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Intel Xeon E5-2690 Sandy Bridge-EP Performance RevealedDec 28, 2011 - in News
TechPowerUp received a "leaked" presentation that allegedly details Intel's Sandy Bridge-EP platform, along with early performance numbers.
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Intel Receives Network-Power-On PatentDec 28, 2011 - in News
Intel has been just granted a patent which enables electronic devices to be switched on via an intermediate computing device.
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Lasers Enable Finer Chip Structures, Advance of Moore's LawDec 26, 2011 - in News
A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said it has found a new way to shrink circuit structures in semiconductors.
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AMD's Bulldozer Architecture: Overclocking Efficiency ExploredDec 25, 2011 - in Reviews
AMD’s FX processor line-up was supposedly designed with efficiency in mind, according to AMD. We're putting this claim to the test, assessing the Bulldozer architecture at a number of different clock rates and comparing the results to Intel's CPUs.
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Researchers Say Molybdenite Could Replace Silicon in ChipsDec 25, 2011 - in News
Scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) claim to have built an integrated circuit that uses molybdenite instead of silicon.
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Intel Expands CPU Market Share in Q3 to 84 PercentDec 23, 2011 - in News
Intel was able to increase its lead microprocessor sales over AMD in the third quarter of 2011
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Intel Sampling Prototype Medfield Smartphones, TabletsDec 22, 2011 - in News
Intel is showcasing smartphone and tablet reference designs sporting the company's"Medfield," it's first true mobile SoC.
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AMD CMO Nigel Dessau Leaving CompanyDec 21, 2011 - in News
AMD's chief marketing officer, Nigel Dessau, is the latest to be moving on from the executive ranks of the company.
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Universal Transistor Could Enable Much Smaller CircuitsDec 21, 2011 - in News
German researchers claim to have developed the first transistor that can configure itself to either being a n-type or p-type field-effect transistors (FETs).
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TI Sued Over Patent Infringement in OMAP 3 and 4 SeriesDec 20, 2011 - in News
Texas Instruments (TI) is facing a patent infringement suit from Cradle IP, which claims that the company is violating three of its patents with its TMS320-series digital signal processors as well as its ARM-based AM389x Sitara and OMAP3 and 4 processors.
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Nvidia Announces Carma: Cuda ARM Development KitDec 20, 2011 - in News
Developers can now pre-order Nvidia's CUDA on ARM reference platform and development kit.
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AMD Unleashes 2nd-Gen A-Series APUs for Laptops, DesktopsDec 20, 2011 - in News
AMD has released 13 new A-Series APUs for desktops and laptops.
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GlobalFoundries: Double Patterning to Reach 20 nmDec 20, 2011 - in News
GlobalFoundries heading towards 20 nm manufacturing.
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Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU Prices to be Similar to Sandy BridgeDec 20, 2011 - in News
We get an early price listing for Intel's Ivy Bridge processors, and compared them to similar current generation Sandy Bridge processors.
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AMD Appoints Former Freescale, IBM Exec to Move Into MobileDec 19, 2011 - in News
AMD's new CEO is restocking the company's open executive ranks with new blood that appears to be drawn mainly from previous IBM contacts.
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Win an Intel Core i7-3930K + X79 + SSD System KitDec 17, 2011 - in News
Here's your chance to win one of our favorite processors.
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Trouble May be Ahead for Intel Medfield's Fight Against ARMDec 16, 2011 - in News
2012 is generally seen as a do-or-die year for Intel as far as its smartphone and tablet play is concerned.
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Windows 7 Hotfix Promises AMD Bulldozer Performance BoostDec 16, 2011 - in News
Microsoft has quietly issued a Knowledge Base article that promises greater performance of AMD Bulldozer processors under Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Intel Merging Four Divisions Into One Mobile UnitDec 16, 2011 - in News
To better position itself as an ARM rival, Intel is reorganizing its mobile division, cramming four groups into one large unit.
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Intel Signs Deal For Adding NFC to Future ChipsDec 15, 2011 - in News
NFC technology is officially coming to Intel products in the near future, backing up reports that Intel-based smartphones and ultrabooks would support the technology.
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Quad-core CPUs About to Surpass Dual-cores for GamersDec 14, 2011 - in News
The latest data set published in the Steam Hardware & Software Survey suggests that processors with four cores are, five years after their introduction, ready to capture the top spot in gamer popularity.
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Scientists Tout Photonic Chip As Quantum Chip BreakthroughDec 14, 2011 - in News
Researchers say they have developed the first quantum computer device that can create, manipulate and measure particle interaction on a small chip.
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Intel Fixes VT-d Bug in Sandy Bridge-E CPUsDec 13, 2011 - in News
Intel will be shipping its i7-3960X Extreme Edition and i7-3930K processor in C2 stepping in January, the company revealed in a product change notification (PCN) this week.
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AMD in 2012: Cloudy With a Chance of TabletsDec 13, 2011 - in News
AMD just sent out its invitations for its 2012 analyst day, which was originally scheduled to take place in November, but was moved to February 2, 2012.
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$1 Billion Short: Hard Drive Shortage Impacts Intel's Q4Dec 12, 2011 - in News
Intel today told investors that the global hard drive shortage caused by the Thailand flood has forced the company to reduce its fourth quarter outlook to a midpoint of $13.7 billion, down from a previous midpoint estimate of $14.7 billion.
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Google Doodle Celebrates a Father of the MicrochipDec 12, 2011 - in News
Google is honoring Intel co-founder Robert Noyce with a doodle resembling Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004, today.
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Qualcomm's New Snapdragons are Backwards-CompatibleDec 10, 2011 - in News
Dual-core is about to become the low-end smartphone standard thanks to Qualcomm's two new Snapdragon SoCs.
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OpenACC May Hint to the Future of CUDA at NvidiaDec 9, 2011 - in News
An announcement from Nvidia made at the most recent SC11 conference apparently got lost in a wave of supercomputing announcements.
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Intel Phases Out 19 Core-i3, i5, i7 and Pentium CPUsDec 9, 2011 - in News
Intel has notified its partners to prepare for a significant change in desktop processor supply in 2012, which clears the company's product portfolio to accommodate the Sandy Bridge-E processors as well as the upcoming 22 nm product generation.
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Intel Core i7-3930K And Core i7-3820: Sandy Bridge-E, CheaperDec 8, 2011 - in Reviews
Core i7-3960X is undeniably fast. But at more than $1000, it’s hardly an option for most enthusiasts. We got our hands on the Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3820 to gauge their overclocked performance and determine if they’re able to best the flagship part.