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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the expansion of its line of Athlon II processors, with the introduction of two new models, the Athlon II X4 620 and Athlon II X4 630, both of which have been designed for the mainstream market and take advantage of the chip maker's energy-ef... |
16 September 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based chip maker Advanced Micro Devices came to the market with a new line of Opteron chips, shortly following the release of the six-core Opteron processor codenamed “Istanbul.” The new silicon solution, John Fruehe, director of Business Development for Server/Workstation products at AMD, says,... |
3 July 2009
07:03 GMT |
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After much anticipation and a series of leaked details surfacing the Internet over the last few weeks, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just announced its latest addition to its most recent line of Phenom II processors. As anticipated, the chip maker's newest quad-core processor is dubbed P... |
23 April 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Acer, one of the worldwide leading computer solution providers, came at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, with a nice range of products, among which we were able to spot a new Acer Aspire Gaming notebook, the 8930G. The machine is added to the company's lineup of gaming computers, and we have to say that it lo... |
6 March 2009
10:25 GMT |
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A TG Daily report points out that Imagination Technologies is set to unveil the new version of its graphics chip IP, the PowerVR SGX543. The 543 is Imagination's first multi-core capable GPU platform, which Apple may be very interested in employing for a new-gen iPhone. “While Imagination’s technolo... |
9 January 2009
04:43 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the web, the world's largest chip manufacturer, Intel, is planning to add five new 45nm mobile CPUs to its product lineup. The new processors are said to be four dual-cores and one quad-core. The latter is a 2.0 GHz chip dubbed Q9000, and is reported to come with FSB of 1066 MHz, ... |
29 December 2008
06:43 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Deneb processors have made it to the headlines within the past few weeks, and, as their launch date closes even more, new info on them seem to surface every day. The chip maker has already announced that the new chips will come under the Phenom II brand, which will include the high-end... |
1 December 2008
11:35 GMT |
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AMD is expected to unveil its next-generation desktop processors in early 2009, when the company will introduce its first 45nm-based chips for the consumer market. These new chips will make up the company's new Phenom II range of consumer-grade processor lineup, providing higher levels of performance as compared... |
1 December 2008
04:20 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is set to launch its first quad-core chip designed for notebooks at a certain point in 2010. Although this would be a step forward for AMD, the chip will still be about one year behind the first similar CPU that will arrive from Intel. As already showed on the previously released roadmap, AMD&#... |
22 November 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Intel, the current leading manufacturer of computer processors, has recently introduced its highly anticipated, next-generation desktop processors, which make up the company's new Core i7 family. Coming to provide considerable performance enhancements, estimates have it that the new processors will not enjoy ma... |
20 November 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices released its latest server chip, code-named Shanghai, two days ago, and reviews and testing results emerged to the web the very same day. Since the chip proved to rise to the expectations, analysts already say that AMD has good chances to give Intel something to worry about. AMD's new quad... |
15 November 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices announced quite a while ago the release of a new server microprocessor, code-named Shanghai; it has officially introduced it today. The chip is manufactured using the 45 nanometer process technology and is said to be able to deliver improved performance and energy savings. According to the Sunn... |
13 November 2008
03:55 GMT |
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At the Intel Developers Forum in Taipei, the giant chip manufacturer unveiled some details on the company's latest mobile technologies aiming at “expanding the frontiers of mobility”. Among the projects detailed at IDF, we can find plans on new quad-core processors for mobile devices, the code-named ... |
27 October 2008
03:22 GMT |
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Dell, one of the leading vendors of portable systems, is planning to release a couple of new laptops, specifically designed to deliver the required performance for a high-end mobile workstation. Part of the company's Precision product lineup, the new laptops promise several significant features, which will ulti... |
22 September 2008
04:11 GMT |
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We all know that there's an intense rivalry between the Sunnyvale, California-based chip marker AMD and competitor Intel. What this means is that either of these companies will probably stop at nothing in order to prove the supremacy of its products over those of its competitor. Recently, we've seen both A... |
11 September 2008
08:25 GMT |
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A recently revealed slide showing AMD’s CPU roadmap indicates that the Sunnyvale-based chip maker is bound to release its first 45nm-manufactured quad-core Phenom processors as soon as January 2009. The slide appears to confirm recent rumors, according to which AMD plans to release the first 45nm desktop ... |
5 September 2008
02:02 GMT |
