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Sun packs in UltraSparcs
News Such "dual-core" chip technology debuted in the server market in IBM's Power4 in 2001 and is at the heart of the PA-8800 Unix servers introduced by Hewlett-Packard on Monday. Tolliver said the dual-core processors mark the start of its "throughput...
[February 10, 2004, 8:10]
Dual-core Intel chips hit the market
News Intel's dual-core release will come the day before the fortieth anniversary of Moore's Law, the famed observation that the number of transistors on a chip can double every two years. Each core will also have 1MB of cache, less than the 2MB of cache...
[April 18, 2005, 9:05]
HP shuffles server chips
News Sun, however, calls its dual-core UltraSparc IV a single processor, preferring to emphasise that its chip can simultaneously execute two instruction sequences, called threads. Because the PA-8800 is a dual-core chip, it permits two processors to be...
[February 10, 2004, 10:45]
Intel seeks profit in dual cores
News Intel may also jump to 64 bits with its dual-core desktop chips, a measure it already adopted for its Xeon server chips, due out later this summer, and its Itanium server chip. The two processor cores on a dual-core chip would also run at lower...
[May 14, 2004, 9:00]
Intel launches CULV chip for ultra-thin notebooks
News As such, the chip is designed for ultra-thin laptops that are slightly more expensive and powerful than netbooks, but still have portability that is closer to netbooks than to current laptops. The chip is manufactured using the 45nm process.
[June 2, 2009, 12:02]
SGI counts in Montecito
News All major chip designers have or will release such dual-core processors to boost performance. One element that the new Altix will retain is the chip that routes data from one part of the system to another.
[December 23, 2004, 9:05]
Quad-core processors get an airing
News The dual-core processor is based on the newest Core Duo laptop chip and consumes 31W compared to more than 130W for regular Xeons. Intel has had difficulties in the other half of its server chip line, Itanium, with a significant delay of the first...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
AMD announces dual-core Opterons
News In addition, AMD will release a dual-core chip for desktop computers in the second half of 2005. McGrath also detailed the number of circuitry elements called transistors on the new chip. Comparing a computer today with one that uses two chip...
[October 6, 2004, 8:50]
UltraSparc's future laid bare
News The initial clock speed of the dual-core chip is expected to be 1.5GHz, sources said - two speed grades slower than the 1.8GHz promised by Sun last year. The UltraSparc IV was Sun's first dual-core chip, with two UltraSparc III cores.
[September 15, 2005, 10:05]
HP to double up Itanium chips
News IBM's current Power4 processor was the first "dual-core" server chip, taking advantage of an approach in which two processors are etched into a single slice of silicon. HP plans to use this dual-chip packaging technology -- in which two separate...
[October 25, 2002, 7:33]
Intel cancels Tejas and Jayhawk
News The spokesman declined to comment on whether the new dual-core desktop products would be based on the Pentium M chip design. Intel is expected to announce the latest and fastest single-core Pentium M chip, code-named Dothan, on Monday.
[May 7, 2004, 14:50]
AMD outlines chip strategy
News The company is relatively tight-lipped about Pacifica, but said it will be a dual-core chip that also contains virtualisation technology -- which allows a computer to run multiple operating systems -- and a security technology called Presidio.
[November 15, 2004, 7:25]
Core Duo gets a second lease on life
News The hypothetical Core 2 Duo T5400 would represent a dual-core Core chip that consumes between 25 watts and 55 watts of power, a range Intel thinks is appropriate for most notebooks and some desktops. The Core 2 Duo name will be used for desktop...
[May 8, 2006, 8:50]
Intel accelerates Itanium schedule
News Intel's "design teams and design resources are well stocked, so they can do a shrink early or do a dual-core (chip) early. Originally, Montecito, due in 2004, wasn't a dual-core chip, but it morphed into one after engineering and manufacturing...
[January 16, 2003, 8:16]
Sun-Fujitsu effort produces Sparc servers
News But Sparc needed a concrete future, and Fujitsu's dual-core, dual-thread Sparc64 VI "Olympus" chip fitted the bill, so the companies began a partnership to build what was then called the Advanced Product Line (APL).
[April 17, 2007, 17:53]
Oracle fails to face the future
Leader Assuming a single core chip that runs twice as fast as a dual-core, both parts will run the same amount of software: why then should one attract twice the licence overhead? Why charge for two licences for one chip, he said, just because it has two...
[December 9, 2004, 11:40]
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review
Reviews That's, logically, twice as much cache as the dual-core Extreme X6800 chip. We imagine that due to its partnership with Intel, Apple will be updating the CPUs in its high-end desktop in the near future, so it's not hard to envisage a Mac Pro with a...
[November 2, 2006, 10:23]
CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond review
Reviews Intel released the first dual-core mobile chip with Core Duo in January of that year, which brought about huge advances in notebook performance. Following this pricey Extreme Edition chip was 'dual-core for the mainstream' in the form of the...
[April 22, 2008, 16:07]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews Intel released the first dual-core mobile chip with Core Duo in January 2006, which brought about huge advances in notebook performance. The dual-core PC era began in April 2005 when Intel released the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, a...
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
Intel's first dual-core CPU benchmarked review
Reviews But despite the fact that the dual-core chip didn't win, it's notable that the Extreme Edition 840 chip performed only 13 percent slower at worst (on the Sorenson test), where the 3.7GHz chip is 17 percent faster in raw clock speed.
[April 5, 2005, 8:55]
