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Intel Considered Buying nVidia
2007-11-07 18:00:00 Current graphics strategy heading to Larrabee processor November 11, 2007 - Before AMD acquired ATI, Intel considered buying ATI or nVidia, Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), told The Inquirer. However, the chip manufacturer wondered whether they needed to, and had doubts whether such an acquisition would even be allowed by the regulators. The current strategy is to make the graphics engines more programmable and is heading to the Larrabee processor. More About: Hardware , Computers , Buying , Processors
Intel Considered Buying nVidia
2007-11-07 18:00:00 Current graphics strategy heading to Larrabee processor November 11, 2007 - Before AMD acquired ATI, Intel considered buying ATI or nVidia, Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), told The Inquirer. However, the chip manufacturer wondered whether they needed to, and had doubts whether such an acquisition would even be allowed by the regulators. The current strategy is to make the graphics engines more programmable and is heading to the Larrabee processor. More About: Hardware , Computers , Buying , Processors
Intel Introduces Itanium 2 Montvale Processors
2007-10-31 18:00:00 9100 series only limited update to Montecito CPUs October 31, 2007 - Today, Intel unveiled the new Itanium 2 processors. One year late, the 9100 series offers only a few improvements compared to the current 9000 series. The Montvale processors are a limited update to the existing Montecito CPUs. They are manufactured in the same 90 nm technology, feature the same amount of cache, and operate in the same clock speed range. However, a faster Front-Side Bus (FSB) and a slightly higher clock give the top models a performance increase of almost twenty percent compared to the current processors, Intel says. Name Clock speed L3 cache Power dissipation (TDP) Introduction price 9110N 1 2 3 200/266 MHz / 1.6 GHz 12 Mbyte 75 W $696 9120N 3 200/266 MHz / 1.42 GHz 12 Mbyte 104 W $910 9140N 200/266 MHz / 1.6 GHz 18 Mbyte 104 W $1,980 9150N 2 200/266 MHz / 1.6 GHz 24 Mbyte 104 W $3,692 9130M 2 3 333/1666 MHz 8 Mbyte 104 W $1,552 9140M 333/1666 MHz 16 Mbyte 104 W $1,980 915... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
Intel Introduces Itanium 2 Montvale Processors
2007-10-31 18:00:00 9100 series only limited update to Montecito CPUs October 31, 2007 - Today, Intel unveiled the new Itanium 2 processors. One year late, the 9100 series offers only a few improvements compared to the current 9000 series. The Montvale processors are a limited update to the existing Montecito CPUs. They are manufactured in the same 90 nm technology, feature the same amount of cache, and operate in the same clock speed range. However, a faster Front-Side Bus (FSB) and a slightly higher clock give the top models a performance increase of almost twenty percent compared to the current processors, Intel says. Name Clock speed L3 cache Power dissipation (TDP) Introduction price 9110N 1 2 3 100/133 MHz / 1.6 GHz 12 Mbyte 75 W $696 9120N 3 100/133 MHz / 1.42 GHz 12 Mbyte 104 W $910 9140N 100/133 MHz / 1.6 GHz 18 Mbyte 104 W $1,980 9150N 2 100/133 MHz / 1.6 GHz 24 Mbyte 104 W $3,692 9130M 2 3 166/1666 MHz 8 Mbyte 104 W $1,552 9140M 166/1666 MHz 16 Mbyte 104 W $1,980 915... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
45 nm Penryn Processors will be 100 Percent Lead-Free
2007-10-25 19:00:00 Flip-chip bumps now built of copper columns and lead-free solder October 25, 2007 - With the transition to the 45 nm process, Intel has officialy removed the last lead (Pb) from its manufacturing process. It has taken the chip manufacturer six years and over 100 million dollars to accomplish this. In 2008, the company will also transition its 65 nm chipset products to a 100 percent lead-free manufacturing process. Lead has been used in electronics to form the electrical and mechanical connections between chip, package, and system circuitry. Finding suitable replacements for the lead/tin solder has been a technical challenge for the entire industry. Also, the huge number of components, the simultaneous availability, the reliability at higher temperatures, and the manufacturability at higher temperatures made this transition complex. More About: Hardware , Computers , Free , Processors , Components
45 nm Penryn Processors will be 100 Percent Lead-Free
2007-10-25 19:00:00 Flip-chip bumps now built of copper columns and lead-free solder October 25, 2007 - With the transition to the 45 nm process, Intel has officialy removed the last lead (Pb) from its manufacturing process. It has taken the chip manufacturer six years and over 100 million dollars to accomplish this. In 2008, the company will also transition its 65 nm chipset products to a 100 percent lead-free manufacturing process. Lead has been used in electronics to form the electrical and mechanical connections between chip, package, and system circuitry. Finding suitable replacements for the lead/tin solder has been a technical challenge for the entire industry. Also, the huge number of components, the simultaneous availability, the reliability at higher temperatures, and the manufacturability at higher temperatures made this transition complex. More About: Hardware , Computers , Free , Processors , Components
