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Intel Romley 8-Core Sandy Bridge-E Chips Set for CeBIT 2012

Since consumer processors from the Sandy Bridge-E line are already running rampant, even with two cores sealed, the Romley platform for workstation has to hurry up and arrive too, along with the Core i7-3000 series processors. Apparently, the wait will not be too long, as VR-Zone reports that the official launch da...

11 January 2012
11:00 GMT

8-Core Sandy Bridge-E Performance Leaked by Intel

The first quarter of 2012 will mark the transition of the Sandy Bridge-E architecture into the server space in the form of the Xeon E5 series of CPUs, and a recent series of leaked Intel slides have come to detail the performance of this platform in comparison with Westmere-EP.The new Xeon E5 chips are also known und...

23 December 2011
18:31 GMT

AMD Bulldozer CPUs Selling Out Surprisingly Fast

Reviewers may have been generally disappointed in the Bulldozer central processing units, but even with the outcry on the Internet, the chips are selling well. Then again, Advanced Micro Devices never actually said that Bulldozer would smack Intel chips around. Bulldozer always was described as something that woul...

3 December 2011
04:30 GMT

AMD Bulldozer Only Has 1.2B Transistors, Not 2 Billion

One of the biggest points that raised confusion over how underwhelming Bulldozer turned out to be was its humongous transistor count, but it looks like the number from reviews may have been wrong. Getting the facts wrong for their own products isn't something that companies could possibly be thrilled about, bu...

2 December 2011
04:35 GMT

First Intel 8-Core Sandy Bridge-EP Benchmarks Make Appearance

Now that Intel has launched its first desktop processors based on the high-performance Sandy Bridge-E architecture, the chip maker is racing to get out the Xeon version of these CPUs and the first benchmarks showing the performance of such an 8-core SKU have recently made their way to the Web.The chip is question is ...

27 November 2011
05:41 GMT

Intel Rev. D Sandy Bridge-E Desktop CPUs to Feature 8-Core Design - Report

Many enthusiasts were disappointed when Intel announced that the desktop version of its Sandy Bridge-E processors will include just six computing cores, but Intel is reportedly now working on a new stepping that will enable all of the eight cores in this architecture.According to VR-Zone, this new CPU stepping will m...

19 November 2011
11:11 GMT

AMD Is Already Cutting 8-Core FX-8150 Bulldozer CPU Price

We've already talked about how underwhelming the 8-core AMD Bulldozer processor turned out to be, and it looks like the Sunnyvale, California-based company has already started to reduce its price. AMD's FX-8150 central processing unit has started to decrease in price already, even though it has only been ...

17 October 2011
05:30 GMT

8-Core AMD FX-8120 Put Through Some Tests

AMD is just about ready to launch its 8-core FX-Series central processing units and, in the meantime, the lucky few who got it early have supplied the web with benchmarks. A certain user from Overclockers.ua, going by the handle of blood_angel, put the soon-to-be launched AMD FX-8120 CPU through some benchmarks. ...

10 October 2011
05:27 GMT

8-Core Sandy Bridge EP CPU eBay Listing Updated

While some might have hoped for what was probably a slip-up to last longer, if not be followed up by more, it seems that whatever caused the premature unveiling of a certain next-generation chip has been remedied, so to speak.One would think that the design flaw in the 6-Series chipset that caused notebook and mothe...

7 May 2011
04:32 GMT

Dell Refreshes Server Lineup with X7500-Powered Solutions

A number of significant announcements have been made recently on the server market, with both AMD and Intel increasing the number of cores inside their latest server processors. While AMD was the first to announce its 8 and 12-core Opterons, Intel followed quickly with the introduction of its latest Xeon 7500 CPUs, d...

31 March 2010
05:25 GMT

Intel's 8-Core Processors Launch This Month

No doubt, consumers know very well of Intel and AMD's plans to launch six-core processors for the consumer front in the coming months. These end-users, however, might not be up to speed with the developments on the enterprise front, where 8-core chips and even 12-core processors are already set and ready. With A...

8 March 2010
09:46 GMT

IBM Starts Shipping 8-Core Power7 Processors

While Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are aggressively promoting their consumer-oriented central processors, IBM has decided not to pay heed to this segment overly much, investing, instead, more time and effort into its high-performance multi-core server solutions. Most recently, the company has completed the develo...

13 February 2010
04:29 GMT

The Most Powerful Mac Yet, Not Even Available from Apple

A listing for a “2009 EIGHT CORE MAC PRO 3.33GHz 32GB DDR3 4TB HDD” has appeared on eBay. Sold by user leecher69 “new, sealed in box,” the desktop computer system is likely one of Apple’s latest Mac Pros that has been artificially beefed up with Intel 8 core 3.33GHz Nehalem chips, as 9to...

22 January 2010
06:27 GMT

Freescale Now Sampling Eight-Core QorIQ P4080 Processor

Freescale Semiconductor has recently announced that it has started sampling its QorIQ P4080 multicore processor, the flagship model of the QorIQ product family. The new chip has been designed using the efficient 45nm process technology, being the company's fourth solution built on said manufacturing process, whi...

27 August 2009
05:45 GMT

Intel Nehalem-EX to Have 8 Cores, Use Itanium Technologies

Santa Clara, California-based Intel has just announced and detailed its upcoming next-generation Nehalem processor, codenamed Nehalem-EX. The world's leading chip maker says that its new Nehalem processor for server systems is currently scheduled to enter production in the second half of this year, with systems ...

27 May 2009
03:10 GMT

Intel to Detail First 8-Core Xeon Processors Next Month

Santa Clara, California-based Intel is expected to detail one of its highest-anticipated server processors at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco between February 8 and 12, 2009. The chip maker is expected to provide an early look at its first eight-core chip, which will be par...

29 January 2009
09:56 GMT

Apple Debuts 8-core Mac Pro

Well, everybody knew it was coming sooner or later, but now that it is actually here, it is even more of a shock. The new 8-core Mac Pro is without a doubt the ultimate choice for those who need to keep the Death Star up and running or sequence the entire human genome before lunch.As with every other new piece of har...

5 April 2007
06:10 GMT

8-Core Mac Pro?

Waw, 8-core? Are you kidding? Yes! Apple was just kidding. After the surprise appearance took place, Apple quickly corrected the error, leaving us all with just a rumor that doesn't even stand anymore. Still, there is a screenshot left!Not to say Apple won't be releasing the 8-cored beast, we'll soon g...

13 March 2007
12:02 GMT


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