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Intel contemplates business branding
News Previously, chip brands such as Pentium were higher up the pecking order, but platforms showed up in 2003 when Intel began selling One logical time to introduce the brand would be at the third-quarter launch of a business PC platform code-named...
[March 27, 2006, 9:20]
Intel's concept PC apes Apple
News The company showed off its first 65nm, dual-core mobile chip, code-named Yonah, as well as a future chipset and updated Wi-Fi chips. Also at the developer event on Wednesday, Intel executive vice-president Sean Maloney touted a number of the...
[March 3, 2005, 10:40]
A Year Ago: Intel eyes life after 1GHz
News The new chip, based on the forthcoming "Thunderbird" core, promises to be a better performer than the current generation, but it is not expected to be much more expensive. Intel, the world's leading chip manufacturer, is evaluating its options for...
[April 1, 2001, 6:04]
Longhorn no window of opportunity for Itanium
Leader It's hard to write efficient systems software for the chip, it won't virtualise easily and there's no groundswell of new and interesting products, hard or soft, on the horizon. Apart from maths, the chip's big advantage has been its ability to cope...
[April 11, 2005, 12:40]
Intel eyes life after 1GHz
News The new chip, based on the forthcoming "Thunderbird" core, promises to be a better performer than the current generation, but it is not expected to be much more expensive. Intel, the world's leading chip manufacturer, is evaluating its options for...
[April 1, 2000, 12:10]
Lastminute.com outsources to Argentina
News The UK dot-com darling has moved all of its core Unix and database administration operation to a remote office in Buenos Aires run by around 20 e-commerce specialists, according to the company's chief technology officer, Chip Steinmetz.
[March 1, 2004, 9:50]
Intel puts 4GHz chip back till 2005
News Product plans that the company released to PC makers on Thursday stated that the 4GHz chip, originally slated for the fourth quarter, won't appear until the first quarter of next year. The ability to boost chip speeds is also important in the...
[July 30, 2004, 14:20]
MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers
News Memory makers like it because they can design a new DIMM to accommodate the chip and, voila, start selling a new, higher-margin product. In the past, Rambus came up with a way to improve memory performance, but it required designing a whole new...
[February 26, 2008, 11:26]
Apple Mac mini: a first look review
Reviews Both Mac minis include a 32MB ATI Radeon 9200 graphics chip and a slot-loading 24X DVD/CD-RW combo drive, which you can upgrade to a full-fledged, dual-format DVD-burning SuperDrive (£70). We think the Mac mini will inspire people to switch based...
[January 12, 2005, 7:35]
Core 2 notebooks have arrived
News Notebook users will get their first crack at Intel's new Core 2 Duo chip starting on Monday, as the chipmaker unveils the final installment of its architectural shift. Dell, Gateway, Toshiba and others trotted out their first systems based on the...
[August 29, 2006, 9:30]
New Pentiums unveiled
News Starting in the second quarter, Intel will begin to sell dual-core processors. Rival AMD has said it will come out with dual-core chips in the summer and deliver a new family of energy-efficient notebook chips called Turion.
[February 21, 2005, 7:55]
Motivating Commodity Multi-Core Processor Design for System-Level Error Protection
White Papers This paper analyzes the reliability and availability features in several commodity Chip MultiProcessors (CMPs) and finds that they have numerous single points of failure. Failures in some system components, e.g.interconnect cache controller and...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
AMD cuts chip prices
News The cuts come on Opteron server chips, Turion and Sempron notebook chips, and the single- and dual-core Athlon processors, as well as the budget Sempron line. AMD cut the prices on a wide variety of processors on Monday as it gears up for back-to...
[August 2, 2005, 9:25]
Itanium's allies get their wallets out
News Most recently, the first dual-core model, code-named Montecito, was delayed from 2005 until mid-2006. Intel, HP and seven other server companies will spend $10bn between now and the end of 2010 to try to increase adoption of the Itanium processor.
[January 27, 2006, 9:00]
Intel 'targeting IBM' with Itanium
News These models will be dual-core designs with two processing engines on one slice of silicon. For the Xeon DP line -- where the bulk of Intel's Xeon sales take place -- dual-core chips will arrive sooner.
[March 2, 2005, 10:20]
IBM's Power5+ chip boosts top-end Unix servers
News The top non-IBM result is a 2005 test of HP's Itanium-based Superdome, clocked at 1.23 million transactions per minute, but the California-based rival is toiling over a more up-to-date score with the Montecito chips, the first Itaniums to follow...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
Photo story: Asus launches a leather-bound laptop
News The W2Jc is based on Intel's Centrino Core Duo T2500 chip, running at 2Ghz, and costs £1,999. The Lamborghini laptop is designed to look like the grille on the back of a 1970 Lamborghini Muira. It comes with at least 1GB memory and a hard drive of...
[February 24, 2006, 12:05]
Pentium D prices tipped to plunge
News The highest-performing chip is given the most expensive price at the top of the stairs, and moved down a notch as new, more powerful chips are introduced. Conroe, the desktop version, will arrive in July, while Merom, a notebook chip, will follow...
[June 9, 2006, 9:05]
Dell announces first quad-core servers
News The company also announced a new system based on the dual-core AMD Opteron processor and a host of other new products and services. According to Dell, when equipped with quad-core, the new systems "rival the performance of dual-core, four-socket...
[November 7, 2006, 16:15]
nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4600 review
Reviews Apart from its obvious use as the basis for hard-core gamers' 3D accelerators, the GeForce4 Ti 4600 chip could also be used in OpenGL graphics cards. The new nView functionality allows the chip to drive two monitors -- something nVidia's...
[February 6, 2002, 23:00]
