http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - CPU Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 01:02:39 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 01:02:39 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i7-3740QM-and-i7-3840QM-Ivy-Bridge-Detailed-272053.shtml There is new information available on a pair of central processing units that will become part of the Intel Ivy Bridge lineup sooner or later.

Intel's launch of the Ivy Bridge central processing unit line does not really qualify as a “launch”, not in the strictest sense anyway.

Instead, the company ch... (read more)]]> Mon, 28 May 2012 09:32:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i7-3740QM-and-i7-3840QM-Ivy-Bridge-Detailed-272053.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i7-3740QM-and-i7-3840QM-Ivy-Bridge-Detailed-272053.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Store-Gives-Discount-to-People-With-Damaged-Ivy-Bridge-CPUs-272023.shtml
We'll get the bad news out of the way: you won't get to benefit from this nice little deal if you don't live in Japan's capital.

The reason is that the shop offering it, DIY Shop FreeT, demands that buyers bring over their damaged Ivy B... (read more)]]> Mon, 28 May 2012 08:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Store-Gives-Discount-to-People-With-Damaged-Ivy-Bridge-CPUs-272023.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Store-Gives-Discount-to-People-With-Damaged-Ivy-Bridge-CPUs-272023.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Getting-Ready-for-big-Announcements-at-AFDS-271925.shtml Software development has proved to be just as important as hardware development. Usually, hardware makers need to take the lead and practically teach programmers how to better use the hardware available.

The first obvious move in such a direction was Intel’s introduction of the MMX extensions that offered programmers a simple se... (read more)]]> Sat, 26 May 2012 11:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Getting-Ready-for-big-Announcements-at-AFDS-271925.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Getting-Ready-for-big-Announcements-at-AFDS-271925.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Secret-Socket-1356-CPUs-271669.shtml Intel's Xeon E5 and E3 socket LGA 1356 processors have been out and about for a while, but so have four chips that people may not have heard of, due to Intel's deliberate secrecy.

Of course, “secrecy” may be laying it on thick a bit, since the Santa Clara, California-based company didn't actually wage a covert war or anything.

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That means that manufacturing process technologies have to be planned well in advance, and this is precisely what United Microelectronics Corp. is doing.

Much like Intel pro... (read more)]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 07:14:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/UMC-Builds-14nm-Chip-Facility-Starts-on-28nm-Too-271633.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/UMC-Builds-14nm-Chip-Facility-Starts-on-28nm-Too-271633.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Piledriver-FX-Chips-Enter-Mass-Production-in-Q3-271396.shtml The Bulldozer AMD FX series of central processing units ended up disappointing most people, even though the chip did exactly what AMD said it would.

That said, we'll be more cautious in our assumptions regarding the FX-series central processing units that will replace them.

Speaking of which, we now know when the fi... (read more)]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 07:09:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Piledriver-FX-Chips-Enter-Mass-Production-in-Q3-271396.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Piledriver-FX-Chips-Enter-Mass-Production-in-Q3-271396.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberLink-Supports-AMD-s-Trinity-Triple-Performance-271203.shtml We talked a lot about AMD’s lack of software optimization right before Trinity’s official launch. AMD needs to work on software development, as relying on Intel’s compilers is a very bad idea.

CyberLink software company has just updated its media processing software suite with complete support for AMD’s Vide... (read more)]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 10:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberLink-Supports-AMD-s-Trinity-Triple-Performance-271203.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberLink-Supports-AMD-s-Trinity-Triple-Performance-271203.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i5-3365M-Mobile-CPU-Set-for-Q3-Launch-271231.shtml Intel may have decided to hold off on the launch of some of its CPUs, but that doesn't mean it has succeeded in completely hiding the information regarding them.

Whether through controlled or unintentional information leaks, data about both desktop and laptop Ivy Bridge CPUs has been trickling to the net.

