Archive for the ‘CPUs’ Category:
Intel Core i7 Reviews
In the past days a lot of reviews and benchmarks about the new Intel Core i7/X58 platform surfaced on the net. Here are a few interesting links: Techgage, Legion Hardware, TweakTown, Guru3D, PC Perspective, TechSpot, Neoseeker, t-break, OCAU, ExtremeTech, Benchmark Reviews, HotHardware, HardOCP, Lost Circuits. More »
AMD’s 45nm CPU Line Up Revealed
While the 45nm Shanghai quad core Opteron (Opteron 83xx series and Opteron 23xx series) has just made its debut at resellers, AMD is planning to launch six high end 45nm quad core CPUs (codename Deneb) and four entry-level (codename Propus) in the first quarter of next year. The Phenom X4 20550 and 20350 for socket AM2+ systems with core frequencies of 3GHz and 2.8GHz will be launche this month. AMD will also launch six 45nm triple core CPUs (codename Heka and Regor) including 14x00, 12x00 and 1xx00e series. More »
Nvidia MCP85 chipset
Expreview have revealed that samples of MCP85 have been sent to NV mainboard partners. MCP85 is NVIDIA’s next mainstream chipset for AMD AM3. The new chipset, based around the GeForce 8100/8200/8300, is basically the same as the MCP78 which it is superseding, with the exception of the added AM3 support. There are two version of MCP85, MCP85-S and MCP85-V, the only difference will be their clock and PureVideo versions. The new chipset will hit the market in Q1 2009. More »
Intel Moorestown Platform
In his keynote yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, Intel's senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, discussed how technology innovation and strong industry collaboration have driven the digital economy over the past 40 years, and the universal impact that the Internet and mobile Web has had in people's lives. Chandrasekher cited the Intel Atom processor, the upcoming Nehalem processor, and the Intel Moorestown platform as prime examples of innovation and technology leadership. More »
Nehalem Lynnfield pictures
A photo comparison of the yet to come Nehalem cpus, known as Lynnfield, have been posted in the asian forum XFastest. Lynnfield is scheduled to launch in Q4 2009, this version of Nehalem uses Socket LGA1160 instead of Bloomfield socket LG1366. It uses DMI link which only supports dual channel DDR3 instead of the QPI link that the Bloomfield uses for triple channel DDR3. More »
Intel Core i7 Extreme 965 pictures
Later this year, Intel will launch three models of processors based on the new LGA 1366 socket: Core i7 Extreme 965, Core i7 940, Core i7 920. The Extreme one, priced at $999 and clocked at 3.20 GHz, should be the fastest desktop processor ever made, it features four cores, 8MB of L3 cache and triple channel DDR3 integrated memory controller. The guys at Mobile101 unboxed the Core i7 Extreme 965 before launch. More »
Intel Atom Processor 330
Intel has officially begun shipping its newest 45nm dual core processor known as the Intel Atom Processor 330. Atom is designed specifically for nettops, which are cheap desktops built primarily for web surfing, email, and basic internet usage. The new processor, which features a 1.6GHz processing core, 1MB of level 2 cache, an 8W TDP and support for DDR2 667, is available as an integrated package More »
