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  • Keeping it virtualised: Intel and VMware

    8 March 2006, 20:37

    Intel and VMware continue to work together closely on virtualisation implementation in both hardware and software, with Intel VT support expect to appear in VMware's enterprise ESX server in the ...

  • Intel's next-generation Core architecture

    8 March 2006, 17:44

    Netburst is dead, bring on CORE!

  • A socket for Dempsey - Intel's LGA 771 pictures

    8 March 2006, 17:27

    We've managed to take some sneaky pictures of a motherboard designed for Intel's up-coming Dempsey CPU. The board has two LGA 771 sockets which means (obviously) that it can accommodate ...

  • Apple's Conroe Plans

    8 March 2006, 16:16

    Apple's thoughts on Conroe

  • Intel finally set to smash AMD in performance stakes

    8 March 2006, 00:46

    These are interesting results for a number of reasons, we are comparing the mid range Conroe CPU against that of the future top of the range FX62. Whilst we know ...

  • BBC wants your clock-cycles - to predict climate change

    14 February 2006, 17:39

    The BBC is bringing all guns to bear on the contentious subject of climate change with programmes on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4 and a distributive-computing initiative for climate-change predictions

  • Rahul Sood: AMD-Dell deal 'imminent'

    13 February 2006, 21:29

    Rahul Sood, founder of VoodooPC, isn't afraid of making bold statements in his weblog. This week he's giving his thoughts on the whole AMD-Dell 'will they, won't they?' debacle.

  • Intel Yonah hidden features exposed

    7 February 2006, 11:50

    Word reaches the Deeplung ear that Intel's Yonah processor, which ships under the Intel Core Duo moniker, has features that aren't being exposed to the consumer. Intel's Sossaman is the ...

  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

    10 January 2006, 04:45

    There's not much suspense to hold with this new CPU. The mystique of whether or not the next Athlon 64 FX would be single or dual core was dashed a ...

  • Review: Intel Extreme Edition 955 Processor

    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 ...

  • Socket 939 opterons in short supply... unless you know where to look

    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.

  • Intel will get inside a mac in June 2006

    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.

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  • Intel yet to rise to AMD's dual-core duel challenge

    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 ...

  • Sun announces green chip

    14 November 2005, 14:46

    Sun is playing the eco card with its latest processor, faunted as the most eco-responsible chip ever.

  • Pictures of AMD's new socket surface

    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.

  • Stanford Racing Team first to cross the Grand Challenge finish line

    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 ...

  • DARPA: Helping vehicles see

    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.

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  • Deciphering CPU Product Codes

    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 ...

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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 ...