AMD has announced availability of a factory overclocked graphics processor that is the first to break the 1 GHz barrier using standard air-cooling solutions.
According to AMD, the new ATI Radeon HD 4890 utilizes advanced GDDR5 memory and a 1GHz clock speed to deliver 1.6 TeraFLOPs of compute power. AMD also lists a dozen of ATI [...]
Intel planned to offer its new Pentium Dual-core E6000 Series processor at the end of May, but E6300 has been already found selling in Japan.Positioned between E5000 and E7000, E6300 adopts 45nm manufacturing process and works at 2.8GHz. Just as E7X00, E6300 features 1066MHz FSB, and is coming with 2MB L2 cache.
Dual-Core Pentium E6300 Listed [...]
Intel has rolled out with new chip logos for its Core i7, Core 2, Centrino, Celeron and Pentium processors, and unveiled its Star Rating System with one star denoting the lowest performance and five stars the highest.
The 5-star level consists of Core i7 Series, QX9000 Series and several other high-end mobile CPUs. And Celeron falls [...]
Although Advanced Micro Devices was previously expected to get ready to produce central processing units under the 32-nanometer process technology only in 2011, it seems that the chip maker plans to speed things up a little. Dirk Meyer, chief executive of AMD, stated recently that the company was set to “ramp up” production in the [...]
Intel provided information about its next-generation micro-architecture (Nehalem) with the Core i7 processors at a media event on Wednesday in Athens, Greece, prior to the worldwide official release of the system on November 17.
Intel Core i7 Nehalem launching on November 17
The event ran under the headline of “the fastest processor on the planet”. The two [...]
