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Intel Sandy Bridge CPU refresh includes i5 and Celeron cores

Chris Burns, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's a brand new set of no less than seven CPUs out on the market announced by Intel today, each of them with a slight modification over the last comparable version of them, with both Core i5 and Celeron units up for sale. Each of these units has been announced extremely silently for one reason or another, most likely because they do not offer major advances over the last wave of comparable cores. Other than the P at the end of the names for two of the three Core i5 units possible meaning a modification to the GPU has been made, not one whole heck of a lot is known about the innards of these products. Read The Full Story

Tilera TILE-Gx puts 36-core PC on a half-height PCIe card

Chris Davies, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Multicore processor specialist Tilera has returned with a new "manycore" offering, the 36 and 16-core TILE-Gx 64-bit processors, promising grunt in line with the top-spec chips from Intel and AMD yet with power demands more akin to ultraportable notebooks. According to Tilera, just one TILE-Gx36-based server can outperform a Xeon-based system, despite using only one-fifth the power and one-eighth the space of its Intel-based counterpart. Read The Full Story

AMD Trinity ultrathins to undercut ultrabook by $200

Chris Davies, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

AMD's challenge to Intel's Ultrabook push, the AMD Trinity series of APUs, will drop in June and undercut its rival by as much as 20-percent, according to information from notebook manufacturers. The new models - of which around 20 AMD-based ultrabook-equivalents are expected this year, claim DigiTimes' sources - will be $100-$200 cheaper than comparable Ivy Bridge notebooks. Read The Full Story

Google-made GPU and CPU chips on the way

Chris Burns, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [13]

This week a rather above-average bit of information on the future of mobile in Google, that being them creating no less than their very own processor and GPU for their future devices - namely their Nexus line of purely stock Android smartphones and tablets. You've got to reach out and have some faith in the original source here as a "programming employee at Google" speaking to an anonymous tipster speaking with Android Invasion. That said, it's an interesting thing to think about: Google taking a new command of their own destinies with hardware manufacturing. Read The Full Story

Ivy Bridge-based Xeons a possibility from Intel in the spring

Paul Fang, Jan 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

The Xeon E5 launch earlier this year from chipmaker Intel could be possibly matched by a plethora of Ivy Bridge-based models soon to be released after, based on a tentative processor roadmap. After releasing 18 E5 chips based on the current Sandy Bridge architecture, Intel may be slated to have 11 Xeons arrive in the spring based on the new 2012 design, claimed Digitimes. Billed as Ivy Bridge-H2, these would include "Xeon E3 chips like the E3-1290v2 in bulk costs of $189 to $884, as well as E5s from $192 to $1,440, one of which would be the E5-2470", according to Electronista. Read The Full Story

Some Intel Ivy Bridge processors to debut on April 8 say sources

Shane McGlaun, Dec 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

We already know that the Intel Ivy Bridge processors are coming and that they are the follow-ups to the Sandy Bridge units already available. Not too long ago some pricing details on the Ivy Bridge parts leaked for us to look at. Today more rumors are surfacing about the Ivy Bridge processors. The source of the rumors that DigiTimes cites are PC makers in Taiwan. Read The Full Story

Intel Ivy Bridge desktop CPU pricing leaks

Rue Liu, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

We recently got a peak at the pricing of Intel's mobile Ivy Bridge lineup and now the pricing for the Ivy Bridge desktop CPUs have leaked. This next-gen family of processors is based on the new 22nm 3D Tri-Gate architecture and the leaked Intel roadmap earlier this month revealed that the processors can be expected to arrive in the second quarter of next year. Read The Full Story

AMD A-Series unlocked APUs revealed plus new dual/quadcores

Chris Davies, Dec 20th 2011 Discuss [2]

AMD has outed its latest A-Series desktop and notebook processors, with a thirteen-strong line-up of new dual- and quad-core Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). The new chips offer up to four x86 cores paired with up to 400 Radeon graphics cores, with dedicated HD video processing and AMD Steady Video, providing real-time smoothing and stabilization for jerky clips. Meanwhile, there are also the first ever unlocked APUs for overclocking enthusiasts. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm: Tegra 3 is a “single use product”

Chris Davies, Dec 14th 2011 Discuss [12]

Qualcomm is pushing to make its Snapdragon mobile chipset brand more visible in the consumer marketplace, dismissing the threat of NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 as a “single use product” and even temporarily rebranding the Qualcomm Stadium as the “Snapdragon Stadium” from this weekend. Speaking at a pre-CES briefing today, Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President of Software Strategy Rob Chandhok suggested that, while Tegra 2 may have been found in many of the headline-grabbing tablets and phones over the past twelve months, “in the mobile space, I’m not sure that NVIDIA has any more brand awareness than we do.” The company is similarly unconcerned about the quadcore Tegra 3.

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Google celebrates chip-father Robert Noyce with new doodle

Chris Davies, Dec 12th 2011 Discuss [53]

Google has revealed a new chip-themed homepage doodle that celebrates the birthday of Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and widely known as one of the brains behind the microchip. Noyce - who would have turned 84 today - passed away in 1990 at the age of 62. Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley" the physics doctor created Intel with Gordon E. Moore in 1968. Read The Full Story

AMD changes Bulldozer transistor count

Shane McGlaun, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

When AMD first started talking about its new Bulldozer processors there were a lot of excited geeks out there. On paper, the processor sounded really good with its 2 billion transistors and lots of nice features. Once the processors started getting into the hands of reviewers, the excitement faded for many people when it was noted that the performance wasn't on par with the specs noted by AMD. Read The Full Story

Intel’s mobile Ivy Bridge lineup details leaked

Paul Fang, Dec 6th 2011 Discuss [1]

Just days (three, to be precise) after information pertaining to Intel's upcoming desktop processors was leaked, details of Intel's mobile versions of its Ivy Bridge CPU lineup may have leaked as well. According to some internal product layouts released by VR-Zone, Intel is putting an end to the low-voltage CPU type seen in Sandy Bridge, consolidatiing the product line down to just standard voltage and ULV (ultra-low voltage) versions. Intel now has programmable TDP in its mobile processors, essentially rendering the low-voltage product line redundant. Read The Full Story