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Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print

Great InfoGreat info, thank you.However I would like to point out the quote you use from AMD states:"Integer - More than double digit advantage over today’s highest performing Clovertown."This leads me to believe AMD is suggesting a minimum 100% advantage over Clovertown triple digit is more than double digit. ...

Tags: b.lantz@..., Great Info, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Clovertown

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print

Theres been hearing a lot of hype lately coming from AMD about Barcelona and its been regurgitated throughout the web. Even though no actual benchmarks were released, some of the following outrageous promises are being made."We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by...

Tags: Servers, Processors, News, Intel, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Desktop, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-25

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Photos: Apple's 8-core Xeon workstation

The 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro featuring two quad-core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" chips.

Tags: Processors, Servers, photograph, Apple Inc., Intel Xeon, quad-core, Intel Corp., workstation, chip

Image galleries 2007-04-06

After quad-core comes massive multicore processors

The first challenge for Intel will be....[b][i]"...If Intel would have it, massively multicore processors are nearer to us than we think. But before that can happen, there are a number of challenges that need to be surmounted first..."[/i][/b]The first challenge for Intel will be to create a processor with more...

Tags: Processors, paulmah@..., processor, quad-core, multi-core processor

Discussion threads 2007-06-16

AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel

CPU analyst and expert David Kanter just posted his in-depth article on AMD Barcelona and if the manufacturing permits it, AMD's Barcelona has the potential to smash Intel's quad-core chips.  Based on the article, "The device described at ISSCC was targeted at 2.2-2.8GHz at 1.15V, while operating within a 95W...

Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Desktop, AMD

Blog posts 2007-05-17

Apple bursts out with 8-core 3 GHz Intel quad-core

As AMD finally celebrates their symbolic victory over last years Intel dual-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processor, Intel and Apple is moving on with quad-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processors. Apple with its exclusive partnership with Intel gets to be the first to launch Intels 3 GHz...

Tags: Servers, News, Intel, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Apple, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-04

Intel V8 intimidates Barcelona using half the cores

AMD recently produced some impressive Barcelona 16-core (4-socket quad-core) scores of just over 4000 on the POV benchmark.  Charlie Demerjian estimates that these are probably 1.8 GHz pre-production low-power 65W TDP Barcelona chips.  Intel decided to put the beat-down on these Barcelona numbers by showing off their own "V8" 3.0...

Tags: Processors, Intel, Hardware, Desktop, AMD

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Where is AMD's Intel-killer Barcelona?

Back in May when speculation on AMD's "Barcelona" quad-core CPU was still running rampant, I wrote that "AMD Barcelona can potentially smash Intel" if high clock speeds at sufficient yields could be produced in a timely manner.  AMD needed to hit 2.5 GHz to reclaim the performance crown and release...

Tags: Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-03

AMD versus Intel: CPU wars roadmap

Intel announced the next revolution in Microprocessor fabrication by replacing Silicon Dioxide gates with High-K dielectric metal gates. Microprocessor industry analyst David Kanter who contributed a lot of the information in this piece had this in-depth analysis on what this means for Intel and AMD. I spoke with...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, CPU, David Kanter, Desktop, Hardware, Intel Corp., News, Processors, Servers

Blog posts 2007-01-30