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Tony Smith: Macs Marred By Megahertz
News At last week's chip industry shindig, the Microprocessor Forum, held in San Jose, California, Motorola revealed it is developing a second-generation G4 chip to ensure the line is better able to compete on clock speed.
[October 13, 1999, 15:17]
Intel Confirms Chip-naming Change
Talkback Intel wants to discourage or make it harder for consumers to compare based on clock speed, or 'equivalant' clock speed, because their chips' perfomance (aside from the very expensive Extreme Edition) can no longer compete with AMD's Athlon series.
[March 21, 2004, 17:10]
New Notebooks Save Power
News AMD is nearing the release of a portable computer feature aimed at extending battery life by throttling back clock speed and voltage on its forthcoming K6-2+ and K6-III+ notebook chips. The Intermediate Mode, it is expected, has the potential to...
[March 17, 2000, 8:58]
Radeon Graphics Board Gets Speed Boost, Price Cut
News ATI Technology has slashed the price and increased the core clock speed just before it releases the high-end Radeon 8500 graphics board. When ATI introduced the board in mid-August, it announced the price as $399 and the core clock speed as 250MHz.
[October 11, 2001, 11:14]
Timna Chip Turns Back The Clock
News Clock-speed isn't everything. Instead of packing more clock-speed, the chip aims to balance performance with cost -- offering consumers a decent level of performance with integrated features that cut manufacturing overheads.
[May 12, 2000, 12:39]
Chips Clock Up New Approach
News If you think clock speed is the most important measure of a processor, IBM's Bernie Meyerson wants you to reconsider. They are not looking at whether the clock frequency of the microprocessor is 8 percent higher.
[June 10, 2004, 11:50]
Intel, Aberdeen Attack AMD Speed Ratings
News Intel has launched a new broadside against AMD's policy of downplaying chip clock speed in favour of model numbers, and this time it has drawn analyst firm Aberdeen Group into the fray. Athlon XP introduced the "Quantispeed" architecture, which AMD...
[March 27, 2002, 15:11]
Macs Are Not About Megahertz, Says Jobs
News Several months back, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs spoke of narrowing the clock-speed gap between the chips in Macs and Windows-based machines. Although Apple has indeed introduced faster machines, including an 867MHz Power Mac on Wednesday...
[July 20, 2001, 9:22]
Intel Moves Pentium To 1.13GHz
News Microprocessor manufacturer Intel introduced a 1.13GHz Pentium III processor Sunday, beating arch rival AMD to the punch in the next round of clock-speed combat. The launch of the 1.13GHz chip -- the fastest clock speed consumer microprocessor to...
[July 31, 2000, 9:19]
AMD's Newest Chip Attempts To Raise The Bar
News The new 1900+ chip runs at a clock speed of 1.6GHz. AMD argues that its Athlon provides better overall performance, even though its clock speed is lower than Pentium 4's. This argument, in part, was the influence behind the launch of the company's...
[November 5, 2001, 15:53]
AMD, Toshiba To Make Notebooks Cool, Part II
News is up and running, it will extend notebook battery life by a minimum of about 30 percent, the company said, by decreasing clock speed and reducing the voltage of the processor. The Intermediate Mode, it is expected, has the potential to allow a PC...
[April 19, 2000, 8:42]
A Year Ago: Timna Chip Turns Back The Clock
News Clock-speed isn't everything. Instead of packing more clock-speed, the chip aims to balance performance with cost -- offering consumers a decent level of performance with integrated features that cut manufacturing overheads.
[May 12, 2001, 6:00]
Motorola Touts Revitalised G4 Chip
News While lengthening the pipeline can yield greater clock speed, it can also hurt overall performance, so that the clock speed gains are not in line with actual performance gains. As a result, the company got a 233-MHz boost in clock speed, initially...
[January 11, 2001, 8:01]
New Pentium 4 'just Over A Week Away'
News The chip will offer an extra helping of clock speed for high-end PCs, as Pentium 4 chips are now only available at speeds of up to 3.6GHz. The chipmaker began discussing its efforts to build PC platforms, such as Centrino notebooks and living room...
[November 5, 2004, 14:18]
Intel Ships The Pentium 4
News But some analysts say that while lengthening the pipeline -- which lines up instructions to be processed -- may help increase clock speed it can actually decrease overall performance. McCrea argued that the Pentium 4's clock speed will increase...
[November 20, 2000, 12:23]
New Graphics Chip Enters Crowded Market
News Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) on Tuesday updated its graphics processor line, the Xabre, with a new chip that boasts a more advanced manufacturing process and a higher clock speed than its predecessor.
[November 26, 2002, 12:52]
Adapting Processor Supply Voltage To Instruction-Level Parallelism
White Papers One promising technique to lowering power consumption of microprocessors is to reduce supply voltage and clock speed. By running at lower voltages and clock speeds, a quadratic savings in power can be achieved.
[January 13, 2004, 23:00]
Intel To Unleash New, Improved Celerons
News The company on Wednesday will announce new 566MHz and 600MHz versions of the chip, with a number of new features aimed at raising clock speed and overall performance for lower-cost PCs. Clock-speed comparisons show a 0.18-micron Pentium III 600MHz...
[March 29, 2000, 9:07]
Intel Sets Date For Chip-naming Change
News In a move that will change how millions of consumers buy their PCs, Intel later this year will adopt a new system for differentiating its processors that de-emphasises the widely used gigahertz, or clock speed.
[March 18, 2004, 8:00]
Intel Betting On Pentium 4
News The chipmaker plans to launch the Pentium 4 next month, then push the chip's clock speed beyond 2GHz by the middle of 2001. The Pentium 4 appears set to win Intel back its clock-speed crown, but what about performance and availability?
[October 23, 2000, 13:45]
