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General purpose processors flash their assets
News The same microprocessor that lets you burn through a game of Gran Turismo may soon be running your PC's printer, as electronics manufacturers increasingly rely on general-purpose processors. Standard" processors and system-on-a-chip designs that...
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
Intel sees autumn boost for processors
News See Chips Central for the latest on processors and the semiconductor industry. Intel's chief executive, Craig Barrett, said on Wednesday that he expects demand for computer chips to rise in the third and fourth quarters of this year, boosted by the...
[August 2, 2001, 9:45]
Isn't it time processors were re-designed to take advantage of FLASH
Talkback Why don't processors add another bus: so that the operating system, current configuration and main (most used) apps.can reside in FLASH. This would give a step increase in speed, plus, instant on.
[April 3, 2008, 13:04]
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
White Papers The newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processors based on Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem) can significantly enhance server performance, reducing TCO by 42 percent. This paper examines how Intel IT is standardizing on Intel® XeonÂ...
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Configuring Solaris Cryptographic Framework and Sun Java System Web Server 7 on Systems With UltraSPARC T1 Processors
White Papers This paper gives a quick overview of several technologies that can provide an optimal platform for hosting Secure Socket Layer (SSL)-enabled web servers: Sun Java System Web Server 7, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, and servers using UltraSPARC...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
IBM sells off PowerPC processors
News IBM on Tuesday sold three of its PowerPC processors in a licensing deal with Applied Microcircuits, a 25-year-old networking and storage chip company. Under the agreement, IBM will transfer its PowerPC 403, 405 and 440 processors to Applied...
[April 13, 2004, 16:55]
Intel plugs new network processors
News Intel announced three network processors this week for a market that may finally begin to take off. Network processors were supposed to be the next big thing in 1999 and 2000. But programmable network processors have become in some ways the little...
[February 20, 2003, 15:12]
CPU roadmap: server processors review
Reviews In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. At the time of writing (June 2008), Intel leads with its well-established family of Xeon server processors all now based on the Core micro...
[June 16, 2008, 11:38]
AMD launches 'Istanbul' six-core processors
News AMD has launched its 45nm 'Istanbul' six-core server processors, which offer up to a third more performance per watt than their four-core predecessors. The new six-core AMD Opteron processors were made available on Monday, almost nine months after...
[June 1, 2009, 17:30]
Intel readies Penryn processors
News Intel is readying 11 new 45-nanometre Penryn processors for launch in the first quarter, according to industry reports. Intel started talking in detail about Penryn in November last year, and it demonstrated the processors in January.
[August 23, 2007, 14:22]
Cyrix recalled 10,000 processors
News Cyrix Corp.has tightened up its CPU testing procedures after being forced to recall at least 10,000 of its 200MHz 6x86MX processors soon after their introduction. The problem has since been rectified, but the MMX-enabled processors, released in...
[August 28, 1997, 9:54]
HP doubles up Itanium processors
News This will enable owners of mid- and high-range HP servers (everything with four or more processor sockets) to double the number of processors. The mx2 board means that HP's high-end servers will now be able to accommodate up to 128 processors.
[May 5, 2004, 14:10]
Six new AMD processors for business due Q3
Blog AMD is reported to have announced six new 45nm processors to be launched in the third quarter of this year and aimed at business users. The planned processors form a triple-play of dual, triple and quad-core processors.
[January 5, 2009, 12:06]
Dell gives 64-bit processors another chance
News The new machine will be based on two Itanium 2 processors and will be able to use up to 16GB of RAM and 292GB of hard-drive storage, Dell said. Dell is wading back into 64-bit computing waters with a new rack-mount server.
[June 26, 2003, 9:25]
Virtualization on Servers With Intel Xeon Processors Helps DDS Dresdner Direktservice GmbH to Achieve Better Performance at Lower Cost
White Papers This decision was prompted by successful trials on two servers with multi-core Intel Xeon processors. Virtualization with servers based on multi-core Intel Xeon processors has helped DDS to reduce its IT costs and protect its investments for...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
Single-Chip Control/Data-Plane Processors: Trends, Features, Deployment
White Papers Although most consumer networking equipment today uses simple system-on-a-chip processors, the shift to next-generation broadband technologies is driving a transition to true SCDP devices in the consumer and SOHO markets.
[March 24, 2009, 0:20]
BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors
Talkback How long did the kernel compile take with all the processors running?
[January 21, 2005, 10:57]
Supporting Flexible Streaming Media Protection Through Privacy-Aware Secure Processors
White Papers The research in the computer architecture community has shown that secure processors can help to defend various types of attacks such as those with a hijacked and malicious OS. Due to the explosion of Internet technology in the last decade, there...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Configurable Isolation: Building High Availability Systems With Commodity Multi-Core Processors
White Papers This paper proposes a novel, cost-effective, architecture for high availability systems built from future multi-core processors. High availability is an increasingly important requirement for enterprise systems, often valued more than performance.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
CommuniGate Pro Software and Intel Multi-Core Processors Provide a Cost-Effective, Scalable Platform That Helps You Quickly Bring on New Services, Reach New Customers
White Papers Service providers can address all of these challenges by upgrading their network with servers based on Intel multi-core processors and the converged Internet Communications application suite known as CommuniGate Pro.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
