Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core Processor
Man, a lot is happening at this very moment in the hardware industry. It's called silly season, and every manufacturer will try to deliver it's best and most refreshing product just in time for you to purchase at Christmas.
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12.11.2007 The future of Xbox Live
Aaron Greenberg, responsible for the Xbox Live Marketplace content, was interviewed in a podcast of VGM Daily, and some interesting news surfaced:
First of all, the Xbox 360 is getting a "Virtual console" feature similar to what Nintendo planned for the Revolution, meaning older games (from other platforms) will be downloadable for a small price. The service will be officially announced at E3.
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14.4.2006 Perfect wife from future :)
Ballmer: Advertising Is the Future
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wants to grab the worldwide advertising opportunity by the horns. It's one big steer to bring to the ground.
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14.11.2007 DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
How is DirectX 10 and its Unified Architecture going to benefit gamers? What is the gamer going to need to take and advantage of it? We recently sat down with ATI and talked about DirectX 10 and how their next generation desktop GPU will benefit.
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2.5.2006 Microsoft Home of the future v2.0
In a teenager's bedroom of the future, the interactive wallpaper will combine images of friends, favorite bands and places to create something akin to an online MySpace page in the real world.
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2.10.2006 Microsoft's future is in 64-bit
With the launch of Vista coming over the next few months, Microsoft has had little opportunity to talk about anything else.
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27.11.2006 Nokia CEO: The Internet is the Future
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told attendees of the Nokia World 2006 Conference that Internet functionality will be the driving force in the next phase of mobile phone industry growth.
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29.11.2006 Suggestions For Future Versions of Windows
The Windows Early Feedback program was created by Microsoft as a means of rounding up suggestions and feedback that may be considered for implementation in future iterations of the Windows operating system.
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11.11.2007 No Future for Windows XP SP3?
Make no mistake about it, June 30, 2008 is the beginning of the end for Windows XP, even with Service Pack 3 available for two months now, since May 6.
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13.6.2008 Windows XP SP3 - No Future
With Windows XP but four days away from the June 30 end-of-sales date, various scenarios are depicting the operating system as already dead.
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26.6.2008 The Future of Windows Is Manycore-Multicore
Microsoft has little say in the matter, as does the entire ecosystem of software developers that will have to step up their game and fall in line with the evolution of hardware, further and further into the territory of parallel computing.
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9.8.2008 Nokia’s N97: Is this your future netbook?
Nokia on Tuesday rolled out its N97, a high-end smartphone with a 3.5 inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and social location software to allow people to use Facebook, MySpace and other sites on the go.
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2.12.2008 Take Two Talks Future Nintendo Collaboration
Following a financial report which showed a disappointing fourth quarter loss, double that incurred in 2007, and a overall yearly profit of 97 million dollars, mostly derived from sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, Take Two is looking at 2009 as a difficult year, mainly because Rockstar's franchise will only see the release of the Nintendo DS bound Chinatown Wars.
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18.12.2008 The First Dual Core Laptop
A dual core laptop was long awaited among the dual core family.
The one we are talking about is produced by WidowPC and is named Sting 917X2.
This new notebook uses the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor, making it the fastest dual core laptop.
Though, it seems that other companies like Alienware, Vodoo or Sager will soon launch similar products.
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3.12.2005 Could a three-core CPU be coming your way?
Tom's Hardware Guide ran one of the most unusual benchmarks I've ever seen, having taken a dual-CPU system and put two different CPUs in it. Now, anyone who knows anything about dual-CPU systems knows this is a no-no. Most motherboard makers don't even recommend mismatching steppings, let alone anything else. And sure enough, Tom's Hardware Guide had its fair share of trouble getting the system to work in such an odd configuration, but it got the system to work.
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3.12.2005 Microsoft Talks Up Visual Studio Future
Microsoft may have just shipped Visual Studio 2005, but the company is already starting to discuss its future plans for the development suite. Service Pack 1 is in the works for next summer, says Visual C# product manager Scott Wiltamuth, and Orcas -- the next VS release -- is being hashed out.