The chip now ... (read more)]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 09:42:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i5-3365M-Mobile-CPU-Set-for-Q3-Launch-271231.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i5-3365M-Mobile-CPU-Set-for-Q3-Launch-271231.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-to-Launch-Tamesh-CPUs-for-Windows-8-TabletPCs-Early-2013-271001.shtml Microsoft’s Windows 8 launches in October and, like we mentioned before, AMD will be ready with Hondo CPUs. Considering that Hondo CPUs are still made in 40 nm manufacturing technology at TSMC, the company is reportedly preparing a 32 nm version to better counter Intel’s Clover Trail on power consumption.

As a... (read more)]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 11:31:01 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-to-Launch-Tamesh-CPUs-for-Windows-8-TabletPCs-Early-2013-271001.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-to-Launch-Tamesh-CPUs-for-Windows-8-TabletPCs-Early-2013-271001.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Trinity-Offers-46-Better-Battery-Life-than-Ivy-Bridge-270896.shtml Every battery test done on Trinity compared AMD’s reference test systems with retail shipping Ivy Bridge notebooks from different manufacturers.

To stick to the correct principles of benchmarking, when comparing two devices inside a system, the main system should be exactly the same.

Only the performanc... (read more)]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 22:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Trinity-Offers-46-Better-Battery-Life-than-Ivy-Bridge-270896.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Trinity-Offers-46-Better-Battery-Life-than-Ivy-Bridge-270896.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ARM-Sees-Opportunity-to-Capture-20-of-Mobile-PC-Market-by-2015-270839.shtml ARM is a British CPU design company that develops and licenses the well-known ARM architecture. Lately, the performance of ARM-based CPUs has become comparable with low-power x86 counterparts, and the company reportedly foresees that they'd own over 20% of the mobile PC market by 2015.

ARM is currently the king of ... (read more)]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 15:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/ARM-Sees-Opportunity-to-Capture-20-of-Mobile-PC-Market-by-2015-270839.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/ARM-Sees-Opportunity-to-Capture-20-of-Mobile-PC-Market-by-2015-270839.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Summer-Ivy-Brige-Lineup-Detailed-270815.shtml On June 3rd, Intel will reportedly launch four desktop Core i5 processors. These are the Core i5-3570, Core i5-3470, Core i5-3570S, Core i5-3475S quad-core desktop processors.

These well-performing CPUs have no HyperThreading and come with a large 6 MB or level 3 cache and a Turbo option of 3800 MHz.

Pricing will range between 184... (read more)]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 14:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Summer-Ivy-Brige-Lineup-Detailed-270815.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Summer-Ivy-Brige-Lineup-Detailed-270815.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-to-Use-Low-Performance-Sandy-Bridge-CPUs-to-Make-UltraBooks-More-Affordable-270788.shtml Intel’s UltraBook plan is not rolling out like the company initially wanted. The price for the new UltraBook type of laptops is currently too high to achieve the sales targets that the company desires.

Therefore, Intel will launch affordable Ultra-Low-Voltage processors in autumn this year, to h... (read more)]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 12:32:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-to-Use-Low-Performance-Sandy-Bridge-CPUs-to-Make-UltraBooks-More-Affordable-270788.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-to-Use-Low-Performance-Sandy-Bridge-CPUs-to-Make-UltraBooks-More-Affordable-270788.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Embedded-Trinity-Processor-Officially-Launched-270742.shtml Texas-based processor designer Advanced Micro Devices is launching today the Embedded R-Series Platform, on its official website. These are basically Trinity CPUs that are destined for embedded applications.

In the performance computing world, energy efficiency is mostly a new concept. The embedded market, on the other hand, is m... (read more)]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:31:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Embedded-Trinity-Processor-Officially-Launched-270742.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Embedded-Trinity-Processor-Officially-Launched-270742.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Inexact-Chips-Are-1500-More-Efficient-than-Today-s-Processors-270642.shtml Researchers from Rice University in Houston, Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Switzerland’s Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) and from the University of California, Berkeley have recently made public their achievements in “inexact” computing.

