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1GHz Gateways Arrive In UK Next Week
News Newly renamed rival manufacturer Evesham.com will also demonstrate a PC using AMD's flagship 1GHz microprocessor on Friday, although it does not expect to be rolling out these machines to customers until 3 April.
[March 17, 2000, 15:15]
Microprocessors Turn 30
News It is not an exaggeration to say that the microprocessor has made a fundamental impact on everyone's life in this country," said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group. The Intel 4004 Microprocessor, which debuted 30 years ago today...
[November 15, 2001, 10:09]
Analysis: 1GHz, Great If You Can Get 'em
News Newly crowned champion of the 1GHz microprocessor race, Advance Micro Devices (AMD), sent its PR machine into overdrive on Monday, describing the launch of its new super-chip in the same hushed tones spoken at the breaking of the sound barrier and...
[March 7, 2000, 10:51]
Omas Pens A New Chapter With IBM
White Papers To solve this the company replaced IBM AS/400 with new IBM eServer iSeries 520 Express Edition system, based on the advanced IBM POWER5 microprocessor architecture; upgraded to version 2 of ACG ERP software.
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Intel Moves Pentium To 1.13GHz
News Microprocessor manufacturer Intel introduced a 1.13GHz Pentium III processor Sunday, beating arch rival AMD to the punch in the next round of clock-speed combat. The launch of the 1.13GHz chip -- the fastest clock speed consumer microprocessor to...
[July 31, 2000, 9:19]
AMD Issues 64-bit Hammer Spec
News Rejuvenated microprocessor manufacturer AMD continued its drive towards 64-bit computing with the release of specifications for it forthcoming 64-bit "Hammer" family of microprocessors Wednesday. Intel's 64-bit high-end microprocessor, Itanium, has...
[August 10, 2000, 10:51]
CeBIT: Intel Shows 500MHz Pentium III Xeon Servers
News The manufacturer's fastest microprocessor is designed for mid-range and high-end servers as well as workstations. The microprocessor group is at the centre of 9.5 million transistors based on Intel's P6 micro-architecture.
[March 18, 1999, 15:47]
AMD Debuts Griffin Mobile Processor
News Griffin, the CPU chip, is AMD's first microprocessor designed specifically for mobile usage, as the manufacturer's earlier chipsets were scalable from notebooks to servers. AMD has revealed its new mobile microprocessor and platform, which will be...
[May 18, 2007, 5:01]
AMD Predicts PC Market Stability And Revenue Growth
News AMD is the second-largest microprocessor manufacturer after Intel. Ruiz, who will take control of AMD next year at the retirement of chief executive Jerry Sanders, said AMD gained 17 percent of the global microprocessor market last year, and...
[June 7, 2001, 16:19]
Chip Industry Looks To 2GHz In 2001
News Senior MDR analyst Kevin Krewell said that the Pentium 4 would dominate the market in its class this year and predicted that Intel would be the first manufacturer to reach a 1GHz operating frequency with a mobile microprocessor.
[January 19, 2001, 11:56]
'What Incompatibility?' AMD Responds To Dell
News Keith Diefendorff, Editor in Chief of the internationally renowned Microprocessor Report, told ZDNet Thursday night that as far as he was aware there were "no concerns about compatibility with the Athlon" that he had heard of, but he knew there...
[February 4, 2000, 13:06]
Sun Woos Pundits With Fresh Technology
News They have the most ambitious processor road map I've ever seen in my life," said analyst Peter Glaskowsky, editor of The Microprocessor Report. Then a second generation design sometime later will merge the Afara technology with Sun's main...
[February 25, 2003, 7:33]
Dell Sits Out Itanium 2 Dance
News It is going to be a bit embarrassing for Intel," said Kevin Krewell, an analyst with Microprocessor Report, an influential semiconductor newsletter. The PC manufacturer has no definite plans for Itanium 2 servers and will not be on hand when Intel...
[July 2, 2002, 7:49]
The Transistor Turns 60
News The Intel 4004 microprocessor, which debuted in 1971, was the world's first microprocessor. The 4004 was designed to be a calculator component for a Japanese manufacturer, which initially owned all rights to the chip.
[December 17, 2007, 12:25]
Intel To Launch Processor For Handhelds
News Like the PXA800F chip, Bulverde will be based around the XScale microprocessor architecture. StrongARM, XScale, PXA800F and Bulverde all contain a microprocessor that is based around a chip architecture devised by ARM Holdings of Cambridge, England.
[February 19, 2003, 8:56]
Intel Chipset Boosts 400MHz Production
News The chipset, among other tasks, connects the microprocessor to main memory through a system bus. In years past, the system bus, memory and the microprocessor all ran at close and even multiples of each other.
[January 30, 2003, 10:41]
AMD And Fujitsu Combine Flash Operations
News The two companies also have often undercut each other in the past when trying to sell to the same customers, said Kevin Krewell, senior editor of Microprocessor Report. While the flash memory technology is being spun out to the new company, AMD is...
[April 1, 2003, 7:54]
IBM To Reveal Power's Foundations
News We will free electronics manufacturers from the limitations of proprietary microprocessor architectures. The company's effort to promote Power through more collaboration and to focus on overall system development and performance instead of on clock...
[April 1, 2004, 12:10]
New Chip May Signal ATI Comeback
News This is not the first time they've had the fastest graphics chip on the market.but it is unusual for ATI to have both significant features and performance advantage," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of influential industry newsletter...
[July 17, 2002, 11:32]
Intel's Banias: Not Built For Speed
News That's the problem they (Intel) have been facing," said Kevin Krewell, an analyst at The Microprocessor Report. Details will likely come out at the Intel Developer Forum in September and the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, in October.
[August 8, 2002, 7:35]
