Archive for the ‘CPU’ Category

Intel Slashes the Prices of Several Core 2 Duo CPUs, Cuts the Price of C2Q6600

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Pentium developer Intel, today slashed the prices of several Core 2 Duo processors, and most notably has slashed the price of its 65nm Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU. The price of Core 2 Quad Q6600 drops 14%, from $224 to $193 in 1000 units tray quantity. In addition to making ...

Intel Said to Prepare Quad-core Mobile Processors for Launch Next Month

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Intel is preparing the launch of new quad-core processors for laptops next month, Yahoo! News informs today. "We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Specifics of the forthcoming quad-core chips are missing, but Australian PC maker Pioneer ...

Core 2 Duo E7400 Planned for Q4 2008

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Intel's next addition to the budget Core 2 Duo E7000 series, the E7400 is slated for fourth quarter 2008. This processor at a US $133 price-point will come with a 2.83 GHz core clock with a 1066 MHz front-side bus (FSB), with 3 MB of L2 cache and a rated ...

Intel Centrino 2 Mobile Platform now Official

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Intel Corporation unveiled its Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops today, powered by five new Intel Core 2 Duo processors. Close to 250 innovative consumer and business notebook PC designs are on the way, including those equipped with the right combination of powerful processors, graphics and battery life ...

Pre-release Tests Conducted on AMD Deneb

Friday, July 11th, 2008

AMD Deneb is the code-name for the 45nm quad-core CPU which AMD plans to release soon. Chinese website ITOCP got their hands on two engineering samples. They used these samples at various clock-speeds set by altering the FSB multiplier and Vcore voltage. These chips were then subjected to rounds of ...

Bloomfield 2.93 GHz Performance Data Disclosed

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Benchmarks of Nehalem derivatives are on a roll. We had seen the Bloomfield 2.66 GHz scores and thought it was great. A couple of days ago, Tom's Hardware showed off their newest toys to the world in which was a 2.93 GHz Bloomfield we covered here. Interestingly, they had then ...

Two 45nm Phenom X4 and an Ultra-Mobile CPU Slated for Q4

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

NordicHardware reports that in Q4 2008, Advanced Micro Devices is slating two models of 45nm Phenom X4 quad-core chips along with a cheap ultra-mobile CPU aimed to compete with the Intel Atom and VIA Nano processors for release. The two new Phenom parts would be based on the new Denreb ...

Toshiba’s Newest Notebooks to Feature Modified CELL Processor

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The first thing that comes to your mind when you talk about CELL Broadband Engine is probably the Sony Playstation 3. Toshiba, a prominent player in ultra-portable computing have announced that a new pair of laptops, the Qosmio G55 and Qosmio F40, which will feature processors derived from the CELL ...

Intel Plans to Launch Three Bloomfield Processors for Q4′08

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Intel is being reported to launch three Nehalem-based quad-core processors (Bloomfield) for the end of this year (Q4). Intel does not provide any official names yet, but the CPUs will be identified as XE, P1 and MS3. Working at 3.2GHz, 2.93GHz and 2.66GHz respectively, all three members will have a ...

AMD Rumored to be Developing Intel Atom Competitor

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

AMD is possibly developing a low-power processor to compete with Intel’s “Atom” in the emerging Mobile Internet Device (MID) market. The new processor to counter the Atom will be a low-power AMD64-based design according to leaked slides obtained by Hexus. The processor will feature an integrated memory controller, 16-lane 800MHz ...