...k popularity begin to overtake the market. HP, Acer and Dell have all lowered low-end notebook prices with Pentium Dual-Core T3200, T2390 and T1600 CPUs. Additional price reductions are expected in Ja...
Friday, December 19, 2008 09:22
...benchmark, but the performance difference between browsers is nevertheless interesting.) Using a dual-core Pentium 2.8 GHz system, the new build of IE8 scored 27.1 on our test system. By comparison, F...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 00:09
...Intel, the same $79 would not be enough to buy you a Core 2 Duo-class processor. Intel currently sells the Pentium Dual-Core E2220 (2.4 GHz, 65 nm) for $74 and the E5200 (2.5 GHz, 45 nm) for $84. The ...
Monday, December 15, 2008 14:09
...ck with a 29x multiplier. The machine owner who set the world record is the same guy who, last year took a Pentium 4 model 631 to 8.18 GHz - also a world record.The TweakIt technology in the ASUS moth...
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 15:08
Opinion - I have been very surprised reading the commentary from other websites regarding Core i7. Many of those authors believe Intel fell short with this Tock cycle, essentially stating they did n
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 07:49
...t Core i7 is not quite as revolutionary when compared to Core 2 Duo as Core 2 Duo was when compared to the Pentium 4. X-bit labs wrote: “[…] we expected a little more from Core i7 today. And the rea...
Monday, November 17, 2008 16:58
...n November 10, 2000 – based on the expectation of sluggish PC demand and a challenging transition from the Pentium 3 to the Pentium 4. (Thank you to Cnet for an excellent archive.) It took some time...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 19:19
...g about assembling a home entertainment center PC. A surprise on Intel’s side is the recently introduced Pentium E5200, a 45 nm-generation chip that already sells below its tray price. ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 00:01
...el over the 386 chip ends and the Supreme Court of California sides with AMD. 1995: K6 launches as Intel Pentium rival and first independently designed CPU. 1996: AMD acquires microprocessor compan...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:35
...ject some other dates, in 1989 the 80486 was introduced using an 800nm process. It followed the trend. The Pentium 4 was introduced in 2001 with 180nm process. And in 2008 we have 45nm still following...
Friday, September 26, 2008 12:29
...els have been cut dramatically – to 65 watt at Core 2 Duo’s introduction, down from 100 - 130 watts of the Pentium D series. Two years ago, we all wondered: How far can Core scale? Today we know that...
Monday, September 15, 2008 20:09
...rly in half and has
repositioned the chips to compete with Intel’s entry-level Core 2 Duos
and dual-core Pentium s, which are mainly used for desktop PCs with
prices of $500 and below. Bargain hunte...
Monday, September 08, 2008 10:27
... Some readers may remember the Bunsen-burner 65 nm Presler dual-core processors (released in late 2005 as Pentium D 900-series and based on the firm's Netburst architecture) that was rated at 130 wat...
Monday, September 08, 2008 00:53
...ower management function to extend the battery life when performing different tasks.The VR440 adopts Intel Pentium processors with a 14.1-inch LCD panel.
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Friday, August 29, 2008 09:18
...rmance to drop by 80 – 90%.) To put this performance into perspective, consider the fact that Intel’s 1997 Pentium Pro supercomputer with 10,000 CPUs was rated at 1 TFlops. The actual performance ad...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:25
...ed “Core i7” will be added to the stable of his ranch, which is or was the home to two other horses called Pentium and Itanium. Actual product announcements besides Nehalem are scarce at this ...
Monday, August 11, 2008 13:18
...nitially chose a strategy to describe its processors with a MHz-like number that was comparable to Intel’s Pentium chips (of course they did not admit that and said it was only a comparison to the pre...
Sunday, August 10, 2008 14:00
..., Larrabee x86 cores (each Larrabee core is actually a full x86 core) are based on a modernized dual-issue Pentium design with a short execution pipeline. The chip design was enhanced with a vector pr...
Sunday, August 03, 2008 23:32
...hat the Larrabee cores will be built on the P54C core – which was the code-name for the second-gen, 600 nm Pentium chip. The first Pentium core (P5, 800 nm, 60 and 66 MHz) was in development s...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 14:00
...ing
to AMD, the new GPU can deliver out more than 1 TFlops – a performance
that would have required 5000 Pentium Pro processors 12 years ago. Sunnyvale (CA) – We are at the beginning of a week with ...
Monday, June 16, 2008 00:36
...nosis and prescribe the necessary treatment. Five years ago, TechniScan built a 12-node cluster powered by Pentium M processors. Scanned results were available after 118 minutes. Using a 6-node cluste...
Thursday, June 12, 2008 20:05
...se. This author remembers his first precious multimedia notebook, a 1996 Gateway 12” model equipped with a Pentium MMX-166 MHz CPU that barely hit 90 minutes. 1 hour may not sound like much today, but...
Monday, May 12, 2008 12:36
...z Core 2 Duo E6850 (-31% to $183), which now matches the price of the 45 nm E8400 (3.0 GHz) as well as the Pentium E2200 (-12% to $74), the E2180 (-14% to $64), the Celeron 560 ( -20% to $107), the Ce...
