List/Grid Tag Archives: Multicore
Tilera 100-core Processor beats Intel Sandybridge
Tilera wants to put a direct competition to Intel’s current generation processor, Sandybridge, in the server environment. Their desperate chips are based on 40nm fabrication technology based on 64-bit architecture….
New Research brings 20% Performance Improvement to Multi-Core Applications
Multi-core, initially targeted for Servers, eventually, became part of our desktops and portables. But what is still lacking is “efficient parallelization” of programs — Our modern Multicore applications still don’t take the…
Fastest Intel Processor: 8 Core Nehalem-EX is Coming This Month
Intel plans to end the Processor Rat race, atleast for few months, by unveiling it’s latest Processor architecture: Nehalem-EX server. Last year, Intel had announced the new Nehalem — A 8-core processor….
Hyper Threading CPU vs. Dual, Multi-Core
In 1968, IBM had introduced a new concept that could enable Software Threads at the lowest level transparent to the application developers, this was known as SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading….
Lucid HYDRA: Combine multi-GPU Power into one – NVIDIA, AMD ATi
Did you recently decided to make yourself a High-end Gaming Rig and ended-up in confusion of what to get. Whether to choose that new 1GHz AMD ATi Radeon HD or…
Intel Kickstarts 32nm Westmere Processor Chips
Intel’s Core i7 with 45nm fabrication-technology is just a piece of chip that brings good things for today. Tommorow’s superiority will last with a new generation of chips Intel has started…
AMD’s Six-Core Low-Power 40Watt Opteron EE for Servers
AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The overhauled chip offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. According to AMD spokesperon Brent Kerby, companies that require…
AMD unveils 6 core processor named Istanbul
AMD on Monday introduced its six-core Opteron chip for servers, also known as Istanbul, and positioned it as a value play for data centers looking for an easy way to…
Nehalem-EX – 8 cores, 128 threads
Yesterday Intel revealed details of next-generation server processor, code-named Nehalem-EX, and it’s pretty cool! As you might have guessed, the Nehalem-EX is based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, which Intel debuted with…
Firefox to go multi-threaded for multicores.
Mozilla’s developers have announced plans to add application multi-threading to Firefox over the next two years, a feature already partially enabled in its main rivals, IE8 and Google Chrome. As…
