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Athlon dual-processing could be nigh
News The first dual-processor motherboards for the AMD Athlon processor have begun to appear on the market, though they have yet to be formally announced. The motherboard includes dual on-board LAN, on-board SCSI and ATI video, and has four slots for...
[May 11, 2001, 16:11]
Parallel processing or perish?
Blog Somebody wanted to engage me in a discussion on parallel processing and dual/quad core technologies. This means of course that if two streams of a multi-threaded app are trying to write to and/or read from memory at times that do not happily...
[August 16, 2007, 21:25]
Apple goes for Quad power
News With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture and the fastest workstation card from Nvidia, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we've ever made," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product...
[October 20, 2005, 9:40]
CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond review
Reviews It wasn't until Intel introduced its Core technology in July 2006 that we were able to fully grasp the benefits of dual-core processing. The platform's centrepiece is a unified CPU, GPU and chipset that form one 'accelerated processing unit' (APU).
[April 22, 2008, 16:07]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews It wasn't until Intel introduced its Core technology in July 2006 that we were able to fully grasp the benefits of dual-core processing. One of the chief benefits of a native design will be a unified cache that can balance the processing load...
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
VMware takes dual-core licensing plunge
News Given the tremendous processing capabilities of dual-core systems, they are a sweet spot for virtualization," said Jeffrey Engelmann, executive vice-president of marketing at VMware. Customers can utilise this increased processing power at the same...
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News One such feature was the use of dual processing cores. That provides a better balance of processing oomph and power consumption. All Rev F models will be dual-core chips, AMD said. The dual-core to quad-core transition strategy is similar to the...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
Cray supercomputer goes dual-core
News Dual-core chips, a technology that's rare today but headed for mainstream use, boost performance by employing two processing units on the same slice of silicon. The first incarnation of the $90m (£350m) machine is expected to have a processing...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
IBM readies its first quad-core servers
News In the case of the x3650, an integer-processing speed test yielded 64 percent better performance with the quad-core processors than with dual-core, IBM said. Quad-core processors have four processing engines; Intel's Xeon 5300 consist of two...
[November 10, 2006, 7:50]
NEC unveils multitasking set-top chip
News The chip incorporates a dual-CPU (central processing unit) architecture, bearing two 225-MIPS CPUs. The processor analyses compressed data for storing, reading and editing, and offers multistandard data processing, including DVD video and digital...
[April 22, 2003, 10:55]
Sun and Fujitsu to boost Sparc speed
News On integer processing — which represents the bulk of server tasks — the dual-core design of Sparc64 VI gives twice the performance per chip socket as Sparc64 V, said Aiichiro Inoue, chief scientist in Fujitsu's server group.
[October 11, 2006, 9:20]
IBM's Blue Gene to hit the shelves
News Each slice of silicon possesses dual cores, or processing engines, and each core has dual mathematical processing units. IBM's Blue Gene/L just got a step more mundane. The machine began life as a research project in 2000, is currently the world's...
[November 8, 2004, 13:53]
IBM seeks to make virtualisation 'ubiquitous'
News He also wouldn't comment on another possible feature of the coming chip: dual-processing cores. Most mainstream processors today have a single processing engine, but IBM's Power4 and Power5 employ two such engines on the same slice of silicon as a...
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
PlayStation chip sharpens IBM's BladeCenter
News This 970MP processor has dual-processing engines, compared with the single core of the PowerPC 970FX used in the current JS20 blade. It has a PowerPC 970 processing core supplemented by eight special-purpose engines for handling graphics or numeric...
[February 9, 2006, 8:25]
AMD's man of the future
News If you look at what's happening in the server side of things, you've seen companies build specialised accelerators for things like Java and XML, and the ability to easily add these customised processing blocks around a dual-purpose core processor...
[June 7, 2006, 16:30]
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review
Reviews If you're wondering what the future of quad-core processing looks like, AMD's 4x4 solution, which pairs two dual-core CPUs, sits on the horizon. Thus, we have four processing cores, each running at 2.66GHz.
[November 2, 2006, 10:23]
Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition review
Reviews This technology lets Intel simulate more processing threads on top of its old dual-core Pentium 4 chips. It abandoned that strategy with the Core 2 family, but Intel has resurrected it with Core i7, and it's why you'll see eight processing threads...
[November 3, 2008, 22:47]
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]
Benchmarks: the unofficial eight-core Apple Mac Pro review
Reviews Even though dual-core processors have been around for a while now, you'd still be hard-pressed to find many mainstream applications that can efficiently take advantage of both processing cores at the same time (typically referred to as a...
[November 14, 2006, 8:01]
AMD unveils Barcelona at last
News Code-named Barcelona, the long-awaited Opteron quad-core server chip comprises four processing cores on a single piece of silicon, and it is this "complicated" design that resulted in the delay, said AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz in an earlier...
[September 11, 2007, 8:36]
