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TI to upgrade UltraSparc manufacturing
News The top-end 128-processor Primepower 2000, the 32-processor PrimePower 1000 and the 16-processor PrimePower 800 products are available with 788MHz chips. The mid-range eight-processor 650 and 16-processor 850 models are for sale with 810MHz chips.
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
Intel's virtually there with Montecito
News It's a combination of hardware and the processor abstraction layer [internal software that configures and controls how the processor works with external software]," said Paul Shim, computer architecture specialist.
[September 10, 2004, 9:20]
LinuxWorld to have a Big Blue tinge
News On IBM's docket are a new 64-processor IBM server that can run existing Linux applications unchanged, courtesy of some new IBM middleware, a Linux-based workstation using Intel's high-end IA-64 processors, and Linux versions of IBM Domino Workflow...
[January 31, 2001, 14:43]
Nuggets: Creative to the rescue
News The card is based on Nvidia's RIVA TNT2 processor. Not everyone's got an AGP slot in their PC you know. However try telling that to card makers, whose latest and greatest graphics offerings give little heed to those of us with only a couple of...
[March 21, 2000, 15:03]
Intel's 'Madison' to make first appearance
News Server makers Unisys and NEC are expected to provide the first public demonstrations of "Madison", Intel's third-generation Itanium processor, at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) on Monday. NEC will show a Madison system with 32 processors running SAP...
[September 9, 2002, 8:06]
IBM touts second Itanium
News The machine is a significant IBM endorsement of Intel's Itanium processor family, which is a 64-bit line intended for high-end computers. For example, on the same day it launched its first Itanium server, it trumpeted the speed of servers that use...
[November 11, 2003, 7:35]
Itanium applications are go
News Unfortunately for software developers the overhaul in design means that applications have to be redesigned and some software houses may well be pleased to have more development time.bit computing accelerates computer performance by allowing the...
[July 28, 2000, 15:26]
Chip designers paint a brighter picture
News Chip designers bucked the semiconductor slump of 2001, increasing revenues from sales of technology such as processor cores by 25 percent, according to a new report from market researcher Gartner. Instead of creating a custom processor core, a...
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
Torvalds: Next Linux due by June
News The Itanium processor, codeveloped by Hewlett-Packard, is a 64-bit chip built to accommodate vast amounts of memory, but the commands it understands are drastically different from those understood by the 32-bit Pentium line.
[October 28, 2002, 9:01]
How IBM plans to change the chip world
News If you had a hard enough time getting used to the idea that a 1GHz processor would one day power regular computer systems, how does the prospect of 2GHz chips grab you? Chip designers say that a fast processor isn't much good if a system fails to...
[March 15, 2000, 14:19]
Dell Opteron sale 'an anomaly'
News If Dell did make such a decision, it would be a major coup for AMD, which has dramatically increased its share of the x86 processor market dominated by Intel over the past decade. The advert on Dell's Web site, for a $869.47 Opteron 148 processor...
[March 24, 2004, 16:02]
IBM goes retro to bridge the supercomputing divide
News With a technology called Virtual Vector Architecture, or ViVA, the 16 processor cores of a scalar server such as IBM's Power5-based p5-570 can be yoked together to act like a single vector processor. Trying to hook multiple scalar processors into a...
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Microsoft: Set your systems for Vista
News Note: Processor speed is the nominal operational chip frequency for the PC. Vista-capable Premium Ready Processor Modern chip (at least 800MHz) 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) System memory 512MB 1GB GPU DirectX 9 capable...
[May 19, 2006, 10:45]
Itanium 2 on the way, but will it sell?
News The Itanium 2 processor marks a significant step in Intel's strategy to penetrate the upper echelons of the computing market. In addition to processing twice as much data at a time, 64-bit chips also let a single processor access data from larger...
[July 8, 2002, 13:36]
How to get a supercomputer for free
News Dr Jörg Stadler, marketing manager for NEC's European Supercomputer Systems, said only the basic single-processor unit is being offered in the Try & Buy promotion, which kicks off a year after NEC launched the SX-6i in Europe.
[February 24, 2003, 16:32]
Start-up sees low-cost future in clusters
News Would you rather spend $100,000 on one 16-processor server or a third that much on eight networked dual-processor machines? The VirtuOS software lets numerous software jobs run on a group of as many as 128 dual-processor systems, with more...
[December 17, 2004, 13:45]
Itanium dealt another blow
News IBM is not only discontinuing support for Intel's Itanium processor in a new generation of server technology, it's going a step further, dropping Itanium servers from the product line altogether, sources familiar with the situation said.
[February 28, 2005, 8:05]
Windows Server 2008 R2: a first look review
Reviews Moreover, the 64-bit platform can deliver a lot more scalability, with support for up to 256 logical processor cores in the R2 server itself and 64 logical cores per virtual machine (VM) in the updated Hyper-V hypervisor — about which more shortly.
[July 7, 2009, 16:31]
Intel safe to copy AMD
News Intel will probably face questions about its anticipated plans to create chips that function like the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices, but it is fairly likely that the company won't face a lawsuit from AMD.
[February 16, 2004, 10:00]
Groups call for Intel boycott
News One plan is to put processor-specific IDs on each chip that can be accessed by software and transmitted over the Internet. The processor ID can be hidden from Net access by turning off a software switch.
[January 25, 1999, 16:05]
