Intel has announced it’s 6 core Xeon high performance processors based on it’s 45 nm process technology. The Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series, code-named Dunnington, will support up to 6 cores with 16 MB of shared cache memory. The processors come in frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power consumption as low as 50 watts. [...]
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AMD sells digital TV unit to Broadcom for $192 million
AMD is unloading it’s Digital TV business unit to Broadcom for $192 million. AMD’s DTV product line includes all Xilleon™ integrated DTV processors and complete turnkey reference designs, as well as NXT receiver ICs, the Theater™ 300 DTV processor, and a line of panel processors that perform advanced motion compensation, frame rate conversion and scaling.
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AMD reports results, CEO changed
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today reported second quarter 2008 revenue of $1.349 billion, a 7% decrease compared to the first quarter of 2008 and a three percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2007. As part of its previously communicated review of its non-core businesses, AMD decided to divest its Handheld and DTV product businesses, and [...]
July 18th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedDreamWorks Animation moves from AMD to Intel
DreamWorks Animation SKG, known for their animation movies such “Kung Fu Panda”, “Shrek”, “Bee movie” and “Medagaskar”, has chosen Intel to supply the processors for the creation of stereoscopic 3D movies, replacing the AMD chips the movie studio has been using for the last three years. DreamWorks plans to make all its movies in 3D [...]
July 9th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
AMD unveils teraflop processor
AMD today announced the AMD FireStream 9250, a stream processor that will break the Teraflop barrier for single precision performance. The new chip is meant for complementing the General Purpose CPU and aid in running critical workloads such as financial analysis or seismic processing dramatically faster than with CPU alone, helping potential applications to address [...]
June 16th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
AMD announces new HE processors, 6 and 12 core roadmap
AMD today announced the immediate availability of energy-efficient x86 server processors with four processing cores and an integrated memory controller in a low 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. The processors are ideal for creating two , four and eight way power-efficient rack and blade servers. Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE processors are available in both the [...]
May 11th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Cray to use Intel Xeon processors on their supercomputers
Intel and Cray signed a multi year agreement to use Intel Xeon processors in Cray supercomputers for the HPC market. The two companies agreed to collaborate on developing innovative multi-core and advanced interconnect technologies for future designs.
Cray servers have been designed around processors from AMD, arch rival to Intel. AMD has been struggling to keep [...]
Nvidia taking a swipe at Intel?
Nvidia recently launched their “Optimized PC” campaign and took a swipe at Intel, the microprocessor industry leader. Claiming that over half the PC’s shipped today have an underpowered GPU, nVIDIA suggests customers should use a functional CPU and are better of by leaving their complicated computations to a GPU for a variety of OS, games [...]
April 17th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
