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Engineers Show Way to Improve Performance of AMD, Intel Hybrid Chips by 20% by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 9, 2012Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows to improve performance of AMD Fusion or Intel Sandy Bridge hybrid chips by an average of more than 20%. The engineers propose to take advantage of unique feat...
AMD rolls out two more Llano Athlon II X4 CPUs by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 9, 2012In addition to socket FM1 Athlon II X4 631 and 651 CPUs, AMD has silently rolled out two more models, the Athlon II X4 638 and 641. Spotted by CPU-World, the Athlon II X4 641 already seen before has been joined by a totaly new part, the Athlon II X4...
HP Paid Intel $690 Million to Keep Itanium Alive - Court Findings by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012In 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...
Three new Piledriver server code names appear by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012AMD 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 by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012Intel 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...
More information about some new AMD cores by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012In 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...
Aria list pre-orders for C2 Intel Core i7 processors by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012Aria 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 Wipe Out 10-Core, 20-Core Server Processors by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012Advanced 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...
AMD Assured "Full" Fusion of CPU and GPU in 2014 by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Feb 4, 2012At its Financial Analyst Day event on Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices said that its chips in 2014 will be able to automatically decide which of its heterogeneous cores to use for a particular task. The context switching between x86 and stream proces...
AMD pulls "blind test" at recent show by CPU Wars: Intel vs. AMD on Jan 26, 2012AMD has been in sailing through some rough PR waters recently, especially over the overhyped FX-series CPU launch, but has now pulled a rather interesting and good PR stunt at the AMD and HardOCP FX GamExperience held in Dallas, Texas a few days ago.
