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  • Intel's Nick Knupffer sleeping rough

    20 September 2005, 00:00

    This Friday, Intel's Nick Knupffer will be roughing it on the London streets. No, he hasn't lost his job, all of his money and his home, he's doing it for ...

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  • Intel keeps die costs low

    14 September 2005, 00:00

    The average manufacturing cost of an Intel CPU die is around $40, and will stay pretty much constant for the time being.

  • IDF August 2005 :: Yonah and Sossaman

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    While Intel's desktop cores have been looked upon by some as less appealing than AMD's offerings, and a little on the warm side, the same cannot be said for their ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: Intel's Multi-Core Platforms

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    Continuing our IDF coverage with some retrospective content, we've obtained the slides from Intel's Multi-Core briefing. So let's take a closer look at what their plans are.

  • Cell to spread

    26 August 2005, 00:00

    We know that Cell is the much hyped chip at the heart of the up-coming PlayStation three, but the three companies behind the chip are now looking to push it ...

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  • Dual-core Pentium D processor slashes cost of real-time HDV editing

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    The arrival of dual-core processors is set to massively reduce the cost of high-powered Windows HDV editing PCs. South-coast-based DVC (Digital Video Computing) is one of the first UK specialist ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: Intel VIIV - The Solution - 64 bits

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    One of the best kept secrets in the industry appears to have been the VIIV trademark which Intel registered several months back. Many have speculated what this was all about. ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: IDF Day 1

    23 August 2005, 00:00

    Intel today opened IDF with a speech from Jeff Mcrae, Director of Intel USA, who opened by stating that Intel’s aim is to lead and pioneer the future.

  • IDF August 2005 :: Next Gen - No Hyperthreading (HT) for Intel

    23 August 2005, 00:00

    HEXUS remembers that at the time Intel were very keen to inform us that their was no cost associated with HT and it was 'free' performance. Surely it should be ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: Pre IDF Speech from Steve Pawlowski

    23 August 2005, 00:00

    HEXUS attended a pre-IDF warm up speech from Steve Pawlowski who leads the Digital Enterprise group, from which you’ll see high end chipset and server products.

  • CPU Product Codes

    17 August 2005, 00:00

    AMD were the first to move away from selling processors based on clock speed, instead opting for a rating system that attempted to liken the performance of one of their ...

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  • Probe of Intel spreads to South Korea

    9 August 2005, 00:00

    South Korea's Fair Trade Commission is investigating Intel's sales activities, requesting documents related to rebates and marketing. Most readers will make the immediate connection between this and investigations in both ...

  • Reduced lead processors from AMD

    21 July 2005, 00:00

    On the 1st July 2006, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation will come into force. It is an EU directive which in part aims to reduce the amount of lead ...

  • AMD File Antitrust Complaint Against Intel In The US

    21 July 2005, 00:00

    AMD has today announced that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel in the US Federal District Court in Delaware. AMD claim that actions from Intel such as putting ...

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  • AMD anti-trust complaint against Intel alleges worldwide dirty-tricks campaign

    29 June 2005, 00:00

    Perennial computer-processor-underdog AMD today (June 28, 2005) filed an anti-trust complaint in the US Federal District Court claiming to show how Intel unlawfully maintains its monopoly in the market for ...

  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

    27 June 2005, 00:00

    Put simply: if you want the fastest x86 processor on the planet, measured using games and single-threaded benchmarks, the FX-57 should be the only thing on your shopping list.

  • Intel and Apple - Jon Peddie has his say

    6 June 2005, 00:00

    Everyone has heard the news by now that Apple will move to an x86-based platform next year. The news reverberates in many places. Although Apple’s defection exposes weakness in IBM’s ...

  • Review: Intel Pentium 4 670 and Pentium D 820

    26 May 2005, 00:00

    To state the obvious, where the Pentium D 820 thrives in is in multi-threaded applications that take full advantage of both its cores concurrently. When that happens, its performance beats ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+

    9 May 2005, 00:00

    The key things to take from today's look at the 4800+ is that it's generally no slower, but generally no faster either, than an FX-53 in single-threaded tests, yet it'll ...

  • Review: Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and 955X Express chipset

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Whether or not it\'s worth ditching your present system for the obvious benefits of dual-core computing is entirely dependant on your application usage. The Pentium XE 840, whilst hugely impressive ...

  • Review: Intel's Pentium-M 735 Processor and DFI 855GME Motherboard

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    Performance wise, there\'s one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M\'s scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it\'s crying out for core logic to ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: AMD CeBIT 2005 Treasure Hunt

    12 March 2005, 00:00

    This year AMD have organized a treasure hunt around the entire of the CeBIT site. Now before you go of thinking what all the fuss is about, you need to ...

  • IDF Spring 2005: Day 1 Keynote : Pat Gelsinger

    2 March 2005, 00:00

    In his keynote speech at IDF, Gelsinger, the man who is no longer CTO is now heading up Intel’s Digital Enterprise division, announced that data now compiles to their Moores ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Day 1 Keynote : Craig Barrett

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    Spring IDF 2005 will be the last keynote with Craig as CEO of the company, he’s now taking a position on the board, and is to focus on Intel’s strategy ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Manufacturing Enhancements to CMOS Technology

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    Another Spring, another IDF, without doubt at this IDF we will be bashed about with Dual Core and Vanderpool technology, as well as Intel screaming at us about how well ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Intel Multi-Core strategy

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    It does not take a genius to predict that Intel would be going Dual Core mad at this IDF, and sure enough, the second session of the first day was ...

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  • Review: Intel's Prescott-2M: Pentium 4 660 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz

    21 February 2005, 00:00

    And it\'s that 64-bit ability of Prescott-2M that\'s its main selling point, rather than any performance to be gained by the double-sized L2 cache, compared to Prescott-1M. I missed out ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester)

    6 December 2004, 00:00

    A 600MHz overclock is typical of current Athlon 64 Winchester 3000+s, and I see very little reason why you can't at least replicate what's been achieved in this review. Remember, ...

  • Review: Intel Pentium 4 570J

    15 November 2004, 00:00

    In summary, it\'s very hard to recommend the Pentium 4 570J when the competition, AMD, is currently doing so well. I\'d either opt for a cheaper 5xx model and overclock ...

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  • Review: Intel 2004 Roadmap Updates

    9 November 2004, 00:00

    With 2004 drawing to a close, a lot of Intel\'s platform plans, for everything from mobile to Itanium, have a 2005 focus. That includes the launch of the 6-series Pentium ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs

    19 October 2004, 00:00

    Bottom line is that AMD has raised the performance bar yet again with its new FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs. It's now up to Intel to respond with its next ...

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  • Review: AMD Sempron 2800+ , Sempron 3100+ and Intel Celeron D 335

    17 October 2004, 00:00

    Which value processor should you choose?. If your budget resembles a shoestring then a bottom-end Sempron (Socket A, obviously) or Celeron D 320 are the natural choices. Both CPUs have ...

  • IDF Fall 2004: AMD hijacks the journos

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    Every year at IDF, you can be assured that a number of companies will take advantage of the entire world’s journalists being in the same place at the same time. ...