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Intel Core i7 Models and Pricing Details Leaked

After unveiling the much-awaited new 6-core Xeon 7400-series of processors, also known as Dunnington, Santa Clara-based chip maker Intel is now planning the release of the next-generation processor architecture, in the guise of the new Core i7 processors everybody has been talking about for quite some time now. Desp...

16 September 2008
09:23 GMT

Intel to Launch Three Nehalem-Based CPUs by the Year's End

The Nehalem architecture is Intel's best bet for the future right now, and it really seems that "Chipzilla" is doing everything in its power to come up with CPUs based on this architecture as fast as possible, with no less than three such components being scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter of 2008. Thus, ...

25 June 2008
05:11 GMT

CeBIT 2008: Exclusive Interview with AMD

AMD's 780G platform has been one of the most important announcements made at this year's CeBIT exhibition. So, in order to find out more about this particular product, as well as AMD's plans for the future, we've carried out a very exciting interview with Ian McNaughton, senior product manager at ...

11 March 2008
09:42 GMT

Intel Packs 40% More Transistors than the Competition

Intel plans to start distributing 16 new processors, created through a technology that incorporates more transistors onto a regular microprocessor chip, and boast inventive new materials to prevent electricity loss, for better servers and faster gaming PCs. These new generation processors are planned to roll out on M...

12 November 2007
06:47 GMT

Attosecond Accuracy

A new technique in studying and measuring the motion in elementary particles, such as electrons is developed in Europe by researchers in physics. The technique consists in measuring how long it takes for electrons to reach the surface of a sample, after being excited by a laser. Photoemission spectroscopy suggests th...

26 October 2007
09:03 GMT

Dual Core Processors, the Secret for Intel's Success

You win some, you lose some, you win some again, it's just a cat and mouse game, and the participants are our two favorite CPU manufacturers, Intel and AMD. According to a study made by iSuppli, the third quarter of 2006 was the most profitable quarter for AMD that year, gaining a remarkable 16.7% of the worldw...

24 April 2007
10:29 GMT

Multi core for Embedded Applications

Seeing how the future is represented by multiple CPU cores, linked together in various ways to give out anything from a simple dual-core offering, to a network array of cores. Whether they are necessary or not, or if the people are going to use such technologies, isn't a matter of discussion, the future has alre...

23 April 2007
07:58 GMT

AMD Updates Barcelona Specifications

On the brink of evolution/extinction, AMD is releasing some interesting performance updates for its Barcelona series of processors. Today is the 23rd of April, the day AMD is going to unveil the R600 graphics chipset and corresponding graphics cards and a new series of x86 processors. This may also be the beginning o...

23 April 2007
03:08 GMT

Quad-Core CPUs to Become Half of Mainstream by 2009

If you are considering having an upgrade in the near future, among the things that score high on your list of components is the CPU. Basically, it can give you the biggest performance boost, or it can seriously set you back a couple hundred dollars, or both. But according to one of the most famous companies that obse...

19 April 2007
06:39 GMT

Intel Skulltrail Platform Challenges AMD's Quad FX

If you want a manual on "how to take on AMD for everything they've got" just ask Intel, they've got just the thing for you, seeing as how their determination has led them into a whole bunch of mishaps, including an ongoing trial with AMD, in which Intel "accidentally" erased the employers' e-mails and ...

17 April 2007
06:22 GMT

Put Your Hands Up for Intel

Ok, so maybe the song doesn't go like that, but they deserve some credit, everything revolves around the Intel universe nowadays. Maybe it's still time for somebody to step in just as the checkered flag waves by, but it's sure going to be rough to take on Chipzilla, yet alone bring them down from their...

11 April 2007
11:20 GMT

New Toys From Intel

In the latest news, Microsoft isn't doing so well (what a surprise), and it makes more and more sense why Bill Gates stepped down from the company's throne. Windows Vista didn't sell as much as they expected it would, people are suing over the Windows Vista Capable Logo, and all in all, there is rising...

11 April 2007
06:06 GMT

After Conroe-L Intel Goes For Merom-L

The "battle" of multicore versus single core has had its share of supporters, each of them having their own set of arguments and convictions. But it's something that may go on and on forever, because these processors address different categories of users, and "one size fits all" just won't do in this case. ...

10 April 2007
13:51 GMT

Barcelona Processor Not As Viable As Clovertown

Since Intel came out with their "world's first quad-core processor", people started believing that the chip giant had the upper hand on AMD, and their supremacy in the processor business is being proven once again by succeeding in having the quad-core processor first. But AMD had another opinion on the matter, t...

5 April 2007
10:07 GMT

SiS Signs Chipset License for Intel Core 2 Quad Processors

Has this thought ever crossed your worried mind "what do I have to do in order to manufacture x86 processors?" I guess not, well I came across this idea thinking why aren't that many processor manufacturers out there, I mean, look at the video card segment of the market, new companies are spawning from each and ...

29 March 2007
09:17 GMT

AMD and Intel Engage in Price Battle

The game is on, will we see any survivors after the flood? Maybe we will… who knows. On the 22nd of April, Intel is slated to drop the prices for its Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo offerings; this comes in the light of AMD's launch of their first quad-core processor, codenamed Barcelona, in mid-2007. On the Intel side,...

29 March 2007
07:01 GMT

Intel Loses Share to AMD

Take one look into the future of computing, see where it can go in the next couple of years, or maybe even in a decade or two. It's a hard thing to predict, the future that is, I believe that people that actually have the ability to foresee events that are going to take place in a large enough industry such as t...

26 March 2007
11:18 GMT

AMD Dual Core $100 Processors

Since Intel took the rabbit called "the Core microarchitecture" out of the hat, the battle changed from "who has the most users" to "let's keep some users on our side" for AMD. Their biggest policy was to reduce the prices, and everybody expected this move from their part, but no one thought up to what point the...

26 March 2007
05:55 GMT

Buy Your Piece of Intel

It almost sounds too good to be true, somewhat similar to the commercials that promise you the heaven and the seas, or those never ending spam e-mails in which the king of who knows what country wants to give me a couple of millions of dollars, in exchange for a little, tiny detail, THE NUMBER OF MY BANK ACCOUNT. Wel...

14 March 2007
10:02 GMT




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