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 The Best Processor In The World! While Intel Core 2 Duo E6050 family enjoy speed upgrade from 1066MHz to 1333MHz FSB, bandwidth is elevating 25% but no significant help to improve overall efficiency, therefore, Core 2 Duo E6850 frequency will be reduced to 7x (2.66GHz/4MB L2/13 33MSample/s FSB), as compared with the same time connections FSB 1066MHz FSB but only Core 2 Duo E6700. Test results found that most effective growth of less than 1%. Only memory tests have significantly higher reading and writing progress.
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We have been hearing all kinds of news about AMD's new quad core solution named Barcelona. These multi core processors are expected to hit the streets in a few months from now. Today, The Inquirer revealed some more information about the Barcelona based Opterons.
There will be four Opterons and they are all chips. They are Quad Core Opteron models 1266, 1268SE, 1270SE and 2258HE and they run at 95W, 120W, 120W and 68W respectively.
Remember that these are native quad cores based on Barcelona, aka K8L to some, so comparing clocks with current Opteron is irrelevant. Note that the models still use the same TDP envelope for the Socket F/AM2 platform.
The four Opterons run at 2.3GHz 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz and 1.9GHz respectively. Cache is 512K * 4 + 2M of L3 for a total of 4MB if you want to count it that way. All the four chips feature 4MB of cache (512x4 + 2MB of L3).
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NEWS.com put up an article on their site about the possibility of a leap in the processor GigaHertz war. According to the program for the International Solid State Circuits Conference that begins February 11 in San Francisco, IBM's Power6 processor will be able to exceed 5 gigahertz in a high-performance mode, and the second-generation Cell Broadband Engine processor from IBM, Sony and Toshiba will run at 6GHz.
The first-generation Cell Broadband Engine chip (shown above), co-developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, has just appeared in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console and can run at 4GHz. The second-generation chip will run at 6GHz, according to the ISSCC program. In addition, the new chip will have a dual power supply that increases memory performance--a major bottleneck in computer designs today.
For servers, IBM has said its Power6 processor, due to ship in servers in 2007, will run between 4GHz and 5GHz. But in the ISSCC program, Big Blue said the chip's clock will tick at a rate "over 5GHz in high-performance applications." In addition, the chip "consumes under 100 watts in power-sensitive applications," a power range comparable to mainstream 95-watt AMD Opteron chips and 80-watt Intel Xeon chips.
Intel isn't standing idly by, though. In September, Intel showed a glimpse of a prototype chip with 80 cores that can perform a trillion mathematical calculations per second. At ISSCC, the company will shed more details on the design, including an updated speed measurement of 1.28 trillion calculations per second.
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Intel just announced its plan on its Core 2 Solo single-core processors in Q3 2007. Instead of normal edition, the upcoming Core 2 Solo has ULV (Ultra Low-Voltage) edition only, targeting for the Sub-Note market. Regarding with the rumor concerning Merom based Celeron M is a dual core, Intel has also announced it should be a single core. The rumor is busted.
In the previous plan, since dual core has been put into a common place, there never exists single core Core 2 Solo but Celeron M 500 for entry-level market. However, since single core has a better power consumption than dual core, Intel decided to make Core 2 Solo ULV for the need Sub-Note market.
The new Core 2 Solo ULV includes two models: U2200 (1.2 GHz/1MB L2/533MHz) and U2100 (1.06 GHz/1MB L2/533MHz). They are set to replace U1500 and U1400. These two models have very good power consumption at 5W only, and are support for Intel VT, EIST, XD Bit and 64.
Read on for more...
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Intel, set to release 45-nm versions of its current Core 2 lineup toward the end of 2007, is reported to have begun producing its first design samples of its Penryn architecture, which is basically just a 45-nm version of Conroe (a 65-nm architecture). Two other changes that will be seen in Penryn are a shift from silicon dioxide gate dielectrics to high-K dielectrics, along with a return back to metal gates as opposed to the polysilicon gates used now.
The Penryn core is expected to be available to consumers sometime in the second half of 2007. Between now and then Intel will be refreshing its Conroe line (hopefully with some more affordable processors and some new ones with higher speeds). The design samples being made now will be solely used by Intel to verify that things are working as they are supposed to be.
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65-nm processors are hardly news, but AMD is beginning to ship their first CPUs based on a 65-nm process. They're a little behind Intel, though; the first Intel 65-nm processors came out late last year, so it's been right around a year now since then. Plus, there's no speed increases or new features offered with the new processors, like we've grown accustomed to.
