Gizmodo: dual-core

Roadmap for Intel's First Nehalem-Based Mobile Chips Leaked

Dan Nosowitz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:20:00 EDT

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.

The new quad-core "Clarksfield" chips are the most expensive and powerful, and will be able to scale up clock speed with a feature called "Turbo Boost" that shuts down cores that aren't being used. They'll come in 1.6, 1.73 and 2.0GHz models, scalable to 2.8, 3.06, and 3.2GHZ, respectively. They'll be pretty pricey at $340, $750 and $1,000. The dual-core chips are significantly cheaper but at the expense of cache size. The quad-cores should be arriving this fall, with the first of the dual-cores hitting in early 2010. Check out the image for more details. [PC Watch (translated) via Electronista]

Info on Intel's Dual-Core Atom 330 Processor Hits Internets

Kit Eaton — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:45:00 EDT

Last we'd heard about dual-core version of Intel's tiny Atom processor it was delayed through supply problems... but now info on Intel's Atom 330 dual-core has arrived. It's a desktop chip, with a 533MHz frontside bus and based on the 45nm process, though there's no info on its clock speeds yet. It'll be compatible with Intel's upcoming D945GCLF2 mini-ITX motherboard, a 945GX chipset/GMA 950 graphics chip board due in September, which is presumably when the 330 hits the streets too. As yet there's no news on a mobile version, bearing the letter N in its numeric title. [Reghardware]

Everun Note UMPC is First to Pack Dual-Core Processor, Says Raon Digital

Kit Eaton — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:14:00 EDT

The latest entry into the UMPC market first stirred-up by the Eee PC is this new ultra-light from Raon Digital. It's beefy inside despite its tiny size, packing a dual-core CPU—AMD Turion—which, according to the makers, is a first. It looks barely bigger across than its 7-inch screen (with 1024 x 600 pixels), but squeezes everything else in there too, including an electronic dictionary function, Windows XP OS, Bluetooth and drive options that go from 80GB HDD to 12GB SSD. Full specs below.

• CPU: AMD Turion 64x2 Dual Core 1.2GHz, 1MB L2 Cache
• Graphic: ATI RS690E +64MB DDR2 Side port Memory, Full DirectX 9.0 support
• Memory: 1GB DDR2
• OS: Microsoft Window XP Home
• Display: 7-inch
• Dual monitor: supporting external display up to 1920x1200
• Storage: 60GB 1.8 inch HDD/UDMA100
• Wireless Connectivity: 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR
• Camera: 1.3M pixel CMOS
• Media Card: SD/MMC Slot
• Audio: ALC262 HD Audio
• Expansion Slot: 2xUSB host, 1 x USB mini, 1x mini PCIExpress Slot, USIM card slot &l
• Battery life: 2.5 Hours for web-surfing
• Size: 7.87 x 4.65 x 1.08 inches

It's due in Korea and North America from early September, price still to be confirmed. [Aving]

Dealzmodo: Toshiba Satellite S4527 Dual Core Vista Notebook, $650

Travis Hudson — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:20:01 EDT

Circuit City has $100 off a pretty snazzy Toshiba laptop. The S4527 laptop has a T2080 1.7GHz processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB hard drive, CD/DVD burner, 15.4-inch widescreen, Wi-Fi, card reader and includes Windows Vista Home Premium. The grand total is $650 after the $100 instant savings. Not bad for an average laptop, although I would prefer a Core 2 Duo processor. –Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Dealhack]

Heated USB Slippers Go 'Dual Core'

Charlie White — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:18:18 EST

Technology marches on, and now even heated USB slippers have gone "dual core." Thanko now gives you an individual control for each foot with its latest USB Warmer Slippers ($33) with a two-step temperature control switch for each slipper, letting you crank up the heat on one foot while leaving your other foot lukewarm.

USB heated slippers have come a long way since their inception way back in 2005, and now there are advanced models that cover your ankles, and even have a very special bear attachment. Even so, never were they as technologically advanced as this. But jeez, who wants to be tethered to a PC like this? It must feel like a ball and chain. – Charlie White

Product Page [Thanko]

Averatec Dual-Core Laptop a Snip at $849

gizmodocontributor — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:27:52 EDT

It seems like nary the blink of an eye since dual-core CPUs were the hottest ticket in town with all their fancy cutting-edge newness and yet here they are in budget laptops going for a hefty chunk less than $1,000 already.

