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Single Chip Quad Core from Intel
Talkback From some of the advance speculation that I have been reading, it seems that Intel will be coming out with a quad core processor on a single die by the beginning of 2008, codenamed Yorkfield. Some sources have claimed that this chip will be an octo...
[November 28, 2006, 12:45]
Intel to boost single-core performance
News Speaking at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo held in Singapore on Tuesday, Cameron McNairy, principal engineer of Itanium Processor Architect at Intel, said: "We have not abandoned single-core performance and we're looking to increase that...
[October 3, 2007, 14:03]
Intel prepares for Itanium's last single-core hurrah
News Intel is expected to announce next week what may be the last batch of single-core Itanium processors, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. Krewell said the faster bus of the chips coming out Monday paves the way for the Montecito version...
[July 14, 2005, 9:00]
A Comparison of Single-Core and Dual-Core Opteron Processor Performance for HPC
White Papers Dual-core AMD Opteron processors represent the latest significant development in microprocessor technology. This paper, using the IBM eServer 326, examines the performance of dual-core Opteron processors.
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
Budget PC buyers buoyed at IDF
News Though Intel spent much time during the past week touting the benefits of Yonah, a dual-core chip for notebooks, the company said it will come out with a single-core version too. We expect single-core processors to exist for quite some time in our...
[August 26, 2005, 10:10]
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News AMD will launch Rev F versions of its Opteron chips in the third quarter, a move that ends the single-core server processor era and paves the way for four-core models. The dual-core to quad-core transition strategy is similar to the approach the...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
What tests were performed?
Talkback I've found that when I've benchmarked single core Intel Chips against Single core AMD chips that Intel came out on top but when I actually play games the AMD outperformed Intel not just when comparing similar priced processors but even more...
[March 31, 2008, 10:08]
AMD announces dual-core Opterons
News AMD on Tuesday detailed performance results for its forthcoming dual-core Opteron processor, showing a speed boost of 30 percent to 55 percent, compared with today's single-core models. In addition, AMD said the dual-core Opteron chips will be...
[October 6, 2004, 8:50]
Intel goes Google with cloud chip
News With the announcement of its experimental 48-core Single-chip Cloud Computer, Intel has gone all Google. Likewise, the message-passing core design must work exceptionally fast and with very low latency — attributes which 'just work' from a...
[December 2, 2009, 17:00]
AMD and Intel heat up multicore chip race
News A few years ago, fast single-core processors were causing fits in the PC industry, which tried to design systems to stay reliable as the temperature rose inside the PC chassis. Newer dual-core chips from both AMD and Intel run cooler than their...
[August 3, 2006, 16:50]
AMD unveils Barcelona at last
News Code-named Barcelona, the long-awaited Opteron quad-core server chip comprises four processing cores on a single piece of silicon, and it is this "complicated" design that resulted in the delay, said AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz in an earlier...
[September 11, 2007, 8:36]
PC World escapes censure over Core 2 Duo claims
News PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest that Intel's dual-core processors performed twice as quickly as single-core processors. The person who complained to the Advertising...
[July 5, 2007, 17:58]
Redmond announces free multi-core support
News The company on Tuesday clarified its policy regarding so-called multi-core processors, in which two or more processors are etched onto a single piece of silicon. Chip makers Intel and AMD recommend a policy of counting a processing module -- which...
[October 19, 2004, 9:15]
Intel shows 48-core 'datacentre on a chip'
News Intel has announced the Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), an experimental 48-core processor designed to encourage research and development in massively parallel computation. Intel's Single-chip Cloud Computer: 24 dual-core tiles on a 567mm2 die
[December 2, 2009, 17:00]
AMD: Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualisation
News Intel's "Clovertown" version of Xeon houses two dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processors into a single package to reach the quad-core goal this November. AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona and due in mid-2007, includes...
[October 11, 2006, 10:00]
VMware takes dual-core licensing plunge
News In a move that should please its customers, but not necessarily its shareholders, VMware announced on Tuesday that it would price its software for dual-core processors at the same price as it does for single-core systems.
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
Intel unveils dual-core details
News The same timeframe will see the transition to 65-nanometre architectures: by 2008, the company predicted, performance of the chips will be 10 times that of today's single-core Pentium 4. Intel fleshed out its dual-core processor strategy on Tuesday...
[December 15, 2004, 15:00]
IBM muddies dual-core pricing waters
News The same week that Intel and AMD introduced dual-core processors, IBM said that it will price its server software as if these x86 dual-core chips were a single processor. Microsoft weighed in on the debate last year, saying that a dual-core...
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
Multi-Core and Linux Kernel
White Papers This processor architecture is known as Multi-Core (MC) or Chip Multi Processing (CMP). Any application which is well optimized and scales with SMP will take immediate benefit of the multiple execution cores, provided by the Multi-core architecture.
[July 19, 2007, 1:00]
AMD readies dual-core Athlon 64
News Dual-core chips, which contain two separate processing cores, can run more than one application at once, or run many single applications much faster. The 4200+ chip, for instance, is about 10 percent faster than the Athlon 64 4000+, the best...
[May 31, 2005, 9:15]