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Microsoft Powers Gas Pump of the Future
I saw this at CES last January. A gas pump that can fuel your car while loading up your iPod with MP3 files took top honors at Microsoft's Mobile & Embedded DevCon, now underway in Las Vegas.
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11.5.2006 Microsoft DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
Way back in the ?dark ages? of computer gaming there were few choices to achieve hardware acceleration for 3D. The two most notable methods were OpenGL and 3dfx? proprietary ?Glide.? Glide required the use of specific 3dfx hardware while OpenGL is an open platform that is supported by the community and can also run under a Linux operating environment. With Windows, Microsoft decided to capitalize on what they saw becoming the multimedia experience.
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7.5.2006 Gates sees a home server in your future
LAS VEGAS--Having helped get PCs into most American's homes, Bill Gates now wants people to bring in a server.
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8.1.2007 Microsoft Predicts The Future With Vista's SuperFetch
SuperFetch, a feature within Vista, predicts which applications are used when, then pre-loads them so that they're instantly available.
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22.1.2007 The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news on Windows Live Mail desktop since 2006, with a minor update being released in February.
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13.3.2007 Ballmer hints at Microsoft's future in the 'cloud'
The software maker has been talking for some time about its plans to have a full-fledged platform that lives on its servers, as opposed to a set of discrete services, as is the case today.
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11.7.2007 Week in review: Microsoft's cloudy future
Microsoft plans to open up its underlying Internet services to developers as part of an ambitious makeover some refer to as "Cloud OS."
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14.7.2007 Windows CE and the Future of Embedded Devices
Want to build your own Windows XP Embedded Kernel? Want to know the ridiculous amount of embedded devices that are expected to sell in 2010?
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26.12.2007 Ballmer: Microsoft must be "multi-core"
CEO says Microsoft must continue to build out businesses in markets other companies have already created.
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28.7.2006 Intel Readies Merom-L Core
In a bid to make manufacturing of Celeron M 500 CPUs economically more efficient, Intel will introduce a shrunk-down core in the near future.
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9.4.2007 Bill Gates on Windows Past, Present, and Future
It's hard to believe that twenty years ago, Microsoft Windows was the underdog of the industry, now shipped on 95% of PC's worldwide PC Magazine poses the question, Whats beyond Vista? to Bill Gates.
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Analyst sees terabyte iPod in Apple's future
Apple could possibly create an iPod with 1 terabyte of storage, as well as a true ?iPhone? says one analyst. ?A terabyte iPod might sound crazy today, but we believe in five years a terabyte iPod will emerge as a portable home media center,? says Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster in an research report obtained by iLounge. ?We continue to believe that Apple will enter the mobile phone market. We would not expect an ?iPhone? to be launched for at least 12-18 months.?
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Gates outlines Vista and vision of future computing
Bill Gates highlighted Windows Vista as well as gives a vision on how personal computing technology will go in the future.
During his demo, Mr. Gates was able to integrate his information and data seamlessly across a cell phone, tablet PC, and his desktop PC that was connected to a 40 inch monitor that divided the display into 3 work areas.
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5.1.2006Sony Ericsson and ARM announce multi-core mobile CPU
In a world where smartphones are becoming more and more featured, it left one to wonder how it would take before the devices went the way of the
personal computer a picked up another core or three. Wonder no more, as Sony Ericsson and ARM have announced the world's first multi-core (or,
SMP, Symmetric Multi Processing) CPU for mobiles. This new CPU will be running an a device at a private event, with Symbian OS installed, at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This new developments means the future Sony Ericsson phones (and future phones in general) will be able to run
more applications at once, whilst reducing the overall power consumption.
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17.02.2009iRumor: quad-core and dual-core iMacs due within few weeks
Not soon after there were some rumors that the company has told its resellers that supplies of iMacs will be constrained in the immediate future, we
have another analyst speculating that new models of iMacs are a few weeks away! It's been 280 days since Apple updated the last iMac, more than
the 211 average number of days between updates. Kaufman Brothers analyst, Shaw Wu gives the latest status update of new iMacs with the help of his
supply chain sources. According to him dual-core and quad-core iMacs are likely to be available within a few weeks as Apple has cut short its supply
of existing models of iMac.
