27 December 2005, 16:10
The days of performance single-core CPUs are numbered, even for gamers, with the likes of ATI and NVIDIA investing in multi-CPU driver support that makes better use of the parallel ...
13 December 2005, 19:57
European vendors are short of supplies of AMD's rather tastful socket 939 Opteron 144 and 146 processors, except for - so a little bird tells us - SCAN International.
6 December 2005, 20:58
A date has been put on the launch of Mac computers with 'Intel Inside', and that date is believed to be June 6th 2006.
17 November 2005, 17:23
Back in August, AMD, keen to show off its dual-core processors, challenged Intel to a dual-core duel. The idea was to benchmark a commercially available AMD dual-core processor against the ...
14 November 2005, 14:46
Sun is playing the eco card with its latest processor, faunted as the most eco-responsible chip ever.
9 November 2005, 16:38
Pictures of the new socket for AMD's Opteron processors, known as Socket F, have appeared on Tweakers.net, a Dutch tech-website.
9 October 2005, 12:38
The Intel supported Stanford Racing Team were the first to cross the line in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge, beating the also Intel supported Red Team by a mere 4 ...
5 October 2005, 22:14
This coming weekend sees the DARPA Grand Challenge, a gruelling quest in which autonomous vehicles must traverse desert and mountains in Nevada.
27 September 2005, 13:41
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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