CPUs
China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China's own CPUs. The new procurement guidelines, introduced quietly at the end of 2023, mandates government entities to prioritize 'safe and reliable' processors and operating systems in their purchases. This directive is part of a concerted effort to bolster domestic technology and parallels a similar push within state-owned enterprises to embrace technology designed in China. The list of approved processors and operating systems, published by China's Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, exclusively features Chinese companies. There are...
The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Two: "Multi-core and multi-threaded gaming"
As we enter an era of increasingly multithreaded, multi-core CPUs, who will benefit the most from it? What is the use for all this CPU power? Will dual core...
49 by Johan De Gelas on 3/14/2005A Closer Look At PhysX: Our Take On The PPU
Can AGEIA do for physics what the GPU did for graphics? The PhysX PPU is their upcoming product poised to bring physics processing add-in cards to the PC. What's...
70 by Derek Wilson on 3/11/2005AMD Unveils Turion 64 Mobile Technology: A Rebranded Mobile Athlon 64
AMD finally provided more details about their new Turion 64 Mobile Technology - as we originally guessed, it's basically a new name for the 90nm Mobile Athlon 64.
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/10/2005Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
With the introduction of its newest Pentium 4 revision, Intel has doubled the L2 cache size, added EIST and EM64T, and taken away the bite of the Extreme Edition...
71 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 2/21/2005AMD K8 E4 Stepping: SSE3 Performance
The Revision E core AMD launched with the new Opteron 252 includes SSE3 along with the 1GHz coherent HT link, 90nm fabrication, and organic packaging.
48 by Derek Wilson on 2/17/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part One: "Is the single core CPU doomed?"
Why did Prescott really fail? Will Multi-Core CPUs really be an answer to our performance prayers? What will future CPU architectures bring? If you seek the answers, join us...
65 by Johan De Gelas on 2/8/2005Intel's Pentium M on the Desktop - A Viable Alternative?
Although many want to declare it the death of Net Burst, is the Pentium M truly suited for a high performance desktop?
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2005Rambus in Cell Processors and Intel's Dual Core Announcements
Rambus is the interface of choice for 90% of the signaling pins in the Cell architecture, and Intel's dual-core is on schedule for Q2 of this year. Interested yet?
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2005VIA PT Series: VIA PCI Express for Intel
VIA launches three new PCI Express chipsets for Intel - all featuring DDR or DDR2 with either AGP or PCIe on the PT880 PRO. Will these...
25 by Wesley Fink on 1/31/2005Half Life 2 CPU Performance
How do CPUs impact performance in the most CPU and GPU taxing game we've seen to date? We look at CPU performance as well as GPU scaling performance...
68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/26/2005The Consequence of Waking Up a Sleeping Giant: Intel Roadmaps Inside
Intel might have dropped the ball in 2004, but if their roadmap is only a fraction of what they anticipate, 2005/2006 are going to be a very wild ride.
74 by Kristopher Kubicki on 1/25/2005NVIDIA nForce Professional Brings Huge I/O to Opteron
The newest core logic solution from NVIDIA brings PCI Express, 10 USB 2.0 connections, SATA 3Gb/s, and a whole lot more to the Opteron platform. Already being qualified on...
55 by Derek Wilson on 1/24/2005Morphing nForce4 Ultra into nForce4 SLI
Shifting drivers, driver lockouts, and SLI-type performance on the Ultra chipset lead us to take a closer look at the real story on SLI/Ultra chipsets.
85 by Wesley Fink on 1/18/2005AMD CPU Roadmap: Q4'04 Two Heads are Better than One
AMD reveals more of their plans for 2005, with new additions to the Sempron family along with some information on their dual core plans. How long will that...
31 by Jarred Walton on 12/18/2004Intel's Pentium 4 570J - Will 3.8GHz do the trick?
Intel has been facing an uphill battle lately when it comes to striving for that performance crown. Now at 3.8GHz, are things any better?
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2004ATI Radeon Xpress 200: Performance, PCI Express & DX9 for Athlon 64
Who would have thought ATI could get so much right in their first trip to the plate? ATI launches an Athlon 64 chipset with PCI Express that performs...
45 by Wesley Fink on 11/8/2004Multiple Front Side Buses; Coming to an Intel Server Near You
We have more details on Multiple FSB, Dual Core and a general overview of Intel codenames for the next few months.
19 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/4/2004Pentium 4 3.46 Extreme Edition and 925XE: 1066MHz FSB Support is Here
With their latest release Intel has bumped the Pentium 4's FSB from 800MHz up to just over 1GHz. But does it do anything for performance?
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/31/2004Intel CPU Roadmap: Less is More
By now, most of you have heard the big news about upcoming dual core processors and cancelled 4.0 GHz chips. However, those still looking for all the little...
22 by Jarred Walton on 10/27/2004Intel's Dual Core Strategy Investigated
Been hearing conflicting dual core information lately? Here's a compilation of everything we have and know about Intel's dual core plans for the next two years.
59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/22/2004