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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

Intel to Release New Quad Core Processors

It seems that Intel plans to extend its mobile microprocessors line with the launch of some new models during August. The addition also includes Intel's first Core 2 Extreme quad core, announced for an August 17th launch. The Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor features a 45W TDP and will definitely need serious coo...

28 July 2008
05:59 GMT

Snow Leopard - the Only OS to Properly Use Intel's New Quad Cores

Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore, has confirmed the company's intentions to bring quad-core to laptops in August. According to an InfoWorld report covering the topic, "getting a quad-core processor into a laptop is more about bragging rights than a genuine boost...

24 July 2008
03:56 GMT

AMD Waves Goodbye at Dual-Processor Platforms

AMD has announced that the company is not currently taking into account development of a dual-processor platform. With this statement, AMD takes its hands off the so-much promoted FASN8 platform and retreats from the competition with Intel on the dual-processor market."AMD has discontinued future planning and develop...

30 November 2007
03:51 GMT

AMD's Phenoms Details Revealed

After the more or less successful launch and acceptance of its native quad core equipped line of central processing units which are aimed at the server market segment, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to make a big comeback on the desktop market with its Phenom class of processors that are aimed at competing with the lat...

10 October 2007
10:25 GMT

Intel Says AMD's Strategy Does Not Stand a Chance

After Advanced Micro Devices announced some time ago that it will manufacture and market a line of central processing units featuring an odd number of processing cores, the biggest processor manufacturer in the world, Intel, initially said that it will slowly but surely take the very same road in an attempt to both b...

9 October 2007
11:45 GMT

Quad-Core CPUs and More in Notebooks

Nowadays mobile computing solutions are becoming very powerful indeed and some are even taking the performance crown from mainstream desktop systems, like the DreamBook Power D90 SLI notebook made by Pioneer that is said to have jumped over the 10,000 mark in the 3Dmark06 benchmarking suite.Of course, the new Pioneer...

3 October 2007
08:29 GMT

Quad Cores CPUs in Laptops Now

Traditionally, notebooks, laptops and other mobile computer systems sacrificed computing power for the sake of mobility and their technical specifications were almost always on the slow side of the fence. Nowadays, things are looking better for mobile users as hardware manufacturing companies like MALIBAL are creatin...

1 October 2007
03:10 GMT

Intel Penryn Pricing Scheme And Performance Revealed

The biggest central processing unit manufacturing company is expected to launch its latest generation of processors, the Penryns, sometime in November and the first to hit the market is going to be the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, which is according to its name the top offering that Intel launches now for the gamers ...

26 September 2007
07:01 GMT

Intel Wants Triple Core Processors Too

After Advanced Micro Devices officially announced their intention of building a triple cored central processing unit which is intended to close the gap in both performance and price between the dual and quad core desktop architectures, Intel said that it will pursue the very same goal.According to the news site fudzi...

18 September 2007
05:28 GMT

Two Cores, Three Cores, Four Cores. All from AMD.

Single and dual core processing units are old news and it looks like the quad core architecture is going to have the market dominance. That is until Advanced Micro Devices will start shipping a three core processing unit which is intended to fit between the dual core and the quad architectures. While there are no har...

17 September 2007
03:32 GMT

Gateway's Servers Meet AMD's Opterons

After Advanced Micro Devices officially announced the launch of its new quad core central processing units which are designed to offer a high level of performance in an enterprise environment, a number of server manufacturers and system integrators also announced their intentions of adding the new hardware platform t...

12 September 2007
10:49 GMT

SKY Announces Its AMD Quad Core Based Server

SKY Electronics announced that it has integrated the AMD quad core Opteron processors into its line of products which are built around mainboards manufactured by TYAN. This announcement comes as a premiere, SKY Electronics being the first server manufacturer from the Middle East which announced support for AMD's...

12 September 2007
09:35 GMT

AMD to Launch 2.5GHz Quad Core Opterons in December

When Advanced Micro Devices officially launched their quad core central processing units two days ago, most of the server manufacturers felt just a little bit cheated as the company presented only processors with a low clock speed, which tops at 2.0GHz. AMD stated that higher clocked quad core processors based on the...

12 September 2007
08:40 GMT

AMD's Quad Core Processors Are Finally Here

Advanced Micro Devices, AMD for short, today officially launched its native quad core processors under the codename Barcelona and the commercial name of Opteron. This launch is of utmost importance for the small company as it marks the day when it regains competitive status against Intel, as its quad core processors ...