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:08
...o. UMPCs are currently powered by the firm’s A100/A110 processors (Stealey core), which is a re-animinated Pentium M processor with 90 nm Dothan core. Comparisons with the A100/A110 have been made al...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
... a suitable choice for consumers, who need mobility, according to the company. The VR340 features an Intel Pentium dual-core processor and Intel GL960 chipset, and can support DDR2 533/667 memory up t...
Monday, March 31, 2008 09:15
Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product
since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets
and could ship hundreds of millions units within a fe
Friday, March 28, 2008 12:41
...hat all that buzz created by the marketing folks may be deserved. Three years ago, we wondered if all that Pentium overclocking and Intel’s direction with its technology and IDF still made sense. Two ...
Monday, March 17, 2008 16:20
...will also support Hyperthreading (Intel’s original virtual dual-core approach that was introduced with the Pentium 4), which means that the processors will be able to handle four threads total. What ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 13:19
...obile devices – products the company has called its most significant product since the introduction of the Pentium processor: While the chips won’t set new performance records for your desktop PC or y...
Sunday, March 02, 2008 20:14
... how this could happen. Sandia’s ASCI Red was the first Teraflop system. Unveiled in 1997, it used 10,000 Pentium processors to deliver 1 TFlops – or one trillion mathematical operations per second. ...
Friday, February 22, 2008 11:14
...Toshiba HD DVD as supplies sell out fast
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Pentium 4-M reanimated for Toshiba's HD DVD player
TGD
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21
...d are documented in so-called errata. Validation processes have become more visible since the Intel’s 1994 Pentium FDIV bug, probably the best known and most serious bug caught in processors in modern...
Sunday, February 17, 2008 12:03
...the mid-90s, AMD delivered a major coup with the K7 design (known as Athlon), a chip that trounced Intel's Pentium III. The K7 design was the baby of a team led by Dirk Meyer. This was the first...
Thursday, February 14, 2008 15:49
...sion, but if I have to say that the 35-second startup time of the player and the loud fan noise (there’s a Pentium 4 processor inside) is annoying. If you have spent $400 or more on a HD DVD p...
Monday, February 11, 2008 21:00
...ll μFCBGA package. Intel promises that Silverthorne will consume 1/10 the power of the last single-core Pentium M with the 90 nm Dothan core, which translates into a maximum power consumption of ab...
Monday, February 04, 2008 11:00
...in the early 2000s, Mooly Eden’s project went for the no-coulombs in a chip. They succeeded with the Pentium M (Banias core), which eventually ended up in the Core 2 Duo and a whole family of lo...
Friday, January 25, 2008 10:47
...gs to keep the grants rolling. Still, consider that five years ago that most of us were using a Pentium III or Athlon K7 processor, most likely with 256MB or less memory, and maybe a 20 GB ...
Friday, December 21, 2007 08:33
... rate (of up to 500 MHz, or a 16 GHz effective clock in total). Rambus and Intel brought us RDRAM for the Pentium 4 CPU. Its high-clock rate (up to 800 MHz) and low latency design gave the...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 13:12
...bsp; Some of these were extremely minor and never had any fixes planned. Others, like the well known Pentium FDIV bug, and other far more serious bugs which very few people ever knew about becau...
Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:25
...iba Core 2 Duo, 17” $799.99 Circuit City Dekstop Acer Pentium D 925 $229.97 Circuit City Notebook Toshiba ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:49
...bilities were emulated. While this worked, and was ultimately used, by the way, to find the original Pentium FDIV bug, it was very slow. Sometimes on the order of 10x to 100x slower than d...
Thursday, November 08, 2007 09:45
...apable of handling any kind of product. This particular lab was responsible for debugging all of the Pentium 4 CPUs. Our guide was wearing a Willamette polo shirt on the day we toured. Th...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 14:53
...ompany says that a minimum of 100 MB of hard drive space is required for the card drivers and either Intel Pentium 4 or an AMD Athlon FX or Opteron processor are minimum requirements to run the cards,...
Thursday, November 01, 2007 09:40
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel announced today that its 5100-series dual-core boxed Woodcrest Xeons will receive a stepping upgrade from B2 to G0, except for 2.0 GHz and 2.6 GHz models. The chang
Friday, October 19, 2007 07:14
...quo;t quite as aggressive anymore as in previous quarters. While the company was especially leveraging its Pentium D series earlier this year to put pressure on AMD on the lower end of the market, Dub...
Monday, October 15, 2007 18:30
...he A100 (600 MHz) and A110 (800 MHz) processors with "Stealey" core, which is based on the 90 nm Pentium M processor with Dothan core. According to Intel, Silverthorne will be about as fast ...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 01:00
...00 ethernet. Some high-end models will support DVI and HDCP. All mGPUs are targeted at Core 2, Pentium n D, Pentium 4 and Celeron D processor platform solutions using the nForce chipset. P...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:26
...with the mobile challenge probably four years before anybody else in the market. If we look at Banias, or Pentium -M, or if we look at Core 2 Duo, it’s not that our engineers are better than oth...
Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:36
...MIDs will be based on Intel's Silverthorne processor, which is promised to be about as fast as a 90 nm Pentium M processor with Dothan core while consuming substantially less power. In a demonstra...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:40
...ation demonstrated this very clearly: The "ASCI Red" supercomputer, which is comprised of 10,000 Pentium Pro processors clocking around 233 MHz, used an interconnect architecture which is no...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 09:22
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