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- Apple WWDC live
- In the new age of live blogging, Engadget and several other sites are providing just-in-time coverage of the Steve Jobs' opening keynote. Ryan Block and team at Engadget are posting pictures and providing the play-by-play. As predicted, Apple unveiled new Mac Pro systems based on Intel's Woodcrest chip. Apple senior...
- Tags: MAC Pro
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- Gelsinger: Intel's Woodcrest will be a game changer
- Gelsinger: Intel's Woodcrest will be a game changer80 Watt part is 3.0 GHznt
- Tags: Games, Gelsinger, Intel Woodcrest, game changer, Intel Corp., game
- Discussion threads 2006-03-23
- Gelsinger: Intel's Woodcrest will be a game changer
- Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manger of the Digital Enterprise Group discuss the server processor roadmap. Lots of code names. He expects the Woodcrest chip to be a "game changer" in the server market. "With Dempsey [a dual core Xeon based on Pentium 4 technology] we got parity...
- Tags: Processors, Games, Servers, game, Intel Corp., Intel Woodcrest
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
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- Inside Intel's Harpertown Processor
- Apple yesterday announced significant updates to their Mac Pro and Xserve lines featuring Intel's "Harpertown" processorâ€"but what's in a name? Intel's quad-core Xeon 5400-series “Harpertown†processors run at up to 3.2GHz and are based on the new 45-nm Intel Core microarchitecture. The new chips are known for...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Intel Corp., Apple Macintosh, Intel Xeon, Processors, Apple Inc., Components, Hardware, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- AMD doubters persist; Are they right this time?
- AMD doubters persist; Are they right this time?Talking Intel/AMD victory...is so subjective. If you look at Intel's desire - to be the only chip maker - AMD is victorious.If you look at solely IPS's then it's a toss up between INT and FP.I sell nothing but AMD. So...
- Tags: Processors, Performance management, Penryn, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Clovertown, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on Barcelona
- AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaPlease double-check your facts......before making wild accusations. Those graphs have not been posted just now after they announced the launch frequencies of 2.0GHz, but have been available on AMDs web site for a long time. Just google for the url and you'll see that...
- Tags: Processors, Investment, SPECint, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-04
- AMD's Barcelona summer
- AMD's Barcelona summerAMD shipping FUD in high volumePowerPoint slides are shipping in high volume. The latest Powerpoint stepping shows Barcelona nearly 60% faster than anything from Intel - ever! Tier 1 customers like Enquirer.Net are measuring remarkable benchmark results as follows:BS2007 - 1210Loopdaloop - 1320Hectormark - 10,000MultiplyThat - 1512Uselessmark...
- Tags: Processors, POWERPOINT Slide, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., processor
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Data center cooling: The bright side comes in 2011
- Data center cooling: The bright side comes in 2011We are extremely inefficientThe tons of software companies pitch their new software package.. but.. it must run on a standalone server.... jeesh... We have a TON of servers here running one, two or three apps and use 5% of the processing power...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Servers, Mainframes, Blade servers, Utility computing, Main Frame, data center, server, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- AMD answers to controversial use of retired benchmarks in China
- AMD answers to controversial use of retired benchmarks in ChinaI listened - Berlind was wrongBerlind said, "Forget about the quiet period. The quiet period doesn't matter."Yes it does. If Intel used old benchmarks when there was no reason they could have used more current ones, they were lying. If AMD...
- Tags: Processors, SEC, quad-core, Clovertown, IBM Corp., clock speed, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., HPC, Intel Corp., John Fruehe
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Apple release octo-core Mac Pro
- Although it was expected to take a bow at next weeks National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas NAB Apple took the wraps off the new 8-core Mac Pro a few days early.Appearing this morning on Apple.com was the refresh of the companys most powerful desktop class computer, the...