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03.02.2009Intel explains new Core i3, i5 and i7 CPU branding
On Wednesday, Intel posted a statement on their website explaining how their branding will look in the future; as CNET reports, the hardware company
will be splitting their Core CPU range into three categories: i3, i5 and i7, each different tiers of performance. As you can imagine, the new Core i3
range will be the lower performance, the i5 will be mid-range, and the i7 will be reserved for maximum speed.
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20.06.2009Mundie: Future software to exist in the cloud and on your PC
For all the talk about
future software leaving the
desktop and running
exclusively from services on
the Internet, Microsoft chief
research and strategy officer
Craig Mundie doubts this will
be so.
Speaking in Los Angeles at
WinHEC 2007, Mundie's keynote
speech, "The evolution of
computing," described, in
part, the future of software.
He admitted desktop software
has reached a road bump;
faster apps will require
faster CPUs on the PC and
that's becoming harder to
accomplish--the old way.
Mundie talked on Tuesday
morning about the evolution of
multicore processor
architecture on desktops and
laptops. He said that the 3Ghz
dual core processor on
today's PCs will soon give
way to 3Ghz quad core and then
3Ghz 8 cores down the road.
The new processors will
require new software
languages. The new programming
languages will run programs in
parallel and on multiple
platforms--PC, mobile, and the
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16.05.2007Intel details R&D on multi-core
In a handful of technical
papers presented the week of
June 11, Intel Corp. is
disclosing more details about
its research into the future
of multi-core processors.
Highlights include work on
a new ultra low power
chip-to-chip interconnect that
hits data rates up to 15
Gbits/second as well as
techniques to spread jobs more
effectively across multiple
cores and their memories.
Intel would not say when any
of the advances might appear
in its commercial products.
"Eventually we will
need to get to deliver
terabits/s of data to a
multi-core die," said Randy
Mooney, an Intel Fellow and
director of I/O research. But
using today's techniques that
could require a whopping 100W
of power, he said. ..
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14.06.2007Intel sees x86 everywhere in future
Intel expects to see Moore's law continue for the near future and also plans for its x86 processor architecture to extend across everything from
small embedded devices right up to supercomputers, according to the head of its Digital Enterprise group, Pat Gelsinger. However, programming
techniques are going to have to evolve to make better use of many-core chips.
Speaking at a briefing to mark Intel's 40th anniversary,
Gelsinger gave his predictions for the future of computer technology, focusing on the key areas of Moore's law, many-core chips, the Intel
architecture (IA), and visual computing. Gelsinger said that Moore's law would continue to extend into the future, and said that Intel has a
roadmap for 32nm, 22nm and 10nm chips.
"I can recall in the past we thought reaching 1 micron (1 micrometre) would be hard," he
commented, adding that as each milestone was reached, the way ahead became clearer, despite predictions that Moore's law was running out of steam.
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03.07.2008Microsoft Bing Engineer Echoes Google on The Future of Search
Jan Pedersen, chief scientist for core search at Microsoft, shared his thoughts on the current search market and its future direction in this post on
the Huffington Post. Pedersen's piece echoes a lot of what Google's Marissa Mayer wrote in a September 2008 post on the future of search. What this
means is Microsoft gets search, something that we couldn't say with a straight face before Bing launched in June. The similarities between the way
Google and Microsoft view search hold together to the end. Well, almost. There is one area where Microsoft's and Google's view on search seems to
diverge: Scale.
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24.09.2009Multi-Core Confrontation: Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs. Core 2 Duo E6850
While AMD keeps postponing the launch of their quad-core processors to the end of this year “ beginning of next, Intel Company is offering very
affordable quad-core CPUs from Core 2 Quad family. However, can Core 2 Quad processors be regarded as a worthy alternative to popular dual-core
solutions?
