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Intel to Resurrect Hyper-Threading in Symmetric Multi-Processing
December 4, 2007
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November 30, 2007
NVIDIA’s Integrated Graphics Opportunity - Not all integrated graphics is made by Intel, but most of it is. To this end of tackling integrated graphics, NVIDIA has positioned its motherboard GPUs.
November 14, 2007
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Research at Intel Day highlight video, June 27
Interview with Seagate, June 25
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Intel First Quarter 2007 Earnings Call
April 28, 2007
Intel's prices have held up well. Since the launch of Core-based microprocessors in 2006, Intel started to see the processors "differentiate themselves from the competitor".
AMD First Quarter 2007 Earnings Call
April 27, 2007
It may seem odd that AMD should guide upward for Q2 and beyond after such a terrible quarter. However, AMD puts the quarter in the context of the previous four years in which the company went through "14 consecutive quarters of gaining share in the CPU business".
Penryn
April 17, 2007
Penryn is more than one thing. It is the next-generation "Core 2 Family processor microarchitecture". It's also "the industry's first 45 nm microprocessor". Penryn performs more work per clock than Core 2 Duo. It is thus "an improvement on the Core Microarchitecture introduced last year".
Core 2 Extreme QX6800
April 10, 2007
Multi-core is like 64-bit. If you build it, they will come. Hardware precedes software. This software includes games, but it includes other applications as well.
Next Generation Core Microarchitecture and Next Generation Microarchitecture
April 2, 2007
Intel has a new web page dedicated to the Penryn family of processors and the Nehalem microarchitecture. It is more informative in many respects than the press release.
Next Generation CPUs and Microarchitecture
April 1, 2007
Intel disclosed details about the family of processors known as Penryn and about the next microarchitecture called Nehalem.
Penryn Die
Pat Gelsinger Interview
March 31, 2007
PodTech spoke with senior vice president at Intel Pat Gelsinger and caught it all on audio.
Fab 68
March 28, 2007
The fab that Intel intends to build in China may not be state of the art, but then it won't be 200mm either. Instead the size of the wafers shall be 300mm. In other respects, the fab will not be state of the art.
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