Intel Starts Production of 45 nm Penryn Processors
2007-10-25 18:00:00 Transistor gates based on Hafnium and metal alloys October 25, 2007 - Today, Intel started volume production of its 45 nm chips at its new Fab 32 in Chandler, Arizona. The first Penryn processors are scheduled to be introduced on November 12. Intel started the construction of Fab 32 in August 2005. The total costs are three billion dollars. The complete factory measures 1 million square feet, including 184,000 square feet of clean room space. More than 1,000 employees will operate the factory. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Production
Intel Starts Production of 45 nm Penryn Processors
2007-10-25 18:00:00 Transistor gates based on Hafnium and metal alloys October 25, 2007 - Today, Intel started volume production of its 45 nm chips at its new Fab 32 in Chandler, Arizona. The first Penryn processors are scheduled to be introduced on November 12. Intel started the construction of Fab 32 in August 2005. The total costs are three billion dollars. The complete factory measures 1 million square feet, including 184,000 square feet of clean room space. More than 1,000 employees will operate the factory. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Production
AMD Pushing Out 450 mm Wafer Technology
2007-10-24 22:00:00 Next-Generation Factory based on Lean manufacturing October 24, 2007 - The chip industry should maximize utilization of existing 300 mm technologies and facilities before moving onto a larger, 450 mm wafer size. That is the key message of today's keynote at the fourth International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative Symposium (ISMI) by Douglas Grose, AMD's senior vice president of manufacturing, technology development, and supply chain. He calls upon the industry to unite behind a common vision. The industry can adopt a vision here today to better meet customers' needs with accuracy, agility and efficiency, in addition to the more traditional route of making wafers larger and transistors smaller. More About: Hardware , Technology , Computers , Processors , Components
AMD Pushing Out 450 mm Wafer Technology
2007-10-24 22:00:00 Next-Generation Factory based on Lean manufacturing October 24, 2007 - The chip industry should maximize utilization of existing 300 mm technologies and facilities before moving onto a larger, 450 mm wafer size. That is the key message of today's keynote at the fourth International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative Symposium (ISMI) by Douglas Grose, AMD's senior vice president of manufacturing, technology development, and supply chain. He calls upon the industry to unite behind a common vision. The industry can adopt a vision here today to better meet customers' needs with accuracy, agility and efficiency, in addition to the more traditional route of making wafers larger and transistors smaller. More About: Hardware , Technology , Computers , Processors , Components
PC Processor Shipments Booming
2007-10-24 18:00:00 AMD slightly regaining market share in Q3 2007 October 24, 2007 - Worldwide PC processor shipments grew 14.3 percent to record levels in Q3, IDC says. Consequently, worldwide PC microprocessor revenue rose 14.8 percent to $7.95 billion. According to IDC's study Worldwide PC Processor 3Q07 Vendor Shares, there is considerable worldwide demand for mobile PCs in the second half of the year. The third quarter of 2007 was the second quarter in a row to exceed expectations in terms of PC processor unit shipments, said Shane Rau, director of IDC's Semiconductors: Personal Computing program. We attribute the market's performance to Intel's and AMD's aggressive pricing for their new platforms, which stimulated early demand from PC OEMs building PCs for the back-to-school buying season. However, we also believe that real end demand is there. OEMs are passing processor savings onto consumers, who, instead of buying cheaper systems, are purchasing more robust configurations, partially... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
PC Processor Shipments Booming
