Fab 4X May Never Be Built |
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Senior management at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will decide by the end of the year whether the company will break ground in the spring for a $3.2 billion semiconductor fabrication plant in up... |
Virtualization to Become Useful for Everyone |
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Intel and Symantec Companies are busy working on some jointly developed security products, that will use the features of virtualization technologies offered by today's contemporary CPUs. The p... |
Server Modification Only |
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We have known for a long time that the first 45nm Xeon processors from Penryn family will be available this year. Now we know a more specific date when these processors should appear in the ma... |
Integrated Memory Controller to Be Used Only in Server Chips ?Rumor |
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Intel processors from the Nehalem generation that are scheduled to appear in H2 2008 will exist in two modifications: Socket H (LGA 715) and Socket B (LGA 1336). This difference in the number ... |
Future hardware Changes Will Simplify Development of Software |
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AMD today made available a new specification describing “Light-Weight Profiling?(LWP), a technology designed to increase the performance of software applications by providing a mechanism that ... |
NetBurst Micro-Architecture Sinks into Oblivion |
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Intel has recently revealed the phasing out schedule of their last Pentium 4 and Pentium D desktop processors. According to the document, starting from August 8 they began to discontinue singl... |
Phenom FX and Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition in Japan |
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Last weekend AMD hosted a large demonstration of their upcoming new processors in Japan. Namely, they showcased their new Athlon 64 6400+ and Phenom FX processors. This event has become the se... |
Youngest Model to Be Priced at $320 |
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AMD's most impatiently awaited announcement is so far planned for September 10. This is when the new Barcelona processors ?the first quad-core CPUs on K10 micro-architecture positioned for the... |
Improved Power-Saving in the New Stepping |
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Intel Corporation today launched two quad-core Xeon processors: X5365 and L5335. New CPUs differ from their predecessors by higher clock speed on the one hand, and lower power consumption ?on ... |
Intel's New Micro-Architecture Gets Examined by Web-Site |
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Even though the transition to improved Intel Core 2 micro-architecture with the new chips due to be available late this year is not typically considered as substantial for Intel Corp., a web-s... |
AMD Regains Market Positions in the Second Quarter |
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Advanced Micro Devices reclaimed the lost market share in the second quarter following substantial collapse in Q1 2007, according to recently released figures by Mercury Research. The analyst ... |
Intel Pulls New Desktop Chips into 2007 |
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Intel Corp. has decided to bring the launch of its 45nm quad-core chips forward to the fourth quarter of 2007. This will allow the company to be in full position to compete against the new fam... |
TSMC to Make Central Processing Units in 2008 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract semiconductor maker, confirmed this week that it would see revenues from manufacturing of central processing uni... |
AMD Dispels K10 Clock-Speed Concerns |
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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday demonstrated its highly-anticipated enthusiast-class quad-core AMD Phenom processor that functioned at a clock-speed that has been widely considered as unach... |
TSMC Sampling 45nm “Fusion?Chips ?JP Morgan |
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A recent note to clients from JP Morgan, a leading financial services firm, claims that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is sampling 45nm processors designed by Advanced Micro... |