Chartered Preps to Manufacture 45nm Microprocessors for AMD |
As Advanced Micro Devices is getting ready to start pilot production ramp of its 45nm process technology, its ¥Blexible?manufacturing partner Chartered Semiconductor claims that it would be re... |
Intel Starts Production of Penryn, Wolfdale and Yorkfield Chips |
Volume production of a new generation of microprocessors for desktop personal computers, laptops, servers and other computing devices officially began today inside of Intel Corp.'s first high-... |
Microprocessor Shipments Skyrocket in Q3, Says IDC |
Advanced Micro Devices managed to once again increase microprocessor market share in the third quarter, based on figures released by IDC market tracking agency. The achievement comes as the ma... |
Intel and Transmeta Settle Patent Infringement Dispute |
Intel Corp. and Transmeta Corp. on Wednesday said that the two companies had agreed to settle the patent infringement lawsuit. Under the terms of the agreement Transmeta will receive a one-tim... |
Initial Barcelona Ramp Below Expectations, But AMD Hopes for the Best |
Advanced Micro Devices was struggling to deliver its quad-core processors onto the market for many months, but when the world's second largest maker of x86 central processing units (CPUs) fina... |
Shipments of Intel's Quad-Core Chips Tops Three Million Units |
After relatively slow start quad-core processors are beginning to rapidly gain popularity among various customers. Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel Corp. said during a conference with f... |
AMD Gears Up for New Product Launches |
According to documents seen by , Advanced Micro Devices plans to reconsider its branding strategy and come up with a family of desktop processor that contains more members than previously tho... |
Intel's First Microprocessors with Built-In Graphics Cores, Octa-Core Chips Slip Into 2009 |
Intel's code-named Nehalem processors first emerged in long-term Intel's roadmap back in 2002 and, as it turns out now, five years later, the actual chips based on the Nehalem micro-architectu... |
Valve Software Still Considers Ageia PhysX, Sony PlayStation 3 ¤…orrible
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Hitachi's New Technological ¤~reakthrough?to Enable 4TB Hard Drives Hitachi Touts New Generation ... |
Gabe Newell, the chief of Valve Software game developer, said in an interview that he still considers Ageia PhysX and Sony PlayStation 3 as two inadequate products. Besides, the head of softwa... |
No Plans to Lower Quad-Core Pricing by Intel |
Even though there are not a lot of single-core chips in Intel's microprocessor lineup now, quad-core processors are not going to become really affordable soon enough. After Intel introduces it... |
Intel Readies Dual-Core Microprocessors for $35 - $50 |
It was just a matter of time before the leading makers of central processing units (CPUs) start to sell dual-core chips for value computers and it now seems that the time will come in the firs... |
Intel's Skulltrail Heads to Extremes: Two 3 20GHz Quad-Core Chips, 150W, $1500 per Chip |
The dual-processor enthusiast-class code-named Skulltrail platform from Intel, which the company demonstrated at Intel Developer Forum, will be available in Q1 2008. But while the new extreme ... |
AMD Slashes Desktop Processor Pricing Officially |
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday officially introduced new desktop microprocessor prices. Even though the price slash is not dramatic, the decision is projected the world's second largest make... |
Intel Skeptic About AMD's Plans to Release Microprocessors with Three Cores |
The rather unique triple-core microprocessor by Advanced Micro Devices due in early 2008 is nothing else but a way to increase the amount of working processors based on the new micro-architect... |
Intel Vows to Increase Single-Thread Performance in Next-Gen Itanium Chips |
Even though without much hype, Intel Itanium is still here and will be in the coming years. However, the evolution of the family may just take a little bit different route than other microproc... |