Intel Corporation has made its beta version of the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK) available for Microsoft Windows* and Moblin* operating systems developers. The kit helps software companies and individuals design and submit applications ("apps") for Intel-based netbooks to ultimately sell at stores opening next year.
Intel prepares new mobile platform, Centrino
Everything seems to indicate that Intel will be pushing a new mobile platform later this year that will succeed the very popular and successful Centrino. A number of online publications are betting on the "Centrino 2" name for the upcoming mobile platform that will likely boost small CPUs ranging from 1.2GHz to 2.4GHz manufactured using a 45nm process, plus a performance range that will scale up to 2.80 GHz. New chipsets are also incoming with an updated graphics core said to double the performance from the current X3100 GPU. Among networking choices, it is expected that WiMax will make a big debut in flagship laptop models. This latter technology has received astounding support from manufacturers, but adoption has been extremely slow in the consumer market.
Intel shows off 80-core processor
Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet.
Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.
The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.
Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.
The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.
Intel prepares six-core Xeon
Quad-core and Octo-core might be the current next-gen craze for desktops and servers, but Intel seems wants to pitch a line of CPUs in-between as well. Intel will be adding on to their Xeon lineup with the “Dunnington” core later this year, a CPU that will have a total of six cores under the hood.
Dunnington, which was announced three years ago, is intended to be an enterprise-class chip and will feature 3MB of shared L2 cache per pair of cores, and shared 16MB L3 cache. According to the leaked slides, it'll use the 'somewhat dated' 1066MHz FSB, and is probably aimed at preventing the Opteron from regaining any ground once AMD gets back on their feet.
Dunnington, which was announced three years ago, is intended to be an enterprise-class chip and will feature 3MB of shared L2 cache per pair of cores, and shared 16MB L3 cache. According to the leaked slides, it'll use the 'somewhat dated' 1066MHz FSB, and is probably aimed at preventing the Opteron from regaining any ground once AMD gets back on their feet.
Microsoft Windows 7 RTM is Coming
The hot news of last week is about the release of Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft is now on the final work of the OS and as per the sources the users will be able to download microsoft windows RTM from August 6th. This will be the English version and other language versions wil be available from October 1st.
Microsoft Windows Communication Manager,Brandon LeBlanc,recently mentioned Windows 7 RTM details in the Windows Team Blog. The details mostly matter for the Partners, OEMs, IT Professionals, Developers and Beta enthusiasts as well as testers.
From Microsoft Connect or Microsoft Developer Network, independent software and hardware vendor partners would be able to download Windows 7 RTM copy on Aug. 6 and Gold/Certified members of Microsoft Partner Program will get a copy on Aug. 16. Volume License Customers can get their copies from Volume License Service Center on Aug. 7.
Microsoft Action Pack Subscribers get to download Windows 7 RTM on Aug. 23 and the OEMs get it two days after Windows 7 goes to Manufacturing. Business customers, IT professionals, and developers will get the Windows 7 RTM copy late September. Microsoft also said that that Beta testers won't be able to download any free copy of Windows 7 even though they're beta testers.
LeBlanc also confirmed that Microsoft will be offering Windows 7 Family Pack.The main advantage is that home users with multiple PCs can buy Windows 7 Home Premium version that could be installed on to three PCs maximum.
Intel reduced CPU prices
One of the latest news in the field of computers is that the Processor making Giants, INTEL recently reduced the price of almost all of its processors except the Core i7 processor. Intel reduced the price of the most popular ones which includes Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium and Celeron CPUs.
Intel reduced the price of the above processors by about 10 to 20 percentage of the earlier price. This recent step taken by the Intel will make the AMD, the best competer of Intel in trouble and forced them to reduce their processor price also. Some of the reduced rates of Intel processor are given below.
The price of Intel Core2Quad Q9400 has lowered from $213 to $183 and that of Q8400 to $163.
Alos the price of Intel E7500 Core2Duo is reduced to $113 from $133, and the Celeron E1500 is lowered by a 19 percent that will make to $43 from $53.
Intel reduced the price of the above processors by about 10 to 20 percentage of the earlier price. This recent step taken by the Intel will make the AMD, the best competer of Intel in trouble and forced them to reduce their processor price also. Some of the reduced rates of Intel processor are given below.
The price of Intel Core2Quad Q9400 has lowered from $213 to $183 and that of Q8400 to $163.
Alos the price of Intel E7500 Core2Duo is reduced to $113 from $133, and the Celeron E1500 is lowered by a 19 percent that will make to $43 from $53.