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Intel is not the only chip maker that has decided to update its processor offer, since competitor AMD has also made some adjustments to its lineup of desktop processors. However, unlike its Santa-Clara-based competitor, AMD has not rolled out any new desktop chips, opting instead for lowering the prices for several o... |
2 September 2008
10:54 GMT |
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Intel, the leading manufacturer of computer processors, has recently added a couple of new chips to its quad-core, dual-core and Celeron ranges of products. The new chips come with rather decent prices and promising specs, especially considering they’re meant for the mainstream market segment. Ultimately, these... |
2 September 2008
05:50 GMT |
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According to recent rumors, AMD plans to release its first 45nm-based desktop processors in early 2009. The company will showcase its next generation CPUs, codenamed Deneb, on the 8th of January, on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show or CES. Sources close to the company state that the new chips produ... |
28 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Apple is offering refurbished Xserves packing the Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processor for $2,599.00. The units ship within 24 hours, while Apple pays for the trip to your house. The Refurbished Xserve 2.8GHz Quad Xeon offers all the benefits of Apple Certified Refurbished Products.Apple says that, for $2,599.0... |
28 August 2008
06:39 GMT |
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There was a time when Intel's quad-core Q6600 processor was one of the best CPUs for desktop mainstream performance. Naturally, this also meant that it came with a rather premium price tag, set at approximately US$355. This happened, as a slight reminder, almost one year ago. However, the Q6600 has proved to be ... |
14 August 2008
03:44 GMT |
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It's been almost one month since the leading chip maker Intel finally unveiled its latest mobile platform, the Centrino 2. Since that date, a number of portable systems manufacturers have went ahead and released their own implementations of the company's high-end mobile platform. As a matter of fact, just r... |
12 August 2008
10:50 GMT |
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If you happen to find yourself somewhere near "the land down under" and you are looking to acquire a new high-end notebook, then you should check out the offer of PC maker Pioneer Computers. The Australian manufacturer is now taking preorders for laptops equipped with the yet unreleased Intel quad-core mobile process... |
11 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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AMD is taking a shot at the desktop processor market with the release of three new Phenom processors. One of these CPUs, the new Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, will become AMD's flagship model, taking the place of the company's previous title holder, the Phenom X4 9850. Unlike the Black Edition Phenom, the o... |
1 July 2008
03:09 GMT |
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This year's Computex show held in Taipei, Taiwan is just the place to be for all of you overclocking enthusiasts. That is, only if we're to trust the statements of the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, MSI, according to which it's prepping an impressive overclocking show. As indicated by a recent pre... |
4 June 2008
08:16 GMT |
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AMD might have lost the race with Intel in terms of processor performance and core count, but it still rules on the energy-efficient CPU market. The company has just unveiled a new highly-efficient quad-core Opteron line-up, primarily targeted at data center and corporate servers. According to the company, the new CP... |
12 May 2008
05:46 GMT |
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The much-hyped quad-core processors are usually associated with high-end computing and budget-busting price tags. However, the quad-core behemoths have started to show up in consumer desktop systems manufactured by system integrators such as Hewlett-Packard, Gateway or eMachines. Such consumer-level systems are power... |
30 April 2008
04:57 GMT |
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Intel has just posted the updated price list for its select quad-core processors. The new offerings are up to 50 percent cheaper, depending on the frequency clock and the market it addresses. More than that, Intel posted two new processor models in the Celeron and Core 2 Duo families. The updated list includes the Co... |
21 April 2008
11:44 GMT |
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AMD's tri-core processors in the Phenom family have been designed to cover the price and performance gap between dual-core and quad-core chips. According to AMD, they are expected to deliver superior performance as compared to the dual-core offerings, but at the same time, to keep costs lower than users would ha... |
15 April 2008
06:50 GMT |
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The recently published price list for the newly-introduced Atom processors might shed new light over the future of the Skulltrail processor. Despite the fact that it is one of the most powerful CPUs commercially available on the market, its availability might reach a premature end.Intel's updated price list espe... |
5 April 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Intel's highest-end processor QX9775 has been listed on the company's website, which indicates that it has finally reached mass-availability. Targeted especially at the high-end and enthusiast markets, the quad-core QX9775 is a tweaked server chip that forms the heart of the high-end gaming Skulltrail platf... |
28 March 2008
11:11 GMT |
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Intel has started shipping units of its Q-series quad-core processors, after a long trench of delays. Initially announced for early January this year, the chip manufacturer delayed their introduction a couple of times.The company finally started shipping its 45-nanometer Q-series of mainstream-oriented chips, but the... |
