Eggie’s Hardware Blog

Due before year’s end, the next-gen ‘Nehalem’ architecture succeeds Core 2 with up to eight cores on a single processor, and much more.
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Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few years.

Price has been a key feature of Atom, previously code-named Silverthorne, since the very first time Intel talked about this product. Intel itself stated that the production cost of the tiny chip may be close to that of a 286 CPU, allowing the company to sell the processor for a low price to open a new market of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Nettop computers with prices well below the $200 range.

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AMD has formally unwrapped its three-core Phenom X3 8000 series, along with new versions of its existing quad-core Phenom X4 processors, now known as the 9050 line.

The three-core Phenom X3s, first announced back in September 2007 just ahead of AMD arch-rival Intel’s bi-annual Developer Forum, are detailed just before the next IDF is due to kick off in Shanghai.

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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it had begun shipments of its triple-core central processing units (CPUs) to large makers of personal computers (PCs). AMD Phenom 8000-series microprocessors will be available for end-users and small system makers at a later time.

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AMD is looking to relaunch Phenom this year with a new revision of the core and higher clock speeds. This new core was designed specifically to address the TLB errata that crept up late last year. Anandtech managed to get their hands on a pre-release sample from one of AMD’s partners before final production samples shipped.

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At CeBIT, Clevo unveiled a sub-notebook called TN70M. It’s based on the Intel Atom platform. The 990g sub-notebook packs in a hyperthreaded Silverthorne 1.6GHz processor that runs off a 533MHz front-side bus, it has a 7in touchscreen WSVGA (1.024 x 600) display. Storage is catered for by a 1.8in drive and external wireless connectivity will range from traditional WiFi through to WiMAX.

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AMD has shown visitors samples of 45 nm Opteron with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenom with Teneb at the CeBIT tradeshow. They are expected to be release second half of 2008…

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Today, Intel has officially announced their Atom line of ultra-mobile processors, previously code named Silverthorne and Diamondville.  This new family of chips is based on an entirely new CPU architecture that was designed from the ground up, specifically to address the computing and power consumption requirements of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs).

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IBM and AMD have announced world’s first working chip made with extreme ultra-violet (EUV) litography for the critical layers.

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IBM announced its new processor the z10 which has 5 four core dies in the one package.

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