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AMD Marketshare Stabilizing
2007-07-19 18:00:00 AMD revenues up, Intel unit shipments too July 19, 2007 - After six months of microprocessor market-share loses to rival Intel, AMD in the second quarter managed to stabilize its market share, according to iSuppli. AMD accounted for 11.4 percent of worldwide microprocessor sales, up half a percentage point from 10.9 percent in the first quarter. This rise brought to an end a period of decline for AMD that saw its market share dwindle by nearly six points from 16.8 percent in the third quarter of 2006 to 10.9 percent in the first quarter of 2007. The main cause of the market-share reversal of fortune was a decline in Intel's microprocessor Average Selling Prices (ASPs), said Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst for compute platforms research at iSuppli. This caused Intel's revenue share to decline - although its microprocessor unit shipments were up sequentially. Company Q2 2006 Q3 2006 Q4 2006 Q1 2007 Q2 2007 (preliminary) Intel 73.4% 74.0% 75.8% 80.8% 80.3% AMD 16.4%... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
Core 2 Processor Shipments Peaking at Year-End
2007-07-18 18:00:00 Core 2 Duo now half of all Intel processors July 18, 2007 - Core 2 Duo currently takes about half the shipments of all Intel processors, says Fudzilla. Production will peak in the coming months of this year, in the back to school season and later for Thanksgiving and Xmas time. NetBurst CPUs are retiring, and will be gone from the Intel processor portfolio early next year. Processor Q3 2007 Q4 2007 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Core 2 Duo, 65 nm 48% 50% 40% / Wolfdale 30% Core 2 Quad, 65 nm 5% 5% -- / Yorkfield, 45 nm Celeron 400, Conroe L 10% 12% 13% 13% Pentium D 900, 65 nm 7% 3% retired Celeron D, 65 nm 3% retired Pentium 4 6x1, 65 nm 1% More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Core
Core 2 Processor Shipments Peaking at Year-End
2007-07-18 18:00:00 Core 2 Duo now half of all Intel processors July 18, 2007 - Core 2 Duo currently takes about half the shipments of all Intel processors, says Fudzilla. Production will peak in the coming months of this year, in the back to school season and later for Thanksgiving and Xmas time. NetBurst CPUs are retiring, and will be gone from the Intel processor portfolio early next year. Processor Q3 2007 Q4 2007 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Core 2 Duo, 65 nm 48% 50% 40% / Wolfdale 30% Core 2 Quad, 65 nm 5% 5% -- / Yorkfield, 45 nm Celeron 400, Conroe L 10% 12% 13% 13% Pentium D 900, 65 nm 7% 3% retired Celeron D, 65 nm 3% retired Pentium 4 6x1, 65 nm 1% More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Core
Lower Prices and New Multi-Cores
2007-07-16 12:00:00 Intel introduces 333 MHz FSB multi-cores and first Extreme Mobile processor July 16, 2007 - Today, together with a price cut for existing processors, Intel introduced two new Quad-Core and four Dual-Core CPUs. Two of those are Extreme processors, coming with an unlocked multiplier. And one of these, the X7800, is the first ever Extreme processor for mobile usage, aimed at hardcore gamers, artists, and media enthusiasts. Laptops are the fastest-growing computing market segment, and there is increasing demand from those who crave the ultimate in video, gaming and design computing performance, yet want the freedom and flexibility that a laptop brings, said Mooly Eden, Intel vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group. According to Legit Reviews and Hot Hardware , unlike its Extreme desktop cousins, the X7800 supports the C4 and DC4 (Enhanced Deep Sleep, DeepC4: L2 cache disabled) power saving modes. This should help to keep the dissipation down. Intel said it exp... More About: Computers , Processors , Multi , Lower
Lower Prices and New Multi-Cores
2007-07-16 12:00:00 Intel introduces 333 MHz FSB multi-cores and first Extreme Mobile processor July 16, 2007 - Today, together with a price cut for existing processors, Intel introduced two new Quad-Core and four Dual-Core CPUs. Two of those are Extreme processors, coming with an unlocked multiplier. And one of these, the X7800, is the first ever Extreme processor for mobile usage, aimed at hardcore gamers, artists, and media enthusiasts. Laptops are the fastest-growing computing market segment, and there is increasing demand from those who crave the ultimate in video, gaming and design computing performance, yet want the freedom and flexibility that a laptop brings, said Mooly Eden, Intel vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group. According to Legit Reviews and Hot Hardware , unlike its Extreme desktop cousins, the X7800 supports the C4 and DC4 (Enhanced Deep Sleep, DeepC4: L2 cache disabled) power saving modes. This should help to keep the dissipation down. Intel said it exp... More About: Computers , Processors , Multi , Lower
Leaving AMD
2007-07-10 12:00:00 Dave Orton, former CEO of ATI, resigns July 10, 2007 - Dave Orton, former president and chief executive officer of ATI Technologies, has resigned as executive vice president of AMD's Visual Media Business, effective the end of this month. Adrian Hartog, senior vice president and general manager Consumer Electronics Group, and Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager Graphics Products Group, will now report directly into the Office of the CEO. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Ving
Leaving AMD