What the researchers d... (read more)]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 20:09:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Inexact-Chips-Are-1500-More-Efficient-than-Today-s-Processors-270642.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Inexact-Chips-Are-1500-More-Efficient-than-Today-s-Processors-270642.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Has-No-Competitor-for-AMD-s-Trinity-270641.shtml We were delighted to report about AMD’s Trinity performance in the new and long-anticipated computer game, Blizzard’s Diablo III. We’ve mentioned the imbalance between AMD’s chip and Intel’s processor regarding the power consumption and especially the price, but it seems there’s much more to that.

AMD&rsq... (read more)]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 11:26:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Has-No-Competitor-for-AMD-s-Trinity-270641.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Has-No-Competitor-for-AMD-s-Trinity-270641.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-CEO-Believes-in-Winning-the-UltraBook-Bet-270296.shtml Just like we anticipated, there is a strong chance that Intel’s UltraBook game might be won by AMD. The chief executive officer (CEO) of Advanced Micro Devices reportedly believes the same thing.

Apparently, we were not far away with our deductions, and yesterday’s good news for AMD only seem to strengthen the belief ... (read more)]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-CEO-Believes-in-Winning-the-UltraBook-Bet-270296.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-CEO-Believes-in-Winning-the-UltraBook-Bet-270296.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Trinity-Trounces-Ivy-Bridge-in-Diablo-III-270029.shtml As most experts said before, AMD seems to be winning the Fusion bet. We were able to write about some of AMD’s achievements last year, and we have another win to report today.

Llano and Brazos already conquered 43% of the desktop market, although AMD doesn’t have a superior x86 CPU in any price range.

The ultrat... (read more)]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 22:31:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Trinity-Trounces-Ivy-Bridge-in-Diablo-III-270029.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Trinity-Trounces-Ivy-Bridge-in-Diablo-III-270029.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dane-Elec-mySSD-O-Series-Up-and-About-269543.shtml There is a new solid-state drive line ready to serve in embedded computing, server, notebook, and tablet devices used in military, public safety, utility, homeland security and mining applications.

Consumer solid-state drives are pretty straightforward: NAND Flash-based storage devices with high transfer speeds.

Only when they are... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 19:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dane-Elec-mySSD-O-Series-Up-and-About-269543.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dane-Elec-mySSD-O-Series-Up-and-About-269543.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Wants-to-Make-Sure-SoCs-Aren-t-Buggy-Gets-Help-269627.shtml Advanced Micro Devices is going to be making lots of system-on-chip devices from now on, but the complexity of technologies and interfaces means it can't afford to mess up too much.

The design stage is just one step of creating a marketable device. Verification and manufacture come after, and then the product can be put up for sal... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 17:01:01 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Wants-to-Make-Sure-SoCs-Aren-t-Buggy-Gets-Help-269627.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Wants-to-Make-Sure-SoCs-Aren-t-Buggy-Gets-Help-269627.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Reviewers-Verdict-AMD-Trinity-APUs-Not-Mind-Blowing-269646.shtml We've covered the official launch of the five Trinity accelerated processing units (APUs) from Advanced Micro Devices, but that doesn't really tell us everything we need to know.

It ultimately falls to reviewers to figure out if a new product is all it's cracked up to be and if it is in any way better than the competition.
... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 12:44:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Reviewers-Verdict-AMD-Trinity-APUs-Not-Mind-Blowing-269646.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Reviewers-Verdict-AMD-Trinity-APUs-Not-Mind-Blowing-269646.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Launches-Trinity-Second-Generation-A-Series-APUs-269502.shtml The time is finally here: Advanced Micro Devices has officially launched the second-generation A-Series accelerated processing units, codenamed Trinity.

AMD had a bunch of laptop processors as part of the previous year's APU collection, but the number of design wins wasn't exactly high.

