AMD to launch 45nm quad-core Phenoms on 8 January 2009

What desktop processors are AMD planning to release during the final three months of the year? A leaked roadmap slide reveals all. And its first 'Deneb' desktops will debut in January 2009.
The slide, sent to Spanish-language site ChileHardware, highlights 8 October as the next entry on AMD's calendar. On that day it'll launch the 2.5GHz, 95W Phenom X3 8850 and the 2.6GHz, 45W Athlon X2 5050e.
The following month, we'll see the arrival of the 1.6GHz Athlon 2650, a chip that consumes a mere 15W, though it's only a single core part. However, it'll be accompanied by the dual-core Athlon X2 3250e, a 1.5GHz chip that consumes up to 22W.
December will see the launch of a second, clock-unlocked version of the Phenon X3 8850.
AMD's 'Deneb' core: launching in January 2009
The December section of the roadmap also lists a pair of quad-core Phenom X4s, one clocked at 3GHz, the other at 2.8GHz. Neither has a model number, but they're Deneb 45nm chips said to be "under embargo until Jan 8th".
That's the second day of next year's Consumer Electronics Show, so AMD's clearly out to make a big splash at the show with its first so-called 'Stars' desktop CPUs, both 125W beasts, despite the
So while Deneb will launch next January, AMD seems to be gearing up to get them out the door before the end of 2008, allowing it to rightfully claim the part shipped in H2 2008, as it promised in March this year.
The roadmap also refers to a November release for "AMD Ultra-Value Client (UVC)" processors. These are almost certainly Geode parts, suggesting AMD's preparing to tackle Intel's desktop Atom processors in the 'nettop' market.

What desktop processors are AMD planning to release during the final three months of the year? A leaked roadmap slide reveals all. And its first 'Deneb' desktops will debut in January 2009.
The slide, sent to Spanish-language site ChileHardware, highlights 8 October as the next entry on AMD's calendar. On that day it'll launch the 2.5GHz, 95W Phenom X3 8850 and the 2.6GHz, 45W Athlon X2 5050e.
The following month, we'll see the arrival of the 1.6GHz Athlon 2650, a chip that consumes a mere 15W, though it's only a single core part. However, it'll be accompanied by the dual-core Athlon X2 3250e, a 1.5GHz chip that consumes up to 22W.
December will see the launch of a second, clock-unlocked version of the Phenon X3 8850.

Intel Centrino 2 with VPro Technology and Intel Core 2 Processors with Vpro Technology

Remotely manage both wired and wireless PCs from the same IT console with hardware-assisted security and remote manageability
The latest notebook and desktop PCs with Intel Vpro technology build on proven capabilities to enable even greater proactive security, enhanced maintenance, and improved remote management
Intel Core 2 Processor with vPro technology-based notebooks
Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology base desktop PCs
These PCs deliver down the wire security and manageability capabilities even if PC Power is off, the operating system (OS) is unresponsive, software agents are disable, or hardware (such as a hard drive) has failed. Remote configuration in both notebook and desktop PCs helps information Technology (IT) managers deploy thousand of systems without making a desk side visit New Wireless manageability improves remote managements for notebooks even when the system is asleep or off and now IT managers can communicate more securely with notebooks on an open LAN outside the corporate firewall, These notebook and desktop PCs are also ready to run traditional virtualization with multiple OSs, as well as support emerging uses such as application and data virtualization and do so faster and in a more secure, trusted environment. The latest notebook and desktop PCs with Intel Vpro technology delivery significantly improved 64 bit performance for compute-intensive tasks and includes fully integrated powerful graphic supports all in power efficient package that’s is Microsoft Windows Vista Ready.

Next-gen netbook Intel Atom due Q3 2009

Intel's next-gen Atom processor for Small, Cheap Computers - the successor to today's 'Diamondville' - will debut a year from now, according to the chip giant's latest roadmap.
The chip, codenamed 'Pineview', will arrive in Q3 2009, according to long-term progress charts seen by Japanese-language site PCWatch.
Pineview is one form of 'Lincroft' the next revision of Intel's handheld-oriented CPU architecture, 'Silverthorne'.
Little is known about Pineview, but we can say that it will be made available in single- and dual-core versions as per Diamondville. Again, both will use HyperThreading technology to up the number of cores the operating system sees to two and four, respectively.
What will really differentiate Pineview from its predecessor, however, is set to be its integration of a graphics core and memory manager into the chip package if not the die itself.
Pineview will connect to its I/O chip partner across a DMI (Direct Media Interface) bus rather than a frontside bus, just like the upcoming 'Nehalem' desktop processors.
What's not clear at this stage is whether the dual-core version of Pineview will be made available in a form that's friendly for mini laptops. That doesn't appear to be the case with the dual-core Diamondville - the Atom 330 is expected to be aimed solely at desktops, as an alternative to the single-core Atom 230. So far, we haven't come across a dual-core upgrade to the single-core Atom N270 used in most mini laptops.
Whatever, Pineview will provide more of a challenge to VIA's new Nano processor than the 230 certainly has. And just to muddy the water for Small, Cheap Computer makers further, AMD is also preparing an Atom rival of its own, codenamed 'Bobcat', aimed at mobile devices.

Intel working on B43 chipset

Intel works on a new chipset simply called B43. This is a new old Core 2 duo / quad chipset and it comes with support for ICH10D Southbridge, targeted for business users.The chipset supports FSB up to 1333, DDR2 800 or DDR3 1066 and as you can imagine this business chipset has an integrated graphic with support for (cough) DirectX 10. The chipset can drive dual independent display with integrated DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA, it supports ASF 2.0 & Quiet System Technology (QST).Intel aims this one for small and medium businesses and this looks to use as a pimped version of G43 chipset, tweaked for business users.The chipset is scheduled for Q1 2009 launch.