Averatec's latest 4lb, 12.1-inch laptop, the Averatec 2300, features a 1.6GHz dual-core AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor, yet costs just $849. Considering the fact that there's also a dual-layer DVD writer and a roomy 100GB hard drive in there, we're looking at serious bargain territory here.
– Jonny Hiratsuka

Averatec's $849 dual-core ultraportable [CNET]

Ferrari Dual-Core Notebooks

Travis Hudson — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:40:41 EDT

Acer-Ferrari is upping the ante with its two latest laptops. The Ferrari 5000 and 1000 are claimed to have the latest cutting-edge technology developed in the world of Formula One—so, it has car parts? Sweet!

The 5000 is a 15.4-inch desktop replacement that is powered by the AMD Turion 64 X2 processor. It also features an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera, card reader, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, up to 160GB storage and a even an HD DVD drive, when available. The 1000 is a smaller, 12.1-inch, version of the 5000 with similar internal features. Both of the laptops come in a carbon fiber casing. – Travis Hudson

Acer unveils Ferrari 5000 and Ferrari 1000 [Acer]

Dell Precision Workstation 690 and 490

Charlie White — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:29:50 EDT

Dell ratchets up its Precision Workstations a couple of notches by adding dual core Xeon processors to the mix. The leader of the pack is the Dell Precision Workstation 690, which can be stoked with a pair of dual core Intel Xeon 5080 processors at 3.73GHz and your choice of 32-bit or 64-bit Windows XP. Add to that a 512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card that can pump out dual monitor DVI goodness, and you're loaded for bear.

Even the slightly cheaper 490 is no slouch, where you can configure it in a similar way and even use its smaller case horizontally or vertically. Fully tricked out with the fastest processors, four gigs of RAM and a couple of 10,000RPM disks, the 690 will run you about $6,500, but pricing starts at $1529. These monsters will start shipping in the middle of June.

Precision Workstation Product Page [Dell]

Teclast T19 Dual Core MP3 Player

Jason Chen — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:59:41 EDT

The recent trend of dual core CPUs in laptops is making its way into MP3 players in the form of the Teclast T19. One of the cores, the Telechips TCC 760, is dedicated to audio decoding. The other core, a Wolfson WM8750, is used to convert the digital signal to analog, which is piped to your headphones. The result of having two dedicated chips means better sounding music that's cleaner and has less noise.

The other specs are:

...a 1.9-inch 260k colors 220 × 176 pixels TFT screen which is suitable for you to watch MPEG1 Video, RBS Surround and Stone3D sound effects. It has also FM tuner, line-in recording functionality, eBook viewer, voice recording, dictionary and calendar.

The T19 is only available in China for RMB 599 and 699 for the 512 MB and 1G versions.

Dual Core MP3 Player - The 2nd Generation [iTech News Net]

Azul to Launch 48-Core Vega 2 Processor

Charlie White — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:39:39 EST

We've reported about dual-core and even quad-core processors, and now the pissing contest takes a geometric leap with whippersnapper startup Azul announcing plans to stoke its nex-gen Vega 2 64-bit chip with 48, count 'em, 48 cores.

Azul has made quite a splash in Silicon Valley with its first-generation Azul Compute Appliance (pictured here), a network-attached processing system that accelerates Java and lots of other stuff using the first Azul 64-bit processor packing 24 cores on board. Azul's CTO says system performance of the Vega 2 will be more than double that of its predecessor. This we gotta see.

Azul to go 48-core with Vega 2 [The Inquirer]

Dual Core DAP: TCLAST C150

Charlie White — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:25:29 EST

Chinese company TCLAST claims its C150 is the first digital media player with a dual core chip inside. The company says the processor is specially modified to jack the signal-to-noise ratio up to 100dB. The player has just 512MB onboard, hardly enough to store a whole lot of its MPEG-1 video, and it also has an FM tuner and in-line recording. No pricing or availability was announced.

We're just not sure how much that 100dB s-to-n ratio is going to help highly-compressed MP3 files.

Dual Core MP3 player [Akihabara News]

Velocity Micro Shipping Raptor Signature Edition Quad SLI Gaming PC

Charlie White — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:48:32 EST

Velocity Micro is now shipping the Velocity Micro Raptor Signature Edition which it calls the world's fastest gaming PC. It s packing NVIDIA Quad SLI (~~Scan Line Interleave~~ Scalable Link Interface) technology using four NVIDIA Geforce 7900 GPUs along with an NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI MCP (multichip package) motherboard.

This is a step beyond what NVIDIA announced at CES, touting quad SLI with its GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs. The PC also has an AMD Athlon64 FX-60 dual core processor, part of the FX series that's popular with gamers. This coupled with NVIDIA Quad SLI is what Velocity Micro says makes this the world's fastest gaming computer.

The Raptor Signature Edition PC is now available for $5995.