2007-10-24 18:00:00 AMD slightly regaining market share in Q3 2007 October 24, 2007 - Worldwide PC processor shipments grew 14.3 percent to record levels in Q3, IDC says. Consequently, worldwide PC microprocessor revenue rose 14.8 percent to $7.95 billion. According to IDC's study Worldwide PC Processor 3Q07 Vendor Shares, there is considerable worldwide demand for mobile PCs in the second half of the year. The third quarter of 2007 was the second quarter in a row to exceed expectations in terms of PC processor unit shipments, said Shane Rau, director of IDC's Semiconductors: Personal Computing program. We attribute the market's performance to Intel's and AMD's aggressive pricing for their new platforms, which stimulated early demand from PC OEMs building PCs for the back-to-school buying season. However, we also believe that real end demand is there. OEMs are passing processor savings onto consumers, who, instead of buying cheaper systems, are purchasing more robust configurations, partially... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
GPUs Increasingly Embedded in PC Chipsets
2007-10-23 23:36:00 Only high-performance graphics in stand-alone versions October 23, 2007 - Graphics processors (GPUs, Graphics Processing Units) are increasingly integrated in the PC chipsets. According to In-Stat, the majority of general business and consumer graphics processors will transition to integrated implementations. In the future, only high-performance graphics will continue to be offered in both integrated and standalone versions. With chipsets now sporting functions such as memory control, USB, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), and now graphics, they are growing into much more than their humble beginnings as glue logic, said Ian Lao, analyst at In-Stat. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Embedded
The End of the Silicon Era
2007-10-23 21:04:00 Beyond the 45 nm node: entering the nano era We have reached the opportune moment in the semiconductor-technology industry when we need to get to work now to stay ahead of Moore's Law in the next ten years, said John Kelly, IBM senior vice president and director of research, opening up a recent look-ahead sponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). According to EE Times, Kelly, who is on the board of the SIA, considers 2007 the year of introduction of the nano era, at more than a billion transistors per chip. We need a healthy industry atmosphere of cooperation and competition among industry, universities and government laboratories in order to find a new computational element as the end of CMOS scaling approaches, said George Scalise, president of the SIA. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Silicon
The End of the Silicon Era
2007-10-23 21:04:00 Beyond the 45 nm node: entering the nano era We have reached the opportune moment in the semiconductor-technology industry when we need to get to work now to stay ahead of Moore's Law in the next ten years, said John Kelly, IBM senior vice president and director of research, opening up a recent look-ahead sponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). According to EE Times, Kelly, who is on the board of the SIA, considers 2007 the year of introduction of the nano era, at more than a billion transistors per chip. We need a healthy industry atmosphere of cooperation and competition among industry, universities and government laboratories in order to find a new computational element as the end of CMOS scaling approaches, said George Scalise, president of the SIA. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Silicon
Electronic News interviews David "Dadi" Perlmutter
2007-10-23 12:00:00 We think more and more about modularity The trick is using the same technology across iterations or you need to start from scratch. What we are good at is turning a single permutation from quad-core to dual-core to single-core to larger cache. More About: Hardware , News , Computers , Electronic , Interviews
Intel Updates its Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide
2007-10-22 12:00:00 Intel's processors from an evolutionary perspective October 22, 2007 - Intel has revised its online Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide. It gives an overview of the processors Intel has produced over the last 36 years. A similar overview is also available as a poster in PDF format. More About: Hardware , Computers , Intel , Updates , Processors
More Details on Intel's Tukwila Itanium Processor
2007-10-17 18:00:00 First silicon shown at IDF October 17, 2007 - At IDF, Intel showed a wafer carrying dies of its next-generation Itanium processor. According to The Inquirer, the Tukwila dies are twice as big as the Nehalem dies, which are twice as big as the Penryn dies. The Tukwila processor will be a Quad-Core CPU, based on an improved version of the current Itanium 2 generation. Each core will be able to run two threads. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processor , Processors , Components
More Details on Intel's Tukwila Itanium Processor
2007-10-17 18:00:00 First silicon shown at IDF October 17, 2007 - At IDF, Intel showed a wafer carrying dies of its next-generation Itanium processor. According to The Inquirer, the Tukwila dies are twice as big as the Nehalem dies, which are twice as big as the Penryn dies. The Tukwila processor will be a Quad-Core CPU, based on an improved version of the current Itanium 2 generation. Each core will be able to run two threads. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processor , Processors , Components
