News tagged with processor cores
Moore's Law Marches on at Intel
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Scientists squeeze more than 1,000 cores on to computer chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created an ultra-fast 1,000-core computer processor.
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Increasing processor efficiency by 'shutting off the lights'
There was a time when a laptop could weigh 10 pounds and still sell—a time when a cell phone was larger than a pocket—and a time when an iPod only played music.
Feb 28, 2011 |
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AMD Announces Eight New Athlon II Processors
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family.
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest
An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Nvidia releases the Kal-El quad-core mobile chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has announced their brand new quad-core mobile processor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The new processor was given the interestingly superheroic name Kal-El. Just in ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Taiwan's HTC unveils smartphone with powerful camera
Taiwan's HTC on Monday unveiled the smartphones that it said would allow users to "retire" their digital cameras, as it sought to fight back against rivals Apple and Samsung.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Engineers boost computer processor performance by over 20 percent
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Cystorm supercomputer unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second
Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second ...
Aug 21, 2009 |
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Chinese supercomputer will feature The Godson-3B: A mesh style processor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese researchers expect to unveil the Dawning 6000 supercomputer in the third quarter of 2011. Unlike the previous versions of this supercomputer, the current version will be something very different when ...
May 02, 2011 |
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Nvidia says Kal-El chip will have five cores
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia says its upcoming Kal-El chip (Tegra 3) will have five cores, not four. The news appeared this week when the Santa Clara company announced a white paper describing the architecture of this system-on-a-chip for mobile computing. ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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AMD's Phenom II Takes On Intel's Core 2 Processors
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has added two new Phenom II desktop chips to their product line. The Phenom II Dragon line desktop processors use AMD's new 45-nanometer technology and consists both of a triple-core (X3) ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, simulation shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Asian mobile giants go ultra fast in race for smartphone pie
Asian mobile telecom giants Huawei and LG on Sunday launched a new generation of ultra rapid smartphones, in a race to catch up with market leaders Apple and Samsung.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 26, 2012 |
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