The Intel processor price cut that occurred a month ago turned into an important milestone on the multi-core
processors way to user computer systems. The price of quad-core processors has finally dropped down to the level of dual-core solutions. To be more
exact, the youngest model in the official Core 2 Quad lineup is priced exactly the same as the top Core 2 Duo CPU. This price, by the way, is set at
$266, which seems quite sufficient to make processors with four computational cores much more popular than they used to be before.
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01.09.2007Apple Debuts Eight-Core Mac Pro
Apple on Wednesday refreshed
its Mac Pro line, adding a new
8-core behemoth using Intel's
new "Clovertown"
quad-core Xeon processors.
Also, a new quad-core model
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04.04.2007Intel Ships High-End Quad Core Chips
Intel began the multi-core era
by beating AMD to the punch by
releasing its first quad-core
chips for high-end
workstations and servers. Two
families would sport the
architecture: the Intel Xeon
5300 series processors, and
the Intel Core 2 Extreme
QX6700...
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14.11.2006New 4-Socket Xeon Targets Virtualization
Intel has unveiled its new 7300 and 7200 series Xeon processors as well as its new 7300 chipset today at a launch event in San Francisco. Previously
known by their Tigerton and Clarksboro codenames, respectively, the 4-core and 2-core chips are designed for systems with 4 or more physical
processors. The new chips also mark the final stage of Intel's transition to its Core micro-architecture, which allows for more power efficient chips
than the previous NetBurst generation. The transition to the Core architecture has allowed Intel to close the gap with AMD in the performance per Watt
metric, allowing the chipmaker to take back market share from AMD Opteron.
To further support migration of virtual workloads, the new chips
also feature a new technology dubbed VT FlexMigration Assist. The technology allows virtualization software such as VMware ESX Server or Xen to move
virtual workloads between physical processors and servers as they are running. Currently such technology requires that all servers offer the same
micro-architecture. Intel's FlexMigration enables for the migration of workloads between the Core micro-architecture as well as future
micro-architectures such as the ones that will be used in Intel's forthcoming 45-nanometer Penryn processors and future chips.
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06.09.2007Intel Adds "Yorkfield" Core 2 Extreme
Intels latest roadmap adds two
more processors to the
upcoming lineup. The roadmap
reveals early plans for the
Yorkfield-based Core 2 Extreme
and another Core 2 Duo
E4000-sequence processor. With
Yorkfield, Intel
differentiates the Core 2
Extreme and Core 2 Duo models
by the front-side bus speed.
Intel Core 2 Extreme
Yorkfield processors will have
a 1333 MHz front-side bus,
continuing on where the
Kentsfield Core 2 Extreme
QX6850 leaves off. The
quad-core processor supports
Intel VT, Enhanced Intel
SpeedStep and Intel 64 and
Execute Disable Bit
technologies. Intel leaves TXT
technology out of the 45nm
Core 2 Extreme however.
Intels Core 2 Duo
E4000-sequence receives a
speed bump in Q42007. The new
Core 2 Duo E4600 clocks in at
2.4 GHz and remains on an 800
MHz front-side bus. Aside from
the speed bump, the Core 2 Duo
E4600 is no different from
other Core 2 Duo
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14.06.2007Intel shifts future Core processors into turbo mode
Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group discussed new features of the company's
next-generation processor family including a new turbo mode that shifts the processor into a higher gear for increased performance without a heat
penalty.
The company's first desktop PC chips branded Intel Core i7 processors and initial energy-efficient, high-performance server
products (codenamed Nehalem-EP) will be first to production. Intel is also planning to manufacture a second server derivative designed for the
expandable sever market (Nehalem-EX), and desktop (Havendale and Lynnfield) and mobile (Auburndale and Clarksfield) client versions in the second half
of 2009.
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21.08.2008Triple-core and quad-core processors show up in sub-$600 PCs
The competition between AMD and Intel may appear to have calmed down a bit over recent months, but the retail market shows every sign that a new
battle has begun: Following the dual-core fight, it now appears that triple-cores in fact are increasing the pressure on dual-core PCs and quad-core
PCs have officially arrived in the mainstream.
