Posts Tagged ‘Intel’
The challenge of Multi-Core chips
June 15th, 2009
More cores = better performance but many programs written for a single-core chips must be revised or updated to exploit the potential of multicore chips.
Adding more processor cores has become one of the ways to enhance the performance of servers and personal computers, but the benefits decrease if the industry is not able to overcome some challenges, both in hardware and in software, as has been apparent in the last Multicore Expo edition in California.
Nehalem in Apple Xserve
April 10th, 2009
Looked like Apple had forgotten something in its server platform, but was not the case: recently renewed the line with Intel Xeon processors with Nehalem microarchitecture, which is already included in the MacPro. Read the rest of this entry »
Intel introduces new Atom chips
April 9th, 2009
Intel has introduced new chips that will join the current Atom range and are oriented to mobile internet devices and PC. Two new chips that cover the demand for more power with 2 GHz processor and another one with a maximum frequency of 1.2 GHz. The new processors are part of the range Z5xx and has a consumption of only 3W. Read the rest of this entry »