The one thing that does change, however, are the power consumption numbers. Smaller processes usually lead to lower power consumption, and AMD is always ready to deliver in that category. The Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and 5000+ processors took 110W on Socket 939, 89W on Socket AM2 with a 90-nm process, and now they take a mere 65W, the same as most of Intel's competing Core 2 Duo chips. In fact, AMD claims that in many cases these new processors consume less power than their Intel analogs, but concrete numbers remain to be seen. For now, expect to see these new processors on shelves soon.
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Computers these days are taking more and more power to keep up with the world's increasing computing needs. One of the biggest culprits today is the processor (these days, the graphics card probably comes in first), and Infineon has announced a solution that will dramatically decrease the power consumption of transistor-based devices such as CPUs. Their new "3D transistors" claim to have the same functionality as standard transistors, but with right around 50% of the power consumption.
Transistors lose most of their power through what are known as leakage currents. For those of you who have no idea what a transistor is, it's basically a sort of switch, where the voltage applied to the "gate" determines whether or not current can travel from the "drain" to the "source." Because of the physics behind transistors, a small amount of current can still "leak" through to the source even when there is no voltage on the gate, which means that the transistor is taking power that it doesn't need. This problem seems to be alleviated by Infineon's new transistors by having two gates between the drain and source. Only about half of the original leakage current is present; and, since there are two gates instead of just one, the possibilities arise for a single transistor to have more functionality than before. (The one in the picture above could very easily be used for an AND gate, for example.)
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Four into one does go thanks to the boffins at Intel. Intel kicked off the computer industry's multi-core PC era by
delivering four computing "brains" inside a single microprocessor with
the introduction of the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 and Intel CoreTM2
Extreme quad-core processor families. These products deliver immense
speed and responsiveness for general purpose servers and workstations
and for digital media creation, high-end gaming and other market
segments that crave absolute performance.
Intel began the transition to multi-core technology 4 years ago with
Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology), followed by the
introduction of the industry's first dual-core PC processors in April
last year. Intel recently refreshed its entire product line by
introducing over 40 new processors, including those based on the
revolutionary Intel® CoreTM microarchitecture, a more powerful yet
energy-efficient design.
"Today's announcement ushers in another new era in computing," said
Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO. "The capabilities of
quad-core microprocessors will bring new possibilities for science,
entertainment and business. I'm incredibly proud of what Intel's
employees have achieved with these new products."
Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700
The world's best desktop processor for multimedia applications, the
Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700 is up to 80 percent
faster than the company's current Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor
X6800.
This is the world's first quad-core desktop processor available for
unmatched, highly threaded performance. Ideal for today's games with
incredible performance for tomorrow's highly threaded games; the Intel
Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700 is available at 2.66GHz with
a 1066MHz FSB. The processor runs on Intel's existing 975X Express
chipset family.
The company plans to offer a mainstream quad-core processor starting
in the first quarter next year under the Intel Core 2 Quad processor
brand name. The processor will be an ideal choice for
processor-intensive, highly threaded programs such as entertainment,
gaming and multimedia activities.
Don't you feel just a little dumb now with only your little grey cells to get you through the day.
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So far AMD has been really secretive about their new "4x4" platform designed to compete with Intel's Core 2 Quad processors. (If you don't know, the 4x4 platform will let you use two dual-core CPUs on the same motherboard, giving you somewhat of an equal footing with a quad-core CPU.) Even though it's being officially released November 14, we still only have very sketchy details about how it'll all work. But AMD has revealed a few details on the 4x4 platform at a PR event in Munich.
Obviously a new platform supporting two processors will require a new chipset, and sources are saying it will be provided by NVIDIA, so it will probably be a version of the nForce 600 chipsets they just released for Intel. AMD will release the 4x4 platform along with three new FX processors, the FX-70, FX-72, and FX-74 (2.6GHz, 2.8GHz, and 3.0GHz, respectively, with 2MB of L2 cache), with an FX-76 (3.2GHz) coming up in the middle of next year.
Experts are concerned (for good reason) about how well both processors can be used. Windows Vista Ultimate is the only version that will support more than one physical processor, while all version will support multiple cores on the same processor. This puts Intel's single-package solution at an advantage. Nevertheless, we should be seeing more multi-threaded applications now that single-core processors are old news.
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AMD has announced that it will a new processor, codenamed "Fusion," with both a CPU and a GPU integrated into a single package. This is really the first time we're seeing AMD using ATI, its recently acquired partner, in a joint project. The focus, AMD asserts, is on integrating the two parts of the computer into one single solution.
The Fusion processor will be aimed at mainstream and low-end consumers, at first, in addition to applications in servers and mobile computing, since hardcore gamers will probably still be better off with a separate graphics card, maybe two or more. But as the technology develops, even gamers may want to have to buy less new components when they want an upgrade. It remains to be seen how successful this will be, but it sure beats the so-called "integrated graphics" my laptop has now.
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