Source: The Register
AMD is spinning up the sales story for its bifurcated 64-bit chip brands, the Opteron and the Athlon (as its uniprocessor version is to be called).
It'll be several months before any of the damn things reach the public, but that won't stop AMD's PR bunnies from teasing out the announcements.
One individual with too much free time has managed to cook an egg on his Athlon XP processor. It took longer than doing it the normal way, but the end-result tasted just as good, apparently.
Kids, don't try this at home.
Source: ZDNet
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that it expects the next major public update for the Linux operating system to include support for the company's x86-64 technology--the basis for its next generation of processors, known as the Hammer family.
Source: TomsHardware
biatch0: My next processor will hopefully be one of these hot babes. Check out the full story over at TomsHardware.
Source: Intel.com
The Application Accelerator delivers faster overall system boot times by significantly accelerating the load time of the OS - enabling you to build Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based systems with a better overall end-user experience. Intel® Application Accelerator reduces the storage sub-system bottleneck, enabling the processor and other system level hardware to be more productive and efficient... or so they say :)
Source: The Inquirer
CHIP GIANT INTEL confirmed the large caches it will include on future versions of the Itanium and has also further explained its tie in with Ovonics on these chips, first revealed here some months ago.
Intel is delivering eleven papers at the Solid State conference. Along with this, Intel has now formally released details of the 3MB cache on chip which it claims will deliver 1.5 to two times performance over the current designs.
Intel Corp. and other chipmakers will be unveiling their latest innovations and breakthroughs in semiconductor design here this week at an annual gathering of chip engineers, one of the industry's biggest.
