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Intel V AMD: Let The Battle Begin - Part2
News Also at the Microprocessor Forum AMD will discuss its plans to break into uncharted territory, servers and workstations. Intel, not to be outdone, will disclose new details on its the Merced processor at the Microprocessor Forum.
[October 4, 1999, 15:54]
IBM To Hit 1GHz With PowerPC Chip
News IBM will take the wraps off a gigahertz-capable PowerPC chip on Monday at the Microprocessor Forum, one of the year's top events for the silicon set. Power consumption will be one of the major topics next week in San Jose, California, at the five...
[October 15, 2001, 10:35]
AMD, Intel, IBM Stake Out New Territory At Chip Forum
News AMD, IBM and Intel, among others, will unveil new details about forthcoming PC processors at this week's Microprocessor Forum. Meanwhile, IBM will use the Microprocessor Forum to unveil a new PowerPC chip that has the potential to be used by Apple...
[October 16, 2001, 8:56]
Intel's Low-power Crusoe Challenger
News Transmeta chief executive David Ditzel was attending the Microprocessor Forum this week when Spindler, vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobile and Handheld Division, said that a new ultra-low-power Speedstep-based mobile Pentium III...
[October 12, 2000, 8:19]
Intel Delays Launch Of Recalled PIII
News Intel executives at the Microprocessor Forum here said Tuesday they'd rather emphasise the Pentium 4 as Intel's performance leader instead of rushing to get the fixed Pentium III back on the market quickly.
[October 11, 2000, 15:23]
IBM Breeds PowerPC Chip From Server DNA
News The new chip, which Big Blue will unveil at this autumn's Microprocessor Forum, is designed to deliver higher clock speeds and 64-bit processing to desktop computers and also to entry-level servers. It's a really hefty processor in terms of...
[August 9, 2002, 9:03]
Intel's P6 To Live On In Low-power Chip
News The P6 architecture in this morphed version will live on," he said during a seminar at the Microprocessor Forum here on Monday. Transmeta, IBM and Intel will all discuss power consumption this week at the Microprocessor Forum, a five-day conference...
[October 16, 2001, 9:05]
IBM To Unleash New PowerPC Chip
News Engineers from IBM's Microelectronics division will disclose the details of the new chip for the first time at this week's Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California. It would be perfect for the Xserve and for content creation," said Kevin...
[October 14, 2002, 7:57]
IBM's New Chips Slash Power Consumption
News Power consumption has become an obsession for microprocessor designers in recent years and will be one of the hot topics at the Microprocessor Forum next week in San Jose, California. IBM will present a paper on the 405LP at next week's forum...
[October 12, 2001, 9:25]
Intel Debuts New Mobile Chips
News Intel's unveiling of its latest mobile processor roadmap, at Microprocessor Forum on 10 October, is expected to focus on low-power issues. Intel's planned announcement intensifies the latest split in the PC-processor battleground, with the opening...
[September 25, 2000, 12:55]
Dual-core Chips Will Not Share Cache
News AMD, meanwhile, will detail its dual-core plans at the Microprocessor Forum starting 5 October in San Jose, according to the conference programme. Speaking of the Microprocessor Forum, Krewell said the sponsoring organisation will not be handing...
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
Itanium: Behind Intel's New Brand
News AMD is expected to expand on its Athlon brand, introducing Athlon Ultra, a version of the chip for new high-end Athlon chips for the workstation and server market at this week's Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California.
[October 5, 1999, 11:18]
Motorola Touts Revitalised G4 Chip
News Apollo, announced at last fall's Microprocessor Forum, will pair the Power PC 7450's design with a new manufacturing technology called silicon on insulator (SOI). Analysts at Micro Design Resources, which publishes the Microprocessor Report, have...
[January 11, 2001, 8:01]
1GHz: The Whole Story
News It is no secret that these manufacturers have been in a ferocious battle to roll out a chip breaking this major landmark first, and while AMD is preening itself as the new king of the microprocessor wars, Intel has been left licking its wounds.
[March 7, 2000, 13:44]
AMD Releases Opteron Benchmarks
News At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California this week, AMD's chief technology officer, Fred Weber, said that during tests in the company's labs, a server running a 2GHz Opteron achieved an "estimated" SPECint 2000 score of 1,202 and an...
[October 17, 2002, 7:31]
ARM Improves Video, Memory
News ARM Holdings hopes to improve how handhelds and cell phones access memory and run video with its new chip architecture unveiled at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chips Central forum
[October 18, 2001, 12:40]
'The Microprocessor Is Dead' Says Sun
News Microprocessors are dead," Papadopoulos said, trying to provoke an audience of chip aficionados at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose. Eventually, Papadopoulos predicted, almost an entire computer will exist on a single chip -- not a...
[October 15, 2003, 11:55]
AMD Breaks Silence On 64-bit Hammer
News Chip maker AMD has unveiled details of the microarchitecture for its Hammer line of 64-bit processors at the Microprocessor Forum. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chips Central forum The chip will appear next year in high-end servers...
[October 16, 2001, 17:12]
A Year Ago: Intel Details 1999 Merced Release
News Pre-empting next week's Microprocessor Forum, Intel Corp.today gave a more definitive timetable for the release of its first IA-64 microprocessor, code-named Merced. The Santa Clara, Calif.company said it will deliver Merced sometime in 1999 and...
[October 9, 1998, 6:33]
ARM To Unveil 64-bit Jaguar Chip For Handhelds
News UK chip designer ARM will unveil its 64-bit processor design for handheld computers on Wednesday at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chips Central forum
[October 16, 2001, 11:42]
