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more about #cpus frigg: I take it I'm not alone in seeing this and thinking MBP MBP MBP. Any Apple employee care to risk torture and death and confirm a January release? more » Ryan_Long: Let the speculation begin! I'm hoping for a Macbook Pro with USB 3.0 and blu-ray within the next year- that's when I upgrade from my late '06 MBP. Eit... more » phytonix: Is it likely that 13" MBP will get i5 without price hike? more » Nathan Obbards: I knew there was a reason I was putting off buying a new laptop. I just hope that OEMs actually decide to bundle it with a decent GPU, not that GMA45... more » Evangelion: Awesome. Glad I waited out on buying a laptop. more » mklpickle: But I just bought my macbook pro like 2 weeks ago....... more » TheSonOfKrypton: Hihi new Macbook Pro! more » dpiddy022: Stupid, imagine how much R&D could have occurred if Intel didn't have to fight off the feds. Anti-trust laws are bogus, if you charge too high a pric... more » Kaiser-Machead: And it still sucks that Netbooks with ION processors have to cost more because of the fact that "standalone" Atom procs cost significantly more than t... more » Monty: Is it just me or does it seem that every time the FTC gets around to stepping on a monopoly they are usually about half a decade late? Just curious. more » Flotsom: Does it matter that Intel has a better CPU than AMD? I was a huge AMD fan with my Athlon 3200XP Barton Core, but nowadays their lacking in quality chi... more » RickyRogers: All's well that ends cell.... more » vx2: But seeing all the educational, law enforcement and military uses of the chip (military being the operative word, like a few articles down about the a... more » 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 » podlinux: The cell CPU is hardly even fully utilized in the PS3 anyway. Most game devs don’t want to deal the difficulty of utilizing the CPU's full potential... more » Random434: Guessing it's just IBM's production of it. As Toshiba and Sony produce the chips they use at thier own fabs.. IBM was contuning development for use i... more » helfrez: It just means ths PS4 won't have a cell chip. Being that Sony seems to be sticking to their 10yr console, I think its a non issue. By the time Sony re... more » Noobs-R-Us: Does that mean no PS4s? Who will develope the next version? Who will keep making the current gen? more » ebob9: About the right time for a Macbook Pro refresh.. #intel more » ian.nai: Obviously trying to get Apple's attention with a name like that ;) #processors more » -
#intel
Intel's New Superefficient-But-Fast Laptop Core i5 Chips on Jan. 7
Intel's dropping a big bowl o' chips January 7th—17 of 'em—like the first lower-end Core i3 chips, but we're most excited about the Arrandale Core i5 for laptops: still fast but more efficient 'cause they're shrunk to 32nm. More » -
#intel
The FTC Still Wants to Slay the Intel Monopoly Monster
Sure, Intel paid off AMD to drop their antitrust suit, but the FTC's still mighty interested in their their fights with Nvidia, and concerned about preserving competition in the chip marketplace overall. It could get ugly. [BW] -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#cpus
100-Core Tilera TILE-Gx Processors Planned For 2011
While Intel and AMD look to make a complete jump to 8-cores, Tilera (an MIT start-up) says its upcoming 100-core chip has "at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power." More » -
#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 » -
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#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 » -
#science
World's Smallest Laser Paves Way for 100 Terahertz CPUs
Technically, it's not a laser, but something called spaser. Instead of photons, it uses plasmons, a particle only 44 nanometers across. It could push CPUs' speeds to hundreds of terahertz, according to Mark Stockman, professor of physics at Georgia State: More » -
#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 » -
#computers
Intel's Platform Power Management: Like Milliscond Power Naps for Your Entire Computer
Intel Research showed me a demo of their Platform Power Management system. Essentially, they're applying the smart, quick, hardware level idling you find on a CPU to many system parts. The result: systems that idle at 10x less juice. 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 » -
#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 »
