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Intel updates Itanium line with 'Kittson'
News There will be four or more cores, multithreading enhancements, and we'll also introduce more instructions to take advantage of parallelism, especially in virtualisation," Wu said. The Intel executive also said Tukwila will include four cores, large...
[June 15, 2007, 14:49]
AMD takes top three places in supercomputer list
News Jaguar is based on AMD's six-core, 2.6GHz Opteron processors and has 224,162 cores. Housed in the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, this BladeCenter QS22 Cluster uses 1.8GHz Opteron processors and has 122,400 cores, producing a maximum...
[November 16, 2009, 14:46]
VMware introduces 'operating system for the cloud'
News Although VMware claims vSphere 4 is a "cloud operating system", it is not an operating system in the traditional sense — instead, it manages virtual processors across multiple cores and the enterprise LAN.
[April 21, 2009, 18:09]
ARM chips to run embedded Linux
News The two companies said they will collaborate at an engineering level to bring Lineo's embedded Linux to microprocessors based on ARM cores. ARM made the announcement at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, where it also announced a...
[April 10, 2001, 13:07]
ARM to speed smartphone development
News ARM is best known for designing specialised processor cores, which are licensed to semiconductor makers such as Intel and Texas Instruments for devices that require low-power-consumption processors. ARM has traditionally left the integration of its...
[May 28, 2003, 11:26]
Intel brings Nehalem to notebooks
News Turbo Boost works by switching off cores when not in use and overclocking the active cores left. Intel has moved its latest desktop and server chip architecture to the laptop with the announcement of its 45nm Core i7 mobile processor, based on its...
[September 24, 2009, 9:00]
McNealy takes pricing fight to Oracle
News IBM, Sun, Intel, AMD and others have begun a move to dual-core chips -- designs with two processing engines on the same slice of silicon -- and are headed down a path for even more cores. One issue in the debate: Twice the processor cores doesn't...
[December 9, 2004, 7:30]
What Intel is doing is like Google's Methodology
Talkback Each of the cores would be built exactly in the same way but the micro-code caches could be programmed as needed when the task running requires it. It means that part of the cores could be doing graphics rendering for the system while another few...
[December 24, 2009, 15:26]
Mobile phones: The next Game Boy?
News The company dominates the market for mobile phone chip designs, and its cores also power Pocket PC handheld computers and the Game Boy Advance, as well as set-top boxes and other entertainment devices.
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
Don't rush into quad core
Leader In our tests for instance, overall CPU utilisation fell: in a multimedia test it dropped from 40 percent in a dual two-core system (four cores in total), to 23 percent with eight cores. In other tests we found that system performance actually...
[November 14, 2006, 14:12]
ARM to show Android prototype
News The company designs the processor cores that companies such as Texas Instruments, Samsung and Marvell manufacture into chips that run mobile phones and smartphones. However, different handset makers utilise ARM's cores in different ways, which...
[February 8, 2008, 10:19]
Intel shows off quad-core chip
News Multiplying the number of cores brings distinct advantages. AMD will also come out with chips with four cores in 2007. Nonetheless, adding cores requires careful planning. Integrating processor cores into the same piece of silicon or same processor...
[February 13, 2006, 8:05]
Clock frequency race hots up
News To compensate, Intel and AMD have turned instead to the addition of multiple processing cores on each slice of silicon. In September, Intel showed a glimpse of a prototype chip with 80 cores that can perform a trillion mathematical calculations per...
[January 2, 2007, 8:23]
Intel to produce more powerful server chip
News The processor packs up to eight processor cores on a single die, with each core supporting two threads via hyperthreading for up to 16 threads per chip. IBM has already demonstrated a high-end server that is being designed to use eight Nehalem EX...
[May 27, 2009, 8:24]
Intel looks to do well by doing good
Leader While the hard count of Gigahertz is out, multi-core is in; there is no architectural limit, we heard, on building chips with up to 4,000 cores. Microsoft may have a problem running Windows on more than 64 cores, but the magic of virtualisation...
[August 30, 2005, 16:00]
The software licensing shake-up
News Gartner predicts that by 2008, Sun will integrate as many as 32 logical cores on one processor, offering a huge increase in performance. These new processors consist of two or more cores on one chip. So Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition would...
[September 29, 2005, 15:45]
Quad-core processors get an airing
News Quad-core models are the next step and a further indication that Intel's effort to improve performance focuses more on adding more cores than on increasing a chip's clock speed. It's not clear what approach Intel will take to achieving four cores...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
Intel to go quad-core this year
News Chips with more cores can juggle multiple jobs simultaneously. However, while server software typically is able to use multiple cores, most desktop computer software hasn't been adapted for the designs.
[July 20, 2006, 8:50]
Intel: Teraflops industry standard chip on way
News Intel is not revealing any further details, such as the number of cores or bus architecture, but it says that working silicon will be demonstrated in 2008. This will support up to four sockets, putting 16 cores into a blade.
[April 17, 2007, 13:02]
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review
Reviews Thus, we have four processing cores, each running at 2.66GHz. The big news is the doubling of the number of cores to four; the rest of the chip architecture remains the same for the most part. The key specs of the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 are its...
[November 2, 2006, 10:23]
