GamePC tossed together a comparative review of a few mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. Interesting results from the Pentium 4/Dothan (Pentium M)/Athlon 64s, each varies quite a bit architecturally yet they each maintain comparable performance levels so you’re…
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X-bit labs has a few reports of a shrunken down core AMD Athlon 64 making its way to some of its partners and larger clients. The die shrink allows faster clock speeds and greater yields but it starts to become…
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DigiTimes writes of Intel’s planned price cuts to its upcoming Celeron D line of processors as well as a few of their older designs which will put pressure on AMD’s upcoming Sempron chip. Moderate drops in price for the most…
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DigiTimes has word that ATI is planning to launch a pair of motherboard chipsets with integrated graphics for both the Intel and AMD. The chipset’s graphics performance is expected to be above par with the current choices out there, which…
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VR-Zone Hardware has a brief article with a picture of the new AMD Athlon 64 sporting the “Winchester” core. The new design is mostly a die shrink using the smaller 90nm process which will increase yields per wafer and, hopefully,…
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TheStreet.com has rumors that Dell is testing a few dual processor, AMD Opteron based, products which may (or may not) make it to sales. The usual PR lines of “we currently don’t carry such products” and “merely evaluating a product…
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Short-Media compares AMD’s “old” Socket 940 platform with the new Socket 939. They throw in some in-depth info on the new abilities of the Socket 939 setup such as support for unbuffered memory and Cool’n’Quiet technologies. Some interesting details to…
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AnandTech has a look at the latest version of Intel’s popular, low-price CPU, the Celeron D. Intel’s architectural improvements give this updated version of the chip quite a performance boost, bumping it into a performance parity with AMD’s 32-bit Athlons….
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PC World writes of Intel’s plan to launch a 64-bit version of its Xeon processor line next week. The chip will be able to run both 32-bit and 64-bit code natively similar to the AMD Athlon64/Opteron line. Since it is…
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AMDZone has a look at the FIC Ice Cube HU61 small form factor PC. The barebones PC is designed to take AMD Athlon 64bit CPUs of the 754 pin variety and hosts a bunch of standard features that everyone should…
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CNET News writes of Intel’s planned launch of its first 32bit/64bit processor code-named Nocona coming up later this month. The CPU will initially be targeted to the server markets where they’ll no doubt earn a hefty price tag. It will…
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