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Four more Sandy Bridge-EP processors from Intel’s soon-to-be-unveiled Xeon E5 product series have been recently spotted in some official documents published by Fujitsu and ASRock.
The chips were uncovered when a CPU-World reader came across the configuration page of the Fujitsu CELSIUS M720 system, which inclu... |
13 February 2012
18:01 GMT |
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After we presented a series of basic info about AMD’s upcoming A10- and A8-Series APUs last week, a new leak has now reached the Web to reveal not only the names of these chips, but also their specs, including CPU and GPU clock speeds.
Just as it has previously done with Llano, AMD decided to split the Trinity... |
13 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Intel's Cedar Trail series of CPUs has spread across much of the worldwide industry, not just the consumer market, as AIS is all too eager to show.
American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) has revealed the AIS industrial embedded touch panel PCs series of Cedar Trail systems.
They are powered by the Intel Atom... |
13 February 2012
05:27 GMT |
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As Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU series approaches, older central processing units are being phased out.
It has now been found that, according to some of the company's Product Change Notifications (PCN), the Core i3-550 and Core i3-560 won't be officially up for sale for much longer.
Built on the 32nm man... |
13 February 2012
04:35 GMT |
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Japan got lucky somehow, having become the place where Intel's Core i7-3820 central processing unit is now ready to step out of boxes, more or less.
At long last, the Intel Core i7-3820 CPU from the Sandy Bridge-E series has been released in the Country of Sunrise.
As part of the top-tier chip collection, it ... |
13 February 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Intel has recently announced that its next-generation 22nm processors based on the Haswell architecture will support Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX), a new instruction set designed to allow cores to work more efficiently together.These new synchronization extensions (Intel TSX) are useful in shared-mem... |
12 February 2012
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Thermalright decided this was a good time for a new CPU cooler to grace the consumer market, so it has released the Silver Arrow SB-E.This thing is one large beast with two fin towers and just as many fans.It supports AM2, AM2+, AM3, AM3+ and FMI CPUs from AMD, as well as LGA 2011, 1366, 1156, 1155 and 775 chips from... |
11 February 2012
06:32 GMT |
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Introduced by AMD just three months ago, the company’s Opteron 6200-series "Interlagos" CPU range will soon receive the addition of six new processors with slightly better specs than their predecessors. According to CPU-World, the new models will feature 200MHz higher clock and Turbo Core frequencies at the sa... |
10 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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AMD has already confirmed that its next-generation Trinity APUs will become available in mid-2012, but a recently leaked company roadmap has now arrived to give us more details about the launch of these APUs, as well as about the Brazos 2.0 and Vishera processors.
The first new chips to come out from AMD will arrive... |
10 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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During the 2012 Common Platform technology forum, scheduled to take place in Santa Clara, California, in mid-March, IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung Electronics plan to preview their next-generation chip fabrication technologies.
The presentations held by representatives of these companies, who together form the Com... |
10 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Intel has had its share of legal troubles, but one of the more outstanding lawsuits against it has been dropped, following a ruling passed in December 2011.
Back in November 2009, the New York Attorney General filed an antitrust claim against the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant.
For those that haven'... |
10 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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The launch date of Intel’s 2012 Haswell processors has so far been covered in mystery, but recently a leaked company roadmap has revealed that these chips are expected to arrive in the March-June timeframe. Just as it’s the case with the upcoming Ivy Bridge launch, the first CPUs to arrive will be introd... |
9 February 2012
21:01 GMT |
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Motherboard makers started to get ready for Intel’s upcoming release of its first 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, sources in Taiwan claiming that some companies have already begun mass production of LGA 1155 boards based on Intel 7-series chipsets.
According to SweClockers, this list includes three major names in ... |
8 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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It appears that the management changes at Advanced Micro Devices are far from over, with yet another company executive taking his leave.
In a rather short announcement, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has let the world know that Emilio Ghilardi is departing.
The man had held the position of sen... |
8 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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AMD has just added two new processors to its Athlon II X4 range, both of these chips being based on the Llano architecture traditionally used for A-Series APUs.
With the launch of Llano in mid-2011, everybody expected AMD to retire the Athlon II and Sempron brands that were previously used for mid-range processors o... |
8 February 2012
06:11 GMT |
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It appears that even the latest low-power CPUs and APUs released by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices haven't won the hearts of notebook makers. There are things afoot on the mobile consumer electronics market, things that don't paint a promising picture for AMD and Intel. According to Digitimes, neither ... |
8 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Thanks to a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, we may not have to wait until 2014 for faster hybrid APUs and CPUs to become available.
AMD said, during the Financial Analyst Day, that it would have “fully fused” accelerated processing units by 2014.
