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Spintronic CPUs at least 10 years away, says Intel
News Alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs, such as spintronics, won't find their way into production for at least another 10 years, Intel said this week in Taiwan. Until now, computer processors have operated by using the...
[October 22, 2008, 11:17]
Dell H2C Technology: Hybrid Cooling for Overclocked CPUs
White Papers H2Ceramic (H2C) cooling is designed for PC enthusiasts and high-end gamers who overclock their CPUs to get top performance. These systems need extra cooling to help avoid failures caused by overheating.
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
AMD's dual-core CPUs come out fighting review
Reviews AMD's initial shipment will consist of four different CPUs. Because AMD's processors use a different chipset than Intel's and the comparison 'white box' units use different memory, hard drives and other hardware, we can't make a perfect direct...
[May 9, 2005, 9:20]
Comparing Elliptic Curve Cryptography and RSA on 8-Bit CPUs
White Papers Strong public-key cryptography is often considered to be too computationally expensive for small devices if not accelerated by cryptographic hardware. The authors revisited this statement and implemented elliptic curve point multiplication for 160...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
Win three AMD Athlon 64 CPUs
News What better way to start the new year than with a move to 64-bit computing, and we're here to help you make that start by giving you the chance the chance to win one of three 2.2GHz Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processors, each complete with...
[December 30, 2004, 8:00]
AMD launches dual-core Phenom, Athlon CPUs
News AMD has announced two new dual-core desktop processors that should allow PCs to take advantage of faster memory standards, creating faster models. The processor maker's Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition processor, introduced on Tuesday, is its first...
[June 2, 2009, 16:41]
No room for mobile module CPUs in thin notebooks
News The mobile module - a 10mm-thick daughtercard that houses the CPU and chip set - is too large for the ultra-thin devices, according to several PC makers and analysts. MMO was developed to help notebook makers quickly and easily design in the latest...
[May 27, 1997, 15:08]
A Static Load-Balancing Scheme for Parallel XML Parsing on Multicore CPUs
White Papers A number of techniques to improve the parsing performance of XML have been developed. Generally, however, these techniques have limited impact on the construction of a DOM tree, which can be a significant bottleneck.
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
New CPUs fuel server competition
News It's becoming a buyer's market, in more ways than one. Not only do new servers offer ever-higher performance at better and better prices, but new, self-healing technologies -- such as IBM's eLiza initiative -- and hot-swappable components boost...
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
Sun taps new source for low-end chips
News Server giant, Sun Microsystems, has tapped Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) to build some of its low-end CPUs, currently made by Texas Instruments, but products from the new alliance won't emerge for months.
[May 4, 2001, 10:35]
Longhorn no window of opportunity for Itanium
Talkback You're quite right, in that Windows NT started off on x86, PowerPC, DEC Alpha AXP, and MIPS CPUs (not bad for a rewrite of VMS in C, eh? The reasons for this shucking off of options had little to do with the abilities of the CPUs to provide...
[April 12, 2005, 12:34]
New Fujitsu High-End Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2-Based PRIMEQUEST Servers Continue Industry-Leading System Management
White Papers PRIMEQUEST Models 520 (8 CPUs, 16 cores), 540 (16 CPUs, 32 cores), and 580 (32 CPUs, 64 cores) run both the Linux and Windows operating systems. Fujitsu announced three new mission-critical enterprise servers based on Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2...
[August 26, 2006, 1:00]
Dual cores mean double trouble
Talkback Fast foward to 2010, where we have dual multi-cored hyper-threaded P5 CPUs in a single desktop, and where the licensing plan for the latest MS operating system takes 10 pages of fine print to explain how much it should cost to install on this...
[February 8, 2005, 12:25]
Choosing the Right Thin Clients for Your System I (iSeries)
White Papers In the beginning, thin-client terminals booted from a server, had very slow CPUs with small amounts of memory, and relied on application servers to provide needed features. Thin clients have been enhanced to support faster CPUs, faster video, and...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
Falling EDO prices, NT 4.0 make for tough chipset choices
News Although Intel initially promoted HX - which includes support for two CPUs, Concurrent PCI, error-checking and error-correcting (ECC) EDO memory, and a shared Level 2 cache - as the chipset of choice for corporate desktops.
[August 2, 1996, 17:18]
Intel's first dual-core CPU benchmarked review
Reviews A new era for desktop CPUs has arrived with the introduction of the dual-core processor. Some of the dual-core processors will also include HyperThreading, so there will be some dual-core CPUs that support four independent threads (two of the...
[April 5, 2005, 8:55]
ServerWorks says Intel no competition
News ServerWorks, a Broadcom subsidiary that manufactures chips that connect CPUs to everything else in a server, faces its first real competition in years from Intel, but the company says Intel is no threat.
[October 4, 2001, 12:47]
Thanks
Talkback Remember how multi-core cpus were going to solve all our problems 3/4 years ago? GHz CPUs? Finally some rain on the cloud BS! Remember how virtualization was going to solve all our problems 2 years ago?
[August 7, 2009, 17:20]
Intel's 2010 roadmap review
Reviews Intel's roadmap for the next 12 months, presented at IDF in San Francisco, includes a gradual transition to a 32-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process, the first CPUs with integrated graphics processing and a six-core processor for desktops.
[November 4, 2009, 10:20]
New Fujitsu High-End Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2-Based PRIMEQUEST Servers Offer the Utmost in High Availability
White Papers Fujitsu's recently announced PRIMEQUEST Series 500 mission-critical enterprise servers based on Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor (Montecito) are available in three models: the 520 (8 CPUs/16 cores), the 540 (16 CPUs/32 cores), and the 580 (32...
[August 26, 2006, 1:00]