2007-07-10 12:00:00 Dave Orton, former CEO of ATI, resigns July 10, 2007 - Dave Orton, former president and chief executive officer of ATI Technologies, has resigned as executive vice president of AMD's Visual Media Business, effective the end of this month. Adrian Hartog, senior vice president and general manager Consumer Electronics Group, and Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager Graphics Products Group, will now report directly into the Office of the CEO. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Ving
Videocard Overclocking
2007-07-09 12:00:00 PCStats ranks highest clockable videocards July 9, 2007 - PCStats lists the highest overclocked core and memory clock speeds they were able to achieve while maintaining 100% stability. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Overclocking , Components
Videocard Overclocking
2007-07-09 12:00:00 PCStats ranks highest clockable videocards July 9, 2007 - PCStats lists the highest overclocked core and memory clock speeds they were able to achieve while maintaining 100% stability. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Overclocking , Components
AMD Completes 65 nm Turion 64 X2 Line
2007-07-09 10:00:00 New TL-66 processor and shrink of existing Turion Dual-Cores July 9, 2007 - With the introduction of the Turion 64 X2 TL-66 processor, AMD completes its 65 nm Turion 64 X2 line. The new revision G Tyler processors, also including the TL-56, TL-58, TL-60, and TL-64, are a shrink to 65 nm of the 90 nm process that the revision F Trinidad processors are manufactured in. Apart from the smaller process there are no differences in features or cache sizes. The Tyler series is not to be confused with the Taylor series. These processors are based on the Trinidad series, having half of their L2 caches disabled. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Line
AMD Completes 65 nm Turion 64 X2 Line
2007-07-09 10:00:00 New TL-66 processor and shrink of existing Turion Dual-Cores 9 July, 2007 - With the introduction of the Turion 64 X2 TL-66 processor, AMD completes its 65 nm Turion 64 X2 line. The new revision G Tyler processors, also including the TL-56, TL-58, TL-60, and TL-64, are a shrink to 65 nm of the 90 nm process that the revision F Trinidad processors are manufactured in. Apart from the smaller process there are no differences in features or cache sizes. The Tyler series is not to be confused with the Taylor series. These processors are based on the Trinidad series, having half of their L2 caches disabled. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Line
Picking the Latest and Greatest Hardware
2007-07-05 12:00:00 TechReport publishes new System Guide 5 July, 2007 - Today, after neglecting it for a while, TechReport published a new System Guide. It helps the enthousiast picking the latest and greatest hardware for a new build. With the introduction of new mid-range and high-end DirectX 10 graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia behind us, it's high time for a new system guide. The hardware landscape has been altered quite substantially. Processor and memory prices have plummeted, new CPUs and graphics cards have been released, Intel has rolled out a new generation of chipsets, and other manufacturers have introduced an array of new products to keep things interesting. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Picking
Picking the Latest and Greatest Hardware
2007-07-05 12:00:00 TechReport publishes new System Guide 5 July, 2007 - Today, after neglecting it for a while, TechReport published a new System Guide. It helps the enthousiast picking the latest and greatest hardware for a new build. With the introduction of new mid-range and high-end DirectX 10 graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia behind us, it's high time for a new system guide. The hardware landscape has been altered quite substantially. Processor and memory prices have plummeted, new CPUs and graphics cards have been released, Intel has rolled out a new generation of chipsets, and other manufacturers have introduced an array of new products to keep things interesting. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components , Late
Computer Architecture and Amdahl's Law
2007-07-01 18:00:00 SSCS brings an interview with Gene Amdahl July 1, 2007 - This month, the Solid-States Circuits Society (SSCS) brings an interview with Gene Amdahl. After having worked for IBM, he started the Amdahl Corporation in 1970, specializing in IBM compatible mainframes. The company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997. We took about three weeks to do an analysis of the formidable task of competing head on with IBM, for we intended to be compatible with IBM and, in fact, use their operating system (we knew IBM had decided to lease it independently of the mainframe to reduce their antitrust risk). The reason for compatibility was that the mainframe market was almost exclusively IBM, and that producing a better product than IBM seemed simpler than changing the market place. Furthermore, SSCS also publiced Amdahl's article Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving Large Scale Computing Capabilities. It is his first publication of what became known as Am... More About: Hardware , Computers , Architecture , Computer , Processors
Computer Architecture and Amdahl's Law
