Stories about: Core Design

Now that Microsoft has successfully lobbied to get its Office Open XML document format approved as an international standard by the ISO, it should put just as much effort into showing IT managers that it will offer value beyond attracting the interest of government customers.

Contrary to recent speculation, an antipiracy tool Google is developing for YouTube will not block uploads to the video-sharing site.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) last week unveiled a performance upgrade for its Athlon 64 X2 dual-core high performance processor, the 6000+, with a clock speed of 3 GHz and 2 MB L2 cache. AMD has also disclosed plans to release desktop chips later this year based on the quad core design code-named Barcelona. Division marketing manager for desktop at AMD, David Schwarzbach, discussed the moves in an interview with Patrick Thibodeau.

IBM is joining the chorus of server manufacturers launching systems running on Intel quad-core Xeon processors.

AMD has released a new version of its Opteron processor, the popular server chip that has made AMD a serious competitor of rival, Intel.

Intel is planning to launch its "Conroe" chip for desktops this week, triggering a cascade of steep price cuts in the chip market and a raft of new PC designs.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will ship four-core processors for servers, workstations and high-end desktops by mid-2007, company Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester said Thursday.

Advanced Micro Devices will release a dual-core version of its most powerful and expensive PC processor for high-end gamers after using a single-core design in that segment for several months.

Intel's decision to scrap its single-core processor road map in favor of chips with two cores will help the company improve the performance of its future chips without having to rely on a power-centric design, analysts say.

First came open-source software, like FreeBSD, Apache and Linux. Now, a Chinese graduate student, Shen Shengyu, is hoping to generate support for the development of open-source hardware with the release of an open-source microprocessor core design (the primary processing circuitry of a chip) that is compatible with the widely used ARM family of microprocessors developed by ARM.