Intel to kill many Core 2's by Q1 09

14 CPUs
Intel plans to end the product cycle for 10 of its Core 2 based CPUs. Four of these are quad cores while six are Core 2 Duo SKUs. The first to die are two Core 2 Extreme CPUs, the QX6800 and QX6850 that actually ended their life cycle in July. The QX6850 is replaced by the super overclockable Q9650.Both the QX9770 and QX9650 will receive a product discontinuance notice in Q1 while the last of them should be selling in Q2 2009, when these two will finally reach its end of life. They will be replaced by Core i7 CPUs.The Core 2 Duo based E6850, E6750, E6550, E6540, E4600 and E4500 will receive a product discontinuance notice in Q4 08 while they will slip to its end of life in Q1 2009. The Pentium dual core E2180, E2160 and E2140 should also be reaching its end of life in Q1 2009. The last one to end its career in Q1 2009 is the Celeron dual core E1200.

Intel to launch native six-core Xeons this month

The Xeon 7400-series
According to Cnet, Intel is set to release a native six-core Xeon processors on the 15th of September which so far has been known as Dunnington, although the official name will be the Xeon 7400-series. The processors will be manufactured at 45nm and will feature a shared 16MB L3 cache.The new Xeon 7400-series will be socket compatible with systems using the Xeon 7300-series of processors which allows for easy upgrades. The processors in question are Xeon MP parts intended for systems using four or more CPU sockets.We've already reported on the pricing in the past, but we'll highlight it again, as the top of the range model, the Xeon X7460 set you back a massive US$2,651 and considering that the intention is to stick four of these into one server, we're talking mega bucks here, although there are cheaper models as well.In saying that, you'll end up with a very compact 24-core server, which might be what a lot of big corporations have been waiting for. These days it's all about fitting as many CPU cores into one server, as rack space at data centers are not getting any cheaper.

Amazon to sell OLPC XO laptops

Amazon.com will start selling One Laptop Per Child's low-cost XO notebook computer as part of the Give One, Get One program OLPC developed last year, according to an official from OLPC.
The non-profit organization started Give One, Get One as a way to raise money to send laptops to school kids in poor countries. The idea is that a person pays for two of the XO laptops developed by OLPC. One is sent to the buyer, and another is donated to a child in a developing country.
This year, OLPC opted to team up with a Web e-tailer instead of running the program itself, said Matt Keller, director of Europe, Middle East and Africa at OLPC, in an interview Wednesday.
Amazon.com will start selling XO laptops under the Give One, Get One program in late November, around the time of Thanksgiving in the U.S. Sales will likely extend through to around the end of December.
"We're a small group of people," said Keller, explaining the rationale for working with Amazon.com.
OLPC is run by a small group of people, he said. There are a few thousand volunteers that help out with software development and other projects, but the core group itself is just 25 people.

AMD's 'Deneb' core: launching in January 2009

The December section of the roadmap also lists a pair of quad-core Phenom X4s, one clocked at 3GHz, the other at 2.8GHz. Neither has a model number, but they're Deneb 45nm chips said to be "under embargo until Jan 8th".
That's the second day of next year's Consumer Electronics Show, so AMD's clearly out to make a big splash at the show with its first so-called 'Stars' desktop CPUs, both 125W beasts, despite the
So while Deneb will launch next January, AMD seems to be gearing up to get them out the door before the end of 2008, allowing it to rightfully claim the part shipped in H2 2008, as it promised in March this year.
The roadmap also refers to a November release for "AMD Ultra-Value Client (UVC)" processors. These are almost certainly Geode parts, suggesting AMD's preparing to tackle Intel's desktop Atom processors in the 'nettop' market.

AMD Phenom X2 listed

There was a lot of speculation on AMD's dual-core Phenom CPUs, codenamed Kuma, which were slated for a late Q2 launch. Back in June the industry was abuzz with talk of AMD's inability to launch Kuma at 65nm. There was very little room for it to coexist with cheap Athlon X2 and Phenom X3 CPUs and it simply seemed that it wasn't worth the bother.As we said, the parts were originally planned for launch in late Q2, however, the launch was postponed time and time again and punters were left wondering if the dual-core Phenom was ever going to be launched at 65nm. Well, AMD might be a couple of months late, but Kuma seems to be just around the corner, we managed to find three Kumas listed.All three are part of AMD's energy efficient CPU series, branded Phenom X2 GE-6600, 6500 and 6400. Obviously, the 6600 is the fastest of the lot and ends up clocked at 2.3GHz, while the 6500 and 6400 run at 2.1 and 1.9GHz, respectively. All have a very low TDP of just 45W, making them an interesting choice for many users, especially when paired up with a 780G or 790GX board.There's just one downside: there are no prices or availability dates to be found yet and information is very sketchy at the moment. However, if you look at Phenom X3 and X4 pricing, at least it's easy to make an educated guess. A 2.3GHz tri core costs €100, a 2.3GHz quad Phenom is priced at €139, so the 6600 dual core should probably end up well around the €70 mark. The lower clocked Kumas should retail in the 50-70 euro region, making them an tempting alternative to Athlon X2 CPUs.We were expecting dual-core Phenoms a bit later, when AMD gets the hang of 45nm, but it seems it will launch Kuma on 65nm after all, albeit a modestly clocked energy efficient version. We will try to find out more about the availability dates and prices, so stay tuned

Only AMD's Deneb will support AM2+/AM3

All 2009 processors are AM3 exclusiveAccording to what appears to be a leaked roadmap over on Expreview, AMD will only have a single AM2+/AM3 processor in the shape of the upcoming Deneb quad core. The future cores, coming sometime in 2009, are currently code named Propus for the quad core, Heka and Rana for the triple core and Regor for the dual core and neither seems to support anything but the AM3 socket.With two quad core and two triple core processors, you might wonder what the difference is and so far the only thing we can tell is that Deneb and Heka supports shared L3 cache, something that Propus and Rana doesn't appear to feature.The L3 cache should allow for slightly improved performance for Deneb and Heka over Propus and Rana, especially in cache intensive applications. Regor will feature 1MB of L2 cache per core and we have a feeling that AMD will be offering a selection of cache sizes on its new processors, just as it's doing with its current line-up.The good news is that all processors including the Deneb FX will offer support for both DDR2 and DDR3, although time will tell if we'll see any combo boards with support for both types of memory or not. With DDR3 pricing still being quite a lot higher than that of DDR2, it might be some time yet before we see DDR3 prices coming down to more reasonable levels, despite Intel's best efforts to try to make DDR3 the mainstream solution. With support for both types of memory, AMD is not going to be as sensitive to memory pricing as Intel will be with its Core i7 platform and the upcoming Lynnfield and Havendale processors, all of which can only use DDR3 memory. Let's just hope that AMD can regain some of the performance it so badly need right now to compete with Intel on more equal terms.

