| MIPS rolls licensable core for multiprocessing
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2008-04-03 |
| MIPS Technologies is rolling out its first licensable core geared for coherent multiprocessing which delivers 2,400 DMIPS running at 800MHz, besting the company's high end single-core 74K chip which delivers 2,000DMIPS |
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| Beef up embedded systems with ATCA
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2008-04-01 |
| Since the introduction of ATCA, we have seen several carriers announce support for ATCA in next-generation platforms. Although ATCA was architected with telecoms requirements in mind, we have started to see some movement in non-telecoms applications for ATCA. |
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| Intel to enter high-end graphics market
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2008-03-19 |
| Intel is looking to attract game developers and other software makers with a more easily programmable platform than its rivals, announced Intel. |
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| Analysis: Will Intel's atom displace ARM cores?
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2008-03-07 |
| The buzz that Atom will displace ARM cores as king of the mobile world was extremely confused. Here's a brief analysis of what the coverage got wrong, what it got right and what it completely missed. |
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| Industry players rooting for Nvidia-AMD merger
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2008-03-03 |
| As opinion abounds about AMD.'s future, industry observers count Nvidia among the companies that could conceivably acquire AMD. Indian investors have also been mentioned as possible suitors. |
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| Firms intensify parallel-prog efforts for multicore
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2008-02-19 |
| There's little doubt the computer industry needs a new parallel-programming model to support multicore processors. But just what that model will be, and when and how it will arrive, are still up in the air. |
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| AMD Puma platform faces tech glitch
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2008-02-15 |
| AMD may be facing issues with its new Puma line of devices for notebook PCs, according to analyst of American Technology Research. This is another blow for the company. |
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| Server chipmakers prepare 10GbE for PCIe, virtualisation
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2008-02-15 |
| Server makers are hoping to be able to deliver a variety of networking, storage and clustering features on Ethernet for systems that can host multiple sessions at once, thanks to virtualisation tech. |
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| AMD: Redefine software to program multicore CPUs
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2008-02-14 |
| AMD has started talks with Microsoft on its belief that the industry could let app developers write parallel programs without needing to know the details of every multicore processor, by putting in place new levels of abstraction. |
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| Sun delays Rock rollout to next year
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2008-02-12 |
| Sun Microsystems has delayed the release of the next-gen UltraSparc chip to 2H 2009 to give the company more time for testing. |
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| MCU engineers differ on future of multicore
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2008-02-08 |
| Microprocessor engineers differ widely on how to implement multicore designs and surmount the many challenges they pose, in a panel discussion at this week's International Solid State Circuits Conference. |
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| IBM calls for standard to link chip models with tools
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2008-02-04 |
| An IBM executive has called for standards to link chip models with simulation tools in an effort to lower design costs and shorten time-to-market. The Power.org group is about to start an internal effort to define such a standard for cores used in Power CPU-based designs |
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| Top 10 chip stories to watch in 2008
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2008-01-07 |
| 2008 looks to be filled with tech innovation and oversold hype, business rumours and surprises, and as always, winners and losers in the big game of chips. ChannelWeb discusses some of them. |
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| Renesas CEO discusses devt of MCU market
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2008-01-01 |
| Satoru Ito, Renesas Technology chairman and CEO, discusses the development of the MCU market in Asia, and how he will lead the company to further growth. |
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| AMD: Barcelona issues effect quad-core distribution
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2007-12-26 |
| According to director of worldwide channel devt, AMD?s Barcelona issues are affecting distribution of the quad-core chip to both tier-one and channel partners alike |
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| AMD exec admits to Barcelona glitch
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2007-12-13 |
| The head of AMD?s computing products group has admitted that timing of the launch of the first quad-core Opteron server chip was "a stupid decision" given a glitch that disrupted its distribution, but maintained that it was "the right decision" at the time |
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| Tensilica enhances Xtensa configurable processors
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2007-12-12 |
| Tensilica has upgraded its two Xtensa configurable processor families with new hardware options and software tool enhancements to make it appealing to an even wider audience of SOC designers. |
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| AMD, Intel ramp up their SoC capabilites
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2007-12-12 |
| Though both AMD and Intel will continue to design high-end custom microprocessors, increasingly their competition will hinge on how well they assemble chips out of a stock of reusable cores. |
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| India supercomputer ranks fourth in Top 500 list
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2007-11-14 |
| The Computational Research Lab?a subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd in Pune, India?currently ranks as the world's fourth most powerful system in the latest ranking of the Top 500 supercomputers . |
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| Intel unveils Penryn 45nm processors
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2007-11-13 |
| Intel has gained significant lead in the industry with the first members of its Penryn family of 45nm processors that use new high-k dielectrics to control current leakage. |
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| Is NEC Electronics heading in right direction?
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2007-11-05 |
| Despite outlining its process roadmap, while also expanding its wings in high-k dielectrics, NEC Electronics continues to retrench amid ongoing losses and a "crisis" at the company. |
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| Rivals advance towards core in processor battle
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2007-11-01 |
| In the processor battle between AMD and Intel, the question is who will make the more effective moves in the emerging game of identifying markets and creating the right mix of cores in a microprocessor to address them. |
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| Start-up aims to pack storage farm in server
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2007-10-23 |
| Start-up Fusion-io has released a novel memory card, which packs 80 to 640Gbytes of NAND flash on a PCI Express card, aiming to replace both hard drives and traditional solid-state drives. |
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| Toshiba unveils stream chip for better mobile video
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2007-09-25 |
| Toshiba has developed a high-performance chip that combines the Cell/B.E.'s multicore tech with its advanced image processing tech to perform stream processing and image recognition of video sources. |
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| Intel displays chipset for iPhone-like devices
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2007-09-21 |
| Intel exhibited a handful of working handheld data systems using the 45nm Silverthorne processor and disclosed its plans for a follow on platform called Mooretown at the Intel Developer Forum. |
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| Microsoft aims for a more structured software dvlpt process
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2007-09-03 |
| According to Microsoft Corp. many new and revised programming languages are in development that will act as key enablers for the emerging parallel hardware architectures that are driven by multicore processors |
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| Multicore shakes up EDA industry
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2007-07-16 |
| The EDA vendors accept that though multi-core platforms provide much-needed compute power as transistor counts soar at 65nm and below, but they can prove a cause of concern for legacy apps that could be difficult or even impossible to parallelise |
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| Faraday's UR-IP Centre to offer high-end mixed-signal IPs
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2007-07-12 |
| Faraday, along with Afa Technologies, Chip Advanced Technology, and SMedia Technology, has started UR-IP Centre to provide high value-added mixed-signal IPs. |
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| AMD's Barcelona to ship in mid Q3'07.
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2007-07-03 |
| AMD has revealed that its Barcelona CPU that offers performance increases of up to 70% on some database apps and 40% on floating point operations will ship to OEMs in August |
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| AMD, Intel compete in laptop arena
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2007-07-02 |
| With notebook designers striving to differentiate their systems by packing new features into thinner, lighter models, AMD and Intel are pulling neck-and-neck in the race to define the core high-end silicon for notebooks |
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