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 »
New Nvidia GPU nomenclature
Industry sources suggest Nvidia will be dropping the 8000 and 9000 series names in favour of a newer naming system. Since the company is rumored to announce additional graphics cards in the GT200 series on October 15, in this date probably Nvidia will break away from its current nomenclature and will adopt a naming system that is in line with the GT200 series. 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 »
Unlocked memory multiplier for Core i7 920 and Core i7 940 CPUs
Intel has decided to enhance the overclocking capabilities of two of its forthcoming Core i7 processors. Core i7 940 and Core i7 920, which are clocked at 2.93GHz and 2.66GHz respectively, will feature unlocked memory controlers, so motherboard makers can write a BIOS with option to increase memory frequency. This means that end users will be able to change the memory multiplier and thus the memory frequency beyond the stock DDR3 800/1066MHz speed. More »
Nvidia MCP7A chipset
By the end of September Nvidia is planning to launch a new chipset called MCP7A IGP. It seems that MCP7A will come in two variants, the MCP7A-U with a GeForce 9400 graphics core and the MCP7A-S with a GeForce 9300 graphics core. The difference between the two is that the 9300 will be clocked at 450MHz and 1200MHz (core, shader), the 9400 at 580MHz and 1500MHz (core, shader). More »
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