Athlon X2 6500 is a dual core K10

inte managed to confirm the existence of Kuma CPU and to our surprise AMD will shortly start shipping this CPU. We are talking about a dual core K10 with 2.3GHz clock and 2x512KB cache and this CPU comes with 3MB of shared L3 cache.
Kuma won't be branded as Phenom, it will remain under Athlon umbrella and it will sell for under €100 in European etail. This price gets it really close to Toliman Triple core that should end up at least slightly faster but at the same time Tolliman at same speed should end up at least 10 to €20 more expensive. The real high performance K10.5 45nm dual core codenamed Regor comes in mid 2009 but until then this one will have to do. We expect to see Kuma in retail in next week or two.

First Tests of Intel's New Dual-Core Mobile Processors

Intel increased the multitasking power of notebooks this week with its introduction of dual-core technology into its mobile processor line. Our exclusive tests show the new Intel Core Duo chips can boost a system's ability to perform more than one task at a time, but they don't seem to have much performance impact on single, standard applications.
We evaluated two preproduction notebooks--one from Dell, the other from HP--each featuring the new 2-GHz Core Duo T2500 chip. The chips, formerly code-named Yonah, also come with a new platform (formerly code-named Napa) that boasts a faster frontside bus (now at 667 MHz, up from 533 MHz), support for faster memory that matches the frontside bus speed, a new chip set (the 945 GM/PM), and Intel's new wireless 802.11 a/b/g technology.
The processors come in two main lines: the T line for mainstream notebooks, and the L line of low-voltage models intended for ultralight laptops. The T line will range from the 1.66-GHz T2300 to the 2.16-GHz T2600; the L line will initially have two variants, the 1.5-GHz L2300 and the 1.66-GHz L2400.
Like the Pentium M line, Intel's previous generation of mobile processors, all of the new chips also offer a 2MB cache. In addition, the systems feature Intel power-management technology that can shut down one of the processor cores if the application workload is light, thereby improving notebook battery life.
Intel says notebooks with the new processors should be available from most major vendors at launch or in the coming weeks.
Multitasking Might
PC World tested two 2-GHz Core Duo T2500-based systems, a $1923 HP Pavilion dv1000 and a $2307 Dell Inspiron E1705. We found average speed for the processor class in everyday applications, and par-for-the-course battery life. But the pair rocked in our multitasking tests.
The two systems each had 1GB of memory, though the E1705 came with the slightly faster DDR2-667 SDRAM as opposed to the dv1000's DDR2-533 SDRAM. Both notebooks earned a WorldBench 5 score of 97.
That score makes them among the fastest notebooks we've ever tested, but not any speedier overall than Pentium M notebooks at an equivalent gigahertz level. For example, a recent Best Buy, the Acer TravelMate 8100, equipped with a 2-GHz Pentium M 760 chip and 1GB of DDR2-533 SDRAM, earned a mark of 94, a statistically insignificant difference of 3 percent behind the new systems' score.
We saw little difference in battery life, too. Equipped with an extended-life nine-cell battery ($99 more than the standard six-cell battery), the Inspiron E1705 ran out of gas after 2 hours, 32 minutes, fairly typical for a notebook with a 17-inch wide screen. The Pavilion dv1000, a 14-inch wide-screen model, did better at 3 hours, 51 minutes, nearly matching the 4-hour battery life we got with a single-processor version of the notebook last year.
But the dual processors showed their stuff when juggling multiple jobs. The two notebooks shone in PC World's multitasking test (in which we browse the Web while converting a video file from one format to another), completing the test almost 30 percent faster than the Acer TravelMate 8100 did. The dv1000 was speediest, finishing the job in 470 seconds (or a little under 8 minutes), while the Dell took 498 seconds (or 8 minutes, 18 seconds); the Acer TravelMate needed 682 seconds (over 11 minutes) to finish.
In video games, the speed of game play varied, but overall we did not notice much difference in visual quality or smoothness.
Both of our test systems ran fairly cool and quiet. Thermal design power for the new T line is 31 watts, while the L line is rated at 15 watts--up slightly over the last generation, which had ratings of 27 watts for mainstream Pentium M CPUs and 10 watts for the low-voltage versions.
Good Desktop Replacements
Strong multitasking will come in handy on notebooks like the Dell Inspiron E1705, whose Windows Media Center Edition operating system allows multiple media applications to run at once. A large but stylish-looking 8.2-pound (not including power adapter) silver desktop replacement unit with white trim, the E1705 offers a bright 1920-by-1200-resolution 17-inch wide screen, an 80GB hard drive, a good keyboard, and better-than-average notebook sound, including a subwoofer. Front media buttons let you pop in a DVD or CD, or even manage the digital photos on your hard drive, without booting. The unit replaces the Inspiron 9300 series, which will gradually disappear this quarter.
The 5.6-pound dv1000, a dual-core refresh of HP's popular consumer notebook, now boasts a basic Webcam built into the top of the 14-inch 1280-by-768-resolution screen, a 100GB hard drive, a handy touchpad lock, and dual headphones ports located on the front. The dv1000 also has a quick-play option that lets you turn the notebook into a stand-alone DVD and CD player. It should make a good entertainment notebook for students and mainstream consumers.
Both units offer built-in rewritable DVD drives and include media card reader slots, along with the usual complement of ports.
Additional Improvements
Intel expects speed boosts even greater than the ones we saw in our tests. On some tests, the company says, it saw a performance boost of 68 percent or more.
Keith Kressin, director of marketing for Intel's mobile products group, says that games should look better on Core Duo notebooks but that multitasking would benefit the most, as our tests show. "The more demanding the task--ripping a CD while watching a movie, for instance--the better the performance improvement," he says.
Gerry Purdy, an analyst with MobileTrax, expects improvements on simultaneous tasks but not on tasks you merely switch between, such as working in a word processing document and then in a spreadsheet. "But when you do two things simultaneously and at least one of them involves media management, such as music or video, that's where dual core will really make a difference. For example, playing a live CNN video while you answer e-mails," he says.
Leslie Fiering of Gartner agrees, offering the example of antivirus software's annoying tendency to stall other applications. "You can do real work while your virus checker is running in the background," she says.
The new notebooks should also benefit from new mini-card Wi-Fi boards based on the PCI Express design, which is half the size of older Wi-Fi cards. That leaves an open slot for manufacturers to add a WWAN card without increasing the size of the notebook, says Intel's Kressin.
Bahr Mahony, director of AMD's Mobile Division, says AMD plans to release a dual-core version of its Turion 64 processor some time in the first half of 2006 that will be optimized for longer battery life and for notebooks 6.5 pounds and lighter. Currently AMD's Athlon64 X2 Dual-Core Processor for desktop PCs is being used in a handful of desktop replacement notebooks.

