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Microsoft is letting users fend for themselves when Windows Vista Service Pack 2 fails to install on computers running multiple 64-bit Intel processors or a 64-bit Intel multi-core processor, at least for the time being. The Redmond company informed that attempting to deploy the second service pack for Vista or for W... |
27 August 2009
11:30 GMT |
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In a last week blog post on the company's website, Intel's James Reinders announced that the Santa Clara, California-based leading chip maker had acquired Rapidmind, a company that, since its inception, has focused on providing enterprises with a multi-core platform to enable an easier development of parall... |
24 August 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based Intel has just announced the release of its new Parallel Studio software tool, designed to help application developers design and debug multi-threaded applications. This new app will enable coders to optimize their Windows applications so that they can benefit from the enhanced performan... |
26 May 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Imagination Technologies, which makes the iPhone’s PowerVR MBX chip, has introduced a new GP-GPU multi-core mobile processor that sounds like a great candidate for the next generation iPhone, or an Apple tablet. The fresh chip (PowerVX SGX543) is designed to scale from two to sixteen cores without increasing pe... |
19 March 2009
12:14 GMT |
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It seems that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia does not have only the release of new phones on its mind for the ongoing year, since some other devices are reported to be in the works as well. Among them we should be able to see a compact mobile computer based on ARM’s multi-core Sparrow chip, which has been unv... |
25 February 2009
08:43 GMT |
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An interview scored with Khronos Group has revealed that the makers of open standard, royalty-free APIs and their associated companies have achieved an incredible feat – nearly finished OpenCL for Snow Leopard in 6 months. Announced in June, the collaboration brought together industry leaders like AMD, NVIDIA, ... |
20 November 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Last year, Intel announced a project to build a processor that would pack no less than 80 cores. While the idea may seem rather futuristic to some, the chip maker is reported to have already demonstrated the CPU at the Gitex Dubai trade show. Reports say that the Santa Clara based company wasn't shy at all at sh... |
24 October 2008
12:37 GMT |
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The latest advances in the microprocessors industry have allowed manufacturers to design and produce chips that feature more than one core. In terms of power efficiency and processing power, this step marks the end of single-core CPUs and permits IT makers to reach new levels of performance and speed. The benefits of... |
29 September 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group held a meeting with a number of journalists this week. The VP used this opportunity to present its predictions in regard to Intel's future, making four assumptions that set Intel as part of every segment of com... |
3 July 2008
10:53 GMT |
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Multi-core computing is a growing concern, as both Intel and AMD are gearing up to deliver the next generation of processors, featuring multiple processing cores. For instance, AMD's upcoming Nehalem chips, slated for release during the fourth quarter of the year, will pack no less than eight cores with simultan... |
12 May 2008
09:40 GMT |
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Server manufacturer Sun has just confirmed that it inked a buyout deal with the super-secretive CPU startup Montalvo, as previous rumors had indicated. The small company was built by the ex-Transmeta executives and pitched at delivering an all-in-one processor wonder able to tear down Intel's domination on the d... |
25 April 2008
03:35 GMT |
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Intel has started packing up its gear for the upcoming Spring Developer Forum, that will take place next month is Shanghai, China. As usually, the pre-briefing conference revealed further details about the upcoming products, including a new Itanium processor and six other MP Xeon chips, and this is not all, as the ma... |
18 March 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Intel has quite some plans in developing new technologies, such as its WiMax and the new generation of input-output controllers. However, the chip giant seems to be increasingly concerned with graphics, or "visual computing", as Intel likes to call it.The most important achievement for the chip manufacturer is the La... |
6 March 2008
09:31 GMT |
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If you are thinking that shifting from 32-bit software to the 64-bit version is a pain in the back, consider this: the next revolution in the processor world will require a complete rewrite of the existing code. Advanced Micro Devices claims that the actual software will have to be flushed out in order to leave room ... |
13 February 2008
10:00 GMT |
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Processor designers have agreed upon the fact that multi-core processors will dominate the market in the upcoming years, but failed in achieving consensus on how to implement them. The discussions took place at yesterday's International Solid State Circuits Conference, with participation from senior chip designe... |
7 February 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Intel is usually not much of a talker, and that is why it surprised everybody when Paul Otellini spilled the beans over the company's plans for 2008. Although the conference was focused on how poor Intel feels because it had some slightly lower-than-expected earnings during the Q4, Otellini began talking about o... |
18 January 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Although it has suffered some dramatic functional improvements over the time, such as increased size or frequency, the RAM memory did not undergo the major change of parallel execution (as CPUs did). Memory has stuck to the same old architecture as in its early days, but things are about to change as parallel access ... |
15 January 2008
06:04 GMT |
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AMD has been reported to change the classical approach towards their GPUs in the forthcoming R700 series. The nowadays GPUs use parallelism for heavy computing, while preserving their monolithic structure and the same number of stream processors, texture units and so on. AMD is determined to give up the current techn... |
26 November 2007
11:10 GMT |
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The gigahertz battle was abandoned by AMD and Intel a couple of years ago with the introduction of multi core CPU architectures. Nevertheless, IBM continues to be an important player on the CPU market, aiming not only at developing efficient multi-core CPUs, but also clocking its processors as high as possible. IBM... |
10 May 2007
11:02 GMT |
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Seeing how the battle for the best processor for the desktop market is currently owned by Intel, everybody else has to try and make up by engulfing other unsuspecting markets. AMD for one is trying its luck on the mobile market, they've recently announced that they are responsible for the ImageOn processor behin... |
11 April 2007
12:31 GMT |
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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 |
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We know Intel is planning to include an improved laser technology inside their upcoming CPUs, but until then, we get a glimpse at an unusual way to use lasers to speed the flow of data inside a multi-core CPU. We are talking about Lightfleet Inc. here, a rather new company, which plans to sell servers far more effici... |
5 March 2007
09:49 GMT |
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