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AMD Athlon II, Phenom II and Sempron disappears 2012
CPU Chipset
Published on Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:49 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD Llano was released a while ago and earlier one we met with Zacate. It is still a bit unclear when the FX series based on Bulldozer will arrive, but it looks like it will be in the August - October timeframe. When the FX series has arrived the need for the older 45nm assortment will be gone and AMD intends to phase these out.
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Intel reports record income, 13B USD
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Published on Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:38 Written by Anton Karmehed
Intel has had a great row of quarterly reports and the last is no exception. Intel broke 13 billion dollar revenue for one quarter. A number that was 21% higher than the same quarter last year.
AMD planning FX series "Bulldozer" refresh in Q1 2012
CPU Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:46 Written by Anton Karmehed
AMD has had to postpone the launch of Bulldozer longer than hoped and imagined. The four first AMD FX models will appear in September or October. New rumors suggest that the next step will come in Q1 2012, with four new AMD FX processors on the menu.
AMD A8-3870 the first unlocked Llano APU
CPU Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:04 Written by Anton Karmehed
AMD is said to be preparing the first unlocked Llano APU. AMD A8-3870 is supposedly the name of the first unlocked model that will launch in Q4 2011 and bring better overclocking and most likely also a higher stock clock over 3.0 GHz.
NVIDIA Project Denver gets 8 ARM cores and 256 CUDA cores?
CPU Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 10:05 Written by Jacob Hugosson
It's been a while since we heard from NVIDIA Project Denver. Denver will sport ARM CPU cores and target the server and super computer market, but also PCs and bring 64-bit support. BSN* now says that Denver will be a very potent architecture.
Sandy Bridge-E model names and clocks revealed
CPU Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 09:09 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E architecture will together with LGA2011 replace Socket LGA1366. When this will happen is unclear, but Intel hopes to make it before the end of the year. CES in Las Vegas looks more plausible though. Model names and clock frequencies has now been revealed, and we see an Extreme Edition.
Tegra 3 - only quad-core ARM circuit at 40nm
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 16:28 Written by Anton Karmehed
NVIDIA will launch its first quad-core system processor based on ARM Cortex-A9. It has pointed out that it will be the first quad-core ARM circuit on the market and new information reveals that it will not only be first but also have six months advantage on the competition.
Undervolting of AMD A6-3650 lowers energy consumption by 25%
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 13:16 Written by Anton Karmehed
AMD's new Fusion A series has arrived and beside the graphical power of the new architecture we were also impressed by the relatively low energy consumption. in our tests with the entry model AMD A6-3650 we have managed to lower energy consumption with 25%, without performance loss.
Intel to launch LGA2011 in 2011, features missing
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 11:47 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel's new beast and spiritual successor to LGA1366 has been supposedly delayed and instead launch next year. New sources suggest that Intel may still make it for 2011, but without the same functionality that was promised with the new LGA2011.
AMD Bulldozer ready for October?
CPU Chipset
Published on Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:48 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD Bulldozer has been postponed a number of times and the latest information from AMD said we would see the architecture in 60-90 days, which was back June 6th. New sources suggest that Bulldozer will not arrive before October, which implies another month of delays. The first listed models are four octo-cores, two hexa-cores and two quad-cores.
Ivy Bridge will work on older LGA1155 motherboards
CPU Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 10:32 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel's next generation processors - Ivy Bridge - are still way into the future, but this hasn't stopped people from hunting down samples. Something many have been wondering about is the backwards compatibility, since for once it will use the same socket as the current architecture.
Sandy Bridge-EP gets 8 cores and 150W TDP at 3.0 GHz
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Published on Monday, 11 July 2011 17:00 Written by Anton Karmehed
Sandy Bridge-EP will be the server version of Intel's coming LGA2011 platform expected to launch later this year. Unlike the retail version of Sandy Bridge-E, the EP processors will have 8 cores. Why the retail version doesn't have this might be because a 3.0 GHz model will ship with 150W TDP specification.
AMD FX "Bulldozer" processor in early benches
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 11 July 2011 11:39 Written by Anton Karmehed
AMD FX series will be the first processors to appear sporting AMD's new Bulldozer architecture. While waiting for the postponed launch benchmarks have now appeared with what is claimed to be a sample of AMD FX-8130P, the top model of the series. The result are of a mixed nature, but do show promise.
Dual-core Llano specifications surface
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 11 July 2011 09:13 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Llano is so far only available in two quad-core flavors and the energy efficient 65W models or the cheaper dual-cores models are still missing. AMD has said it doesn't have any focus on the latter, but it looks like additional details have surfaced regarding these models.
AMD planning to release tri-core APU with 65W TDP
CPU Chipset
Published on Thursday, 07 July 2011 15:26 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD has launched the latest A series APUs and we currently have A8-3850 and A6-3650 in stores with matching motherboards. We expect the first two dual-cores and quad-cores with 65W TDP soon, but it seems they will get company from a tri-core model too.
NVIDIA Kepler in 2012
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 11:22 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Rumors, speculations and leaked information on the coming graphics cards at the 28nm node have started appearing now that TSMC says the technology is not far away. There are talks about delays though since TSMC isn't quite ready with 28nm just yet. This may push NVIDIA's coming architecture Kepler into 2012.