1. After the Core 2 Duo, What's Next for Apple Laptops

It's always a bit of a delicate dance, running the laptop division at a computer company -- certainly at one that's as vertically integrated as Apple, and certainly when the next generation of the company's popular MacBook and MacBook Pro lines are being prepped for release.
You want to make a powerful, full-featured laptop, but not one that obviates your company's desktops. In the past, when competent CPUs ran large and hot, and solid graphics required large and dedicated boards, this wasn't much of an issue. But based on rumblings about Intel's new laptop CPUs and various low-power graphics solutions, we may be seeing the last signs of a tipping point -- to use a marketing term -- after which time laptops may be all most people need.
As Computerworld blogger Seth Weintraub has already pointed out, Intel's new Nehalem is near, even though it was recently rebranded as Core i7 and may have a model code-named Bloomfield (Note to Intel: We surrender! All the code names are too much!). And tech know-it-alls are drooling over the speedy goodness, as Seth outlines.
Now in Use: Core 2 Duo
The current generation of the MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air -- referred to collectively as "the MBs" -- are built around Intel's oddly named Core 2 Duo processors, which range in speed from 1.6 GHz to 2.5 GHz. (If you want to get into more baffling detail, the part designation for the 2.4-GHz CPU in the MacBook is T8300, while the 2.5-GHz CPU in the MacBook Pro is T9300.)
These are all from the "Penryn" clan of processors, as per Intel's family tree; the previous MBs used "Merom" processors. The newer chips are built on a 45-nanometer process, compared to the older generation's 65nm, offering better energy efficiency and a higher top-end speed.
To add to the marketing-name soup, these models are also based on Intel's "Santa Rosa" chip set -- with "chip set" encompassing the CPU plus the motherboard chips as well as the hardware for wireless connectivity. And Santa Rosa is the fourth generation of what Intel calls "Centrino." Which, to bring things in a circle, is a blanket term for chip set.
Code Names: Stop the Madness!
Now let's try unpacking code names for the future. Ready?
Nehalem -- Core i7 -- is the CPU, like a Core 2 Duo, that fits into the Calpella (again, Intel -- really?) chip set. Compounding the issue is the fact that CPUs and chip sets can mix and match: for example, the Penryn CPU can go into the Santa Rosa and Montevina chip sets, and the Santa Rosa chip set can support both the Penryn and Merom.

