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AMD's Shanghai Chip Already Shipping to Vendors

Advanced Micro Devices has already started shipping production quality Shanghai microprocessors to OEMs in order for the chip to pass final validations, announced an AMD spokesman on Wednesday. It seems that, although they had only a first look at the server CPU, the hardware vendors did like it. The new Shanghai chi...

2 October 2008
02:50 GMT

Motherboard Manufacturers Detail on New AMD Desktop Processors

AMD plans to introduce some new processors in 2008 and the first half of 2009, all based on the 45-nanometer micro-architecture. According to the company's unreleased roadmap, AMD will release two new 45-nanometer Phenom X4 CPUs based on Deneb silicon. The chips are expected to work at core frequencies ranging f...

30 April 2008
03:08 GMT

AMD's 45-Nanometer Deneb Core Beats 3.2 GHz

Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming Deneb processors are reportedly able to work beyond the 3.2 GHz threshold. The Deneb silicon is built on the K10.5 micro-architecture and is expected to arrive during the fourth quarter of the year. The new microprocessor will face direct competition from Intel's Nehalem ser...

22 April 2008
02:47 GMT

AMD to Release Bulldozer in 2009

Advanced Micro Devices' President and Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer confirmed, during the last week's conference call, that the chip manufacturer plans to release its next CPU architecture, also known as Bulldozer, in 2009.The multi-core processor will come straight in the 45-nanometer flavor. However...

21 April 2008
11:03 GMT

Intel Announces Crossover Shipments for Q3 2008

Intel's 45-nanometer desktop quad-cores are still hard to find at the retailers' stores, but the company claims that it is on schedule with ramping up its 45-nanometer production at its fabs. During yesterday's conference call, the company said that it expects shipment volumes of products made using 45...

16 April 2008
09:32 GMT

Intel's Q-Series Quads: Inexpensive, but Hard to Find

Intel has started shipping units of its Q-series quad-core processors, after a long trench of delays. Initially announced for early January this year, the chip manufacturer delayed their introduction a couple of times.The company finally started shipping its 45-nanometer Q-series of mainstream-oriented chips, but the...

27 March 2008
11:26 GMT

AMD-Barcelona Powered Servers Will Arrive in April

Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices has announced that the first servers powered by the company's quad-core Barcelona chips are slated for April this year. Company executives claim that the advent of the new processor on the server market will cut down the distance between AMD and its arch-rival Intel.Accor...

19 March 2008
07:40 GMT

Carbon, Better than Copper at the 45-Nanometer Scale

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have released a report claiming that carbon nanotubes are better than copper interconnects when performing at the 45-nm process node. The scientists used for the first time a supercomputer simulation with detailed quantum mechanical effects, which shown that copper cannot...

15 March 2008
05:56 GMT

CeBIT 2008: AMD Introduces 45-Nanometer Chips

Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices has introduced its 45-nanometer Opteron chips with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenoms in the Deneb core family at yesterday's public conference. The company is still far from releasing the chips for mass-availability, yet this is a proof that AMD is still in track with the ...

5 March 2008
08:16 GMT

Nvidia's MCP7A Chipset for Intel Goes Live Next Month

The next generation of Intel processors are about to kick in, so chipset manufacturers are currently performing the latest trims and adjustments for their Intel-loving products. One of the most important supporter of Intel's architecture in the mainstream and high-end market is Nvidia, that is working on its upc...

5 March 2008
06:31 GMT

AMD Starts Shipping Shanghai, Deneb 45-Nanometer Processors

Advanced Micro Devices today started shipping samples of its upcoming 45-nanometer processors to computer manufacturers and vendors. The move says it all: the chip manufacturer is ready to start mass production in the second half of the year, just as the company promised.The company will initially launch two of its q...

4 March 2008
13:32 GMT

Asustek Unveils Limited Edition Triton 79 Amazing CPU Cooler

Asustek is not much of a cooling and casing solution fan, and that is why you would rarely learn about this kind of hardware. However, when it decides to launch such products, you should expect impressive designs with state-of-the-art functionality. That's the case with its latest invention, the Triton 79 Amazin...

27 February 2008
10:33 GMT

Sun Teams Up With Taiwan-Based TMSC for 45-nanometer Multi-Core Processors

Sun Microsystems has employed Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to build its upcoming multi-core, 450-nanometer processors. This might be seen as the end of a long partnership with Sun's original foundry, Texas Instruments. The latter decided that would collaborate with other chip designers on its process d...

19 February 2008
06:19 GMT

Intel's 45-Nanometer Chips are Running Short - 20% Price Increase

Intel has recently launched its new 45-nanometer E8000 series of processors, but reports have it that the Taiwanese market is already running short of supplies. The Taiwanese OEM and PC vendors cannot face the increasing demand in the 45-nanometer processor, and prices have suddenly increased up to 20 percent more th...

1 February 2008
04:43 GMT

Intel Goes Back to the '90s for In-Order Processors

Intel decided to take a shot at an older processor architecture and revive it for the next generation of energy-saving devices. The upcoming Silverthorne mobile CPU will be the first modern unit of its kind to be built with the technology available during the early '90s.Chip designers and manufacturers worldwide...

29 January 2008
02:44 GMT

Intel to Deliver a 2GHz Dual-Core Celeron Processors

Intel is munching on the idea of delivering a 2GHz dual-core Celeron processor during the first half of the year. The current Celeron E1200 parts are priced $15 less than the Pentium Dual Core E2140 CPUs, so the new dual-core Celeron family might just fit into the picture.The E1400 model of Intel's Celeron is so...

16 January 2008
04:18 GMT

Intel Will Spit Up Fifteen (15) More Montevina CPUs in May

Intel is decided to continue the launch frenzy it started in the first day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show. According to miscellaneous sources at the notebooks builders, the chip manufacturer is alleged to release, in early May, the second batch of 45-nanometer CPUs for the upcoming Montevina platform. ...

15 January 2008
07:03 GMT

Bad Habits Die Hard: AMD to Delay Phenom 9700 and Phenom 9900 to Q2

News of AMD having delayed its processors yet again are not much of a surprise anymore. Back in 2007 it was a common company policy for AMD to delay its processor lines multiple times. Finally, when they got on the market, it was noticed that they were severely crippled by the Translation Lookaside Buffer erratum.Tho...

11 January 2008
03:20 GMT

Intel's 45-Nanometer Technology, Too Hot to Handle?

The 45-nanometer technology seems to be the source of CPU manufacturers' headache. AMD has completely failed in delivering the new processors built around the 45-nm technology, and it seems that there will be some other couple of months until they get the first working CPU.According to the rumors emerging from t...

27 December 2007
05:09 GMT

The 45-Nanometer Technology Is Already Obsolete

The 45-nanometer process rush seems to have ended right after Intel launched the Penryn series. Foundries have sketched a mass-production plan, but major vendors are already chasing another ghost: the development of high-k dielectrics and metal gates for the 32-nm node. The high-k and metal gates are the major obsta...

17 December 2007
11:10 GMT


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