Fortunately, we won't ha... |
8 February 2012
03:31 GMT |
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There was a report, a few days ago, saying that IBM was making processors for Advanced Micro Devices, but the Sunnyvale, California-based chip company has now denied the rumor. Though there is indeed a sort of collaboration with AMD, IBM has not made any chips for it and is not about to start doing so either. Ins... |
8 February 2012
02:38 GMT |
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A discovery by Patently Apple reveals that the company run by Tim Cook has recently trademarked the term “Macroscalar”, which may be related to 3D transistors as part of a new A-processor architecture, according to Extreme Tech’s Joel Hruska.
Up until now, work on Apple’s “Macroscalar&r... |
7 February 2012
04:49 GMT |
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AMD has said in the past, several times, that it is fully committed to x86, but this no longer seems to mean that a partnership with ARM is totally impossible.
Advanced Micro Devices has always been a rival to Intel on the market for central processing units based on the x86 architecture.
However, the ARM archite... |
6 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Intel has been lobbying for a strong position on the market of consumer electronics devices, especially portable ones, and the Atom Berryville chip line may be just the ticket it needs.
Intel may not have gotten to the point where it is ready to release the Berryville CPUs (central processing units), but informatio... |
6 February 2012
05:28 GMT |
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AMD disclosed during a recent analyst event that the chip maker has started manufacturing processors in IBM’s foundries in a possible attempt to try to boost production of its upcoming A-Series Trinity APUs. “We win together, we have partnership in good times and in difficult times. What we are seeing ... |
6 February 2012
03:15 GMT |
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When explaining what direction Advanced Micro Devices was going to follow, the company's chief executive officer (CEO) implied that it might have already grabbed the interest of a major product maker.
Advanced Micro Devices revealed many things during its Financial Analyst Day, some good (like plans for a &ldq... |
6 February 2012
02:43 GMT |
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If anyone was afraid that AMD would pull the plug on any of its video products, they can rest easy knowing that in this field, at least, the company intends to put all the effort it can muster, instead of canceling plans and letting things stagnate.
Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day (February 3, 2012), when... |
3 February 2012
19:41 GMT |
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AMD’s Trinity ultra-low voltage APUs, that are scheduled to be released by the company in the middle of this year in order to counter Intel’s ULV processors, are expected to provide up to 100% better graphics performance than today’s Ultrabook CPUs. At the end of the presentation held by Lisa Su, S... |
3 February 2012
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Intel’s as well as AMD’s processors have been counterfeited for a long time now, and most recently a user on the Intel forums has reported that he has received an LGA 775 processor that was marked as a Core i7-990X chip.
The provenience of this CPU was not detailed, but just looking at the processor reve... |
3 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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AMD has officially announced that 2012 will witness the introduction of a new low-power APU, code-named Hondo, specially developed to be used in tablet devices, which will improve upon the specs of the current Desna Z-01 accelerated processing unit. AMD made the existence of this chip official during the company&rsq... |
3 February 2012
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If anyone was looking forward to AMD kicking things into high gear on the high-end CPU market, they will have to live with the disappointment of learning that nothing of the sort is going to happen.
That is not to say that the Sunnyvale, California-based company will completely stop making high-end CPUs (central pr... |
3 February 2012
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Together with its APU and CPU plans for 2012, AMD also made public the company’s 2013 processors roadmap, which includes the Tamesh, Kabini and Kaveri accelerated processing units fabricated using 28nm process technology. The most important change introduced by AMD with its 2013 APUs is the move to the GCN gra... |
3 February 2012
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As Sandy Bridge CPUs were followed by Sandy Bridge-EP units, Ivy Bridge central processing units will get similar successors, one of which has actually been tested.
The engineering sample of the Ivy Bridge-EP CPU that got put through its paces not long ago is the sort of thing that will leave onlookers starry-eyed.... |
3 February 2012
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During the company’s 2012 Financial Analyst Day, AMD outlined its APU and CPU strategy for 2012, thus confirming the Brazos 2.0, Hondo and Vishera processors, together with their approximate launch schedule. Out of the three, Brazos 2.0 will be the first chip to see the light of day, as these APUs are schedule... |
3 February 2012
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Advanced Micro Devices, having just changed its Opteron CPU plans, has reportedly made a very intriguing promise in regards to its Heterogeneous Computing roadmap and the year 2014. One of the main disadvantages of AMD's APUs (accelerated processing units) is that they cannot be used properly unless the softwa... |
3 February 2012
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Advanced Micro Devices has announced a decision to change its roadmap for server processing units, though it did not give a specific reason for this.
The update plans do away with certain chips and, one might say, slows down the rate at which new Opterons get to the selling stage.
