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Apple discontinues single-processor Power Mac
News Apple has discontinued its single-processor Power Mac G5 system in favour of an all dual-chip line-up, the company confirmed on Monday. Late last week, Apple customers noticed that the 1.8GHz, single-processor machine had disappeared from Apple's...
[June 21, 2005, 9:40]
Single-Chip Baseband Signal Processor for Software-Defined Radio
White Papers Reconfigurable processor technology offers a way to couple significant hardware performance improvements with realtime software signal processing. This technology enables Software-Defined Radio (SDR) to be realized on a System-on-a-Chip (SoC...
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
A Comparison of Single-Core and Dual-Core Opteron Processor Performance for HPC
White Papers Dual-core Opteron processors perform very well on applications that are highly parallel and whose performance is limited by the processor core, that is to say, by the frequency of the processor clock.
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
Diminishing benefits
Talkback I was working on multi processor mainframes in the 80's and the problem was that the as you go from a single processor to two processors they (ie the operating systems) suddenly have to start thinking about each other in case they access the same...
[December 3, 2007, 18:33]
Redmond announces free multi-core support
News Microsoft will continue to charge its customers for a single processor licence once a new crop of hardware servers with the equivalent of two microprocessors on each chip hit the market next year. Chip makers Intel and AMD recommend a policy of...
[October 19, 2004, 9:15]
Comdex 2001: Compaq, HP to build low-power Intel servers
News Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard will be among the mainstream server makers to release single- and dual-processor systems based on a new CPU that Intel announced today (Tuesday). HP's single-processor and dual-processor machines will arrive near...
[November 13, 2001, 15:13]
Apple serves up new G5
News After a month delay, Apple Computer has begun shipping a single-processor version of its Xserve G5 server, and plans a dual-processor version in April. We're shipping the single-processor Xserve G5. Apple's single-processor Xserve G5 costs $2,999...
[March 23, 2004, 15:30]
Multi-Core and Linux Kernel
White Papers Semiconductor technological advances in the recent years have led to the inclusion of multiple CPU execution cores in a single processor package. This processor architecture is known as Multi-Core (MC) or Chip Multi Processing (CMP).
[July 19, 2007, 1:00]
Compaq blade servers slice a chip off HP block
News A three-unit high (3U) rack enclosure will hold 20 single processor blades, with two- and four-processor blades to follow later in the year. It is based on using the single processor as a front end, and two- and four-processor systems for mid-tier...
[January 28, 2002, 11:09]
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. Intel also plans to release its first quad-core Xeon models in 2007 - Clovertown...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
Intel revs workstation, server chips
News Next week at the Intel Developer Forum, the company will announce 2.8GHz and 2.6GHz Xeons for single- and dual-processor workstations and servers and reveal more details on chips coming in the near future.
[September 5, 2002, 8:20]
asr_w2k_drv_v310.exe
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:EuroLogic 200 SAF-TE Processor Device EuroLogic 205 SAF-TE Processor Device EuroLogic 206 SAF-TE Processor Device PM1554U2 Ultra2 Single Channel PM1654U2 Ultra2 Single Channel PM1564U3 Ultra3...
[December 13, 2001, 7:00]
disk1_w2k.zip
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:Adaptec Management Processor Device EuroLogic 200 SAF-TE Processor Device EuroLogic 205 SAF-TE Processor Device EuroLogic 206 SAF-TE Processor Device PM1554U2 Ultra2 Single Channel PM1654U2 Ultra2...
[November 4, 2008, 3:38]
asr_win2k_drv_v313.exe
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:EuroLogic 200 SAF-TE Processor Device EuroLogic 205 SAF-TE Processor Device EuroLogic 206 SAF-TE Processor Device PM1554U2 Ultra2 Single Channel PM1654U2 Ultra2 Single Channel PM1564U3 Ultra3...
[May 2, 2002, 8:00]
Wi-Fi access point squeezed onto single chip
News Wireless chipset manufacturer Atheros announced on Wednesday that it has managed to fit the full functionality of a high-speed wireless access point onto a single processor. A Wi-Fi access point is made up of several elements, including the media...
[December 16, 2004, 11:25]
Fujitsu readies eight-way blade server
News Fujitsu will begin selling technology next quarter that lets four dual-processor blade servers be linked into a single machine with eight AMD Opteron chips. IBM sells a 32-Xeon machine, the x460, and Sun plans an eight-processor Opteron server this...
[March 14, 2006, 9:00]
Qualcomm doubles its chips for next-gen mobiles
News Almost all mobile phones use a single processor. The answer, coming already from chipmaker Texas Instruments, and now from Qualcomm, is to drop another processor into the phone: one for the phone's typical functions, such as making calls, and the...
[May 23, 2003, 8:01]
Drilling into dual core
News Intel's first dual-core chip, the Pentium D, came out in April for desktops and July for low-end, single-processor servers. The transition will see two or more processor cores placed on a single die, a strategy first put into practice by mass...
[September 28, 2005, 17:25]
Budget PC buyers buoyed at IDF
News We expect single-core processors to exist for quite some time in our value-processor line," Steve Smith, vice-president of Intel's digital enterprise group, said this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
[August 26, 2005, 10:10]
Itanium 2: Pricing is key
News At the low end of the workstation line is HP's zx2000 workstation, a single-processor, 900MHz machine whose pricing is supposed to be about the same as the upper end of the 32-bit workstation market. On Monday, Intel's manufacturing partners began...
[July 8, 2002, 14:19]