Intel prepares new mobile platform, Centrino 2,
Everything seems to indicate that Intel will be pushing a new mobile platform later this year that will succeed the very popular and successful Centrino. A number of online publications are betting on the "Centrino 2" name for the upcoming mobile platform that will likely boost small CPUs ranging from 1.2GHz to 2.4GHz manufactured using a 45nm process, plus a performance range that will scale up to 2.80 GHz. New chipsets are also incoming with an updated graphics core said to double the performance from the current X3100 GPU. Among networking choices, it is expected that WiMax will make a big debut in flagship laptop models. This latter technology has received astounding support from manufacturers, but adoption has been extremely slow in the consumer market.
Intel profit beats expectations despite plunging sales
Intel has announced its latest financial results, beating market expectations and declaring the worst was over for the computing industry even as its first-quarter profit fell about 56 percent from a year earlier. Specifically, the world’s largest computer-chip maker saw a net profit of $647 million, down from $1.4 billion last year, while revenue dropped 26% to $7.1 billion.
Although notebooks are believed to be the one bright spot in the market, revenue from Atom processors and the chip sets that drive them was also down 27 percent sequentially, to $219 million. All these numbers are down a healthy amount when compared to other quarters, but Intel executives believe things could have been much worse if not for their operational efficiency and the fact that inventory was reduced 19 percent below fourth-quarter levels. The company also stated they were on track to reduce 2009 operational spending from 2008.
CEO Paul Otellini believes the worst is over from an inventory correction and demand level adjustment perspective, and claims that shipment patterns are starting to return to normal seasonal patterns. Despite his optimism, Intel refused to provide a revenue outlook for the current quarter, citing continued economic uncertainty and limited visibility.
Although notebooks are believed to be the one bright spot in the market, revenue from Atom processors and the chip sets that drive them was also down 27 percent sequentially, to $219 million. All these numbers are down a healthy amount when compared to other quarters, but Intel executives believe things could have been much worse if not for their operational efficiency and the fact that inventory was reduced 19 percent below fourth-quarter levels. The company also stated they were on track to reduce 2009 operational spending from 2008.
CEO Paul Otellini believes the worst is over from an inventory correction and demand level adjustment perspective, and claims that shipment patterns are starting to return to normal seasonal patterns. Despite his optimism, Intel refused to provide a revenue outlook for the current quarter, citing continued economic uncertainty and limited visibility.
Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project,
Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.
The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.
Intel first disclosed it had built a prototype 80-core processor during last fall's Intel Developer Forum, when CEO Paul Otellini promised to deliver the chip within five years. The company's researchers have several hurdles to overcome before PCs and servers come with 80-core processors--such as how to connect the chip to memory and how to teach software developers to write programs for it--but the research chip is an important step, Rattner said.
The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.
Intel first disclosed it had built a prototype 80-core processor during last fall's Intel Developer Forum, when CEO Paul Otellini promised to deliver the chip within five years. The company's researchers have several hurdles to overcome before PCs and servers come with 80-core processors--such as how to connect the chip to memory and how to teach software developers to write programs for it--but the research chip is an important step, Rattner said.
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
Since the release of Intel’s Conroe micro-architecture, the company has been making waves, massive waves. In terms of performance, Intel washed away main competitor AMD, and they have continued to do so during the past three months with the success of their Core 2 Duo and Extreme processor series.
The only counter AMD has been able to come up with so far is to completely slash prices for all their existing processors, making them extremely tempting as well. Nevertheless, the performance of the Core 2 Duo processor range is so compelling, that even die-hard AMD fans have been taking notice.
The Conroe, or as it is better known, the Core 2 Duo, is a Pentium replacement, meaning we will now longer see any new Pentium branded processors. The Pentium 5xx, 6xx and D series are already becoming a thing of the past. So with Intel now focusing all their attention on the Core 2 series, you can expect it to expand quite rapidly.
Currently, there are four Core 2 Duo processors which were released at the initial launch (E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700). There is also the Core 2 Extreme processor dubbed the X6800, though it offers very little in the way of performance over the E6700. There is said to be four new Core 2 Duo processors on the way that will run on a 1333MHz FSB and will all feature the larger 4MB L2 Cache. They are the E6650, E6750, E6800 and E6850, though we are not here to discuss these processors today. Rather, we are here to examine the new Kentsfield micro-architecture which is based on a quad-core 65nm design.
