GeForce GTX 465 Details
Chinese website eNet.com.cn published some specifications about Nvidia's upcoming GPU which is on the low end of the GeForce GTX 400 series, the GTX 465. According to eNet's screen grabs, the GTX 465 is clocket at 607MHz and has not four, but five streaming multiprocessors disabled from the GF100 core, resulting in a reduction of stream processors from 448 to 352. The amount of GDDR5 memory is lowered to 1.024MB, and the memory bus width is reduced from 384 bit to 256 bit. More »
New socket to replace LGA1366 in Q3 2011
Intel is planning to introduce a new cpu socket replacement for its current high end Core i7 cpu family, the downside is that apparently there will be no compatibility between the current LGA1366 Core i7s and the new socket. According to the rumor, a new chipset will also be launched together with the socket, unofficially nicknamed X68 at the moment, which will feature four ddr3 ram slots instead of the six that you see on current X58 boards. More »
Thuban Details Surface
It seems that AMD's upcoming six core desktop processor series, codenamed Thuban, will make it’s first appearance in the market somewhere in Q2 2010, probably in May. The Thuban core is an implementation of the Istanbul core, in a socket AM3 package, supporting dual channel DDR3 memory. The series will be probably branded as Phenom II X6. Built on GlobalFoundaries' 45 nm node, Thuban is a multi core design cpu with six cores, each with 128 KB of L1, 512 KB of L2 cache, and a 6 MB L3 cache shared between the six cores. More »
Intel Gulftown to be launched as Core i7
Intel will adopt the Core i7 brand identifier to sell Gulftown, the six core processor based on the Nehalem architecture. Chinese website PCOnline shows a leaked Intel slide that clearly describes a Core i7 980X processor as one built on a 32nm process and based on the lga1366 chipset. Clocked at 3.33 GHz, on march 2010 this chip will replace Intel current flagship desktop processor, the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, at the very same price of US $999. More »
Intel shelves Larrabee gpu project
Intel has shelved plans to continue development of Larrabee graphics processor. Intel spokesperson Nick Knupffer said that Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where Intel hoped to be and as a result the first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone graphics product, rather it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use. At SC'09, Intel demonstrated Larrabee computational power which peaked at over 1 TFLOP. More »
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48-core Intel processor
Yesterday Intel demonstrated an experimental 48 core processor called Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC). This chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's Intel processors. Actually a 48 core processor, the chip is a prototype of a very early 100 core project where each one of the full x86 cores is communicating with each other at full speed. It also includes newly invented power management techniques that allow all 48 cores to operate efficiently at as little as 25 watts or at 125 watts when running at maximum performance. More »
Nvidia GT300
Nvidia presented the main competitor to Amd Radeon HD 5800 series, the GT300 chip (codenamed Fermi), the first DX 11 chip from Nvidia. According to information presented on GPU Technology Conference the GT300 will have 3 billion transistors, 512 shader processors (referred as CUDA cores), 32 cores per core cluster, 384-bit memory interface and maximum 6GB of GDDR5 memory. More »