27 March 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Workstation vendor NextComputing has just integrated Intel's low wattage L5420 Xeon 45-nanometer quad core chips into its NextDimension "flextop" lineup."The Intel Xeon processor 5400 series helps enable NextComputing to provide a unique form factor in the high-performance workstation market," said Boyd Davis, G... |
26 March 2008
21:41 GMT |
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Intel has just confirmed that the company will start shipping its mobile quad-core processors later this year, as previously reported here at Softpedia. According to company officials, the upcoming quad-core powerhorses will be based on the Intel Core 2 Duo micro-architecture and will hit the market during the third ... |
15 March 2008
06:58 GMT |
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The 45-nanometer technology seems to be the source of CPU manufacturers' headache. AMD has completely failed in delivering the new processors built around the 45-nm technology, and it seems that there will be some other couple of months until they get the first working CPU.According to the rumors emerging from t... |
27 December 2007
05:09 GMT |
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PC vendors and producers are launching more and more systems based on the dual and quad core architectures. They promise users unparalleled performance gains, but the machines are worth a small fortune. So consumers are beginning to wonder if an upgrade to one of these wonder systems is really worth the cost and the ... |
16 July 2007
10:26 GMT |
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It is reported that Intel sent a message to its more than 130.000 resellers and white-box builders worldwide, informing them that the company will cut prices of its still new quad processor family next week. The move of the giant chip producer can be seen as a way of responding to AMD's similar move, in a price ... |
16 July 2007
09:52 GMT |
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AMD has been through some rough times throughout its existence but lately they have suffered one of the worst hits in the history. Now I don't know whether it's about the acquisition of Ati or the fact that Core 2 Duos are faster. Perhaps it's a combination of both. Anyway, AMD lost a big chunk of its ... |
21 June 2007
05:31 GMT |
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At least on paper it is. Because in practice, Barcelona's appearance was almost inexistent. Few bechmarks ran on AMDs native quad-core series and I have to say that I wasn't very impressed. Barcelona's 128-bit FPUs coupled with a tuned memory controller helped it perform on par with INTEL's quad c... |
15 June 2007
12:06 GMT |
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Lately the CPU world has been suffering from some serious architectural changes. While that happens pretty often, such a change generally ends up as a new technology ready to be integrated in a future CPU. Well it seems that not everything can go as smooth as it should since it seems that AMD has suffered from some s... |
13 June 2007
09:11 GMT |
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AMD's Barcelona and Agena CPUs are almost here, but don't expect out-of-the box compatibility with the current AM2 motherboards. Before the emergence of AM3 sockets, AMD will release AM2+ designs to support the new quad-cores. There are also a couple of new chipsets to be integrated in the AM2+ motherboards... |
18 May 2007
09:15 GMT |
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It seems that Intel really wants to obliterate AMD as soon as possible. You may still remember that AMD was the last to announce a price cut for their current CPUs a couple of weeks ago, as the new Phenom processors are almost ready for launch. And what is Intel doing now? Right, its time for a price cut on their own... |
17 May 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Just when we thought AMD would give in to internal problems and let Intel takeover the entire CPU market, the Sunnyvale company pops up with all kinds of mouth-watering details on their soon-to-be released products. At a demo show held in Monterey, CA, AMD displayed an interesting system powered by the latest Agena F... |
11 May 2007
09:09 GMT |
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AMD has decided to come up with a new name for the upcoming high-end Agena-based CPUs. Thus, the next-generation K10-derived "Stars" family will include single, dual and quad-core processors, which will be commercialized under three different brand names: Phenom (high-end), Athlon 64 (mainstream) and Sempron (entry... |
4 May 2007
07:10 GMT |
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When Intel came forth with the Core microarchitecture, everybody was simply delighted at the fact that a processor could overclock to as much as 100% of its stock frequency by using air cooling alone. But back then, AMD had only the K8 architecture to show off and people were already aware of what its capabilities we... |
20 April 2007
10:11 GMT |
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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 |
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Or was it two heads are better than one? I don't know, in this technologically advanced era that we are living in, what today is new, tomorrow is old, and what we know now, might not be as important in the near future. In order to stay ahead, you have to be in the line of fire, make a stand in front of others by... |
10 April 2007
03:18 GMT |
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When you try to make something work but you know that the entire process is painstakingly long, you often resort to unorthodox methods, a way of overcoming the hardship through some thoughtful innovation. Like take for instance the simple process of making ice cubes, to go down well with that whisky, if you just have... |
4 April 2007
08:30 GMT |
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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 |
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