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AMD fires up 1.1GHz Athlon demo
News Those include copper interconnects and integrated Level 2 cache. The current 800MHz and forthcoming 850MHz chips utilise aluminium interconnects and an external 512KB cache. The performance difference comes in L2 cache.
[February 8, 2000, 8:52]
Intel gives up the gigahertz
News Under the model number plan, each chip's clock speed will become one of several features -- including cache size and bus speed -- that go into summing up performance. For example, within the Pentium 4 family, it would be easier to distinguish the...
[March 15, 2004, 7:45]
Sun and Fujitsu to boost Sparc speed
News It also has 6MB of high-speed cache memory shared between the two cores. The follow-on Sparc64 VII also has a shared 6MB cache, but that chip will have four cores. Sun and Fujitsu engineers on Tuesday promised significant performance increases with...
[October 11, 2006, 9:20]
Intel vs AMD: Get ready for Round Three
News The chip will feature "performance-enhancing cache memory", or 256KB of integrated cache, based on the company's Thunderbird processor core. It's been nearly a year now, and Intel and Advanced Micro Devices continue to trade blows in their PC...
[July 19, 2000, 13:40]
64-bit Itanium to land this month
News Last year, initial price lists indicated that the chip would range in cost from of $4,227 (£2,982) for an 800-MHz Itanium with 4MB of performance-enhancing tertiary cache to over $3,500 (£2,469) for a 733-MHz Itanium with 2MB of tertiary cache.
[May 11, 2001, 13:59]
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 review
Reviews The lower end of the Core 2 Duo line, composed of the $224 E6400 and the $183 E6300, have a 2MB unified L2 cache. The Core 2 Extreme X6800 chip, the Core 2 Duo E6700 and the $316 Core 2 E6600 represent the top tier of Intel's new line, and in...
[July 14, 2006, 10:45]
Network boost from Windows Server 2008 R2
Blog Either individual clients store the files and distribute them in a peer-to-peer fashion locally, or a local 2008 R2 server stores and distributes them in what Microsoft calls hosted cache mode. Microsoft reckons that administrators can configure an...
[September 25, 2009, 17:17]
'Confidential US security documents' flaunted online
News They were then discovered by Google and added to its cache of Web content. The mistake was subsequently spotted and the documents taken down, but the Web site owners were able to use Google to find the documents in its cache, and copy and publish...
[January 24, 2005, 15:45]
IDF: Itanium line to grow over next three years
News Over the past year, she said, McKinley had more than halved the latencies of its internal cache and now had a full speed memory bus. Next year will see Madison on 0.13um silicon with a 6MB third-level cache, and 2004 would bring Montecito into the...
[February 28, 2002, 8:57]
Newisys piggybacks Opteron into 32-chip servers
News The processor ceiling on Opteron exists because of the problem of cache coherency, said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64. Data is stored in main memory as well as in a pool of memory embedded in each chip, called a cache.
[August 26, 2004, 8:00]
Intel to unleash new, improved Celerons
News The difference is in the larger cache -- the PIII has 256KB -- but mostly in the faster bus. The new Celerons will continue to include 128KB of integrated cache, which helps boost performance, as well as support for a 66MHz system bus.
[March 29, 2000, 9:07]
700MHz Shoot-Out, Intel comes out on top (Part 2)
News The larger cache of the Intel processor may have been a factor as well. However, it also illustrates the huge L1 cache on board the Athlon may have been partly responsible for the disparity in results between the 600MHz Athlons and the 600MHz...
[October 27, 1999, 12:44]
Inside Intel's Santa Rosa platform review
Reviews Turbo Memory, formerly code-named Robson, is a NAND flash hard disk cache that's designed to reduce boot times, boost performance and conserve battery life. More performance, and lower power consumption, comes from a flash-based hard disk cache...
[May 9, 2007, 8:25]
Red Hat Tux 2.0 blows away Apache
News IBM's AIX has included a kernel-space Web cache (although not a kernel-space Web server) since 1999, so this in-kernel trend is starting to sweep across the industry. Tux's amazing speeds, even on low-end hardware, strongly validate its unusual...
[June 19, 2001, 15:55]
Dell Latitude D505 review
Reviews The Celeron M is based on the same Banias core as the Pentium M, but has half the Level 2 cache (512KB) and lacks the Pentium M's support for Enhanced SpeedStep power management technology. Given that it uses a relatively slow 1.2GHz Celeron M...
[February 17, 2004, 9:15]
AMD's Duron completes ambitious line-up
News The chip boasts 192kB of primary and secondary cache, compared to Celeron's 160kB. For example, two weeks ago the company launched a new line of Athlons with a faster, more integrated memory cache, the chips code-named Thunderbird.
[June 20, 2000, 8:55]
Sun's UltraSparc doubles down for power
News Sun also has prototypes of the UltraSparc IIIi processor, code-named Jalapeno, a product with high-speed cache memory integrated into the chip, a company representative said. Much of Itanium's surface area is occupied by its cache memory; the next...
[December 18, 2002, 8:48]
Intel to debut Celerons in March
News The new Celerons will continue to include 128KB of integrated cache, which helps speed up performance, as well support for a 66MHz system bus, sources said. While the two chips will be based on the same technology, Intel's high-end processor brand...
[February 29, 2000, 9:33]
Intel overclocking guide
News Even if the processor is able to handle a particular speed, unstable cache memory will feed it corrupt data, rendering the CPU useless. Today's CPUs differ from those of the past in that they include on-board cache memory.
[February 11, 2003, 13:25]
IBM furthers server push with new machine
News For example, Summit comes with an integrated cache of memory, a first for chipsets. A memory cache on a chipset, which shuttles data to and from the processor, will decrease the time it takes to access oft-needed data, according to IBM.
[December 28, 2001, 10:48]
