Intel has been talking about Dunnington, its Penryn-based 6-core server CPU since early this year and next month, the talk will (finally) be over and the walk will kick in. The first Dunnington processors, the Xeon X7460 will be available in servers from September and, according to its maker, it has already proven its worth by breaking a few world records with a 8-socket IBM 3950 M2 server becoming the first platform to pass the 1 million tpmC milestone on the TPC-C benchmark.
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While notebook dominance already achieved, Intel is shifting some of its focus on the nettop segment and especially for that it has prepared the dual-core Intel Atoms and the new D945GCLF2 motherboard. Coming in a mini-ITX form factor, the D945GCLF2 features an integrated dual-core Atom CPU (likely starting off at 1.6 GHz), the 945GC chipset with integrated graphics (GMA 950) and one memory slot which can house DDR2-533/667 DIMMs of up to 2GB.
In addition to those above, the nettop-prone... Read Full Story
Forget any talk of shortages or competitive pressure from VIA, Intel’s Atom processors are thriving amid the recent Netbook and Mobile Internet Device (MID) movement. “Atom is off to a very, very rapid start, far exceeding our expectations when we started the year,” CFO Stacy Smith said in an interview Tuesday. “It’s the perfect recession product to have in the marketplace.”The success of its Atom processor has helped Intel achieve a 25 percent rise in quarterly profit despite a weak global... Read Full Story
AMD announced four new “business class” Phenom processors, which essentially means that these processors are made available for a platform that won’t change for at least two years and include a 3-year warranty. AMD Phenom business class cpuThe four new Phenom processors extend AMD’s B-series platform, which also includes a motherboard carrying either AMD’s 780V or Nvidia’s MCP78 chipset, to a total of 11 processors. The new models include the Phenom X4 9750B (2.4 GHz/95 watt), the Phenom X3... Read Full Story
AMD may not like it but Intel’s Nehalem processors are closing in fast and the first models will arrive in Q4 with the latest info pointing out to an early Q4 (October) retail release. The three desktop CPUs prepped by Intel, clocked between 2.66 and 3.2 GHz, are known as Bloomfield but as you might have guessed that won’t be their box-worthy name. What will that be you ask? Well, according to the guys @ Expreview the marketing name of all Nehalem-generation CPUs will be (drum roll) - Core i7... Read Full Story
Core i7 builder Intel Corporation has officially made some quite long-awaited changes to its Core 2 line-up. Intel’s first move was to cut the price tag of its Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.83 GHz) by a massive 40% from $530 to $316 (in 1000-unit tray quantities) followed by the introduction of four more processors.
Starting off small, the dual-core E7300, which has a core clock of 2.66 GHz and 3MB of L2 cache, has taken the $133 price point while the fastest dual-core around, the 3.33 GHz E8600... Read Full Story
AMD has now introduced a new family of professional graphics cards, the ATI FirePro and to give it a proper debut it has also released the first two cards to bear its name. Targeting CAD and DCC professionals, the FirePro V5700 and V3700 are powered by 55nm GPUs, have DirectX 10.1 support, PCI-Express 2.0 interfaces and feature 30-bit display engines which can produce more than one billion colors at any given time.
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