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As we move into fall and approach the Intel Developer Forum this week, things show no sign of slowing down. Last week AMD fired an early volley at Intel by broadening an initiative designed to unite the entire slate of remaining non-Intel chip companies, making me wonder, had this happened earlier...
AMD on Thursday announced plans to publish its Opteron socket specification under its Torrenza licensing initiative. The chipmaker is hoping the move will spur other chip makers to design application-specific co-processors that can be integrated alongside Opteron. AMD's Torrenza Innovation Socket de...
Researchers from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara, on Monday said they have built the world's first electrically powered hybrid silicon laser using standard silicon manufacturing processes. This development addresses what Intel sees as one of the last major barriers to producing...
Dell on Tuesday rolled out new desktop computers in truly made-to-order style. Not only can customers choose sizes and graphics capabilities, they can also choose between Intel and AMD chips. Customers can select machines based on Intel's Core 2 Duo processors or, for the first time, AMD Athlon 64 X...
Amid its pretexting controversy and board shakeup this week, HP on Thursday said it has revamped its entire line of HP Integrity servers with more powerful models. The new machines boast more than twice the performance of the previous generation of HP Integrity servers, according to the company. Tha...
The high season for video game sales is just around the corner and there is still speculation about what two of the three major console vendors will bring to market. Sony announced earlier this week that its new PlayStation 3 would be available in much lower quantities than expected in the U.S. in N...
Intel this week announced the availability of its new hardware and software technology known as vPro, which the chip giant said can cut energy use and costs for enterprise IT shops while giving them more advanced remote management and security control. Claiming vPro can deliver business IT organizat...
IBM is building a supercomputer capable of petaflop performance -- 1,000 trillion, or a quadrillion, calculations per second -- for the U.S. Department of Energy using a combination of more than 30,000 Cell Broadband Engine and AMD Opteron processors. The new supercomputer, dubbed "Roadrunner," will...
Significant growth at Chelmsford, Mass.-based Hittite Microwave has pushed the company into the top 10 suppliers of Gallium Arsenide chips for the electronics industry, as Sony, NEC and Eudyna Devices all slipped in the rankings, a new report shows. Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, meantime, gained ...
An industry consortium that includes IBM, Chartered Semiconductor, Infineon and Samsung said this week they plan to make available the first silicon-functional circuits and design kits for 45-nanometer low-power process chip technology. The 45nm manufacturing process shrinks the gap between transist...
Intel unveiled its newest chips this week in announcing its new "Tulsa" server processors, the latest dual-core, 64-bit Xeon chips from the company. The firm also announced that its "Merom" mobile processors are now shipping to notebook manufacturers including Dell for its recently acquired Alienwar...
Advanced Micro Devices rolled out new and improved versions of its dual-core Opteron server processors this week, touting better power efficiency and virtualization capabilities. AMD said its new Rev F chips will carry it through to the end of the year, when it plans to make the transition to quad-c...
IBM this week revealed five new, higher-end, Opteron-based server systems for increased energy efficiency. The releases further highlight the company's commitment to Advanced Micro Devices' server processor products. IBM said its AMD-based server expansion, to include x86 blade servers with new IBM ...
Last week was one to write home about, particularly between AMD and Intel. The AMD folks effectively created a distraction during Intel's biggest launch since the original Pentium 13 years ago -- and Intel actually helped them do it. In addition, Microsoft met with a broad cross section of analysts ...
Intel unveiled its Core 2 Duo computer processors Thursday, marking what some consider the chip giant's biggest new product release in years. The new Intel Core 2 Duos, a family of 10 new processors that includes desktop and mobile versions of the chips, more closely connect the two processor cores ...
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