For about half a year it seemed like entry-level quad-core PCs were stuck in the
$800 to $1000 range, with Intels Core 2 Quad Q6600 controlling supply and demand. But suddenly we are seeing a whole new dynamic in this market. Large
retail chains are selling what we would consider cheap multi-core processor systems that are competing with some aging dual-core systems still in
inventory and are pushing more up-to-date dual-core PCs below $500 and even into the sub-$300 segment.
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22.04.2008The Ultimate Intel Core i7 Memory Performance Guide
Today we are going to look at how various memory frequencies, timings, and configurations influence the memory bandwidth and the real-world
performance of Core i7 processors. This is particularly important to not only help you get the most out of your Core i7 CPU, but to potentially save
you a lot of money. After all, it is possible to configure a Core i7 processor with triple-channel memory operating at 1066, 1333 and 1600MHz, or
even faster. But what are the benefits of using more aggressively clocked memory? With the new Core i7 platform, DDR3 should finally get its chance
to shine. As noted before, the Core i7 features an on-die memory controller with support for triple-channel DDR3 memory.
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10.12.2008Mainstream Quad-Core CPU Performance Comparison
Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel's first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost
three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may recall it was quite the luxury then
to have one of these at your disposal. Today we find ourselves with very different and diversified offerings from both companies, that are not only
cheaper but also significantly faster.
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11.09.2009Intel Names New Desktop,
Laptop Chips
Intel on Sunday gave a brand
name to its new processors for
desktop and notebook
computers: Core 2 Duo. The
dual-core chips were
originally known by the
code-names Conroe and Merom,
and succeed Intel's original
Core chips released earlier
this year...
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08.05.2006Intel Announces Quad-Core
Processor
At an early morning keynote
address to open the
semi-annual Intel Developers'
Forum in San Francisco, CEO
Paul Otellini confirmed that a
Core 2 Extreme quad-core
processor is coming this
November for the enthusiast
segment of the PC market. But
can his performance gain
estimates possibly be correct?..
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27.09.2006Review: Intel Core i7 'Nehalem' processor and X58 chipset
In appearance, the new Intel Core i7 - based on the 'Nehalem' microarchitecture - looks like a bigger, chunkier version of the Core 2 Quad but
under the heat spreader and casing it has a radical design that breaks new ground.
New ground, that is, for Intel, but Core i7 seems to
have rather a lot in common with AMD's Phenom microprocessor. Both CPUs have four cores on a single die, unlike the pair of dual-core CPUs
you’ll find inside a Core 2 Quad. Both have the memory controller integrated inside the processor.
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In addition, Core i7 has ditched the frontside bus and moved to the QuickPath Interface (QPI), which bears a strong resemblance to the
HyperTransport bus AMD uses. QPI is the new name for Intel's erstwhile HyperTransport rival, Common System Interface (CSI).
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03.11.2008Core i7 Copycat?
A Chinese website,
HKEPC reported recently, that AMD will be unveiling a new line of CPUs
in the near future. The new line consists of 45-nm Quad-Core models in the range of 2.83GHz to 3.0GHz, and on average, a decent amount (8MB) of L2
cache.
Interestingly, the model numbers on AMD's new CPUs are strikingly similar to Intel's latest Core i7 competitors.
Comparing the equivalent models yields these results:
Intel Core i7-920 (2.66GHz) = AMD
Phenom II X4 920 (2.8GHz)
Intel Core i7-940 (2.93GHz) = AMD Phenom II X4 940 (3.0GHz)
It's hard to tell if it's merely a
coincidence, or if it was planned, but it seems a bit peculiar that the model numbers would be exactly the same.
Nonetheless, these new
models are looking much more "in with the times" than some of their previous releases. Do you think they'll be able to make a comeback at Intel and
create some good competition?
We can only hope so. At this point, only time will tell; they are scheduled to be released sometime in
January.
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