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Intel preparing megahertz megablitz
News That chip, a 600MHz mobile Pentium III, will vary its clock speed, depending on whether it is plugged in and running on AC power or if it is on battery power. When a notebook is running on battery power, Geyserville reduces the chip's clock speed...
[August 31, 1999, 9:28]
Itanium ready for radical reworking
News To deal with the issue, Intel lowered the top clock speed 200MHz and stripped out one Montecito feature called Foxton that would have provided a 200MHz clock-speed boost when such a move wouldn't cause heating problems.
[March 9, 2006, 14:55]
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks review
Reviews Clock speed As a result, the Athlon 64’s large 1MB Level 2 cache is about 20 per cent faster at a given clock speed than that of the previous Athlon XP processor. Internet performance, of course, is primarily dependent on the speed of your...
[September 25, 2003, 16:35]
Benchmarks: Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) review
Reviews If a piece of software fails to make full demands on all the cores, the chip's internal logic ensures that calculations in the cores that are in use operate at a higher clock speed. The fewer clock cycles it takes to access a memory cell (a measure...
[November 4, 2008, 13:22]
Intel's low-power Crusoe challenger
News Speedstep, which acts as a switch to drop clock speed and power consumption of a Pentium III running on battery power, is not dynamically variable like Crusoe, which can move through a number of clock-speed and power-consumption states based on...
[October 12, 2000, 8:19]
Barcelona may not cure AMD's complaint
News AMD plans to launch 2.3GHz high-performance versions in the fourth quarter and will probably boost clock speed as momentum starts to grow behind the chip. Clock speed is by no means the only measure of processor performance, but it is an important...
[September 10, 2007, 9:28]
Intel reports chipper quarter
News But he said that Intel had made changes to the Prescott processor to increase its potential clock speed. The tests led to a slight change, which he said increases the chip's clock-speed potential in the future.
[October 15, 2003, 15:30]
Pick the proper hardware for your Exchange 2000 server
News While the processor's clock speed controls how fast the instructions are processed, how quickly the instructions get to the processor is almost as important. Generally, the higher the clock speed on the processor, the faster the processor will run.
[April 18, 2002, 10:58]
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro: a first look review
Reviews On paper, those specifications pale in comparison to those of the GeForce FX, which has both an engine clock speed and a memory speed of 500MHz. The Radeon 9600 Pro will actually have a slightly faster engine clock speed than the 9800--400MHz vs.
[March 7, 2003, 10:56]
Inside Intel's Dothan review
Reviews Those part numbers don't directly refer to the clock frequency, but at the moment the higher the number the faster the clock: the Pentium M Processor 735 is 1.7GHz, the 745 is 1.8GHz and the 755 is the chart-topping 2GHz part.
[May 10, 2004, 8:20]
Intel's roadmap quickly reworked
News The benefits of increasing clock frequency are beginning to be offset by the liabilities of heat dissipation," Brookwood said. They won't be pushing as hard on clock frequency as they did in the past.
[May 10, 2004, 9:15]
Intel already making 800MHz chips - report
News Chip giant Intel is already manufacturing chips with a clock frequency in excess of 800MHz, according a report in technical engineering publication EETimes. The clock frequency is better than 800 MHz," according to the EETimes report.
[December 10, 1999, 15:57]
Intel draws notebook and desktop chip lines together
News Typically, Intel took its desktop chip and added some features, such as SpeedStep, to reduce power consumption and ran the chips at lower clock speeds. The Pentium M in most regards is very competitive with the Pentium 4 while running at...
[March 30, 2004, 8:30]
apMemo
Downloads Native VGA resolution support (480x640)"apMemo" item in the New menu on Today screenExport to bitmapVisual choice of pen size and colorOptional grid or lines on backgroundUndo feature and other interface enhancementsCustomizable default background...
[March 1, 2004, 7:00]
Intel talks up next-generation chips
News Intel has moved away from that design strategy in favour of smaller pipelines that do more work per stage, and can therefore run at slower clock speeds. The microarchitecture also allows the processor to issue four instructions per clock, rather...
[February 20, 2006, 8:25]
Palm Tungsten C review
Reviews These include: Acrobat Reader for Palm OS; PrintBoy, which is designed to allow printing over wired and wireless connections; WorldMate, a world clock and data conversion tool for travellers; the PowerOne advanced calculator; VoiceMemo for...
[May 9, 2003, 8:27]
nVidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra: a first look review
Reviews A direct result of the GeForce FX's high clock speeds is that the chip and memory both run very hot, and the card consumes more power than the standard AGP bus can provide. Fortunately, these extra precautions are really critical for only the high...
[January 29, 2003, 8:32]
CeBIT 2000: Intel looks ahead to 4GHz chips
News Clock speed is] a pretty bad measurement of a chip's overall performance," he admitted. The microprocessing giant has promised to raise the bar for processor clock speeds to 3GHz and 4GHz in the near future.
[February 25, 2000, 16:18]
News Schmooze: Gigahertz gigabattle
News Should the world care whether the clock speed on your computer processor is an accurate representation of its performance? Clock speed might not be a perfect measure of performance, but at least it's a fact, and you can't argue with facts.
[April 5, 2002, 17:23]
Intel boosts virtualisation with quad-core Xeons
News Clock speed is 2GHz with 1333MHz front-side bus within a 50-watt power envelope. Moore's Law, Intel's silicon design and process technology and the Core microarchitecture are allowing us to deliver even greater levels of end-user value by...
[August 14, 2007, 12:28]
