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Intel to Retire its LGA1366 and LGA1156 Processors in 2012
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Since Ivy Bridge is still a few months away from release, Intel has decided to keep itself busy by sealing the fate of a bunch of older processors including the Core i7-930, i7-950, i7-960, i7-980 and i7-990X which are part of the LGA1366 platform, and the LGA1156-compatible Pentium G6950, G6960 and Core i3-540, i5-650, i5-660, i5-670, i5-680, i7-860 and i7-870.
These 45nm and 32nm CPUs are set to be available for further orders until June 29, 2012, and will continue to ship either until supplies are depleted (for the boxed versions) or until December 7th, 2012 (for the tray SKUs). As always, it's onwards and upwards.
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Intel to Retire Several Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 CPUs in 2012
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Intel sends word that they plans to retire five Sandy Bridge LGA 1155 CPUs released earlier this year from its product lineup, including three Pentium processors and two second generation Core models built using the 32nm fabrication node.
The processors affected are the Core i5-2300 and Core i3-2100T, both tray and boxed, as well as the Pentium G840, G620 and G620T.
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AMD Shows New A-Series Notebook APUs
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Yesterday AMD quietly introduced seven new accelerated A-Series notebook APU's, featuring quad and dual-core designs.
Four out of the seven CPUs introduced by AMD are from the A8 and A6 series which means that they include four processing cores, while the remaining three are A4 chips with dual computing cores.
The fastest of these quad-core models is the A8-3550MX which compared to its predecessor got 100MHz higher base and Turbo Core speeds, making it the first Llano mobile processors to reach the 2GHz frequency (2.7GHz in Turbo mode).
However, the specs of the graphics core were left unaltered and the chip sports the same Radeon HD 6620G integrated GPU which operated at 444MHz.
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NVIDIA sees ARM supercomputer be more efficient than x86
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It'll be very interesting to see ARM development and implementation in the years to come.
EE Times reports NVIDIA is betting on ARM to be more efficient for supercomputers than x86: In a recent interview, Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta, director of Tesla marketing, said the only real advantage to x86 systems was that they could run operating systems like Microsoft Windows faster, but that when it came to needing maximum performance on minimum power, ARM was the future, and therefore a better option for supercomputing.
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Samsung's 2GHz Exynos 5250 is first SoC with super fast dual-core Cortex-A15 processor
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Samsung just announced its 2GHz Exynos 5250 System-on-Chip, a first to feature ARM's new dual-core Cortex-A15 processor said to be about twice as fast as the 1.5GHz Cortex-A9. The Exynos 5250 is based on 32nm manufacturing processes and brings vastly improved 3D graphics performance over existing Cortex-A9 systems — as much as 4x better in some cases — with support for stereoscopic 3D displays. It also supports WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600 pixel) resolutions making it ideal for next generation tablets. The new Exynos 5250 SoC is sampling now and will ship in quantity in the second quarter of 2012.
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Is Intel Going to Kill its Celeron Processor Brand?
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The information comes courtesy of TweakTown, which says that Intel may be replacing Celerons with Pentiums. So far, there is not much substance to this rumor as it is based on speculation surrounding the release of the Pentium 350 as a low-end part for servers.
In the past, Intel has occasionally played with the idea to get rid of some old brand names that carried baggage with somewhat negative connotations. For example, we had credible information back in the beginning of 2006 that Intel was pretty much set to drop the Pentium brand. As the first Core 2 Duo processors (Conroe core) were prepared to replace the 65 nm Pentium 4 processors, which had assumed a reputation of being inferior to A...
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ARM launches own Android development kit for improved energy performance with its chipsets
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Considering that ARM's chip architecture is found in the vast majority of smartphones today, a new Android development kit issued by the Brits can only be welcome news.
The DS-5 Community Edition kit promises up to 4 times faster application performance than Java code, and differs from Google's own SDK and NDK in that it is optimized for energy efficiency.
Coming straight from the source we've no doubt that the DS-5 CE code can lead to more power-thrifty applications and software on Android devices, and hope that developers will take a long and hard look into it when compiling for ARM-based chipsets.
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Bulldozer world record re-broken by Andre Yang with a 8.58GHz victory lap
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There you have it, folks. Floating over this text is the CPU-Z record that proves it: four days after Andre Yang broke the chip speed overclocking record with AMD's Bulldozer, he's done it again. The chip maker was eerily prescient when it said it expected others to beat the record and that unnatural confidence in the silicon has paid off. Last time, Yang managed to push only 30MHz over the previous record, this time he's found a further 123.3MHz -- making the total chip speed 8.58GHz. The secret to his success was in increasing his chip voltage (2.076v compared to 1.992 last time) and over-liberal use of liquid nitrogen. Maybe he could convince Sunnyvale to loan him a massive vat of liquid ...
