AMD x86 Is Now Royalty Free
on Nov 19, 2009 in News AMD Intel As a result of the big settlement where Intel gave AMD $1.25 billion for doing some very naughty things including...AMD X86 is now royalty free So are AMD's patents to IntelAs a result of the big settlement where Intel gave AMD $1.25 billion for doin...

Intel Nehalem-EX Processor For Super Computers
on Nov 19, 2009 in Processor News Nehalem CPU Intel At Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon, Intel Corp. unveiled a future high performance computing (HPC) optimized version of its forthcoming processor codenamed Nehalem-EX. The chips aimed at supercomputers will feature lower amount of cores, but...

Intel 6-Core Gulftown Performance Verdicts
on Nov 19, 2009 in Server i9 Processor News Gulftown CPU Intel In summary, the Taiwan vendors and global users alike will be happy - a good speedup matched with useful tuneups at the system level, and unmatched power for the desktop, workstation or server. A double-precision 160 GFLOPS dual CPU deskside box will...

AMD Bulldozer 8-Cores Multithreading 128-Bit FPU, Due 2011
on Nov 16, 2009 in Processor News CPU AMD Bulldozer Advanced Micro Devices this week disclosed the first details about its next-generation Bulldozer processor that is due in 2011. Although specifications of the chip seem to be rather promising at this point of time, in about one and a half years from...

Low-Powered AMD Bobcat x86 Core Is Due To Be Released In 2011
on Nov 16, 2009 in Processor News CPU AMD Bobcat Advanced Micro Devices disclosed details about its forthcoming Bobcat core at its Analyst Day on Thursday. While the chip seems to be very power-efficient, it does not seem to be a performance leader to say at least. Moreover, it will only be availab...

AMD-Powered Jaguar Is Fastest Supercomputer
on Nov 16, 2009 in News CPU AMD Finally beating out IBM's Roadrunner, the first system in the world to break the petaflops barrier in the summer of last year, it was third time lucky for Jaguar as it finally topped TOP500's 34th list of supercomputers with 1.759 petaflops.AMD-power...

Intel to Pay AMD $1.25 Billion
on Nov 12, 2009 in News AMD Intel Intel and AMD have been involved in long-standing dispute over intellectual property and antitrust issues. Intel was fined $1.45B by the EU for its anticompetitive practices and last week, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed an antitrust law...

AMD Thuban 6-Core CPU Pictured
on Nov 10, 2009 in Processor News CPU AMD Istanbul, AMD's six-core native 45nm server chip is the biggest and the most complex chip that AMD and Globalfoundries have ever designed and manufactured.AMD's hexa-core desktop / server 45nm wafer pictured The most complex AMD chip to dateIstanbul,...

Intel Clarkdale Dual Core CPUs, About To Launch
on Nov 10, 2009 in Clarkdale Processor News i5 CPU i3 Intel Intel Corp. has already begun producing its next-generation “Arrandale” and “Clarkdale” processors using 32nm fabrication technology. In early December the world’s largest maker of chips will initiate shipments of its new processors in orde...

AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE C3 Revision, Game Benchmarks
on Nov 8, 2009 in Review Processor Overclock Benchmark CPU AMD Phenom II Real-world gaming tests using AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE C3 Revision Processor, collected from around the net.Real-world gaming tests using AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE C3 Revision Processor, collected from around the net. benchmarkreviews.com bit-tech.net...