2007-07-01 18:00:00 SSCS brings an interview with Gene Amdahl July 1, 2007 - This month, the Solid-States Circuits Society (SSCS) brings an interview with Gene Amdahl. After having worked for IBM, he started the Amdahl Corporation in 1970, specializing in IBM compatible mainframes. The company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997. We took about three weeks to do an analysis of the formidable task of competing head on with IBM, for we intended to be compatible with IBM and, in fact, use their operating system (we knew IBM had decided to lease it independently of the mainframe to reduce their antitrust risk). The reason for compatibility was that the mainframe market was almost exclusively IBM, and that producing a better product than IBM seemed simpler than changing the market place. Furthermore, SSCS also publiced Amdahl's article Validity of the Single Processor Approach to Achieving Large Scale Computing Capabilities. It is his first publication of what became known as Am... More About: Hardware , Computers , Architecture , Computer , Processors
Intel Quad-Cores on Target
2007-06-29 18:00:00 One million Xeon 53xx processors shipped 29 June, 2007 - Intel has already shipped one million Quad-Core Xeon processors, Danny Cheung, an Intel spokesman in Singapore, told the IDG News Service. The Xeon 53xx Cloverton series was introduced in November last year. Right from its introduction, Intel deployed an aggressive pricing policy on these processors to regain server market share from AMD. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Target
Intel Quad-Cores on Target
2007-06-29 18:00:00 One million Xeon 53xx processors shipped 29 June, 2007 - Intel has already shipped one million Quad-Core Xeon processors, Danny Cheung, an Intel spokesman in Singapore, told the IDG News Service. The Xeon 53xx Cloverton series was introduced in November last year. Right from its introduction, Intel deployed an aggressive pricing policy on these processors to regain server market share from AMD. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Target
System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs
2007-06-28 12:00:00 Processor Design Book Description: Processor Design addresses the design of different types of embedded, firmware-programmable computation engines. Because the design and customization of embedded processors has become a mainstream task in the development of complex SoCs (System s-on-Chip), ASIC and SoC designers must master the integration and development of processor hardware as an integral part of their job. Even contemporary FPGA devices can now accommodate several programmable processors. There are many different kinds of embedded processor cores available, suiting different kinds of tasks and applications. Processor Design provides insight into a number of different flavors of processor architectures and their design, software tool generation, implementation, and verification. After a brief introduction to processor architectures and how processor designers have sometimes failed to deliver what was expected, the authors introduce a generic flow for embedded on-chip process... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Computing
The Worlds Fastest Supercomputers
2007-06-27 12:00:00 IBM BlueGene/L System at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory still leading Top 500 June 27, 2007 - Today, a new Top 500 list of the worlds fastest supercomputers was presented at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '07) in Dresden, Germany. Even though the list shows a lot of shuffling among the top-ranked systems and the largest turnover among list entries in the history of the Top 500 project, the BlueGene/L System developed by IBM and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, claimed the number 1 spot for the fourth straight time. The system reached a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 TeraFLOPS (trillions of floating point calculations per second). Two other systems exceeded the level of 100 TeraFLOPS. The upgraded Cray XT4/XT3 at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ranked number 2 with a benchmark performance of 101.7 TeraFLOPS, and Sandia National... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Worlds , Components
The Worlds Fastest Supercomputers
2007-06-27 12:00:00 IBM BlueGene/L System at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory still leading Top 500 June 27, 2007 - Today, a new Top 500 list of the worlds fastest supercomputers was presented at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '07) in Dresden, Germany. Even though the list shows a lot of shuffling among the top-ranked systems and the largest turnover among list entries in the history of the Top 500 project, the BlueGene/L System developed by IBM and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, claimed the number 1 spot for the fourth straight time. The system reached a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 TeraFLOPS (trillions of floating point calculations per second). Two other systems exceeded the level of 100 TeraFLOPS. The upgraded Cray XT4/XT3 at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ranked number 2 with a benchmark performance of 101.7 TeraFLOPS, and Sandia National... More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Worlds , Components
Learning SystemVerilog
2007-06-25 12:00:00 SystemVerilog for Verification Book Description: SystemVerilog for Verification teaches the reader how to use the power of the new SystemVerilog testbench constructs plus methodology without requiring in-depth knowledge of Object Oriented Programming or Constrained Random Testing. The book covers the SystemVerilog verification constructs such as classes, program blocks, C interface, randomization, and functional coverage. SystemVerilog for Verification also reviews some design topics such as interfaces and array types. There are extensive code examples and detailed explanations. The book is based on Synopsys courses, seminars, and tutorials that the author developed for SystemVerilog, Vera, RVM, and OOP. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Learning , Components