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ARMv8 detailed: 64-bit architecture, AppliedMicro first in line
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Thought Windows on ARM was snazzy? Have a gander at this. The outfit's forthcoming ARMv8 architecture, the first ARM architecture to include a 64-bit instruction set, has just been detailed, with a goal to expand the reach of ARM processor-based solutions "into consumer and enterprise applications where extended virtual addressing and 64-bit data processing are required." The ARMv8 architecture consists of two main execution states -- AArch64 and AArch32 -- and we're apt to see the real benefits hit high-end servers first. The ARMv8 architecture specifications are available now to partners under license, with the company planning to disclose processors based on ARMv8 during 2012, with consum...
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One Dude Beats AMD's Overclocking World Record (8.46 GHz!)
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Just last month, AMD staged an event to squeeze an amazing 8429.38 MHz out of its FX-8150 processor. The highest-clocked CPU in the world—it was a big production. And now they've been beat by a team of one.
Andre Yang eked out a 32 MHz advantage over AMD's team—but he did it without the sponsorship, camera crew, and most importantly, the teamwork. All it took, TechPowerUp reports, is 2 GB of RAM, an ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard, and a scalding hot 2 volts of electricity pumped into the chip. Like AMD's official record, Yang's overclocked masterpiece was running with almost all of its cores disabled to prevent it from melting through his table and down to the center of the earth.
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ARMv8 detailed: first 64-bit chip, backwards compatible
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ARM on Thursday outlined some of the details of its first 64-bit chip architecture, ARMv8. The design is an extension of the current 32-bit ARMv7 and either keeps or expands on features like its Neon instructions, security, and virtual machine support. Most of the benefit comes from the move to 64-bit by itself, which lets it handle much larger data sets and support more virtual memory, sometimes leading to faster performance.
Its 32-bit component keeps all the same features and is backwards compatible. An OS could theoretically build in support for legacy apps, although ARM hasn't said if the v8 platform supports running 32- and 64-bit code at the same time.
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Samsung confirmed to use ARM's big.LITTLE chip architecture for frugal Exynos in 2012
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At the ARM TechCon 2011 event we got the much desired confirmation by Samsung's VP John Kalkman, that the mobile device maker will use the new Cortex-A7 plus ARM's latest big.LITTLE architecture to build a new Exynos chip in 2012: “I’m extremely excited to announce that Samsung will deliver a new Exynos processor in 2012 that leverages both the Cortex-A7 and big.Little technology to meet the crucial demands of always-on and always-connected computing.”
The new chip paradigm does what some chipmakers like NVIDIA or TI have been doing with their multicores for a while, combining low-powered cores with high-performance ones to achieve unmatched battery vs performance ratio. ARM leverages that ...
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Intel Launches Core i7-2700K Processor
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Well it was expected for a while now, Intel released its latest performance-segment processor, the Core i7-2700K. The i7-2700K is a quad-core chip in the LGA1155 package, based on the 32 nm "Sandy Bridge" silicon. It is clocked at 3.50 GHz, and features an unlocked base clock ratio multiplier, which makes overclocking possible. It features AVX instruction set, AES native acceleration, HyperThreading (which enables 8 logical CPUs), 256 KB L2 cache per core, and 8 MB of shared L3 cache.
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ARM unveils hyper-efficient Cortex-A7 chip for smartphones
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ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, a new microprocessor design that will be used in sub-$100 smartphones, as well as in high-end smartphones alongside the more powerful Cortex-A15.
ARM designs the chips used in most of the world's smartphones and tablets, including Apple's iPad and iPhone. The A7 will be its most energy-efficient chip design to date, ARM said at a press conference in San Francisco Wednesday. Samples are due next year, and the A7 will appear in entry-level smartphones by 2013, ARM said.
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AMD's 8-core desktop chip puts it back in the race with Intel
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AMD is looking to get back into the race with Intel with the introduction of its eight-core desktop chip and its new Bulldozer architecture.
The chip manufacturer unveiled Wednesday its FX family of CPUs, which includes the first eight-core desktop processor. These are also the first chips to be released with AMD's Bulldozer architecture.
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