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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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