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Kirkaiya: Aside from the PS3 stuff (Sony can always choose a different processor), the real loss is of another scalable, multi-core alternative to x86/x64. The... more »
Noobs-R-Us: Does that mean no PS4s? Who will develope the next version? Who will keep making the current gen? more »
Software_Goddess: Awesome! I love AMD. I’m glad to see they are back in the running. #processors more »
Gonzie: wtf ISA support? i thought that crap went out with the pentium #processors more »
not_a_virus.exe.vbs: I like how billion is in italics, like it is a lot of money /smokes cigar made from hundred dollar bills and Megan Foxes pubes. #intelantitrust more »
Digo: I've loved Creative ever since I was in my early teens and I handled R.M.A. for an exporting company. I don't know how they are now, but the few times... more »
Xagest: Starting to get really close to the point where I can setup a full smarthouse using nothing but netbooks and some Wifi #ziilabszms08 more »
yantelope: Are we really going to have to endure lines of products with the "ii" tag after them now thanks to the Wii? We were finally getting over the iPhase.... more »
Kaiser-Machead: With all of these newer chips being pumped out, it keeps holding back my trigger finger to finally pick up a netbook, though the S12 with the ION is m... more »
RT100: will apple break compatibility on VIA nanos as well? #vianano3000 more »

#processors

The Cell Processor Is Going Extinct (Updated)
IBM's shitcanning the Cell processor line—you know, the chip that's in the PS3 and uh, Toshiba laptops and TVs—according to their VP of Deep Computing, making the current PowerXCell 8i the last of its ilk. Updated. More »
#intel

Atom Processors To Get the 32nm Treatment in 2011
Attention, people who like to maintain a complete mental taxonomy of every processor: Cedar Trail has been outed as the new Atom platform for 2011, with the name Cedarview going to the processor itself. Along with 32nm fabrication, some goodies: More »
#unconfirmed

Intel's 32nm Arrandale Core i5 and i7 Chips for Anorexic Notebooks
We know, the Core i7-i5-i3 stuff is confusing. Not to make it worse, but Digitimes outs some of Intel's notebooks plans for next year: a triplet of processors of Core i7 and i5 processors, codenamed Arrandale, for skinny laptops. More »
#amd

AMD's Atom-Mauling Bobcat and High-End Bulldozer Chips
Sure, AMD's sorta reveling in getting handed $1.25 billion by Intel, but more importantly, they've just revealed the future of AMD chips: The promised Atom competitor Bobcat, and a new high-end architecture called Bulldozer. More »
#antitrust

Intel Pays AMD $1.25 Billion To End Antitrust, Patent Wars
In case you were wondering if Intel's business practices were as shady as the European Commission and the NY Attorney General think they are, look no further than this: Intel is paying $1.25 billion—plus frills—to avoid fighting. More »
#systemonachip

ZiiLABS' ZMS-08 System-On-A-Chip To Bring 1080p and Full Flash Acceleration To Netbooks
Creative's latest system-on-a-chip is crammed with features: 1080p playback, 24fps encoding, HD video conferencing, OpenGL ES 2.0 support, an integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration. All combined with a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8. Of course there's a catch. More »
#processors

Via Nano 3000 Wants to Rip Out the Eyes of the Intel Atom
Via's latest nano processor, the 3000, has gone official today for a release in early 2010 in speeds ranging between 1 to 2GHz. The promise? 20% lower power consumption than old Vias, and 1080P playback. Intel's gotten cocky enough in the space that we don't mind the competition one bit. More »
#cpus

Rumor: Select Intel Atom CPU Netbooks to Be Allowed 2GB RAM
Leaks from the Pine Trail roadmap from Intel suggest that going forward, certain Atom processors may be allowed 2 gigs of RAM, a jump from the previous 1 gigabyte max instituted by Intel as a measure to prevent cannibalization between netbooks and processors in middle tiers. According to Fudzilla, the 1.83 GHz N470 processor will be the first, and will run between $300-$350. And if the rumor holds true, there will also be a 1.66 GHz Atom processor that will cost as little as $250. [Fudzilla via Electronista]
#intel

New iMacs Get Core i7 Chips, But What Does That Mean?
We were pretty excited to see Intel's new monster quad-core chips inside the iMacs Apple unveiled today, but you may be a little confused by the options: Core 2 Duo or Core i7 or Core i5??? Can someone please explain? Why yes, Giz can.
#gizexplains

Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
Intel makes a lot of processors. Too many, maybe. Don't know what the difference a Core i7 and a Core 2 Duo? A Bloomfield from a Wolfdale? A Sasquatch from a Yeti? You're not alone. More »
#graphicscards

Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
Fermi is Nvidia's new GPU architecture that's going to be the basis for all of its upcoming graphics cards. With 512 cores and 3 billion transistors, it will nuke Crysis. More »
#intel

Intel Atom CE4100 Is a Beast of a Media Chip
Here at IDF, Intel introduced the Atom CE4100 media chip, which is likely coming to set-top boxes and Blu-Ray players. It's got some serious power: We're talking simultaneous decoding of two 1080p streams, 3D rendering and more. More »
#intel

Intel Core i7 Mobile Unleashed, Benchmarks Prove Fastest Laptop Processor EVER
Laptops got a hell of a lot faster today. We've been waiting for Intel to bring out its mobile version of Core i7 and today it did. The benchmarks are in and they say it's fast. Really freaking fast. More »
#components

Samsung Intros Processors, Cameras and Chipsets for Mobile Devices
Samsung introduced a mess of new components for mobile devices that we're likely to start seeing in early 2010, including a 5MP camera capable of taking 1080p video and a couple powerful yet efficient chipsets. More »
#amd

AMD Confirms Six-Core Consumer Processors Codenamed "Thuban"
Just one day before Intel's IDF conference, AMD dropped a little bit of a bomb on us, confirming that they will bring hexa-core processors to consumer computers. Even better, they'll be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. More »
#amd

AMD Athlon II X4 620: Four Cores for $99
AMD's new Athlon II X4 chips are like a Phenom II minus the L3 cache. But they're super-cheap: $99 (2.6GHz-620), and $122 (2.8Ghz-630). Also looks like they hold their own against the $150 Core 2 Quad 8200: [Maximum PC]
#palm

Inside the Palm Pixi's Brains
When Jason played with the Palm Pixi, Palm implied it wasn't quite as gutsy as the Pre—it's gonna be cheaper, after all—but didn't get into details. Well, Palm InfoCenter's got the full breakdown for its Qualcomm MSM7627 brains: More »
#intel

Intel Lynnfield Core i5 and i7 Processors: Nehalem Superpowers Cheaper Than Ever
The long and short of the new Lynnfield-based Intel Core i7 and Core i5 desktop chips: Nehalem power for cheaper than ever, and all you're losing is triple-channel memory (in new i7 and i5) and hyperthreading (in i5). [Anandtech]
#microprocessors

Gadgets of Our Future Will Continue To Get Smaller and Faster Thanks To Nanowires
Computers have been getting smaller for years, yet they cram the same amount of power if not more. Essentially that is Moore's Law, or the theory that every year the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubles. More »
#gizexplains

Giz Explains: Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
You've probably heard about this snow kitty operating system for Macintosh computers. What you might not've heard is exactly how it's supposed to be unleashing the power of all those processor cores crammed inside your computer. More »
#intel

Intel Buys RapidMind, a Company That Makes Multicore Parallel Programming Easier
Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specializes in making it easy for developers to optimize and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit like Apple's GrandCentral technology built into Snow Leopard, actually. It's an interesting move, since Intel already hires more software engineers than hardware dudes because of the difficulty of parallelism. [PC World]
#ps3

PS3 Slim Contains the 45nm Cell Processor
Everyone assumed it because of the Slim's power savings, but it's been confirmed that the Cell has been shrunk to 45nm (down from 65nm). [Yahoo Tech via CrunchGear]
#pc

Intel 8088: The Chip That Gave Birth to the Borg
This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the second chip to use the x86 architecture, and the brains inside the original IBM PC. More »
#intel

Roadmap for Intel's First Nehalem-Based Mobile Chips Leaked
Details for Intel's new quad- and dual-core i7 and i5 chips have leaked in the form of a roadmap, so we've got some excellent specifics, including release dates and prices. More »
#quantum

First Quantum Processor Performs Simple Tasks, Illustrates the Concept
Yale researchers just made the first, albeit simple, quantum processor. The processor is made of two artificial atoms (each made of a billion aluminum atoms) that act like single atoms that can occupy two distinct states. More »
#lenovo