Intel prepares six-core Xeon
Quad-core and Octo-core might be the current next-gen craze for desktops and servers, but Intel seems wants to pitch a line of CPUs in-between as well. Intel will be adding on to their Xeon lineup with the “Dunnington” core later this year, a CPU that will have a total of six cores under the hood.
Dunnington, which was announced three years ago, is intended to be an enterprise-class chip and will feature 3MB of shared L2 cache per pair of cores, and shared 16MB L3 cache. According to the leaked slides, it'll use the 'somewhat dated' 1066MHz FSB, and is probably aimed at preventing the Opteron from regaining any ground once AMD gets back on their feet.
Dunnington, which was announced three years ago, is intended to be an enterprise-class chip and will feature 3MB of shared L2 cache per pair of cores, and shared 16MB L3 cache. According to the leaked slides, it'll use the 'somewhat dated' 1066MHz FSB, and is probably aimed at preventing the Opteron from regaining any ground once AMD gets back on their feet.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
The new Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, most cost-efficient chip on the market; low power consumption makes it cooler, quieter, and easy to use in smaller PC designs.
Chipset politics between Intel and graphics card vendors hurt gamers, who now have to pick an Intel board for ATI's CrossFire or an Nvidia board for SLI cards.
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo.
Intel® Atom™ Processor Z5xx Series
The Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx series delivers the benefits of Intel® architecture for small form factor, thermally constrained and fanless embedded applications. Implemented in 45nm technology, these power-optimized processors provide robust performance-per-watt in an ultra-small 13x14 mm package.
Featuring embedded lifecycle support, the Intel Atom processors are ideal for many embedded market segments such as in-vehicle infotainment, medical, interactive client (kiosks, point-of-sale terminals), gaming and industrial control. It remains software compatible with previous 32-bit Intel® architecture and complementary silicon.
These single-core processors are validated with the Intel® System Controller Hub (SCH) US15W, which integrates a graphics memory controller hub and an I/O controller hub into one small 22x22 mm package. This low-power platform has a combined thermal design power under five watts.
Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor Product Line
Based on Intel® architecture, the Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor product line is the first in a series of breakthrough system on-a-chip (SOC) processors, delivering excellent performance-per-watt for small form factor designs.
This fully compatible product line (Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor and Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel® QuickAssist Technology) provides an outstanding combination of performance, power efficiency, footprint savings and cost-effectiveness compared to discrete, multi-chip solutions.
These integrated processors are ideal for small-to-medium business (SMB) and enterprise security and communications appliances (including VPN/firewall and unified threat management), transaction terminals, interactive clients, print and imaging applications, wireless and WiMax access applications, SMB and home network attached storage, converged IP PBX solutions, converged access platforms, IP media servers, VoIP gateways and industrial automation applications.
Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series
Extending today's lead in visualization performance with built-in hardware assisted features and breakthrough gains in performance and energy efficiency.
Built for data-demanding enterprise applications with up to 6 cores and a large shared 16MB L3 cache per processor, enabling more transactions per server.
More headroom, improved reliability, and the highest scalability available for large scale server consolidation and business-critical visualization.
Built for data-demanding enterprise applications with up to 6 cores and a large shared 16MB L3 cache per processor, enabling more transactions per server.
More headroom, improved reliability, and the highest scalability available for large scale server consolidation and business-critical visualization.
Six-Core Intel Xeon 7400
As Intel Corp. continues to innovate its series of microprocessors, the co’s primary focus remains persistently towards increased processing capabilities while achieving footprint reduction.Intel's first processor with more than four cores will launch within less than two weeks, a leak from within the industry claims. The architecture previously codenamed Dunnington technology should start shipping on September 15th as the Xeon 7400 series and will carry its planned six cores, helping out with particuarly demanding computing tasks, especially virtualization of multiple operating system.
The last of the Penryn class enterprise processors is on the way. Boasting a huge 16MB L3 cache. This is Intel’s first step beyond four cores cores . The new Xeon 7400 (Dunnington) will have six cores and be the first using the new monolithic design - multiple cores on a single die. The Xeon xeon 7400 will be socket compatible with Xeon 7300 boards which will allow for simple upgrades with little downtime.Since this will be the last of this server era from Intel, it may not see much daylight as large entities are already planning their road map towards Nehalem nehalem , especially due to the architecture’s scalability. On a side note - if rumors continue to hold true, we should be seeing the Core i7 (Nehalem) line rolling out by the end of this year.
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