It seems that Intel's Core i7 processors do not go well with memory voltage that exceeds 1.65V. The giant chip maker is said to have warned both motherboard makers and memory vendors that its new X58+Core i7 combo would not support memory modules with voltage over that limit. The risk of getting a fried CPU appears once the 1.65V barrier is crossed. It seems that some pictures of motherboards having stickers over the DIMM slots that warn on the risk of high voltage already surfaced on the web. This limitation hits memory makers heavily, since there are already products that operate at values well beyond that line, including OCZ Reaper ... [read more >>] It looks like, while most of us mortals still have to wait until leading chip maker Intel officially unveils its next-generation Core i7 processors, the Chinese-language PC Online is one step ahead in the game. The website already had the chance to test and benchmark the performance of one of Intel's upcoming quad-core Core i7 CPUs, namely the Extreme 940 model. Now, remember, these new chips aren't expected to come out until sometime in November, so the fact that they have already been tested is quite an important aspect. This is all the more true especially since, in order to fully set up a benchmarking platform for these ... [read more >>] Although we still don't know when the official announcement will take place, Intel is expected to unveil its next generation Core i7 processors, based on the Nehalem architecture. As with most other highly anticipated hardware products, details have already surfaced on the Internet, which literally means that, by the time the Santa Clara, California-based leading chip maker decides to officially unveil the product, most users will already have a general idea of what to expect from it. Just recently, photos of the company's upcoming Core i7 Extreme processor have popped up on the Internet, clearly showing everything you are t... [read more >>] Intel officially announced on Monday the introduction of seven 45 nanometer Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products, also known as the six-core 'Dunnington' chips. The new microprocessors are designed for the high-end server segment and are capable of bringing new performance levels to virtualization courtesy of their six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory. Applications developed for virtualized environments, including databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation, can benefit from performance increases of up to 50 percent in some cases. The 'Dunnington' ... [read more >>] Internet TV represents, without a doubt, the future of television as we know it, since the WWW is turning into world's greatest content delivery solution. However, in order to be able to enjoy the various types of content that can be delivered via the Internet, users require dedicated, specialized machines, and this is where giant chip manufacturer Intel comes into play. Thus, at the Intel Developer Forum, the company has just announced the Intel Media Processor CE 3100, which is the first in a new family of purpose-built System on Chips (SoCs) for consumer electronics devices based on the company's Intel Architecture (IA) bluepri... [read more >>] Intel's 2 billion transistors Itanium processor, also known as Tukwila, managed to stir up some attention lately, as it's not every day you see a chip packing such amount of transistors. Tukwila is a quad-core part built on the 65-nanometer process node that comes with a huge amount of cache memory.Earlier this week, during the pre-IDF briefing, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, spilled some details about the upcoming chip, that is alleged to deliver twice the performance of the dual-core Montvale (the 9100 series Itanium).The Tukwila behemoth is built on a 21.5x... [read more >>] AMD's errata-free quad-core Opterons are slated for official unveiling in April this year, eight months later than the original release date. It was supposed to hit the market in September, but a translation lookaside buffer bug kept it away from the retailers' shelves. Although the company announced that the B3 stepping of the Barcelona silicon is completely functional, the processors are not available for sale yet.The chip manufacturer has already shipped its first units to worldwide testers, and it seems that one of the first to grab the units is torrent site Isohunt, that has received "2 pre-production engineering samples" of ... [read more >>] AMD has officially announced that Barcelonas are not to be publicly available until 2008. The market is already short of Barcelonas, since the company sells the chips in volume only to their selected customers, after an extremely attentive screening process. As for attentive screening, they should have done this with the chips, rather than with the customers. Fact is that the Barcelona family has totally disappeared from the face of the Earth. SPEC has pushed things even further and invalidated all AMD K10 benchmarks from their website. Instead, SPEC hangs the "Not Available" card, but did not forget to mention that the benchmarks were not ... [read more >>] There are two major computer processor producers in the world and they have most of the market. In a far, far away past, a number a smaller producers like Cyrix and VIA were challenging AMD and Intel on the processor market, but to no avail. Cyrix was going good in the first half of the 90s but later it sunk so low that VIA was able to buy the whole company for petty cash. So only VIA remained, but it refocused on computer chipsets and low end integrated video chips, all but in name pulling from the processor market. Its current computer processor, named C7, is not too hot either, as it is a low cost, low power solution designed more for em... [read more >>] There is a war going on. A war between AMD and Intel that started just as soon as the first AMD designed and produced x86 compatible processor came on the market. For a long time, Intel was the undisputed leader in the processor market and the driving force of innovation in the entire computer hardware industry. Then with the first Athlon series processors from AMD the situation changed dramatically and Intel was finally forced to take a deep breath and admit that the mighty company was caught unprepared by an ant-sized opponent.Nowadays, the war between AMD and Intel is raging on more than one front. On one hand, there is the battle for su... [read more >>] | 
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