AMD takes aim for tablets with new APU, Hondo
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 10:21 Written by Jacob Hugosson
AMD has released quite a lot of Fusion APUs, but one market it hasn't really covered yet is tablets. It has the Desna APU, which is basically Ontario with some more aggressive power saving in the northbridge and memory controller. With Hondo it will lower energy consumption and use a tailored chipset.
ARM aiming for game console graphics performance in 2012
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 04 July 2011 07:59 Written by Anton Karmehed
ARM isn't just good at chiseling new processor architectures for its own ARM platform. The circuit developer also has a graphics processor family called Mali. Representatives have now revealed that it is aiming to offer performance on par with video game consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 within the next 18 months.
Intel Ivy Bridge pictured and tested
CPU Chipset
Published on Saturday, 02 July 2011 14:59 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel Ivy Bridge is still way into the future and if we are to believe the latest rumors Intel's first 22nm processor has been moved up to March-April 2012. Despite that pictures have surfaced and a couple of tests have leaked. It's a dual-core version with HyperThreading clocked at 1.8 GHz.
Oracle accuse HP of lying to clients about Itanium
CPU Chipset
Published on Friday, 01 July 2011 12:52 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Oracle earlier said it will stop developing for Intel Itanium and its exclusive IA64 architecture since the architecture hasn't long to live now. HP on the other hand, who is a key partner to Intel on Itanium says the very opposite and that Itanium has at least 10 years to go. Oracle continues to defend its position.
Server flavors of Bulldozer can limit TDP when needed
CPU Chipset
Published on Friday, 01 July 2011 12:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
One of the big problems with servers and data centers is that they have a power budget to adhere to. We know that Bulldozer is designed for low power use and comes with a relatively advanced Turbo Core function, but now head of servers at AMD John Fruehe says that it can limit TDP when needed.
Intel postpone launch of new enthusiast platform
CPU Chipset
Published on Friday, 01 July 2011 07:05 Written by Anton Karmehed
Sandy Bridge-E and LGA2011 will replace the enthusiast platform LGA1366. Earlier we have seen that Intel is planning a launch of Sandy Bridge-E in Q4, something that now seems to have been moved into the future. The processor giant will according to the latest rumors be launched at CES 2012 in January.
Intel Cloverview tablet platform to arrive with Windows 8
CPU Chipset
Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2011 10:00 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Tablets are almost everywhere now. Microsoft is working on Windows 8 to make it more tablet friendly and support ARM-based SoCs. Even though there will be ARM support, it will work with Intel as it the latter will release its new platform at the same time as Windows 8.
OBR showing overclocked Llano and Bulldozer
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 27 June 2011 11:57 Written by Jacob Hugosson
OBRovskys, better known as OBR, has posted more pictures on his blogg showing both Llano and Bulldozer overclocked, supposedly on air. While we lack any benchmarks, due to NDAs and such, we see that both samples have been overclocked quite a lot, over 4.6 GHz, and Llano passes Cinebench at 4679 MHz.
VIA working on energy efficient server processor
CPU Chipset
Published on Monday, 27 June 2011 08:34 Written by Anton Karmehed
VIA Technologies has been acting in the background of Intel and AMD on the x86 market where it has found niches on the more obscure markets. VIA has now announced that it has plans to enter the lucrative server market where it will develop new processors but keep its focus on energy efficiency.
Haswell will be an SoC design from Intel with more focus on graphics
CPU Chipset
Published on Saturday, 25 June 2011 11:41 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Haswell will be the successor to the not yet launched Ivy Bridge that will sport new 22nm technology and based on Sandy Bridge. Not much is known about Haswell, but it looks like it will increase the focus on integration, lower power consumption and also improved graphics performance. With Haswell it hopes to achieve even more ultrathin design at a lower price.
VIA confirms leaving BAPCo
CPU Chipset
Published on Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:54 Written by Jacob Hugosson
We reported earlier that AMD had left BAPCo, after BAPCo allegedly refused to listen to AMD's suggestions for changes to SYSmark 2012. The new suit is said to use old software that doesn't support the latest technology in processors and completely lack support for hardware acceleration. VIA has now officially stated that it too has left the organization.
New Intel Core i7-980 released
CPU Chipset
Published on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:15 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Intel isn't quite ready to dismiss the old LGA1366 socket and X58 chipset since the successor is not slated to arrive until Q4 with Sandy Bridge E and X79. Until then a new processor will replace Core i7-970.
Tegra 3 has the same or better battery time as Tegra 2
CPU Chipset
Published on Thursday, 16 June 2011 12:25 Written by Jacob Hugosson
Tegra 3 will replace Tegra 2 and bring much improved specifications and a circuit area almost twice as big as Tegra 2. Tegra 3 is still said to be just as efficient thanks to advanced power saving functions and the fact that Tegra 3 can do calculations faster than Tegra 2 and enter idle modes faster or simply deactivate the cores not needed.
AMD still searching for new VP
CPU Chipset
Published on Thursday, 16 June 2011 09:02 Written by Anton Karmehed
AMD has been looking for a new VP and leader since Dirk Meyer left earlier this year. It seems that the reason it hasn't found a replacement is that everyone has turned it down. AMD has interviewed several big names in the IT industry, e.g. Apple, Oracle and EMC, but no catch.
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