Intel Unveils World's Best Processor

New Product Line Delivers Record Breaking Performance While Consuming Less Power

Intel Corporation today unveiled 10 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo and Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processors for consumer and business desktop and laptop PCs and workstations, reshaping how computers perform, look and consume power—and most importantly—transform how people use them.
"The Core 2 Duo processors are simply the best processors in the world," said Paul Otellini, president and CEO of Intel. "Not since Intel introduced the Pentium® processor has the industry seen the heart of the computer reinvented like this. The Core 2 Duo desktop processor is an energy-efficient marvel, packing 291 million transistors yet consuming 40 percent lower power, while delivering the performance needed for the applications of today and tomorrow."
The highly anticipated processor family already has very broad support with more than 550 customer system designs underway—the most in Intel's history. Ultimately, tens of thousands of businesses will sell computers or components based on these processors. The Intel Core 2 Duo processors are built in several of the world's most advanced, high-volume output manufacturing facilities using Intel's leading 65-nanometer silicon process technology. The desktop PC version of the processors also provide up to a 40 percent increase in performance and are more than 40 percent more energy efficient versus Intel's previous best processor. According to multiple independent review organizations, the processors win more than nine out of 10 major server, desktop PC and gaming PC performance benchmarks.
The Intel Core 2 Duo processor family consists of five desktop PC processors tailored for business, home, and enthusiast users, such as high-end gamers, and five mobile PC processors designed to fit the needs of a mobile lifestyle. Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based workstations will also deliver industry leading performance for such areas as design, content creation and technical computing.
The processor family is based on the revolutionary Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, designed to provide powerful yet energy-efficient performance. With the power of dual cores, or computing engines, the processors can manage numerous tasks faster. They also can operate more smoothly when multiple applications are running, such as writing e-mails while downloading music or videos and conducting a virus scan. These dual-core chips also improve tasks, such as viewing and playing high-definition video, protecting the PC and its assets during e-commerce transactions, and enabling improved battery life for sleeker, lighter notebooks.
Consumers and businesses will have the option to purchase Intel Core 2 Duo processors as part of Intel's premier market-focused platforms, which are made up of Intel hardware and software technologies tailored to specific computing needs, including Intel® vPro™ technology for businesses, Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile technology for laptops, and Intel® Viiv™ technology for the home.
Many of the products will also offer a selection of Intel-designed and integrated technologies such as Intel® Virtualization Technology and Intel® Active Management Technology that make the PC more secure and manageable. Also, support for 64-bit computing now expands to notebook PCs. The new processors can be paired with the Intel® 975X, 965, and Mobile Intel® 945 Express chipset family. The Intel 965 Express chipset includes the latest integrated graphics and Intel® Clear Video Technology. All these chipsets are Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium Ready.
Advanced InnovationsIntel Core 2 Duo and Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors include many advanced innovations, including:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution – Improves performance and efficiency as each core can complete up to four full instructions simultaneously using an efficient 14-stage pipeline. Intel® Smart Memory Access – Improves system performance by hiding memory latency, thus optimizing the use of available computer data bandwidth to provide data to the processor when and where it is needed
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache – Includes a shared L2 cache or memory reservoir to reduce power by minimizing memory "traffic" yet increases performance by allowing one core to utilize the entire cache when the other core is idle. Only Intel provides this capability in all segments.
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost – Effectively doubles the execution speed for instructions used widely in multimedia and graphics applications.
Intel® 64 Technology – This enhancement to Intel's 32-bit architecture supports 64-bit computing, including enabling the processor to access larger amounts of memory.
Mobile PC Processor Unique FeaturesIntel Core 2 Duo mobile processors include many advanced innovations, including:
Intel® Dynamic Power Coordination – Coordinates Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology and idle power-management state (C-states) transitions independently per core to help save power.
Intel® Dynamic Bus Parking – Enables platform power savings and improved battery life by allowing the chipset to power down with the processor in low-frequency mode.
Enhanced Intel® Deeper Sleep with Dynamic Cache Sizing – Saves power by flushing cache data to system memory during periods of inactivity to lower CPU voltage.
Pricing and AvailabilityIntel has been shipping production-ready Intel Core 2 Duo processors for all segments in advance of today's unveiling. Initial Intel Core 2 Extreme processor-based systems are now available from system manufacturers, resellers and integrators, including Intel Channel Partner Program members. Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor-based systems will be available beginning in early August. Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based notebooks will be available at the end of August.
Desktop Processors
Processor Frequency Bus Speed L2 Cache Price Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor X6800
2.93 GHz 1066 4MB $999 Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6700
2.66 GHz 1066 4MB $530 Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6600
2.40 GHz 1066 4MB $316 Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6400
2.13 GHz 1066 2MB $224 Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6300
1.86 GHz 1066 2MB $183 Mobile Processors Processor Frequency Bus Speed L2 Cache Voltage
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T7600 2.33 GHz 6674MB 1.0375–1.3V
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T7400 2.16 GHz 667 4MB 1.0375–1.3V
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T7200 2.00 GHz 6674MB 1.0375–1.3V
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T5600 = 1.83 GHz 667 2MB 1.0375–1.3V
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T5500 1.66 GHz 667 2MB 1.0375–1.3V

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Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor QX9300:World's Highest Performing Quad-Core Mobile Processor

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Intel's Core 2 Extreme Mobile Chips: A New Speed King

Intel's newest chips take "Extreme" to the extreme, with game-friendly features and superior power.

How do you define "Extreme"? How about as a high-velocity, quad-core processor packed into a mobile platform? That's what Intel announced this afternoon at the Intel Developers Forum. Heretofore known as Core 2 Extreme, the cat (or chips) are now officially out of the bag.
In July, the first Core 2 Duo Extreme Mobile X9100--a Penryn dual-core CPU--to show up at our labs debuted inside Micro Express's JFL9290 laptop. The PC World Test Center is still putting that machine through its paces (you can check out our assessment of its little brother, the Micro Express JFL9226, in the meantime), but the initial numbers are impressive. It dominated our WorldBench 6 tests, notching a score of 115 and posting decent frame rates in Doom 3 (47 frames per second at 1024 by 768 resolution, with antialiasing) courtesy of a 256MB nVidia GeForce 9600M GT GPU. The real speed king, though, is the QX9300 (a Penryn Quad Core)--and it's now out the door, launching this week.
Here's the breakdown on what they offer. The X9100 has a 3.06-GHz frequency, two cores, and a 6MB cache running at 44 watts. The QX9300 has four cores running at 2.53 GHz, with a 12MB cache at 45 watts.
The new chip's focus on gaming capability shows up in many ways, starting with the way it emphasizes design choices for dual discrete graphics cards in the system. Another example is the chip's automatic overclocking of RAM (and DDR3 memory). And don't forget Intel's claims of improved I/O read times with the upcoming X18-M and X-25M SATA Mainstream SSDs.
Of course, being "Extreme" means doing extreme things like building overclocking into the BIOS. Good luck if you're foolhardy enough to try and reach the 4-GHz threshold. (One notebook on display at the IDF show, from Flextronics, managed to hit that number, but only thanks to a specially crafted cooling docking station created by CoolIt Systems.) Still, being able to crank your 3.06-GHz CPU up to 3.59 GHz is feasible with the easy-to-use Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, which works inside of the OS. Just make sure to park your tweaked-out laptop on an ice cube or something to keep it cool. (Disclaimer: Overclock at your own risk! Besides voiding warranties, such fate-tempting behavior puts you at risk of corrupting data, burning out the CPU, or worse.)
Intel clearly takes its thermals very seriously. Utilities are available that constantly monitor your hardware...and the chip maker emphasizes that special options such as CoolIt's MTEC Docking Station are all but essential for hitting the performance ceiling without going splat.
How likely are you to buy that extra-hardcore docking station? And how much will it cost you? Those are good questions, and they should be answered when the base launches in January of 2009--just in time for you to see an even beefier Core i7-based Extreme Edition notebook next year.

