HP Paid Intel $690 Million to Keep Itanium Alive - Court Findings on Feb 4, 2012 in Processor Itanium CPU Intel In a bid to secure its mission-critical HP-UX platform, Hewlett-Packard has paid Intel Corp. around $690 to keep Itanium microprocessor alive till 2017 and update it in timely manner, court findings reveal. Back in 2008 the maker of servers paid Inte...
Intel pleased with investors questions on Feb 4, 2012 in News Intel Intel is happy that it is not getting the curly questions flung at it by investors last year.Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith told Reuters that he likes the questions he is receiving from Wall Street these days. Last year everyone was worried abou...
Three new Piledriver server code names appear on Feb 4, 2012 in Processor News CPU APU AMD Fusion AMD FAD 2012: Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Delhi are PiledriversAMD is now talking server roadmaps, and another crop of new names is revealed. This time we have Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Delhi server CPUs.F1 tracks or code names?Not much to say here, all three...
Intel Exposed First Atom Chips for Micro-Servers on Feb 4, 2012 in Server Processor News Atom CPU Intel Intel Corp. has begun shipments of Atom-based system-on-chip for so-called micro-servers. The new processor will likely become available this year and will enable server manufacturers to create ultra-dense machines with low power consumption. As repo...
AMD's new FX-Series CPUs available for pre-order on Feb 4, 2012 in Processor News FX AMD Price Fusion AMD is apparently preparing a refresh to its line of FX-series dekstop CPUs including quad-core FX-4170, six-core FX-6200 and already available eight-core FX-8150 that will now be bundled with liquid cooling.CPU-World.com scored these pre-order price...
More information about some new AMD cores on Feb 4, 2012 in News CPU AMD In case you haven’t been paying attention, it is roadmap season at AMD, and now it is Desktop CPU time. A big welcome goes out to Vishera, Kaveri, and Kabini.The roadmap as shown This time, it isn’t exactly anything we weren’t expecting, with t...
ULV Trinity defeats Sandy Bridge in 3Dmark on Feb 4, 2012 in News Benchmark AMD Intel AMD has released the first performance figures for its upcoming 17W Trinity APUs, which will find they way into ultrathin notebooks later this year.Intel’s ultrabooks are powered by Sandy Bridge ULV chips and the first Ivy Bridge based designs shou...
Aria list pre-orders for C2 Intel Core i7 processors on Feb 4, 2012 in i7 Processor News CPU Intel Aria are certainly on the ball for all you Intel lovers this week. Today they listed the new C2 stepping version 2011 processors. They are available now for pre-order. ARIA informed us that they will be getting in stock soon, hopefully within the nex...
AMD Trinity for Ultrathins Platform Make Possible 18mm Notebooks for $600 - $800 on Feb 4, 2012 in Notebook News AMD At its financial analyst day event on Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices disclosed peculiarities of its forthcoming platform for ultrathin laptops. The code-named Trinity accelerated processing unit in ball-grid array form-factor will let PC makers to...
AMD Wipe Out 10-Core, 20-Core Server Processors on Feb 4, 2012 in Server Processor News CPU AMD Advanced Micro Devices has cancelled its multi-core Opteron server chips code-named Sepang (up to 10 cores) and Terramar (up to 20 cores) that were supposed to be launched in 2012. Moreover, the company decided to keep the existing server platform fo...