Product page [Velocity Micro]

Samsung X11 Core Duo Laptop

johnb — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:59:34 EST

Samsung is still pumping out the hits with the X11 Core Duo laptop. The 14.1" laptop runs a 1.66-GHz dual core CPU and an nVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 graphics chip with 512MB GPU memory. It comes with 512-MB RAM and an 80-GB hard drive, standard and will be about $2000 when it comes out in Korea this year. So slim, so sexy.

Samsung X11 Core Duo [AkihabaraNews]

Skype and Intel Promote Dual Core, 10-Way Calling

Gizloco — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:16:13 EST

Skype and Intel are working together to offer 10-way free VoIP calling, they've announced. What s in it for Intel? The new Skype service requires Intel s dual core processors. Without a dual core processor powering your PC, 10-way calling will not function, they claim.

Nobody has, as of yet, said whether or not the 10-way calling feature is just that processor intensive, or if this is just shrewd marketing on behalf of both companies. In any event, announcements like these must have telcos getting a little nervous that they'll be losing the lucrative rural party line market. (Although if you can't pick up the phone and listen to your neighbor's conversations, half the fun of a party line is lost.)

Intel and Skype team up [The Inquirer]

Alienwares Other-Worldly Workstations

Charlie White — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:55:04 EST

Alienware keeps on cranking out the workstations, with these two new models aimed at creative professionals, hard-core power users and film editors. The 7500i packs a single Intel dual core Pentium inside, while the MJ-12 7500a features dual-core Opteron processors. The real fun starts when you take a look at the new motherboard this thing is using. The NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 MCP features two full-bandwidth 16-lane PCI Express slots, which amounts to a veritable superhighway for a torrent of data. That motherboard also lets you plug in two graphics cards in an SLI configuration for the ultimate graphics blast, a highly sought-after capability for gamers and high-end graphics users. Keeping up with that speed are RAID-0 drives offered in configurations up to 2 TB. Keeping things quiet is Alienware's acoustic dampening option, which we've tested here and it actually works, and hardcore overclockers will like the optional liquid cooling. Rounding out the package is a workstation-class Quadro FX graphics card and more RAM than you can shake a stick at. For all that power, pricing is relatively low but could get high in a hurry as you add options, starting at $1599 for the AMD Opteron-based MJ-12 7500a, and $1789 for the Intel-based MJ-12 7500i.

MJ-12 7500i Details
MJ-12 7500a Details [Alienware]

Samsung's Sexy New Dual-Core Laptops

gizmodo.com — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:07:21 EST

Samsung is trying to do one on Apple with its new X60 and R65 dual-core laptops. Sexy and sleek like a MacBook Pro, with their polished metal and black keyboards they have an TiBook-esque appearence. The X60 has a 15.4" widescreen which looks stunning, Gigabit ethernet, five-hour battery life, and so much more. 802.11 a/b/g wireless, Bluetooth, and twin-array microphones to filter out unwanted ambient noises and ensure high quality sound add to the mix to make the X60 a serious powerhouse laptop. The R65 has all the bells and whistles as well, but adds built-in rear SRS 3D speakers for the ultimate multimedia experience. These lovely laptops will set you back about $1585 for the X60 and $1765 for the R65. Start saving, buddy.

Samsung Thin & Light Dual-Core Laptops [BIOS]

WidowPC: Dual-Core Laptop?

Travis Hudson — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:59:17 EST

Now while WidowPC may not sound very familiar—they do seem somewhat reputable with their press and awards—this dual-core laptop seems like it will rock, if/when it launches. The laptop, called the Sting 917X2, is basically a generic laptop case with a motherboard that offers PCI Express, SATA, and can run Athlon 64 FX-57 or Dual Core Processors.

Currently, the DUAL CORE LAPTOP IS PREORDER ONLY. However, the only parts we are waiting on are the dual core and FX-57 chips from AMD. AMD has announced that they will have them to us in November. So, we don't know what do believe. One thing we do believe is these dual core chips are in very short supply and are like computing gold to the for those dreaming of a dual core laptop. We highly recommend preordering now if you want to be one of the first in line. Otherwise, if you order when the chips come in you are more likely to get your dual core laptop in 2006.

Looks like a good laptop, but at $3,500 for a preorder on a white-box laptop with an agreeably amazing feature-set seems a little dicey. Anybody ever order from WidowPC?

Product Page [Widow PC]

Intel Releases Dual-Core Xeon CPUs Early

johnb — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:22:23 EDT

Intel's dual-core Xeon aka Paxville chips will drop later this year and not Q1 2006, as previously announced. Why? And why do we care? Well, AMD is pinching at Intel a bit with their dual-core server and desktop offerings, which makes Intel cry a little. The new chips, which will probably end up in servers first anyway, will rival AMDs already heavy dual-core Opteron collection.

Intel brings forward 90nm dual-core Xeons [TheRegister]