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A Year Ago: Intel eyes life after 1GHz
News Headroom is, essentially, the amount of additional clock speed a version of a processor can be enhanced with after its introduction, due to manufacturing refinements. They will come in a wide range of clock speeds as well -- both higher and lower...
[April 1, 2001, 6:04]
A Year Ago: AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz
News Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock-speed performance over the aluminum interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. But Thunderbird-core Athlons will also offer a number of...
[March 9, 2001, 6:00]
nVidia GeForce3 Ti500 review
Reviews The processor has a core clock speed of 240MHz and is supported by 64MB of 250MHz DDR RAM, giving a memory bandwidth of 8GB/s. A slightly less powerful version, the GeForce3 Ti200, has a core clock speed of 175MHz and uses 200MHz DDR memory, and...
[October 2, 2001, 0:00]
A look under the hood of Pentium 4
News The length of a chip's pipeline is what governs its clock speed performance. However, the higher clock speed will not translate directly into the same kinds of performance increases that would occur by increasing a Pentium III's clock speed...
[August 25, 2000, 13:22]
Chip wars: Is there life after 1GHz?
News Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock speed performance over the aluminium interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. But Thunderbird-core Athlons will also offer a number of...
[March 8, 2000, 8:59]
Via takes wraps off 'Joshua' chip
News The PR rating is derived from the chip's performance in a series of application benchmarks, rather than actual clock speed, and is touted by proponents as offering the equivalent of the true Intel clock speed.
[February 22, 2000, 16:33]
AMD goes for Intel with 'Spitfire'
News While AMD's Spitfire chip is expected to be competitive with Celeron in clock speed and cache, it will excel in one area: Spitfire will offer a much faster bus speed than Celeron chips. AMD is expected to release Spitfire at four clock speeds...
[March 28, 2000, 7:32]
Intel's Banias: Not built for speed
News Clock speed is measured in megahertz. The Pentium 4 family relies on high clock speed to get performance, and clock speed uses battery power. Although Intel has already been touting the performance characteristics of the chip, it will have to...
[August 8, 2002, 7:35]
Comdex '99: Notebooks to get more juice
News The Speedstep Technology from Intel, meanwhile, works by reducing the voltage of the chip, which in turn reduces its clock speed.Intel will introduce this feature in a 600MHz mobile Pentium III chip, due in the first quarter.
[November 18, 1999, 9:33]
Intel gives up the gigahertz
News The company has spent years and millions of dollars marketing clock speed as its processors' main measure of performance and their main point of differentiation from competing Advanced Micro Devices products.
[March 15, 2004, 7:45]
Intel hits AMD with Tualatin chips
News SpeedStep, in its current form, allows a mobile Pentium III to scale back in clock speed and voltage to save power when a notebook switches to batteries. This second version of SpeedStep will take that further, allowing the chip to switch between...
[May 17, 2001, 7:55]
Intel debuts higher-speed Celeron
News The process change will bring additional performance "headroom" to Celeron, meaning Intel will be able to raise the clock speed of the chip over the next few quarters, while it lowers cost, because the process also yields a greater number of chips.
[January 5, 2000, 9:32]
AMD Phenom X4 9850 review
Reviews The X4 9850, though, features some more technical improvements over the lower-end models, and not just a faster core clock speed. The memory controller and the HyperTransport clock in the earlier Phenom chips came in at 1.8GHz and 3.6GHz...
[March 28, 2008, 14:16]
Intel: Pentium 4 to clock up 1.8GHz
News It could be that Intel is looking to close up holes where AMD could squeeze in with a unique clock speed and pricing," said Kevin Krewell, a senior analyst at Microdesign Resources. Analysts say a forthcoming chipset will be a stronger factor than...
[June 19, 2001, 8:46]
Does Moore's Law no longer apply?
News For example, copper interconnects are more power-efficient conductors than the aluminum interconnects currently in wide use, meaning a chip will take less power and run at a lower temperature for the same clock speed.
[February 9, 2000, 9:37]
Fast Internet
Downloads Also, with help of Fast Internet, your system clock will always be up to date, synchronized with atomic clock from the free Internet sites. Fast Internet helps you get the most out of your Internet connection by increasing your Web surfing and...
[August 31, 2004, 14:19]
Intel's 'Prescott' chips go live
News As expected, the rapid increase in clock speed will be aided by a longer, 31-stage pipeline, Siu confirmed. This time, Pentium 4 Prescott and Northwood desktop chips will coexist at clock speeds ranging from 2.8GHz to 3.4GHz.
[February 2, 2004, 7:25]
Intel notebooks sport low-power chips
News This reduces clock speed, but it also cuts down on power consumption and the amount of heat the chip produces. To further reduce power consumption, the chips use Intel's SpeedStep, which cuts voltage and clock speed back while a notebook is running...
[April 19, 2002, 9:06]
Drilling into dual core
News AMD began using a more efficient chip design and stopped using clock speed in its marketing materials, instead offering model numbers that gave a performance estimate. High-end Unix servers moved away from clock speed years ago, shifting to more...
[September 28, 2005, 17:25]
IDF: Banias fever breaks out review
Reviews The first Banias prototypes have a clock speed of 1300MHz (1.3GHz). Banias also demonstrates that a processor doesn’t necessarily have to run at a high clock speed to achieve good performance. Intel’s new Banias processor includes over 77 million...
[September 16, 2002, 14:17]