Intel Will Not Support SSE5 Instruction Extensions
2007-09-19 20:00:00 AMD is forking September 19, 2007 - Intel will not support AMD's SSE5 instruction extensions, Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), told The Inquirer. He said that AMD has forked by introducing SSE5. More About: Hardware , Computers , Extensions , Processors
Intel Will Not Support SSE5 Instruction Extensions
2007-09-19 20:00:00 Pat Gelsinger: AMD is forking September 19, 2007 - Intel will not support AMD's SSE5 instruction extensions, Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), told The Inquirer. He said that AMD has forked by introducing SSE5. More About: Hardware , Computers , Extensions , Processors
AMD Confirms Triple-Core processors
2007-09-17 18:00:00 Triple-Core Phenoms expected in Q1 2008 September 17, 2007 - Today, AMD officially announced its upcoming Triple-Core processors, confirming earlier messages. The parts, actually being Quad-Core K10 dies, come with one of the four cores disabled. Apart from a better production yield, this allows AMD to close the gap in the product portfolio between the mainstream Dual-Core processors and the expensive, high-end Quad-Core CPUs. We think there's a sweet spot between dual and quad, Brent Barry, a product manager in the AMD's Desktop division, told ExtremeTech. Dual-Core has been serving the mainstream quite well. Quad is something really being picked up on the enthusiast side. But there's kind of this tech savvy media expert mainstream segment who we think needs the additional performance that Triple-Core can deliver over Dual-Core. According to The Inquirer, the Triple-Cores are code named Toliman and Heka for the Socket AM2+ and Socket AM3 version, respectively. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
AMD Confirms Triple-Core processors
2007-09-17 18:00:00 Triple-Core Phenoms expected in Q1 2008 September 17, 2007 - Today, AMD officially announced its upcoming Triple-Core processors, confirming earlier messages. The parts, actually being Quad-Core K10 dies, come with one of the four cores disabled. Apart from a better production yield, this allows AMD to close the gap in the product portfolio between the mainstream Dual-Core processors and the expensive, high-end Quad-Core CPUs. We think there's a sweet spot between dual and quad, Brent Barry, a product manager in the AMD's Desktop division, told ExtremeTech. Dual-Core has been serving the mainstream quite well. Quad is something really being picked up on the enthusiast side. But there's kind of this tech savvy media expert mainstream segment who we think needs the additional performance that Triple-Core can deliver over Dual-Core. According to The Inquirer, the Triple-Cores are code named Toliman and Heka for the Socket AM2+ and Socket AM3 version, respectively. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
AMD Preparing Triple-Cores
2007-09-17 12:00:00 Phenom X3 to be released Q1 next year September 15, 2007 - AMD will introduce Triple-Core processors, according to HardTecs4U. The Phenom X3 processors will be introduced first quarter next year and fill the gap between the Dual-Cores and Quad-Cores. Update: Meanwhile, AMD has confirmed the upcoming Triple-Core, code named Toliman. Contrary to previous messages, the Phenom X3 processors will be based on Quad-Core dies, increasing the production yield by disabling disfunctional cores. According to estimates by X-bit labs, it was highly unlikely that AMD had decided to develop a separate Triple-Core design. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
AMD Preparing Triple-Cores
2007-09-17 12:00:00 Phenom X3 to be released Q1 next year September 15, 2007 - AMD will introduce Triple-Core processors, according to HardTecs4U. The Phenom X3 processors will be introduced first quarter next year and fill the gap between the Dual-Cores and Quad-Cores. Update: Meanwhile, AMD has confirmed the Triple-Core, code named Toliman. Contrary to previous messages, the Phenom X3 processors will be based on Quad-Core dies, increasing the production yield by disabling disfunctional cores. According to estimates by X-bit labs, it was highly unlikely that AMD had decided to develop a separate Triple-Core design. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
AMD Regaining Market Share
2007-09-11 18:00:00 Performance both impressive and much needed September 11, 2007 - AMD gained more market share than expected in Q2, iSuppli says. The chip manufacturer gained 2.5 percentage points compared to the first quarter to take a 13.4 percent share of overall microprocessor revenue. Meanwhile, Intel in the second quarter suffered a 2 percentage point decrease in revenue share, giving it a still-commanding 78.8 percent portion of the market. This was a far greater than the preliminary 0.5 percentage point increase for Intel and the 0.5 percent increase for AMD iSuppli estimated in July. AMD's performance in the second quarter of 2007 was both impressive and much needed, as the company managed to halt the three-quarter market share advance of archrival Intel, said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms research at iSuppli. AMD's second-quarter advance brought to an end a period of decline for the company that saw its market share dwindle by nearly 6 points from 16... More About: Hardware , Computers , Market , Processors , Share
