional American credit card with a magnetic stripe.

Intel has teased the large - scale release of these 10 - nanometer chips for years, promising they'd deliver better performance with lower power usage than chips built with the company's 14 - nanometer technology, which have been shipping since 2014.

The new Nervana chips will be able to transfer data in and out at 2.4 terabytes per second, and with very low latency at a rate five to 10 times faster than the fastest input - output interfaces for traditional chips, Rao says.

If Broadcom were to have bought Qualcomm for about $ 117 billion, the deal would have created an enormous mobile computer chip giant worth more than $ 200 billion.

Annapurna Labs Ponying up $ 350 million for the computer - server chip maker marks Amazon's signature strategy: Acquire inexpensive, third - party technologies to power its hardware, such as the Kindle e-reader, rather than build them from the ground up.

It's a loyalty program that's made it easier than ever to be loyal, but the brand's raised the stakes: On certain days you can earn double stars for every dollar you spend, increasing the allure of that Java Chip Frappuccino you've been craving.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

Nvidia Corp. shares surged Tuesday for a second straight day as analysts rallied around the chip maker, contending that its strengths more than make up for a potential downturn in cryptocurrency - related revenue and self - driving fears.

Our successful entrepreneurs overcame reservations about their long - term viability by selling concrete performance characteristics — faster chips and fourth - generation language software, for instance — rather than intangible attributes like a tangier sauce or more evocative perfume.

Khosla's Bitcoin portfolio includes 21 Inc, a developer of Bitcoin mining chips which has amassed more than $ 120 million in startup capital to date, Blockstream, a company focused on innovation in sidechains to improve blockchains, Chain, the leading blockchain platform for enterprises and BlockScore, an identity verification and anti-fraud solution for online transactions.

For more than 60 years, ECI has been providing best - in - class service and exceptional product quality to its global, blue - chip customer base.

Activist investor Jana Partners agitated for the split, which could moot key anti-trust allegations against Qualcomm that it uses its dominance in cellular chips to extract higher - than - deserved royalties from customers.

Onceagain, most Blue Chip stocks will still have to be traded, not «buy and held» for much better than single digit returns in 2002.

For example, Nvidia makes chips and software used by more than 100 companies developing autonomous vehicles and driving capabilities.

And according to a recent report from the Royal Bank of Canada, the market size for cryptocurrency mining will grow only bigger with mining equipment for bitcoin expected to lead the way, with a market size of more than $ 4 billion; while ASIC (application - specific integrated circuit chip)- mined cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin cash are expected to have a market cap of around $ 350 - $ 450 million.

IoT Chain has often been called the «IOTA of China», but unlike IOTA, IoT Chain is supported by a single - chip microcomputer that allows for easier proof - of - hardware security than other options.

While shares continue to trade at a nosebleed valuation — the stock is currently selling for more than 27 times trailing sales — I don't think that long - term investors should be looking to cash in their chips anytime soon.

Hoffmeyer suggests there are many use cases for blockchain in treasury functions and capital structures, where companies can move secure tokens instead of using real funds.IBM, now the world's biggest employer of blockchain engineers, says more than 400 of its customers — including blue - chip names Walmart, Nestlé, Kroger, JD.com, Unilever, Maersk, DuPont and Dow Chemical — are currently running blockchain - based projects.

ASIC (or application - specific integrated circuit) are chips created for a specific, rather than a general, purpose, for example, Bitcoin mining.

ASIC (or application - specific integrated circuit) are chips created for a specific, rather than a general, purpos...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for example, is nothing more than a price - weighted market index of 30 blue chip stocks.

DUBAI, May 1 - Saudi stocks slid 0.6 percent on Tuesday as concerns grew about rich valuations for blue - chip stocks after the region's biggest stock market hit a more than a two - year high last week.

To be sure, Lululemon's plunging share price follows a string of frustrating PR nightmares for the company, including a massive quality - driven pants recall last spring, the sudden departure of visionary CEO Christine Day early last summer, and some less than savory comments from Lululemon's founder — and now former chairman — Chip Wilson.

It makes sense for the U.S. to use its scarce natural and human resources to manufacture airplanes, high - end computer chips and advanced software — products that command better prices than do less complex things like shoes or textiles.

Earlier this year, Joanna and Chip auctioned more than 300 items from the original cafe to raise money for Mission Waco's Jubilee Food Market, a nonprofit grocery store that's set to open next month.

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

See also Max Müller, Chips, IV, 188: «If he lived the life which is there described, few saints have a better claim to the title than Buddha; and no one either in the Greek or in the Roman Church need be ashamed of having paid to Buddha's memory the honor that was intended for St. Josaphat, the prince, the hermit, and the saint.»)

So I must say, I've never really been one for oatmeal cookies, mostly because there was nothing more disappointing to me than taking a huge bite of what looked like a chocolate chip cookie to find out that it was really oatmeal raisin.

They're just about everyone's sweetheart cookie, and for good reason; I can't think of anything better than a really great chocolate chip cookie....

The chocolate chip cookie layer of these cookies are a little bit darker than usual because I used a mixture of all - purpose flour and bread flour for a chewier crumb.

The second had more fat than this one, more whole wheat flour and more chocolate chips and just was not as good for some reason.

These cookies have a little more sass than your typical chocolate chip: with a bit of old fashioned rolled oats for added texture and chewiness, a dash of cinnamon and a hint of espresso powder for richness and depth, and plenty of brown sugar for an incredibly rich, well - rounded flavor and moisture.

Baking the zucchini chips on lightly oiled parchment paper worked a lot better for me than using Silpat mats... they tended to stick to the Silpats for some reason.

While taco night doesn't usually call for appetizers, other than maybe chips, salsa, and guacamole, but that didn't stop me.

-LSB-...] We had okra stew available for anyone arriving to the party hungry and wanting more or different food than a cupcake or chips & salsa.