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China has topped the list of the twice-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, replacing the United States. In the latest ranking the Tianjin National Supercomputer Center's Tianhe-1A system benchmarked a performance of 2.67 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second), surpassing the former top achiever, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Cray XT5 Jaguar system, which clocked in at 1.75 petaflops in this round.

Japanese NEC Corp is establishing a partnership with a small maker of database computers Netezza Corp to form a coalition against Oracle’s conglomerate it wants to create by acquiring Sun Microsystems.

According to the official statement made jointly by the two companies NEC will build database computers that allow companies to store and analyze data about their operations using NEC blade servers and Netezza software.

Intel has decided to wait until 2011 before it introduces PC chipsets with integrated USB 3.0 controllers. So a senior mole at a major PC maker has claimed, at any rate.

The insider this week told EETimes the move will push demand for the 4.8Gb/s bus technology back a year.

Even if Intel is anticipating that USB 3.0 chipsets won't debut until 2011, that doesn't prevent other chipset makers doing so themselves, or third-party silicon designers implementing suitable controllers that bridge the new bus and a computer's system logic.

A Scottish company Picsel Technologies, has brought an action against the creature of Steve Jobs Apple Inc. for illegal use of their smooth zooming and scrolling technologies on Apple’s iPhone. According to the suer Apple have illegally implemented their technologies to speed up various screen transitions including zooming and scrolling. Such technology is already used by such known companies as Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic, Palm, HP, Motorola, and Nokia which have hade a special agreement with Picsel.