Intel had been content with building all manner of microprocessors and flash storage chips to meet their customer’s needs but, oddly, being the largest PC processor manufacturer has seen it stay out of the software segment all together. They have a few tools they sell to developers but, for the most part, they mostly deal […]
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In the server sector you’ll find computing density is much more important than clock rates, although that does help things move along quicker, so you’re likely to find many more cores on the CPUs in the multi-processor environment they so richly deserve. Intel’s Xeon 5670 Westmere processor runs along at 2.93GHz sports 6 cores and […]
Intel’s Nehalem architecture, commonly found in the company’s Core i7 desktop chips, has been tearing up benchmarks for a few months now completely outclassing the competition, and its own previous generation, by a wide margin.The company has been working to…
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