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Intel Slips Out A Few Teasers On Six-core, Nehalem, 32nm
Blog Intel's priming the PR pump prior to IDF Spring in a couple of week's time, with a set of announcements about Nehalem, Sandy Bridge and Larrabee. Moreover, other changes to the architecture will improve code size - full details are due at IDF.
[March 17, 2008, 18:35]
Preview: Intel Developer Forum
News At IDF -- the Intel Developer Forum -- next week, one of the big debates will be: "What exactly is a dual-core processor? Like Montecito, AMD's chips will have dedicated caches, but the two cores will share things like a memory controller.
[February 25, 2005, 16:40]
Intel Looks To Do Well By Doing Good
Leader That's par for the course, but at this IDF there was also a lot more talk of what technology can do for parts of the world not normally concerned with the fastest processor or the latest storage technology.
[August 30, 2005, 16:00]
Intel Developer Forum - Going Mobile
Blog Mind you, there's then another first for an IDF keynote, as he makes a willy joke on stage. We'll tell you more about that at a later IDF” - and he moves on to talk about form factors and performance.
[September 20, 2007, 15:49]
The Big Interview: Pat Gelsinger
News You can clearly envision, and this is an easier discussion to have after IDF [Intel Developer Forum] than it is today, so we'll have to have the next instalment of this discussion after 17 April, but you can see the lower end of the product line...
[February 26, 2007, 13:39]
End Of The Show...
Blog What's particularly interesting about Larrabee - which I think is by far the most exciting thing to come out of IDF Spring 2007 - is the way the company illustrated it in the keynote. How come everyone on stage at this IDF wore suits and ties, when...
[April 18, 2007, 21:06]
IBM's Supercomputer Chip Breakthrough More PR Than IT
Blog I saw it at IDF in September. In a paper published in the journal Optics Express, the IBM researchers detailed a significant milestone in the quest to send information between multiple cores - or “brains” - on a chip using pulses of light through...
[December 6, 2007, 14:43]
Intel Unveils Developer Tools For Multicore Apps
News On the other hand, the vast majority of consumer software has been designed for single-processor environments, he told ZDNet Asia in an interview on Wednesday during the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). In her IDF keynote, Renee James, Intel vice...
[August 21, 2008, 10:42]
Intel Puts New Server Chips On Roadmap
News Intel has underlined its commitment to multicore processors and ultimately a unified Common Platform Architecture with a new server roadmap unfolded at IDF on Tuesday. Little is known about this architecture, except that it will be the product of...
[September 8, 2004, 12:45]
Dual-core Chips Will Not Share Cache
News Other IDF highlights include the release of an Itanium 2 with 9MB of cache, according to sources. A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor...
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
Visions Of China
Blog IDF Beijing: what silicon prawns are going to be sizzling on the platter of publicity(*)? Nehalem - more cores with up to two threads per core, integrated memory controller and graphics, and "the biggest platform change since the early nineties...
[April 12, 2007, 18:31]
Intel Unveils Nehalem 'turbo Mode'
News Speaking in the afternoon keynote on day one of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's senior vice president and general manager of the digital enterprise group, showcased Nehalem EX for the expandable server...
[August 20, 2008, 12:14]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog And so into the four-and-a-half hour briefing, where we're told about parallelism — "There'll be hundreds of cores, if we can work out how to program them. Monday 6/3/2006 Two things happen on Monday — registration and a journalist briefing.
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog No architectural limit before 4000 cores! Even things that can't cope with more than 64 cores - stand up and take a bow, Windows - can be spread across more with new miracle ingredient Virtualisation!
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
World's First Working 32nm Device At IDF, Nehalem Design Finished.
Blog Will be able to configure real-time needs of the system as a developer, too, enabling and disabling threads, cores, power states and so on. Paul Otellini just showed off "the world's first working 32nm device" - a wafer containing test memory...
[September 18, 2007, 17:05]
IDF: New Memory Technologies On The Way
News In particular, Intel expects to place all the components of a wireless Internet device on one chip, combining XScale processor cores, Micro Signal Architecture radio communications and flash memory. It may grab fewer headlines than processor design...
[February 27, 2002, 9:51]
Intel: Teraflops Industry Standard Chip On Way
News Intel is not revealing any further details, such as the number of cores or bus architecture, but it says that working silicon will be demonstrated in 2008. This will support up to four sockets, putting 16 cores into a blade.
[April 17, 2007, 13:02]
Intel Shows Teraflop Chips
News It contained 80 teraflop chips, which each contained 80 processing cores, alongside some super-fast SRAM. The Cell processor, developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, contains eight processing cores. Each core has areas devoted to floating point...
[September 26, 2006, 18:20]
Intel Defends Architectural Advances
News A huge difference — because now one of my cores will be able to use all the 2MB cache. If I pick any one of those [cores] and I increase it from 1MB cache to 2MB cache, you can easily get 10 to 15 percent performance improvement.
[March 10, 2006, 15:30]
Quad-core Processors Get An Airing
News Quad-core models are the next step and a further indication that Intel's effort to improve performance focuses more on adding more cores than on increasing a chip's clock speed. It's not clear what approach Intel will take to achieving four cores...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
