700MHz Shoot-Out, Intel Comes Out On Top (Part 1)
News The actual die size of the new Coppermine is smaller than the old Pentium III (0.25 micron), despite having a far larger transistor count due to the onboard L2 cache. The new CPU is built with Intel's 0.18 micron manufacturing process.
[October 27, 1999, 11:51]
IBM Muddies Dual-core Pricing Waters
News Until now, IBM has said that a dual-core processor would count as two CPUs when calculating the cost of server software. Microsoft weighed in on the debate last year, saying that a dual-core processor will count as a single chip for its server...
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
Dual Core - A Lesson From History?
Blog Core count, like CPU count, ain't it. The laptop I'm writing this on is dual-core, but apart from having two CPU usage trails in the system meter you'd be hard pressed to tell. We all know that dual-core computing has been a smashing success...
[October 22, 2007, 0:21]
Intel Gets Systematic
Blog That sounds a lot like the same problem you get making an SoC chip general purpose - and since the only way forward is in increasing core count, it sounds a lot like Intel's going to become an SoC company whether it likes it or not.
[December 17, 2007, 16:01]
Intel Talks Up Next-generation Chips
News Instead, Intel will count on its microarchitectural improvements and a faster front-side bus to deliver the 20 percent improvement in performance over AMD's chips, based on standard benchmarks, Eden said.
[February 20, 2006, 8:25]
Intel Unveils Its 80-core Processor
News As the core count grows and people get the skills to use them effectively, these applications will come. The operating system has the most control over the CPU, and it's got to change," said Jim McGregor, an analyst at In-Stat.
[February 12, 2007, 9:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'm used to it being sick - it's a Windows machine, after all, and I've lost count of the number of times some random piece of software has infested the registry with the binary prions that lead to Mad Owner Disease - but this is different.
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News But processor count isn't everything. The clock speed and power of each CPU and the speed of the data pathways that connect a computer's components also are significant. Conventional wisdom once had it that the Unix-server market was about to be...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
