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? On tap: a discussion of chips for servers, notebooks and desktops coming out later this year that will contain two computing...
[February 25, 2005, 16:40]
IDF Goes Beyond Chips
News Sebastian Thurn, the professor overseeing Stanford University's Junior project brought the driverless car to IDF. Sun used IDF to show off an as-yet-unannounced server with four quad-core Intel processors.
[September 21, 2007, 15:48]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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 Puts Flesh On Yonah
News Substantially the same design, it adds dual-processor support so that each blade can have four cores, better memory error handling, thread synchronisation and an enhanced bus. Intel revealed more details of Yonah, the dual-core processor at the...
[August 24, 2005, 17:00]
Intel: Montecito Or Bust?
News There are good questions about what do you do if you have more than two cores -- what's the cache structure then? Following Intel's first public demonstration of its latest Itanium -- the dual-core Montecito -- Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of...
[September 9, 2004, 10:40]
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. All this was taking place in a low-ceilinged ballroom — OK, basement — of the San Francisco...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
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. One factor could affect the take-up of chips with four cores, however.
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
Another Connection Revolution Proposed
News Intel is also working on ways to allow faster communication between the cores in its dual-core chips, said Steve Smith, vice-president in the company's Digital Enterprise Group. Justin Rattner, a senior fellow at Intel who helps set the company's...
[March 3, 2005, 10:10]
Future Portables Go Much Faster All Day, Says Intel
News Power management on such a system was very involved but two cores were a much more efficient way of getting more performance than doubling the clock speed of an existing chip, he claimed. Two cores at 2GHz can give you 1.6 to 1.8 times the...
[September 9, 2004, 10:05]
