Like researchers at other companies, scientists at the chip-making giant are experimenting with one of the dominant trends in microprocessor design: putting two chip cores, or 'brains', into the same piece of silicon - an approach that promises to...
Though it's not going to impress going up against the heavyweight multiprocessor Xeon blades, Pentium M fits pretty nicely among the blade crowd. Those first systems, pioneered by start-ups such as RLX Technologies, used technology lifted from...
Chipmaker Intel has given details of new initiatives aimed at reducing the power consumption of notebook displays and at adding communications capabilities to portable computing devices. The main message of the presentation was that Intel is...
Indeed, the "Piranha" processor Barroso helped design at DEC, which never made it to market, is similar in some ways to Niagara, including its use of eight cores on one chip. His term for the approach, "chip multiprocessor technology" (CMP), is...
But the performance tide has turned, and the power consumption of the new processors meets or beats AMD's chips in tests done by several reviewers. Even Intel's mainstream E6700 and E6600 processors beat AMD's highest-performing chip, the Athlon FX...
Intel's Woodcrest processors are dual-core chips but Intel in 2006 plans to release an upgrade which packages two in a single module, meaning that a single processor socket will have four processing cores.