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1. March of the Multicores

   [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 12/18/2007

   Multicore technology represents more than just a performance upgrade over single core chips. It's a transformative technology set to alter the underlying structure of enterprise systems, which means you better bone up on how to handle them before they take over. And take over they will, with...

2. $1.25 Billion Later, It's Back to Business for AMD and Intel

   [ Blog ] Topic: AMD | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 11/13/2009

   Now that all the ramifications of the recent HP-3Com deal have been thoroughly hashed out, it's time to take a look at the other major event of the past week. I'm talking about Intel's decision to put its legal dispute with AMD to rest to the tune of $1.25 billion. By any measure, that is...

3. The Long and Short Future of Silicon

   [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 03/05/2007

   An interesting article on HPCwire caught our attention this week, in which two Berkeley scientists argue that continued reliance on multicore technology as a means to further parallel processing schemes is due to hit the proverbial brick wall sooner or later. Instead, they tout a "manycore"...

4. Shaking the Industry to Its Core: March of the Multicores

   [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 04/02/2007

   You know a technology has finally arrived when it gets its own trade show. That was the case last week at the Multicore Expo in San Jose, Calif., where experts proclaimed that the new chips represent a fundamental shift in computing technology that will shake the industry to its...

5. The Latest from Intel

   [ Blog ] Topic: Intel | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 04/11/2007

   More details are emerging on Intel's next-gen Penryn processors , said to benefit greatly in terms of processing power and energy consumption by mixing the Core microarchitecture with the 45nm Hi-k and hafnium metal gate designs. This article in Enterprise Networks and Servers , authored by...

6. Nvidia Launches Super New Processor

   [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 06/22/2007

   The age of the "personal supercomputer" may be at hand. Nvidia announced this week a line of GPU-based processor boards said to vastly boost the performance of everything from single PCs to large-scale server clusters. The new Tesla family of GPUs is available in three configurations....

7. AMD Preps for Barcelona Launch

   [ Blog ] Topic: AMD | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 07/30/2007

   AMD is getting ready for the big Barcelona push next month, promising that its new quad-core Opterons will boost data center capacity and consolidate servers through hardware virtualization. What's more, the chip has been designed with the same power budget as the company's dual cores,...

8. Kudos for the T2 from Sun

   [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 08/08/2007

   The new UltraSPARCs are in, and if the early buzz is any indication, they are the chips to beat for anyone looking to wean themselves off the x86. The UltraSPARC T2 , aka the Niagara 2, is the first to sport eight cores, with eight threads per core. So not only does it offer the capability to...

9. The Mega Multicore Future

   [ Blog ] Topic: Processors | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 09/05/2007

   Here's a little bit of future shock for you, courtesy of Martin Banks and IT Pro : Eight-core single-socket x86 processors are due out by the end of this year. Within five years, the same device will sport 128 cores. So today's question is just what, exactly, will you do with all that...

10. New Life for AMD?

    [ Blog ] Topic: AMD | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 02/01/2008

    Are things starting to look up for AMD? The company had a pretty rough 2007, what with the bug-plagued Barcelona and the ongoing success of Intel's Xeon processors and all. But now it looks like the company is back on the rails with new chips coming out and new customers on board. First, the...

11. Intel Launches 50-watt Quads

    [ Blog ] Topic: Intel | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 03/26/2008

    Intel unveiled the Harpertown line of processors this week, now dubbed the Xeon L5400 series , a low-power server and workstation quad-core chip that draws less than 50 watts (12.5 w per core) while still cranking out a 2.50 GHz frequency. Based on the 45 nm process, the L5400 runs about 25...

12. AMD Launches Low-Power Quads

    [ Blog ] Topic: AMD | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 05/13/2008

    AMD brought out its new line of energy-efficient processors this week featuring new power management techniques designed for blade and rack servers. The new Opteron HE quad chips offer a 55-watt thermal envelope and range in size from the 1.7 to 1.9 GHz HE 2300 series to the 1.8 and 1.9 GHz...