One change is that the existing s... |
3 February 2012
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Processors licensor ARM Holdings, has recently disclosed the code names of its upcoming CPUs based on the company’s v8 architecture which are the first ARM cores to bring support for the 64-bit instruction set. ARM has chosen to go with a pair of classical names from the Greek mythology for its next-generation... |
2 February 2012
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Looks like Intel is not lagging in its development of micro-server central processing units, having just started sample shipments of its first Atom-based system-on-chip. Anyone wondering what exactly Intel was working on besides the recently benchmarked Core i7 3770K high-end Ivy Bridge CPU (and its family) now hav... |
2 February 2012
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Titan Technology has just introduced a veritable beast of a cooling module, one whose ravenous hunger for hot air will make short work of any possibility of a CPU overheating.
There are entry-level, mid-range and high-end coolers, and then there are beasts that will make jaws drop even among the most hardcore of en... |
2 February 2012
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AMD’s upcoming A10 and A8 Trinity APUs have just been spotted in the specifications sheet of a recently announced Arctic HTPC system dubbed the MC101, that is said to become available right after the chip maker will launch these next-gen processors. Arctic’s HTPC solution will be available in three diffe... |
2 February 2012
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Intel's most powerful central processing unit from the upcoming Ivy Bridge collection is going to be known as Core i7 3770K and has been benchmarked, apparently. The benchmarking results that have made their way to the Internet originate with OBR-Hardware, which is not the most reliable of sources. Still, ev... |
2 February 2012
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AMD’s launch of the multiplier unlocked A8-3870K and A6-3670K processors have enabled overclockers to push Llano APUs to higher frequencies than ever before, such a chip just surpassing the 6GHz barrier during a recent OC competition.n. The processor in question is actually the A8-3870K APU which, with the hel... |
1 February 2012
21:21 GMT |
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AMD is getting ready to update its FX-Series processor lineup based on the Bulldozer architecture with two new chips packing four and respectively six processing cores, which will also be joined by a new FX-8150 bundle.
This bundle was dubbed the FX-8150 (WOX) by the chip maker, the WOX suffix at the end of its name... |
1 February 2012
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One wouldn't think that a server processor could cause such a big fuss, but the whole Itanium debacle has gotten very heated, leading to a direct clash between Oracle and HP, the latter having, apparently, gained the upper hand.
This isn't a case of patent infringement, like the quarrel between Samsung an... |
1 February 2012
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Intel has finally started shipping the C2 revision of the Core i7-3960X and Core i7-3930K processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture.The first country to get them is not so surprisingly Japan, where Akiba-PC has spotted them in the wild listed for Yen 83970 (US $1095) and Yen 48980 (US $639).For those of you... |
30 January 2012
21:41 GMT |
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Being one of the main two chip manufacturers in the world, Globalfoundries has to constantly step up its game and, sure enough, it is looking quite a bit ahead in terms of manufacturing process technologies.
Whether through a coincidence or not, companies have begun talking about their semiconductor manufacturing t... |
30 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Tilera has just announced that it has finally started shipping its third-gen TILE-Gx processors in volume, the 16- and 36-core 64-bit CPUs from this product family being the first to arrive together with their companion evaluation systems.
TILE-Gx were designed to come with 16-, 36-, 64- or 100-cores, all of these m... |
30 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Intel, the Santa Clara, California-based maker of central processing units, has decided to expand its collection of processors by unveiling some models for the Core i5 and Celeron series. The new CPUs that Intel has released aren't really the ones that knowledgeable customers have been waiting for. As such, i... |
30 January 2012
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With the introduction of Haswell in 2013, Intel reportedly wants to take the video decoding capabilities of its integrated GPUs one step further by adding hardware decoding support for 4K content, as well as a series of new post-processing features.
As VR-Zone reports, the integrated graphics core found inside Haswe... |
29 January 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Intel is apparently making good progress with next year’s Haswell CPU architecture, as the company has already finalized the first qualification samples (QS) of these processors, as proven by a picture that has recently popped up online. The image in question shows a chip with no heat spreader and a limited nu... |
28 January 2012
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At the end of last year we found out that in the first quarter of 2012 Intel planned to release a trio of Sandy Bridge processors that would come with their built-in GPUs disabled. Now, almost a month after this initial report, Gigabyte has confirmed the existence of these chips.
The motherboard maker has just added... |
26 January 2012
19:01 GMT |
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A report about AMD's further plans for its micro-architectures has emerged, one that may or may not be at odds with something the company said back in December, 2011. Right to the point, X-bit Labs believes that Advanced Micro Devices is thinking of adopting the same model of transitioning to new manufacturing... |
26 January 2012
02:32 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has finally completed all the calculations regarding its sales and expenses for 2011, so it released the results for everyone to see.
It appears that AMD did reasonably well over the course of the fourth quarter, 2011, as well as the year as a whole.
That isn't to say that it actually ... |
25 January 2012
02:24 GMT |
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