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IDF notes: The secret to understanding Intel . . .

Intel's microprocessors are commonplace but the key to understanding Intel is not in microprocessors . . . by Tom Foremski

Tags: Microprocessor, Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Intel domination of microprocessor markets reaches a new 4 year high

Intel has been incredibly successful in its microprocessor business and its domination has reached a four-year high reports market research firm iSuppli. In the second quarter of 2009 Intel's share rose 1.5 points to 80.6 per cent of global microprocessor revenue compared with the first quarter of...

Tags: Revenue, Microprocessor, Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-09-14

AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1

It's good to see AMD becoming more competitive against Intel and for the first time in a year, managing to win back market share, says iSuppli, a market research firm. Intel lost 2.5 points in market share to 79.1 per cent, its first decline after a year...

Tags: Revenue, Microprocessor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Operational Accounting, Processors, Hardware, Finance, Components, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-09

AMD's latest power play

OK, I admit that I just HAD to use that headline because I am a closet hockey fan. But Advanced Micro Devices does indeed have some news this week about the power efficiency of its quad-core Opteron microprocessor product line. The company's latest quad-core edition is the...

Tags: Data Center, Quad-core, Microprocessor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy

I spent most of Wednesday listening to Dell executives and their customers talk about Dell's new IT systems, especially its new Nehalem based servers. In the press room before the event, I was trying to read Dell's press release, and joking with colleagues that it was full...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., RISC, Information Technology, Microprocessor, Intel Corp., Nehalem Performance, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-26

HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?

Hewlett-Packard and Sun will announce details of "their newly expanded partnership agreement" Wednesday morning. Might this be a step towards a merger? I've long been a proponent of a HP/Sun combination, there are some strong synergies such as: +Both have strong and green datacenter...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Merger, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microprocessor, +Sun, Middleware Software, Data Centers, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Semiconductors, Processors, Middleware, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Investment, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-24

U.S. wields larger influence on sustainable companies list

Oh goody, it's list time! This one is somewhat of a role model ranking of The Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations inthe world, published by Corporate Knights magazine and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors. It was actually released at the World Economic Forum last week, but I don't get to go...

Tags: Imaging, Microprocessor, E-business, Document Management, Web Technology, Semiconductors, E-business/E-Commerce, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Internet, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-03

The many-core performance wall

Many-core chips are the great hope for more performance but Sandia National Lab simulations show they are about to hit a memory wall. How bad is it? Some background Memory bandwidth is the limiting performance factor in CPUs. If you can't feed the beast it stops...

Tags: DRAM, Performance, Memory Bandwidth, Microprocessor, Chip, Wall, Sandia National Lab, Memory Wall, Performance Management, Semiconductors, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Live migration across different platforms demonstrated

A while back I received a note from Red Hat's PR company that exclaimed that Red Hat and AMD had successfully migrated a running virtual machine from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteronâ„¢ processor, utilizing...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microprocessor, Migration, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Semiconductors, Processors, Open Source, Hardware, Components, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-14

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

The origin of the PC culture is unclear - its rise to dominance both an undoubted reality and a largely unexplained one. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Culture, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy, ZiLOG, Performance, PC, Microprocessor, CPU, Computer, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., CP/M, Processors, Performance Management, Productivity, Semiconductors, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Improvements in the Intel Core2 Penryn Processor Family Architecture and Microarchitecture

Intels Corporation continuously seeks to improve the performance of each Intel Architecture microprocessor generation through architectural initiatives as well as process and circuit improvements. The predecessor to the Penryn family of processors, the 65nm Intel Core microarchitecture, codename Merom, led the competition in performance. The paper explains how in the...

Tags: Microprocessor, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-10-01

Global PC COU shipments slowed in Q1 2008 to â€"9.2%

Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments slowed notably in Q1 2008, resulting in sequential growth of -9.2% over Q4 2007. In YOY comparisons, overall unit shipments and market revenue grew by 25.7% and 15.9% respectively, according to IDC. Shipments of processors for desktop PCs led the slowdown in Q1 2008, with sequential...

Tags: PC, Shipment, Microprocessor, Desktops, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-29

Design of a Data Recovery Block for Communications Over Power Distribution Networks of Microprocessors

This paper proposed the use of Power Distribution Network PDN of a microprocessor for ubiquitous access of internal nodes for test/debug and showed the suitability of impulse Ultra-WideBand UWB communications for the purpose. This paper presents design of a data recovery block to recover data from UWB impulses superposed on...

Tags: UWB, Data Recovery, Network, Microprocessor, Ultrawideband (UWB), Storage Management, Semiconductors, Databases, Processors, Wireless, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Components

White papers 2008-06-18

High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology

What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...

Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Intel's first quarter report: What to expect

Intel rolls out the first big technology earnings report after market close Tuesday and analysts are expecting a quarter in line to slightly below expectations. Intel all resources is expected to report earnings of 25 cents a share and sales of $9.63 billion for the quarter ending...

Tags: Revenue, Analyst, Microprocessor, Intel Corp., Operational Accounting, Semiconductors, Sales Strategy, Processors, Finance, Hardware, Sales, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Global CPU market grew 8.5% in Q4 2007

Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments grew 8.5% QTQ in Q4 2007 to reach record levels for the second quarter in a row, according to IDC. Growth in overall unit shipments and stable average selling prices stimulated overall market revenue to grow 9.6% sequentially to $8.7 bln. by NB

Tags: Shipment, Microprocessor, CPU, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-23

High-Bandwidth Address Translation for Multiple-Issue Processors

In an effort to push the envelope of system performance, microprocessor designs are continually exploiting higher levels of instruction-level parallelism, resulting in increasing bandwidth demands on the address translation mechanism. Most current microprocessor designs meet this demand with a multi-ported TLB. While this design provides an excellent hit rate at...

Tags: Design, Latency, Microprocessor, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-01-01

Energy-Aware Microprocessor Synchronization: Transactional Memory Vs. Locks

One important way in which multiprocessors differ from uniprocessors is in the need to provide programmers the ability to synchronize concurrent access to memory. Transactional memory was proposed as a way of improving throughput especially when the rate of synchronization conflict is low. This paper explores power implications of transactional...

Tags: Aware, Brown University, Memory, Microprocessor, Flash Memory

White papers 2008-01-01

"Back that truck up"

The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...

Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-21

System Power Management Support in the IBM POWER6 Microprocessor

The IBM POWER6 microprocessor chip supports advanced, dynamic power management solutions for managing not just the chip but the entire server. The design facilitates a programmable power management solution for greater flexibility and integration into system- and data-center-wide management solutions. The design of the POWER6 microprocessor provides real-time access to...

Tags: Power Management, IBM POWER6, Microprocessor, IBM Corp.

White papers 2007-11-01