Buying a PC
2007-06-24 12:00:00 TechARP updates Buying Guide June 24, 2007 - TechARP has updated its PC Buying Guide. It gives some background information for choosing a processor and motherboard. Sections on memory, hard disks, and sound cards will be added in the future. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
Buying a PC
2007-06-24 12:00:00 TechARP updates Buying Guide June 24, 2007 - Today, TechARP updated its PC Buying Guide. It gives some background information for choosing a processor and motherboard. Sections on memory, hard disks, and sound cards will be added in the future. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
IBM gathering its 32 nm partners
2007-06-22 18:00:00 IBM and BASF team up for production research 22 June, 2007 - IBM and BASF have entered into an agreement to jointly develop electronic materials required in the production process of 32 nm chips. The technology as well as its related chemicals and materials are expected to be commercialized by major companies in the semiconductor industry in North America, Asia, and Europe in 2010. Chemistry will increasingly play an important role in the development of the next generation IC products, said Dr. Ronald D. Goldblatt, Distinguished Engineer and Senior Manager, IBM Research. IBM's latest 45 nm chip technology will be introduced at the end of this year. However, the ongoing development towards smaller minimum feature sizes is already starting to generate major challenges for materials and chemicals. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Partners , Components
IBM gathering its 32 nm partners
2007-06-22 18:00:00 IBM and BASF team up for production research 22 June, 2007 - IBM and BASF have entered into an agreement to jointly develop electronic materials required in the production process of 32 nm chips. The technology as well as its related chemicals and materials are expected to be commercialized by major companies in the semiconductor industry in North America, Asia, and Europe in 2010. Chemistry will increasingly play an important role in the development of the next generation IC products, said Dr. Ronald D. Goldblatt, Distinguished Engineer and Senior Manager, IBM Research. IBM's latest 45 nm chip technology will be introduced at the end of this year. However, the ongoing development towards smaller minimum feature sizes is already starting to generate major challenges for materials and chemicals. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Partners , Components
The Era of Tera
2007-06-20 18:00:00 Intel unveils more information on Tera flops/Polaris and Larrabee June 20, 2007 - Today, Intel unveiled more details on its Larrabee processors. They will form the first commercial product line based on the 80 core Teraflops/Polaris processor. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
The Era of Tera
2007-06-20 18:00:00 Intel unveils more information on Tera flops/Polaris and Larrabee June 20, 2007 - Today, Intel unveiled more details on its Larrabee processors. They will form the first commercial product line based on the 80 core Teraflops/Polaris processor. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components
Reinventing a Giant
2007-06-18 12:00:00 The secret of Intel's success Being dependent solely on the PC processor market makes Intel vulnerable. What keeps the company at top is its commitment to R&D - even during periods when electronics revenue growth turns negative. In 2001, when the entire industry was on its knees, Intel only slightly reduced its R&D expenses to $3.8 billion from $3.9 billion in the prior year, while jacking up capex to $7.3 billion from $6.7 billion. Since then, the company has maintained both its R&D budget and capex spending at above 10 percent of annual revenue. EE Times gives us the numbers. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Giant , Components
Reinventing a Giant
2007-06-18 12:00:00 The secret of Intel's success Being dependent solely on the PC processor market makes Intel vulnerable. What keeps the company at top is its commitment to R&D - even during periods when electronics revenue growth turns negative. In 2001, when the entire industry was on its knees, Intel only slightly reduced its R&D expenses to $3.8 billion from $3.9 billion in the prior year, while jacking up capex to $7.3 billion from $6.7 billion. Since then, the company has maintained both its R&D budget and capex spending at above 10 percent of annual revenue. EE Times gives us the numbers. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Giant , Components
Java-Crunching Monsters
More articles from this author:2007-06-14 18:00:00 Trend towards dedicated processors for specific workloads June 14, 2007 - Today, Azul Systems announced two monster Java appliances. The Vega 2 7240 and 7280 Compute Appliances offer up to 768 processing cores on 16 processor chips and 768 Gbyte of memory, all in a flat SMP architecture (Symmetric Multi-Processing). The new engines need 14U of rackspace and consume 1,835 and 3,235 Watt respectively. More About: Hardware , Computers , Processors , Components 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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