All Entries Tagged With: "Intel"
Intel SIMD Accelerator promises to boost MID performance
Share Intel isn’t offering a whole lot of details on this one just yet, but the company has let out an early word of a new and improved SIMD Accelerator it’s currently working on, which promises to boost the graphics performance of MIDs while also consuming ten times less power than the accelerators now used. [...]
AMD x86 CPU production threatened by Intel
Share Intel has threatened AMD with the termination of their x86 cross-licensing agreement, after AMD revealed its intention to spin out chip manufacturing.
Intel’s GN40 Atom chipset can do 1080p .. sort off
Share Over at fudzilla they received an answer from Intel regarding the matter if Intel’s GN40 Atom chipset can do 1080p HD video playbck. The answer seems to be … ‘some HD support’.
Intel’s Atom Platform Expands Into Embedded Computing
Share With the expansion of the existing Z5xx series of its Atom processor platform, Intel plans to address the growing segment of embedded computing, such as in-vehicle infotainment, medical, retail and transaction solutions (kiosks, point-of-service terminals), gaming and industrial control and automation.
Intel shows what it takes to build a fab (video)
Share Fun video. Earlier this month Intel published a video on YouTube that shows how Intel is moving from manufacturing microprocessors using 45 nanometer circuitry to even smaller 32 nanometer circuitry.
NVIDIA Ion 2 to support Core 2, ship Q4 2009?
Share If accurate, a new leak has NVIDIA releasing an updated version of its Ion platform with support for more than just netbook processors.
Intel: 45nm transistors use 1/7000th the power of 4004 transistors
Share This is a funny fact, and sure .. quite an accomplishment when you think about it. Intel unveiled on its website that each of the 45nm transistors in the upcoming 8-core Xeon processors uses 1/7,000th the power and takes up 1/40,000th the area of the original 4004 transistors that Intel was manufacturing in 1971:
Intel goes after the money, sues NVIDIA
Share Intel filed a lawsuit against Nvidia late on Monday, alleging that the two companies’ current four-year-old chipset license agreement does not extend to Intel’s upcoming CPUs with “integrated” memory controllers. NVIDIA entered into the agreement in 2004 in order to bring platform innovations to Intel CPU based systems. In return, Intel took a license [...]