CPUs
As Qualcomm prepares for the mid-year launch of their forthcoming Snapdragon X SoCs for PCs, and the eagerly anticipated Oryon CPU cores within, the company is finally shoring up their official product plans, and releasing some additional technical details in the process. Thus far the company has been demonstrating their Snapdragon X Elite SoC in its highest-performing, fully-enabled configuration. But the retail Snapdragon X Elite will not be a single part; instead, Qualcomm is preparing a whole range of chip configurations for various price/performance tiers in the market. Altogether, there will be 3 Snapdragon X Elite SKUs that differ in CPU and GPU performance. As well, the company is introducing a second Snapdragon X tier, Snapdragon X Plus, for those SKUs positioned below the Elite...
Computex 2011: AMD Bulldozer, Llano, Trinity, & New VISION Branding
AMD’s Computex 2011 conference just wrapped up. Computex is not AMD’s traditional grounds for major new announcements – they’d rather have their own events for that – but alongside...
26 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011
A Quick Look at a 22nm Ivy Bridge Wafer
Just before a couple of key Ivy Bridge disclosures, Mooly Eden held up a wafer of 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs. Presumably these are quad-core versions with 16 EUs, the...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: Intel Mentions Haswell Will Support "Multiple OSes", But Why?
I hate that I didn't pull my camera out quickly enough to catch this slide, but Intel's Mooly Eden just mentioned an interesting feature of Haswell. He stated that...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Ivy Bridge: A Tick+ With Configurable TDP
With Turbo boost and power gating we took a step towards configurable CPUs. It didn't matter whether you needed one core or four, with power gating and turbo you...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Intel Integrates USB 3.0 into Ivy Bridge Platform, Thunderbolt Optional
We knew about the first feature on this list (USB 3.0) would come with Ivy Bridge's 7-series chipset, but the second one was something I just heard about today...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: Intel's Thin miniITX Sandy Bridge Platform
Intel's Mooly Eden just showed off its new thin mini ITX Sandy Bridge platform. The form factor is a standard mini ITX but with a low profile backplane so...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
The Ultrabook: Meet the New Thin and Light Intel Notebook
It's too cliché to proclaim netbooks are dead. Perhaps the appropriate phrase is netbooks are no longer interesting to write about, but they do have a roadmap going forward...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Intel’s 2011 Investor Meeting - Intel’s Architecture Group: 14nm Airmont Atom In 2014
Today Intel is holding their annual investors meeting at their Santa Clara headquarters. In true Intel fashion it’s being treated as a big event (ed: it’s so big they...
63 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2011
Intel's Silvermont: A New Atom Architecture
Brooke Crothers broke a very important story today - he published the name Silvermont. Atom's first incarnation came to us in 2008 as a Pentium-like dual-issue in-order microprocessor. The...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/12/2011
VIA's QuadCore: Nano Gets Bigger
Two days ago I flew out to VIA's Centaur headquarters in Austin, Texas to be briefed on a new CPU. When I wrote about VIA's Dual-Core Nano I expected...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/12/2011
Intel Z68 Chipset & Smart Response Technology (SSD Caching) Review
The problem with Sandy Bridge was simple: if you wanted to use Intel's integrated graphics, you had to buy a motherboard based on an H-series chipset. Unfortunately, Intel's H-series...
106 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/11/2011
Intel’s Roadmap: Ivy Bridge, Panther Point, and SSDs
Last week, we told you about Sandy Bridge-E and X79 chipset. Today, we have a lot of interesting news about other Intel products, including a look at the Ivy...
74 by Kristian Vättö on 5/6/2011
Apple's iMac: The First Z68 for Sale?
Yesterday Apple introduced its first Sandy Bridge based iMacs. Thanks to @siromega I was pointed at iFixit's teardown of the new 21.5-inch iMac, which pointed out that the new...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/4/2011
Intel Announces first 22nm 3D Tri-Gate Transistors, Shipping in 2H 2011
Earlier this week Intel sent us a cryptic message: I wanted to invite you to an Intel press conference on Wednesday May 4th at 9:30am Pacific time. Intel will be...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/4/2011
AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Review
AMD has hardly kept quiet on the CPU front these past several months. At the beginning of the year AMD put the nail in Atom's netbook coffin with the...
79 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/2/2011
Details on Intel’s Next Generation "Cedar Trail" Atom Platform
Last August in our Atom N550 article, we hinted that Intel will release their next generation Atom platform in mid-2011. As we mentioned in that article, the codename for...
43 by Kristian Vättö on 4/29/2011
Additional Details on Sandy Bridge-E Processors, X79, and LGA2011
The latest Intel roadmap has come out, and it's already being discussed elsewhere, so we're going to weigh in with our own analysis of the content as there's plenty...
67 by Kristian Vättö on 4/26/2011
Ask the experts: Cloud Computing Questions Answered
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
40 by Johan De Gelas on 3/28/2011
Ask the Experts: Virtualization & Cloud Computing Questions Answered
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/17/2011
Intel Plans on Bringing Atom to Servers in 2012, 20W SNB Xeons in 2011
The transition to smaller form factors hasn't been exclusively a client trend over the past several years, we've seen a similar move in servers. The motiviation is very different...
54 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/15/2011
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