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Microprocessors turn 30
News In 2000 alone, 385 million microprocessors were shipped and 6.4 billion microcontrollers went out factory doors, according to Mercury Research. In the past 30 years, of course, microprocessors and microcontrollers (embedded microprocessors with...
[November 15, 2001, 10:09]
Design of a Data Recovery Block for Communications Over Power Distribution Networks of Microprocessors
White Papers This paper proposed the use of Power Distribution Network (PDN) of a microprocessor for ubiquitous access of internal nodes for test/debug and showed the suitability of impulse Ultra-WideBand (UWB) communications for the purpose.
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Microarchitecture-Based Introspection: A Technique for Transient-Fault Tolerance in Microprocessors
White Papers This paper proposes Microarchitecture-Based Introspection (MBI), a transient-fault detection technique, which utilizes the wasted processing bandwidth during long-latency cache misses for redundant execution of the instruction stream.
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Scalability of 3D-Integrated Arithmetic Units in High-Performance Microprocessors
White Papers Three-Dimensional integration provides a simultaneous improvement in wire-related delay and power consumption of microprocessor circuits. Prior work has looked at the performance, power, and area benefits of the 3D integration technology.
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Processor Power Management Features and Process Scheduler: Do We Need to Tie Them Together?
White Papers Power savings is a key focus area in today's microprocessors, with almost all latest microprocessors providing wide variety of power saving features. Processor P-state is the capability of running the processor at different voltage and/or frequency...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Intel cuts prices and plans new chips
News Chip giant Intel slashed the prices of many of its faster desktop microprocessors on Sunday, fulfilling widespread expectations. Intel routinely reassesses the pricing of its microprocessors. Intel last changed its microprocessors pricing range on...
[February 28, 2000, 16:48]
Q&A: The future of analogue chips
News When National Semiconductor decided to challenge Intel and Advanced Micro Devices in the market for low-end microprocessors in 1997, chief executive Brian Halla teased a group of sceptical analysts, saying they probably thought he had been...
[February 3, 2003, 8:58]
Intel countersues Transmeta
News The legal conflict between Intel, the world's largest supplier of microprocessors, and small rival Transmeta took another twist on Tuesday when it emerged that Intel is countersuing Transmeta. The claim covers a wide range of microprocessors...
[January 11, 2007, 14:26]
Sun chip to mix old and new
News Sun Microsystems will come out with a new line of microprocessors for dense servers next year that will wed cutting-edge design concepts to a chip from the 1990s. Gemini, the first chip in a new line of "h series" microprocessors to be launched in...
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
Fujitsu Siemens lays out nanotech roadmap
News Microprocessors that use carbon nanotubes rather than copper wires to connect layers of transistors may be available in less than a decade, according to Fujitsu Siemens. Reger explained that this technology is needed to enable the development of...
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Michael Dell: AMD environment "too fragile"
News Dell, the world's leading PC manufacturer, finally ended the debate regarding its choice of microprocessors Thursday when CEO, Michael Dell, outlined his concerns over AMD's microprocessors. In an interview held in London, Dell told ZDNet UK News...
[February 4, 2000, 9:05]
'The microprocessor is dead' says Sun
News Today's microprocessors will become extinct by the end of the decade, to be replaced by computers built onto a single chip, Sun Microsystems chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos said on Tuesday.
[October 15, 2003, 11:55]
Intel unveils new chip manufacturing technology
News Intel will increase the performance of its microprocessors next year, in part by spreading out its silicon atoms. Chips made on this manufacturing process will be faster than today's microprocessors, but contain far more transistors.
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
AMD unveils new chips, cuts prices
News Advanced Micro Devices announced two new desktop microprocessors on Tuesday, but consumers won't be able to get them until next month. With the downturn in the PC market, the two companies are cutting prices and raising the speed of their...
[August 21, 2002, 16:09]
BASF and IBM team up for 32-nanometre chips
News BASF is working with IBM on the chemicals and materials needed for the next-generation 32-nanometre microprocessors. It currently plans to introduce 45-nanometre (nm) microprocessors in 2008. Intel says it plans to unveil 45nm microprocessors later...
[June 25, 2007, 15:53]
Exclusive: AMD axes the K6-III
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has axed its year old K6-III range of microprocessors due to lack of demand. The decision to discontinue K6-III microprocessors became effective Tuesday, she said. Quoting the official line on the chips' demise, the...
[January 26, 2000, 14:37]
Intel opens 65nm Ireland factory
News Intel has opened a third chip plant focused on 65-nanometre processes as it moves ahead with its latest array of multicore microprocessors. These microprocessors are expected to mark one of Intel's most significant product launches in the company's...
[June 26, 2006, 9:35]
AMD issues 64-bit Hammer spec
News Rejuvenated microprocessor manufacturer AMD continued its drive towards 64-bit computing with the release of specifications for it forthcoming 64-bit "Hammer" family of microprocessors Wednesday. AMD's Hammer microprocessors are also, by contrast...
[August 10, 2000, 10:51]
AMD Hammers together 64-bit simulator
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took the wraps off a simulator that allows Linux programmers to develop code for its forthcoming "Hammer" family of 64-bit microprocessors, Friday. mimics the behaviour of AMD's 64-bit microprocessors and enables...
[October 9, 2000, 10:26]
Intel plots the dynamic, scalable datacentre
Blog To run a computer you need a microprocessor and to run a very powerful computer, you need a lot of microprocessors stuck together. As datacentres are getting bigger and bigger and are based on more and more microprocessors linked together, that is...
[February 20, 2009, 11:12]