AMD Regaining Market Share
2007-09-11 18:00:00 Performance both impressive and much needed September 11, 2007 - AMD gained more market share than expected in Q2, iSuppli says. The chip manufacturer gained 2.5 percentage points compared to the first quarter to take a 13.4 percent share of overall microprocessor revenue. Meanwhile, Intel in the second quarter suffered a 2 percentage point decrease in revenue share, giving it a still-commanding 78.8 percent portion of the market. This was a far greater than the preliminary 0.5 percentage point increase for Intel and the 0.5 percent increase for AMD iSuppli estimated in July. AMD's performance in the second quarter of 2007 was both impressive and much needed, as the company managed to halt the three-quarter market share advance of archrival Intel, said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms research at iSuppli. AMD's second-quarter advance brought to an end a period of decline for the company that saw its market share dwindle by nearly 6 points from 16... More About: Hardware , Computers , Market , Processors , Share
AMD: No Core Wars
2007-09-11 16:00:00 Entering the era of heterogenous multi-cores September 11, 2007 - There will be no core wars, Guiseppe Amato, director, technical marketing, AMD EMEA, emphasized at the introduction of the Quad-Core Opteron Barcelona processors today. By the end of the decade, homogenous multi-cores will become increasingly inadequate. In the coming era of what AMD calls Accelerated Computing, heterogenous multi-cores will go mainstream. First, this will take shape in specific coprocessors fitting AMD's multi-processor sockets (socket-compatible accelerators), built on the motherboard and connected to the chipset (e.g. Stream) or to the CPU directly (via HyperTransport Expansion, HTX slots). This is what AMD calls the Torrenza platform. These Direct Connect Accelerators can be I/O interfaces or coprocessors for specific workloads and tasks. Java, XML, vector FP computing, and media processing, to name a few. When not being used, these accelerators drop to low-power states. The Stream pro... More About: Hardware , Computers , Wars , Processors
AMD: No Core Wars
2007-09-11 16:00:00 Entering the era of heterogenous multi-cores September 11, 2007 - There will be no core wars, Guiseppe Amato, director, technical marketing, AMD EMEA, emphasized at the introduction of the Quad-Core Opteron Barcelona processors today. By the end of the decade, homogenous multi-cores will become increasingly inadequate. In the coming era of what AMD calls Accelerated Computing, heterogenous multi-cores will go mainstream. First, this will take shape in specific coprocessors fitting AMD's multi-processor sockets (socket-compatible accelerators), built on the motherboard and connected to the chipset (e.g. Stream) or to the CPU directly (via HyperTransport Expansion, HTX slots). This is what AMD calls the Torrenza platform. These Direct Connect Accelerators can be I/O interfaces or coprocessors for specific workloads and tasks. Java, XML, vector FP computing, and media processing, to name a few. When not being used, these accelerators drop to low-power states. The Stream pro... More About: Hardware , Computers , Wars , Processors
Intel Starts Building of New Fab in China
More articles from this author:2007-09-11 12:00:00 Indian government missed opportunity September 8, 2007 - Today, Intel broke ground on its first 300 mm (12 inch) wafer fabrication facility in Asia. Fab 68 will be build in Dalian, China , and cost US$ 2.5 billion. The facility will be operational in 2010, and cover 163,000 square meters of factory space and host a 15,000 square meter clean room. Update: According to ExtremeTech, the new plant will go online in 2010, where it will become Intel's eighth fab. Fab 68 will be used to manufacture chipsets in 90 nm technology, and not microprocessors. Intel's investment in Fab 68 sets its total investment in China to close to US$ 4 billion. Intel has established two assembly and test plants in Shanghai and Chengdu, along with R&D centers and labs in Beijing, Shanghai and elsewhere in China. Update: According to DailyTech, Intel also has plans to retool its Fab 11x in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, for 300 mm wafer production. The chip manufacturer will begin its 300 mm fabricatio... More About: Hardware , Building , Computers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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