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Not your father's Intel Architecture

Intel is using this weeks Intel Developer Forum in Beijing to show the new direction in which it is taking its processors. The chipmaker has begun to shift away from designing and manufacturing monolithic or single function chips. Instead, it has begun to create silicon that pairs its Intel Architecture...

Tags: Uncategorized, Servers, semiconductors, Semiconductor architecture, Power conservation, multicore processors, Intel, Data centers, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Warning signals tough going for AMD

Advanced Micro Devices is learning that growing up is sometimes hard. The company said today that it has had difficulty reacting to a slowdown in purchases from its PC maker customers during the early part of the first quarter. Thus it has lowered its revenue expectation for the period. AMD...

Tags: dual-core processors, processor price cuts, quad-core processors, consumer electronics, Hewlett-Packard, semiconductors, multicore processors, notebooks, Dell, Semiconductor architecture, Desktops, AMD, Servers, Uncategorized, Intel

Blog posts 2007-03-05

AMD fires new volley in chip core war

Advanced Micro Devices has begun laying the groundwork for its next battle with Intel. Collectively, we might call these the core wars. AMD on Dec. 14 unveiled more details behind Fusion, its vision for the future of the x86 processor, in an effort to get customers—both PC makers and end...

Tags: consumer electronics, semiconductors, notebooks, multicore processors, Semiconductor architecture, Servers, AMD, Intel, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2006-12-19

Additional Resources

Wind River: Tasty Embedded Linux Treat

Intel just purchased embedded systems vendor Wind River for a cool $884M. But why? The answer may lie in Linux and device virtualization. For many, Intel's acquisition of Wind River may have gone over this week as just another asset grab by the...

Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Embedded Linux, Operating System, Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-05

IBM's chip gang touts 28-nanometer advancement

An IBM consortium that includes chip manufacturing players Chartered, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics said Thursday it is developing 28-nanometer low power semiconductors. The consortium also extended technology pacts between its members. The manufacturing processes for 28nm chips are in place for so-called "early risk production"---real early...

Tags: Consortium, IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzyItanium doesn't stand a chance to NehalemOne things for sure (and probably why Intels Tukwila/Itanium has slipped by about a year) is that Itanium doesn't stand a chance against Nehalem and even when Tukwila does arrive, will have a tough ride against Nehalem-EX....

Tags: Semiconductors, Servers, Processors, transistor, Nehalem, electron, Ballistic Deflection Transistor, single core server, Intel Itanium, server

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

The idea of nanorobots floating throughout our arteries to fight diseases and deliver drugs is migrating from science fiction to medical fact, at least in virtual 3D simulations. Nanorobotics pioneer Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues report progress with their nanorobot control design NCD software which helps them simulate the behavior...

Tags: Gradient, Vessel, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Intel and TSMC reach Atom deal

Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. TSMC today announced a collaboration involving Intel's Atom processor. Under the deal, Intel will port Atom CPU cores to TSMC's technology platform, a move intended to expand its market for Atom System-on-Chip SoC processors. In a statement, the company said: With this joint...

Tags: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 Netbook

Freescale to use Android, ARM for $100 NetbookAnd, Microsoft will be left scrambling yet again. Have they already startedthe port of real Windows to Arm, or will they try to use Windows CE here.Fake business plan - Consumer snow job1) Save on license fees? Everyone seems to agree any MS...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, ARM, Freescale

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

ARM shows possible iPhone-bound multicore mobile processor

ARM is demonstrating the first working example of a multicore processor that may dramatically speed up smartphones while Apple is searching for iPhone engineers that can write multithreaded code, perhaps to take advantage of ARM's breakthrough, AppleInsider reports. The chip designer along with ST-Ericsson is reportedly running...

Tags: Apple iPhone, ARM, Mobile, Multi-core, Chip, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Can two AMDs be better than one?

Can two AMDs be better than one?They should never have bought ATIATI was content with competing with NVIDIA, and if market conditions had let them fail at it, so be it. What we're seeing now is the failure of 2 companies, not just one.ExpensiveThe cash infusion may have been...

Tags: Research & Development, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Can Apple hope to defeat the "Attack of the Clones"?

Can Apple hope to defeat the "Attack of the Clones"?Apple vs The ClonesThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major commodity,...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

AMD posts seventh straight quarterly loss

AMD posts seventh straight quarterly losscopycat?AMD produced chips that ran on the x86 architecture, and spearheaded the jump into desktop x64. Intel "adopted" x86-64 from AMD. The Opteron was released by AMD in 2003, a full year ahead of Intel.Heck, Intel even renamed their implementation several times, eventually settling on...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., semiconductor, Intel Corp., quarterly loss

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

ASE Turns to New System Architecture to Enhance Performance and Service Quality

The ASE Group is the world's largest provider of independent semiconductor manufacturing test and assembly services. The ASE Kaohsiung plant ships product almost 365 days every year. However, the volume of data generated caused a range of problems, including deficiencies in the accuracy of data archiving and frequent performance issues...

Tags: System Architecture, Oracle Corp., Performance, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, ASE Group, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-06-01

Is Apple going back to the PowerPC?

Hardware independence as a strategic weapon The Forbes magazine scoop that Apple is buying P. A. Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley company that designs high-performance, power-sipping PowerPC chips - the very chips Apple just migrated away from - raises a host of questions. But the people who need to worry...

Tags: Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Ten more ways SOA made a difference in 2007

From planes to trains to phones to hotels, SOA played a key role in advancing many businesses in 2007. I culled several more working examples of where SOA made a difference over the past year from my SOA in Action Website over at ebizQ, which tracks SOA success stories. More...

Tags: Airline, British Telecommunications, SOA, EasyFIDS, Marriott, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-27

The virtualization market: The real scrum is just beginning

VMware's first quarter as a public company was a humdinger, but the real battle in the virtualization market is just getting started. Over the next year or so the virtualization landscape is going to become a lot more interesting. VMware is a company with a lead and...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Return On Investment Case, Simon Crosby, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Why AMD's triple core Phenom is a bigger deal than you think

AMD rolled out its Phenom triple core processor and the reactions ranged from "triple core is a marketing spiel" to "triple core gives consumers another option." Both reactions miss the big picture. The big picture is that AMD's triple core chip is a nice intersection where engineering meets...

Tags: Processor, Quad-core, Yield, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Bottom Line, Core, Manufacturing Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Electronics and Circuit Analysis Quick Study Guide. FREE first chapter in the trial (Mobile)

Boost Your grades with this illustrated quick-study guide. You will use it from an undergraduate school all the way to graduate school and beyond. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Search for the...

Tags: Diode, Mobile, Electronics, Amplifier, Modulation, Analysis, Semiconductors, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-07-24