Lenovo S12 VIA Nano Option Swaps Battery Life For Speed Boost
A quiet addition to the relatively new Lenovo S12 grants users a bit of a speed boost if they're willing to sacrifice some battery life to get it. More »
#smartphones

iPhone 3GS Torn Down, Reveals an ARM CortexA8 CPU That Can Go Bigger, Faster (Same As the Pre)
The Rapid Repair crew ventured to France to obtain an early iPhone 3GS, dismantle it, and scope out the inner components. Their discovery? The same 600 MHz CPU powering the Palm Pre (that can actually run at 833 MHz). More »
#intel

Intel Explains 'Simplified' Core i3, i5, i7 Brand Structure
Wisely, Intel has decided to simplify their overly complex brand structure by boiling things down into three main categories: "entry-level (Intel Core i3), mid-level (Intel Core i5), and high-level (Intel Core i7)." More »
#futuretech

RF Cochlea Is a Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After the Inner Ear
RF signal processors are pretty commonplace in consumer electronics. Which is exactly why it's exciting that two MIT researchers have created a super-radio based around the function of the human ear that's substantially faster and 100x more power efficient than today's signal processors. More »
#cpus

Cortex A9: ARM's Multi-Core Mobile CPUs
Multicore processors in mobile devices are only a matter of time, and that time appears to be coming closer for ARM, as their Cortex A9 chips will ship in phones in 2010. Arm chips are found in various handsets, including all three generations of the iPhone. [CNET]
#sun

Game Over for Sun's "Game Changing" 16-Core Rock CPU
In the wake of their buyout by Oracle, Sun Microsystems has canned their 16-core Rock chip project—once touted by the company as a "game changer," and their answer to IBM's latest Power CPUs—after five years of development. This represents the second major chip offering from Sun to be shelved in recent years. [NYT]
#processors

Six-Core Nehalem Processors Might Arrive This Year
According to bit-tech, , Intel is planning to release a six-core Nehalem processor sometime this year. More »
#intel

Rumor: Graphics-Infused Atom "Pineview" Processor Slated for Q4 Release
Digitimes has it from one of their annoyingly anonymous, sometimes accurate "industry insiders" that the N450 Pineview, one of Intel's next-gen Pine Trail Atoms, which boast built-in GPUs and memory controllers for slightly improved graphics performance and massively improved battery life, will ship in Q4—October at the earliest. [Digitimes]
#gizexplains

Mobile Chipsets: WTF Are Atom, Tegra and Snapdragon?
Low-power processors aren't just for netbooks: These computers-on-a-chip are going to be powering our smartphones and other diminutive gadgets in the forseeable future. So what's the difference between the Atoms, Snapdragons and Tegras of the world? More »
#directx11

AMD Unveils World's First DirectX 11 Graphics Processor, Takes It for a Spin in Public
AMD demoed their buzzed-about DirectX 11 graphics processor at the Computex show in Taiwan, offering proof that they're making progress in getting to market first with their product. More »
#processors

Intel T9900 Core 2 Duo Notebook Processor Breaks the 3GHz Barrier
Intel unleashed a flurry of new processors at Computex, including the T9900 Core 2 Duo, which clocks in at a speedy 3.06 GHz—the first Penryn-based Core 2 Duo chip to do so. More »
#amd

Athlon II CPU Echoes the Glory Days as AMD's First Cheap 45nm Chip
It not's surprising right after its 40th birthday, AMD's trying to recall the better days: The Athlon II X2 makes an official sequel out of the Athlon name for its cheap 45nm chip, starting at $87. More »
#laptops

Manufacturers Mercilessly Cram Intel i7 Nehalem Processors Into Laptops
Remember when ridiculously massive, fully loaded "desktop replacement" laptops from Alienware and the like were all the rage? Well, they never really went away; in fact, they're reaching new heights of, eh, that thing that they strive for, whatever it is. More »
#atom

Intel's Next-Gen Atom Puts CPU and GPU on One Fun-Lovin' Chip
Along with its neato Moblin 2.0 netbook OS, Intel's also laid in more detail out what the next generation of Atom looks like—Pineview integrates the CPU, GPU and memory controller onto one chip, making the platform cheaper and less power-hungry overall. More »
#processors

Fujitsu 'Venus' Claims World's Fastest Processor Title, But It's Not For You
Fujitsu opened this year's Fujitsu Forum conference by kicking Intel squarely in the groin, debuting a new processor that's 2.5 times faster than anything the CPU giant has on offer, and one third as power-hungry. More »

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