CPU roadmap: server processors review
Reviews Virtualisation extensions and multi-core support are now standard, with new architectures and fabrication technologies being implemented that will see the current generation of quad-core chips assigned to the history books in months rather than...
[June 16, 2008, 11:38]
Inside Intel's Atom review
Reviews At the time, Intel had three main processor architectures: the Itanium, for high-performance computing; the x86 for everything mainstream; and ARM, for embedded products. That turns out to be power-inefficient, especially with long pipeline...
[June 3, 2008, 17:34]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: a first look review
Reviews One fact that's been known for a while is that this is the first 64-bit version of Office, part of Microsoft's transition to the current generation of processor architectures. Microsoft, like Apple, has one customer.
[July 13, 2009, 14:32]
Photos: Intel's Silverthorne, Tukwila review
Reviews Gain-cell on-chip DRAMBy adopting a novel configuration, Intel has made dynamic memory that can contend with static memory for speed and power while being a lot denser - ideal for putting large amounts of cache right next to cores on many-core...
[February 5, 2008, 15:28]
Who Controls the Internet? review
Reviews Yet, since nations don't agree on what control there should be, what's happening is the development of multiple Internets whose architectures are designed in accordance with different sets of values. Everyone has their own idea of the moment when...
[September 13, 2006, 9:00]
Netbook platforms: VIA Nano v. Intel Atom review
Reviews Our benchmarks show which of the two architectures performs best in practice. Introduction Despite the rapidly cooling economic climate, netbooks sold like hot cakes last year. The boom in small, affordable, notebooks looks likely to continue this...
[February 10, 2009, 16:22]
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops review
Reviews Blade PC architectures Although many organisations are satisfied with conventional desktop PCs, some want to manage their systems so tightly that they have replaced their desktop computers with thin clients connected to back-office servers that...
[July 3, 2007, 11:44]
Office Communications Server 2007 review
Reviews This must be configured to run in native Windows Server 2003 mode — a fact that could seriously delay the uptake of OCS 2007 in organisations that have not deployed Active Directory, and in those using Active Directory in conjunction with older...
[October 16, 2007, 10:11]
VMware Workstation 5 review
Reviews CPU support now includes processors with 64-bit extensions such as Intel's EM64T and AMD’s Opteron and Athlon 64 architectures. The software allows multiple operating systems and their applications to run concurrently on a single physical computer.
[May 10, 2005, 10:50]
Inside Intel's Core architecture review
Reviews Core has around fourteen stages in its pipeline: as with most modern architectures, there are a number of complications, such as early completion and out of order execution, which make it hard to define exactly how many stages there are.
[July 28, 2006, 9:10]
HP Compaq NX9005 review
Reviews The graphics chip borrows system memory rather than having any of its own, and like most shared memory architectures, it suffers by comparison to GPUs with dedicated VRAM. You might think that this would mean no surprises, but in an odd way, there...
[October 14, 2003, 9:50]