- Tags: MacPro, Hardware, Apple, Announcement
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- AMD's no angel, but Intel's public usage of benchmark data is feloniously misleading
- AMD's no angel, but Intel's public usage of benchmark data is feloniously misleadingIntel pulled an "evolution of man" chartIt looks like Intel was doing the same thing that they did with that famous Time/Life chart showing the evolution of man. There, though, they made a picture that looked like...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., benchmarking, chip
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Octo-core Mac Pro leaked on Apple UK store
- The Apple UK Store accidentally posted a graphic that suggests that new 8-Core Mac Pros are coming soon according to MacRumors. When searching for "Mac" in the Apple UK Store, the listing for the Mac Pro said: "Now quad-core or 8-core processing power. Configure yours today." The graphic...
- Tags: Processors, MAC Pro, Apple UK Store, Apple UK, Intel Xeon
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Intel rides the datacenter build out wave
- Intel is more than making up for slower sales of enterprise servers due to consolidation and virtualization by selling processors, such as the Xeon 5100 Woodcrest and 5300 Clovertown series, for large-scale datacenters built by leading Internet portals. "In the last three months we have shipped more product into this...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter, AMD, Intel, virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Reading the Times - about Intel
- Reading the Times - about IntelGiga-hurts[i]Now, in reality, Intel concentrated on selling megahertz, not processing performance - a 3.0Ghz dual core "woodcrest" is a blinding 18% faster than its 2Ghz counterpart - more comparisons here - but the really important point everyone missed is that Intel's announcement was about manufacturing,...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Processors, G4 iMac, Intel Corp., Apple PowerBook, clock speed
- Discussion threads 2007-02-06
- Reading the Times - about Intel
- As regular readers know, Im both fascinated and frustrated by the extent to which the main stream press misinforms our bosses -the non technical people who ultimately make most of the strategic technology decisions in the organizations we work for. The media reaction to last weeks announcements from...
- Tags: Intel Corp., transistor
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- AMDââ¬â¢s other quad core
- AMD’s other quad coreCompetition is good...Better performance, lower cost. The winner is us. Keep up the great work AMD and Intel. for my next build I wanna 8 core cpu that can support 64gb of ram and I'm willing to pay .... $50.AMD can do whattever they...
- Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., dime, manufacturing flexibility, quad-core
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Is AMD's business model 'fundamentally broken'?
- Is AMD's business model 'fundamentally broken'?Betting the Farm on Barcelona?I blog about Oracle-related topics and am a keen Opteron fan, but I submit the following link to my Oracle/Barcelona related blog entries:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/t/oracle-on-opteron-numa-etc/Answering a rhetorical question:"Does market share at the expense of profits really make sense?"Yes. Ask the Japanese car...
- Tags: Network technology, Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- AMD: Sun is on track with Barcelona transition
- AMD: Sun is on track with Barcelona transitionSun's Adoption of IntelThis could mean more to AMD than this blog entry suggests. I submit the following URL for more Barcelona information from an Oracle database perspective:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/sun-to-product-xeon-based-servers-linux-for-oracle-on-x86_64-really-why/Spell/grammar check...."but it does illicit some concern"That would be "elicit", not "illicit".PleaseDean McCarron is out of...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, Databases, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Sun and Intel scratch each other's backs
- As expected, Sun and Intel announced an mutually beneficial alliance to promote each others product. For Sun, Intel embraces Solaris with engineering, support, OEM and marketing support and for Intel, Sun will add Xeon (Woodcrest, Cloverdale, etc)-based systems to its x86 product line, currently AMD only. "This is a market...
- Tags: General, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Showtime for Intel, Sun; AMD mum
- Showtime for Intel, Sun; AMD mumSun's opportunistic behaviorThis comes from desperation. Intel managed to get a performance advantage with Woodcrest, which AMD will take away when it ships its Quad-cores. The leapfrogging can go on forever. Rather than make a bold move and take advantage of Torrenza, where...
- Tags: Servers, UNIX, Processors, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Xeon, Sun Solaris, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Showtime, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
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