July 10, 2012
All good things come to an end, and for AMD fans, the end is nigh for the Sunnyvale chip designer’s 45nm SOI (Silicon On Insulator) processors, which will have reached end of life (EOL) status by December 2012. Among the list of soon-to-be deceased chi…
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August 15, 2011
IDC has recently released a market study that is reporting on the health of the microprocessor market. No huge surprises for the second quarter and the most pertinent news is that integrated graphics processors now account for 60% of the total. For major manufacturers, Intel maintains its absolute hegemony as producer of CPU, with 79.3% [...]
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August 1, 2011
Did you know that on May 22, 2011 that Intel released the companies first Pentium processors that utilize the Intel 32nm Sandy Bridge architecture? The Intel Pentium processor family is comprised of three new SKUs, called the G620, G840 and G850. We …
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February 11, 2011
HP’s upcoming 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet will ship with Qualcomm’s new APQ8060 dual-core Snapdragon processor, and according to Qualcomm, this wonder chip will enable the “latest and greatest multimedia experiences in today’s commercial mobile devices.” …
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February 3, 2011
Perhaps taking advantage of the recent Sandy Bridge chipset fiasco, AMD has gone and reduced the price of several Phenom processors by up to $30, depending on the chip, Fudzilla reports.
Starting with the quad-core processors, AMD shaved $10 from its P…
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February 1, 2011
If you look hard enough, you can find a handful of Polish computer shops selling Intel’s upcoming Core i7 990X Extreme Edition processor online. Pricing starts at around €900 (US$1,240) and goes up from there.
Intel hasn’t yet officially launched thi…
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January 28, 2011
On the surface, asking Intel to manufacture a 16-core Atom processor sounds like an odd request. But that’s exactly what Microsoft has done. Not for Windows on the home desktop front, mind you, but for use in servers, ComputerWorld reports.
According t…
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January 27, 2011
AMD wants you to know that you can use its new Fusion APUs without losing sleep at night worrying about Mother Nature. The reason? AMD’s Fusion CPUs offer up to a 40 percent smaller carbon footprint compared to previous generation products, the chip ma…
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