天河-1A + Lenovo's Smartphones

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(1) Don Clark, Supercomputer Ranking Offers Clues About Chips, China. Digits, Nov 12, 2012.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012 ... -about-chips-china/

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"The latest Top500 list–compiled twice a year based on results of standard speed tests–anoints a machine called Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as the speediest on the planet. * * * Titan * * * gets most of its speed from a new Nvidia NVDA chip family [called Tesla, including K20 and K20X, which the company says are three times faster than prior-generation products] that is based on the technology used to provide sophisticated graphics in videogames.

"Tianhe-1A [No 8 this time], set off considerable hand-wringing among some researchers about threats to US dominance when it took the No. 1 spot on the list in November 2010. But there seems to have been little progress since then


(2) Juro Osawa, Does Lenovo Really Need Smartphones?  Digits, Nov 9, 2012
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012 ... y-need-smartphones/
("The idea that tablets are eating into PC sales is true to some extent in the US and other developed markets where most people already own PCs. Still, in many emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, people are still buying their first PC. In a CLSA survey of consumers in China, India and Indonesia released last month, respondents considered PCs a necessity, but not tablets")