Intel in Macs

Intel in Macs
Now every new Mac ships with an Intel processor. Experience delightful responsiveness from the smallest Mac mini to the most beefed-up Mac Pro. Use one of more than 7,000 universal applications that take full advantage of the Intel chip. Run programs from your PowerPC-based Mac in translation. Powered by Intel chips, your new Mac will do all those things that only Macs can do — and do so at an astonishing level of performance.
The new Mac core
Every Mac uses a chip based on Intel Core technology, the next generation in processor design from the world’s leading chip maker. The result of massive R&D effort involving thousands of engineers. An entire collection of revolutions shrunk into an unimaginably small space, consuming less energy, too. Two cores work together to share resources, and are designed to conserve power when their functions aren’t required. Whether in an ultra-sleek MacBook, or workstation class Mac Pro, Intel Core technology lets you get more power with less power.
Four on the floor
And that means pure creative exhilaration with four 64-bit cores inside the new Mac Pro. The Core-based Intel Xeon is so power efficient, that Apple engineers were able to remove the liquid cooling system from the previous Power-PC based model. Which means you can load up the Mac Pro with more cards, more hard drives, more memory. So you can do more with Final Cut Studio, Aperture, Logic Pro, and the growing number of universal applications for creative professionals.
Dual-roar
The Intel Core 2 Duo is actually two processors (cores) engineered onto a single chip — offering virtually twice the computational power of a traditional single processor in the same space. With two cores tightly integrated, increased L2 cache, and a host of engineering breakthroughs, the Intel Core 2 Duo delivers higher performance for all the things you do — from enhancing the family photos to rendering special effects for a feature film.

Intel Core Duo Processors

The Intel® Core™ Duo processor breaks new ground. Its dual-core technology rewrites the rules of computing, delivering optimized power efficient computing and breakthrough dual-core performance with amazingly low power consumption. Intel Core Duo processor is available in Intel's premium laptop platform, Intel® Centrino® processor technology.¹ It can also be found in select Intel® Core™2 processor with Viiv™ technology-based systems.² The Intel Core 2 Duo is actually two processors (cores) engineered onto a single chip — offering virtually twice the computational power of a traditional single processor in the same space. With two cores tightly integrated, increased L2 cache, and a host of engineering breakthroughs, the Intel Core 2 Duo delivers higher performance for all the things you do — from enhancing the family photos to rendering special effects for a feature film.

ntel's Classmate PC to Get Touch, Atom Chip

The third version of the Intel Classmate PC notebook will add new touch-screen and tablet capabilities, plus the Intel Atom processor.
At the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here, Intel representatives showed off the new Classmate design that is expected to hit retail shelves and the education IT market by the end of the year. While some of the original Classmate designs used the older Celeron processor, the updated laptops will come with single-core Atom processors standard.
Intel also announced a two-core Atom processor at IDF, but that chip is not expected to make its way into the Classmate design anytime soon, said Jeffery Galinovsky, a regional manager for Intel's Classmate PC Ecosystem.
The Classmate PC is Intel's own version of the low-cost laptop and it competes, at some level, with the One Laptop Per Child XO. Unlike the OLPC nonprofit project, the Intel Classmate notebook is more of a design than an actual product and it provides both a way to supply low-cost PCs and give local manufacturers, as well as Intel, a way to make a profit

1. Gigabyte Unveils New Generation Motherboards Based On AMD 790GX chipset

Gigabyte announced the launch of the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H, further cementing Gigabyte’s leadership position for the AMD AM2+ platform by enabling a new generation of motherboards which push the boundaries of integrated graphics performance and overclocking potential.

Based on the newly released AMD 790GX chipset with onboard ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics core, the GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-DS4H features 128MB of onboard DDR3 1333MHz SidePort Memory, allowing dedicated memory access for the integrated graphics for an added boost of up to 10~15% in graphics performance. In combination with the SidePort Memory, the onboard graphics is able to be overclocked above 1000MHz, allowing users to maximize their graphics performance and achieve 3DMARK06 scores of 2800+ and beyond.

In addition to supporting DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL2.0 3D gaming technology through its ATI Radeon HD 3300 IGP, the GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-DS4H provides a PCI-E 2.0 x16 to support the ground breaking ATI Hybrid Graphics technology, allowing users to combine the power of their integrated ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics core by adding an additional discrete graphics card. Also, it provides an additional PCI-E 2.0 x16 graphics interface to support ATI CrossfireX technology, running x8 and x8 bandwidth, for enhanced productivity and gaming performance.

The Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H also offers outstanding future CPU headroom with support for AM2 and Athlon64 series processors as well as the latest AM2+ and Phenom series processors with ultra low latency, high bandwidth (5200MT/s) Hyper Transport 3.0 technology. Additionally equipped with a 4+1 power phase design featuring Gigabyte’s unique Ultra Durable technology, the GA-MA79GP-DS4H fully supports high Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140W AMD Phenom X4 quad-core CPUs, ensuring maximum upgradability through its future-proof design.

Providing an exceptional high-definition multimedia experience, the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H is equipped with a wide range of connectivity options including D-sub and DVI, as well as support for HDMI. In addition to featuring support for ATI AVIVO technology for flawlessly smooth video playback, the GA- MA790GP-DS4H allows for playback of HD content up to 1080P, with full support for HDCP for Blu-Ray HD content. The GA-MA790GP-DS4H also supports the innovative ATI UVD (Unified Video Decoder) technology, for incredibly fine image quality and smooth playback, all while consuming less power. With its Realtek ALC889A sound chip, whose 106dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) significantly reduces noise during signal transmission and supports Blu-ray playback for an exhilarating home theater entertainment experience.

Price and Availability: Gigabyte products are distributed in India by Avnet India, Ingram Micro, Redington, Sahara Computers and Electronics and Technology and Gadgets. The Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H Series motherboard is priced at Rs.11990.