10 September 2007
06:45 GMT

Supermicro Goes For Intel Based Servers

Super Micro Computer announced the official launch of a new line of server systems based on Intel quad core processors. The new family of products includes the new 8015C-T, 8025C-3R and 8045C-3R server models from the SuperServer line and they feature an increased memory footprint, better energy efficiency, availabil...

7 September 2007
09:31 GMT

HP Expands Its Quad Core Server Lines

HP, one of the most important computer manufacturers in the whole world, announced the official launch of a new line of server computer systems based on the new Intel processors which are quad core and multiprocessor enabled. The new servers from HP are all based on the Intel Xeon 7300 series of central processing un...

7 September 2007
06:02 GMT

AMD's Quad Core Processors Starting at $206

With only days to go before the official launch of its first line of central processing unit that are built using a quad core design, AMD releases pricing information for two of the incoming series of processors, the Opteron 2300 and 8300 families. The 2300 and 8300 series will be officially launched this month and t...

5 September 2007
02:56 GMT

AMD Barcelona CPUs Shipping Since August

The launch of a new computer hardware part is always a pretty tense moment as the manufacturing company can not really know how its product will be received by the market and the tension is going even higher when a lot of things are depending on a single line of products. This is exactly the case with the next genera...

3 September 2007
06:52 GMT

Quad Core Based Xtrem Notebooks?

The quest for more computing power in the mobile segment went to a new level last week as a laptop manufacturing company, Xtreme Notebooks, announced the launch of a line of products featuring Intel quad core processors from the Core 2 Duo and Extreme families.While it is understandable that manufacturers need to inc...

24 August 2007
05:16 GMT

AMD Will Launch 2 Barcelona Processors

After the official announcement that the Barcelona based quad core processors will be launched on the 10th of September, several server makers said that the manufacturing company, AMD, will launch two and not one processor. The server intended Barcelona will arrive with the established name of Opteron in the form of ...

13 August 2007
04:17 GMT

Barcelona Quad-core Processors Official Launch Day

AMD has announced the official launch date of its next generation of processors. The day selected was the 10th of September and if the manufacturing company keeps its promise of not launching processors only on paper, the quad core Barcelonas should be available for purchase beginning with the 11th September. The ma...

9 August 2007
06:24 GMT

Intel's Penryn Is on Its Way

Intel decided to bring forward its processors based on the 45 nanometer technology and built on the quad core architecture, sooner than it was expected, that is in the last quarter of 2007. The manufacturing company hopes that move will allow it to better compete against its rival quad core server and desktop process...

3 August 2007
04:42 GMT

One More AMD Windsor CPU

Barcelona quad core processors are just around the corner, but in case that you just can't wait any longer and wish really, really bad for a multi core processor that will not leave you without any money, there is the last of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 line. A dual core processor based on the Windsor core and manufact...

2 August 2007
11:11 GMT

Latest Updates: Hot News from AMD

AMD has great hopes for its new high-end generation of processors, all of them based on the Barcelona core and on the new well-established quad core architecture. During AMD's Analysts Day the company revealed much of its future roadmap for computer processors, chipsets and graphics chips. Among the details that...

31 July 2007
08:23 GMT

More Cores for Everybody

The less time until the much anticipated and waited for arrival of AMD Barcelona quad core processors in the following months, the more pressure Intel applies on the market and on AMD. After a price cut not even weeks old, a new one is coming up, together with some new processors from the Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad ...

24 July 2007
07:48 GMT

New Desktop Multi-Core CPUs

At the same time Intel launched its new high-end "Extreme Edition" CPUs for laptops and other mobile solutions, the company also introduced a handful of desktop based chips, all quad-core, to compete with AMD's upcoming Barcelona quad-core processor. Top of the line is the $999 priced Core 2 Duo Extreme QX6850, ...

16 July 2007
03:08 GMT

Taking Power Consumption to Another Level, the Basement

Expanding the Xeon line of products, Intel has released a couple of new Quad Core processors. These come with a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 50Watts. Yes, some of you might have figured this out by now, we'll soon cool down our processors just by blowing over them as we would to put out a candle. As Intel so ki...

13 March 2007
07:43 GMT




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