Now, though, the Sunnyvale, ... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 06:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Launches-Trinity-Second-Generation-A-Series-APUs-269502.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Launches-Trinity-Second-Generation-A-Series-APUs-269502.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Processor-Hondo-Ready-for-Windows-8-Launch-269474.shtml Texas-based CPU designer Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, is currently preparing and gathering stocks for the Q4 launch of the company’s first tablet targeted processor called Hondo.

The chip is reportedly made at TSMC in the same 40 nm manufacturing process as Brazos 2.0.

AMD’s long awaited Trinity ar... (read more)]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 18:41:02 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Processor-Hondo-Ready-for-Windows-8-Launch-269474.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-Processor-Hondo-Ready-for-Windows-8-Launch-269474.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Really-Wants-to-Get-Inside-Tablets-269238.shtml Chip giant Intel is reportedly posed to get Apple’s attention with its future chips.

TSMC’s recent demonstration of a 3.1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 dual core chip is certainly more impressive than the empty statements of Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini:

“Our job is to ensure our silicon is so compelling, in terms of ru... (read more)]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 21:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Really-Wants-to-Get-Inside-Tablets-269238.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Really-Wants-to-Get-Inside-Tablets-269238.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-the-Likely-Winner-in-Intel-s-UltraBook-Game-269233.shtml After HP’s marathon product launch of last week, we were left with some interesting data to analyze. As HP’s SleekBooks manifest mostly the same battery life and thickness, Intel’s UltraBook don’t seem so appealing anymore.

As much as we like Intel’s new development direction, it seems that most of the go... (read more)]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-the-Likely-Winner-in-Intel-s-UltraBook-Game-269233.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-the-Likely-Winner-in-Intel-s-UltraBook-Game-269233.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Claims-ARM-Is-Not-a-Threat-269223.shtml Speaking in Santa Clara at an investors’ meeting, Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini tried to do his best in downplaying Intel’s huge embarrassment from two weeks ago. He said that, when it comes to Windows and x86 software, Intel has much more experience.

The thing is that there is a strong possibility that Windows 8 ARM will not necessari... (read more)]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 14:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Claims-ARM-Is-Not-a-Threat-269223.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Claims-ARM-Is-Not-a-Threat-269223.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Sub-Par-Thermal-Grease-Busted-268995.shtml
We should first mention that the temperature Ivy Bridge works at isn't really a hazard, but we have to wonder why Intel allowed this situation to happen. These are high-end, expensive chips, not cheap models where every cut corner counts.

It was back in... (read more)]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 10:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Sub-Par-Thermal-Grease-Busted-268995.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-Sub-Par-Thermal-Grease-Busted-268995.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Mobile-Chipsets-Revealed-268898.shtml
For those who haven't guessed it yet, by “next-generation” CPUs we mean the Haswell series, the ones that will even introduce DDR4 support eventually.

Sure, the first Haswell, bound for 2013 release, won't have that asset, but the Haswell-EX series will, starting in 2014... (read more)]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 06:37:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Mobile-Chipsets-Revealed-268898.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Mobile-Chipsets-Revealed-268898.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Xeon-CPUs-Arrival-Dates-Prices-and-Specs-268706.shtml Intel's next batch of processors from the Xeon collection has been in the making for some time, and it's high time the official release finally happened.

A recent report offers not just the announcement date of the inbound chips, but also the specifications of some of them.

By all accounts, Dell's release of the PowerEdge... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 09:01:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Xeon-CPUs-Arrival-Dates-Prices-and-Specs-268706.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Xeon-CPUs-Arrival-Dates-Prices-and-Specs-268706.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i7-Struggles-Against-AMD-R-Series-268690.shtml Advanced Micro Devices will have both desktop and laptop accelerated processing units for consumers to buy, but that doesn't mean it won't have other chips too.

In fact, the Sunnyvale, California-based company is also going to launch the R-Series, which is basically the mobile “Trinity” series only for the embedded market in... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 08:23:00 GMT Softpedia News - CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i7-Struggles-Against-AMD-R-Series-268690.shtml CPU http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Core-i7-Struggles-Against-AMD-R-Series-268690.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)