Intel Takes its cheap laptop to US, Europe

Laptop prices have been under extra pressure since last year, when Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc. introduced the $399 Eee PC

Boston/San Francisco: Intel Corp. said on Wednesday that the sub-$300 (Rs12,150) laptops, initially designed for poor children, will soon be available to US and European consumers in a move that could further push down computer prices.
PC makers in the US and in Europe will sell a yet-to-be-unveiled, second-generation version of the Intel-designed Classmate PC for $250 to $350, said Lila Ibrahim, general manager of Intel’s emerging market platform’s group.
“This is a very big deal,” said Laura Didio, an analyst with Yankee Group who follows the personal computer industry.
While the machines are intended for children, analysts said the launch will add momentum to the low-cost computing movement—and will likely mean this year’s bargain-basement laptops will have more power than in previous years.
“Particularly in a recession year, quality low-cost products are going to move well,” said Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group. “But the key is for them to be quality.”
He said while he hasn’t yet seen the machines that will be on sale this Christmas, he suspects consumers will be able to get “a pretty decent” laptop for less than $600 and perhaps for less than $500.
Didio said retailers might throw in another $50-100 in rebates or other incentives.
Laptop prices have been under extra pressure since last year, when Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc. introduced the $399 Eee PC, which has flown off store shelves from Asia to North America.
The machine runs on the Linux operating system, and people used to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows and Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X operating systems have had trouble adapting to the system, Enderle said.
The new, cheap laptops being developed from Intel’s technology will likely run on Windows, he added.
The movement towards low-cost computing was also spurred by the XO laptop, the brainchild of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte and his One Laptop Per Child Foundation.
The foundation began producing a laptop running on Linux at a cost of $188 in November. They sold them in the US and in Canada for $400 through a charity drive that also provided one machine to a poor child overseas.
Intel has conducted pilot tests of the Classmate PC at schools in Texas, Oregon and California, along with some schools in Australia, said spokeswoman Agnes Kwan.
Intel said manufacturers in India, Mexico and Indonesia already have begun selling Classmate PC laptops on the retail market. To date, it has sold fewer than 100,000 of the PCs, but plans to ramp up production in 2008.

Intel-Micron JV delays Singapore chip plant

The Singapore factory is the JV’s fourth facility and its first plant outside the US

Singapore: An Intel-Micron joint venture (JV) will delay the start of production at its Singapore wafer fabrication plant by six months to mid-2009 because of weak market conditions, an executive said on Monday.
IM Flash Technologies Llc. had been expected in December to start making NAND flash memory chips, widely used in digital cameras and mobile phones, at its Singapore plant. The firm is a manufacturing JV formed by Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc.
“The NAND market has plummeted, pricing declines have been the trend and supply has outrun demand,” Rodney Morgan, co-executive officer of IM Flash Technologies, said on the sidelines of a conference, adding that these market conditions were the primary reason behind the production delay. 
Research firm iSuppli Corp. estimates that average prices of NAND chips have slumped by 36% in the first quarter of this year, and are expected to fall 13% in the second quarter. It predicts that NAND prices could stabilize by mid-year.
The Singapore factory is the JV’s fourth facility and its first plant outside the US. It will make 50-nanometre flash memory chips from 12-inch silicon wafers.
One nanometre, which refers to the gap between transistors on a chip, is one-billionth of a metre. The more transistors that can be included, the more powerful the chip and the higher the profit margins.
“We expect a slight impact on supply as a result of the delay,” Morgan said.
Construction of the Singapore factory began in April last year and the firm expects to move in equipment in September. It employs about 800 staff.
Morgan declined to disclose the capacity of the plant, but said full capacity production would begin within a year from the start of output.
He also declined to disclose the cost of building the Singapore factory, but said it was 20-30% cheaper than building a similar plant in any another location.
The electronics sector produces one-third of Singapore’s factory output, but some manufacturers have moved to cheaper locations such as China and Vietnam.

6. AMD launches much-awaited Puma notebook chip line

Growth in desktop PCs has been slowing for years, and the mobile segment is where the fastest growth is in the PC industry

Advanced Micro Devices Inc is rolling out a much-awaited line-up of chips for laptops, as Intel Corp’s main rival seeks to regain a competitive footing against the world’s biggest chip maker.
AMD, which in April posted its sixth consecutive quarterly loss amid missteps and market-share losses to Intel, said the launch of the processors and related parts, code-named Puma, is its largest-ever launch for notebook personal computers.
AMD counts more than 100 different notebook PCs designed to use versions of the Puma platform. “This is double the design wins over any previous mobile launches,” Leslie Sobon, director of product marketing at AMD, said in a phone interview.
PC makers using Puma chips include Acer Inc, Asus, Dell Inc, Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV and Hewlett-Packard Co, she said. Prices for the mobile PCs will be mid-range for laptops, from about $700 up to $2,000. Most will be available in time for the back-to-school shopping season, and some will be available this week.
Growth in desktop PCs has been slowing for years, and the mobile segment is where the fastest growth is in the PC industry. Market research firm IDC predicts that consumers will buy more mobile PCs than desktop PCs by the end of this year.
“It is a good platform and I think the design wins are a testament to that fact,” IDC analyst Bob O’Donnell said. “Everybody wants a serious competitor to Intel, you can’t ignore that. But people aren’t going to randomly take an alternative if it’s not any good.”
Sunnyvale, California-based AMD is offering three versions of the Puma platform — a collection of the microprocessor, wireless chips to connect to WiFi, and related chips. Puma uses AMD’s Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core processor as its brain.
At the cheaper end, AMD’s new platform will use graphics technology integrated in the chipset, allowing video-gaming and also good enough to play back digital media seamlessly.
A chipset is a collection of semiconductors and components surrounding the microprocessor, a computer’s electronic brain.
For those who want better graphics, AMD will sell another platform to PC makers for about $50 more. That will use both a graphics processing unit, from AMD’s ATI graphics unit, as well as the integrated graphics functions of the chipset.
At the pricier end, AMD will include a high-end discrete ATI graphics chip for more intense gaming as well as working with high-definition home movies and the like.

