Intel is ahead of schedule with shipment of quad-core Xeon processors made using the 32-nm process
Intel is set to start production of its next-generation Xeon quad-core server chips ahead of schedule, which could then appear in systems as early as the first quarter of next year, a company official said on Tuesday.
The new Jasper Forest chip can save up to 27 watts
Intel has announced it will be shipping an enhanced version of its dual-processing Nehalem Xeon chip that is aimed specifically at the data storage and communications market with the ability to natively create RAID and is integrated with PCI Express (PCIe).
Fusion chips are on track to ship in 2011
Next year, Advanced Micro Devices will begin providing PC makers with samples of the much-hyped Fusion chips that incorporate graphics processing into the CPU.
Mobile computing will, however, be the larger market
Even as it is pushing mobile computing, Intel expects desktop computers to continue to be in demand in the long term, an Intel executive said on Thursday.
AMD's dual-core Neo chip will run at 1.6GHz and could be faster than Intel's single-core CULV chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it had started shipping the dual-core Athlon Neo processor for thin and light laptops, upping the ante in its battle with rival Intel, which offers processors for similar laptops.
Size matters and so does performance
Size matters and so does performance. The
ongoing goal to make devices smaller and
more efficient to keep ahead of the pack
has been ringing true since the evolution of the
bulky PC to the Eee PC, and from the stereo to the
iPod. It’s a small world after all and it’s set to get
smaller as new concepts and devices roll through
the production stages. But as the economic doom
settles in, what component technologies will
shine through?
Fast CPUs and booze.
Intel celebrated the launch of the Core i7 at a party in Sydney's Cruise bar. Intel boasted about releasing the fastest CPU on the planet, and provided some real-time demonstrations of video encoding and physics processing, with the Core i7 leaving the Core 2 Duo in its wake.
More and more help is available so developers can write apps for the new-generation chips
With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle -- getting software to be processed across multiple cores -- in order to ensure the maximum performance from their software. But this is much easier said than done, with developers having to tackle issues with concurrency and potential performance bottlenecks. Already, 71 percent of organizations are developing multithreaded applications for multicore hardware, according to a recent IDC survey sponsored by tool vendor Coverity.