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 >>] AMD fans have all reasons to be happy, as the time for the release of K10 draws near. The long wait will be over soon and all those who are sick and tired of the old, cheap and slow K8 will be able to jump in the K10 speed boat. Because K10 will come out much later than Intel's processors against which it competes, it should be a much better piece of hardware to be able to regain for AMD the lost fans and market shares and maybe, just maybe it will be able to save the company from impending doom as revenues drop and research and development costs rise.There is news that the mainboard manufactures and computer systems integrators are re... [read more >>] According to a new report released by Citigroup, AMD could stop producing CPUs in its own fabs and as a result they might enter what can be called the "fabless" era. This is not a new case since one of the biggest GPU manufacturers, Nvidia has no manufacturing capabilities and relies on groups such as TSMC and UMC in order to produce the 7 and 8 series GPUs.As it turns out, AMD has been investing a lot in the development segment but also in capacity both in America and Germany. However the fact that they managed to delay the R600 series and the 65nm Brisbanes a lot rises some questions regarding their actual manufacturing capabilities.Rolle... [read more >>] The arrival of Core 2 Duo brought INTEL and its CPUs back into the light. However, the company has not based its upcoming processor design solely on the development of Core 2 Duo. The upcoming 45nm architecture is significantly different from the Penryn CPU (which is essentially a 45nm C2D) in terms of processing power but also memory controller, this segment being a weak point of the current Core 2 architecture.Most of you who watch INTEL's roadmap releases probably know that Nehalem CPUs will use a new platform architecture which will do away with bus architecture. In an effort to improve the available bandwidth, INTEL's memory ... [read more >>] Lately INTEL has been trying to get everyone's attention with its new CPUs. Well, maybe lately is a little off since INTEL has tried that throughout the latest years. But now, more than ever, INTEL has a perfectly good reason to do that since AMD's Barcelona is almost an equal competitor. Almost...Almost a day ago, INTEL housed a private meeting inside Computex where it showed off a new V8 system capable of housing two 45nm Penryn processors. Both the CPUs ran at 3.00GHz and offered a combined total cache size of 24MB (12MB for each CPU). Being a V8 system also translated into full FB-DIMM support so INTEL filled the memory banks ... [read more >>] | 
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