Intel reveals design for fast, efficient future chips

A “multi-core” computer processing technology codenamed “Larrabee” will be showcased next week at an industry conference in Los Angeles

Intel has revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video game lovers, multi-taskers, and people who want power-sipping computers adapted to increasingly mobile lifestyles.
The world’s largest chip maker provided a glimpse of a “multi-core” computer processing technology codenamed “Larrabee” that it plans to showcase next week at an industry conference in Los Angeles.
Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices already sell chips with two or four “cores,” basically the brains in processors.
Chips to handle computer game graphics
Intel is to release in 2009 or 2010 a first wave of Larrabee chips with 16 to 48 cores which will be tailored for handling computer game graphics.
Multi-core chips cut energy use and heat while speeding performance by dividing tasks between cores. Portions of programs run simultaneously in a style referred to as “parallel computing.”
Traditional single-core processors handle tasks in a linear fashion, racing from start to finish in sequence. Along with allowing faster computer game play with film quality graphics, multi-core chips are considered a boon to computer users increasingly prone to tending to multiple tasks at once.
Software research alliances with leading universities
Microsoft and Intel have software research alliances with major universities and Intel is working with the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Intel researchers have already made an 80-core processor. “We’re quickly moving the computing industry to a many-core world,” Intel Research director Andrew Chien said at the alliance launch.
Bridging the physical with the virtual world
Chien predicts that multi-core chips will let computers “bridge the physical world with the virtual.” Predicted research breakthroughs include software enabling people’s mobile telephone to recognize faces of approaching acquaintances and whisper their names to users.
Another foreseeable application is described as voice recognition software so accurate it could be used to record witness testimony in courtroom proceedings. Intel expects Larrabee “to to kick start an industry-wide effort to create and optimize software for the dozens, hundreds and thousands of cores expected to power future computers.”
Larrabee’s initial foray into the multi-billion dollar computer graphics market will put it in an arena dominated by Nvidia and AMD, which both reportedly plan to market chips with hundreds of cores.

IBASE Releases Mobile AMD Sempron™-based Embedded Board

a world leader in embedded computing platforms, releases a Mobile AMD Sempron-based 3.5-inch Disk-Size SBC. The IB885 embedded board is powered by the AMD Sempron™ processor models 200U and 210U that smartly combines performance and value in a small-footprint BGA package to enable small form factor solutions with optimal thermal dissipation. With the AMD Sempron BGA processors that support extended longevity, IB885 is well suited for designs in the medical, transportation, industrial control, communications, and retail markets.
IB885 features one DDR2 800MHz SO-DIMM socket on board, supporting up to 2GB of DDR2 SO-DIMM memory. The integrated M690E chipset features an ATi Radeon X1200-based graphics engine supporting dual display, an LVDS interface, a built-in TMDS controller, and operates at core speeds of up to 400 MHz. Samples will be available in September, 2008.
IB885 FEATURES
· Supports AMD Sempron 200U (8W, 1.0G, DDR2-400) / 210U (15W 1.5G, DDR2-667), 256K cache
· Supports up to 800MHz FSB
· 1x DDR2 SDRAM SO-DIMM; Supports. 2GB memory
· 2x Realtek PCI-E Gigabit LAN
· 1x SATA II, 4x USB 2.0, 2x COM, Watchdog timer Digital I/O, LPC/Smart battery interface

IBASE Announces another Intel® Atom™-based 3.5-inch SBC - IB883

IBASE Technology (TASDAQ: 8050), a leading supplier of industrial computers, today announced anotherIntel® Atom™-based 3.5-inch embedded board, the IB883. IB883 is a small footprint single board computer that is configured with the Intel® Atom™processor N270 at 1.6GHz, FSB533 and the Mobile Intel® 945GSE Express chipset with the ICH7M. IB883 provides greater flexibility for developers of embedded computing solutions. It is ideally suited for rugged and compact designs as in internet devices and applications in automation, industrial control, data acquisition, thin client and other embedded PC applications.
Measuring 102x147mm, IB883 features the Intel's Graphics Media Accelerator 950 core, making it compatible with Windows Vista Premium, and Chrontel CH7307 DVI accelerator to support display interfaces including VGA CRT, single channel LVDS and a DVI port. One DDR2 SO-DIMM on board implements up to 1GB of system memory. Dual Gigabit LAN is also available. Advanced connectivity and expansion interfaces are provided by one IDE, one high-speed SATA-II, two serial ports, four USB 2.0, a CF socket, along with a PCI Express x1 interface. IB883 samples are due in September 2008.
IB883 FEATURES
Supports Intel® Atom™processor, 1.6GHz speed, 533MHz FSB
1x DDR2 SO-DIMM, Max. 1GB
Intel® 945GSE VGA for CRT / LVDS
Onboard Chrontel CH7307 for DVI
2x Intel® PCI-E Gigabit LAN
1x SATA II, 4x USB 2.0, 2x COM, 1x CF

Dax Networks Launches Smart 10G Solution

Recognizing the growing demand for bandwidth, Dax Networks, one of the top three networking companies in India, launched its Smart 10G Cat-6A Cabling Solution, based on 10G Ethernet on Copper. Dax's Smart 10G Cat-6A Cabling Solution is priced at Rs 26,990/- and is an ideal solution for enterprise, metropolitan and wide area networks. Dax's Smart 10G Cat-6A Cabling Solution provides transmission performance exceeding the industry standards for Cat-6 and supports the operation of 10GBASE-T over 100 metres. The 10GBASE-T uses 4-pair transmission and the aggregate data rate of 10 Gb/s is achieved by transmitting 2.5 Gb/s over each pair. Hybrids and cancellers are used to facilitate simultaneous transmission in both directions (full duplex). Dax's Smart 10G Cat-6A Cabling Solution is qualified for frequencies up to 500 MHz. Commenting on the solution, Subashini Prabhakar, Chief Technology Manager, Dax Networks said, "We believe that this Cabling Solution which supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet will become a technology of choice in the Structured Cabling space. The development of 10GBASE-T and support over Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cabling, initially in data centers but ultimately to the desktop, will bring a whole new world of opportunity for support of bandwidth intensive applications."Dax's Smart 10G Cat-6A Cabling Solution comes with a 3-year carry-in warranty and online support to its customers. When installed by a Dax Certified Installer, it is backed by an exclusive 20 year warranty. Dax plans to market this Smart 10G Cat-6 Cabling Solution through its strong channel spread across the country.