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Intel turns up the heat on AMD
News But Intel is on the comeback with new processor designs better suited for the power-efficient multicore era, and it will beat AMD to the quad-core punch by using a design strategy that makes purists scoff but accountants happy.
[October 26, 2006, 14:50]
AMD's quad-core Barcelona coming in August
News For another, a chip with four cores consumes more power than an otherwise comparable model with two, so multicore chips typically run at lower clock frequencies to keep power consumption down. AMD in August will begin selling its quad-core...
[July 2, 2007, 8:26]
IBM revamps Xeon server design
News The architecture can support up to 32 processor sockets, and is ready for multicore. The xSeries 366 relies on the virtualisation and 64-bit capabilities of its processors. IBM won't confirm the identity of these, but they are believed to be Intel...
[February 22, 2005, 17:50]
IBM furthers multithreading revolution
News Multithreading and multicore chips have moved to the forefront of chip design, as engineers have wrestled with ways to boost chip performance without drastically increasing energy consumption. To the operating system, a standard threaded chip looks...
[August 20, 2003, 9:55]
Another connection revolution proposed
News Fast chips, and now dual and multicore chips, have in turn created a problem around getting data to and from the different pieces of silicon inside a PC. I/OAT dovetails with Intel's new "platformisation" strategy -- the unification of design teams...
[March 3, 2005, 10:10]
Intel unveils its 80-core processor
News The PC software community is just starting to get to grips with multicore programming, although its server counterparts are a little further ahead. ClearSpeed's chips are used as co-processors with supercomputers that require a powerful chip for a...
[February 12, 2007, 9:15]
What to expect from Intel’s ‘Parallel Universe’ Software Conference 2009
Blog Dr Dobbs Journal’s ‘celebrated’ editor was also there to give the same parallelism speech I saw him give at three other events later that year themed around Second Life and why the Linden Labs team need such a vast server farm driven by, guess...
[April 20, 2009, 6:06]
Achieving High-Resolution Video Using Scalable Capture, Processing, and Display
White Papers New video applications are becoming possible with the advent of several enabling technologies: multicamera capture, increased PC bus bandwidth, multicore processors, and advanced graphics cards. This paper presents a commercially-available...
[October 31, 2007, 0:08]
Operational Analysis of Parallel Servers
White Papers Multicore processors promise continued hardware performance improvements even as single-core performance flattens out. However they also enable increasingly complex application software that threatens to obfuscate application-level performance.
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River has released a hypervisor for embedded systems, a key part of its effort to enable multiple operating systems to run on single or multicore processors. The embedded software specialist, currently in the process of being acquired by...
[June 18, 2009, 12:43]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment We constantly run pseudo-parallel O/S tasks whether we know it or not; providing the contention for shared resources can be mitigated, multicore processors could provide a massive benefit by genuinely isolating and parallelising these tasks.
[April 29, 2008, 14:29]
Dell to launch dual-core Xeon servers
News Intel has numerous dual-core and multicore processor designs under way, but its first dual-core server chips won't be released until later this year. In April, AMD introduced dual-core Opteron processors and the chips are used in machines from Sun...
[September 26, 2005, 9:35]
HyperTransport gets faster
News The HyperTransport concept has won converts elsewhere, he claimed: "Intel has moved to a new architecture for multicore which is effectively an Intel variant of HyperTransport," said Cavalli. Version 2 of the interconnect technology is used in AMD...
[August 19, 2008, 9:12]
Intel puts new server chips on roadmap
News Intel has underlined its commitment to multicore processors and ultimately a unified Common Platform Architecture with a new server roadmap unfolded at IDF on Tuesday. Abhi Talwalkar, who earlier this year replaced Mike Fister as general manager of...
[September 8, 2004, 12:45]
Intel untangles dual-core chips
News Meanwhile, Tanglewood will be the first multicore Itanium, with a projected performance at least seven times faster than the current chip. Intel chief operating officer Paul Otellini unveiled the company’s first dual-core processors, together with...
[September 17, 2003, 0:10]
Quad-core processors get an airing
News Although servers often run software whose tasks are divided into multiple threads that can take advantage of multicore processors, PC software is not so amenable to the approach. Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday, Clovertown for...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 due 'very shortly'
News That feature, part of the still-evolving HTML 5 specification, adds another level of sophistication for programmers writing web applications, and gives multicore computers a better way to use their processors' abilities.
[December 5, 2008, 9:28]
Microsoft to tweak virtualisation licensing
News Although it has had challenges of its own in keeping pace with changes in the way server software is run, Microsoft has led the way in some new frontiers of licensing, such as how to deal with multicore processors.
[August 18, 2008, 9:03]
Dell foots big bills in third quarter
News As a server supplier, Dell said it was particularly excited by the addition of multicore Intel Xeon processors for two- and four-way servers, which it said would enhance its ninth-generation server products coming next year.
[November 11, 2005, 9:15]
Java start-up sues Sun over software patents
News Several of those patents involve processors running multiple tasks at once - a technology Sun and Azul both are pursuing through development of multicore chips. Azul Systems, a company selling hardware to run Java programs, has sued Sun...
[March 16, 2006, 9:50]
