Published on Friday, June 18, 2010 by admin SeaMicro has unveiled an Internet-optimized x86 server based on 512 Intel Atom processors usually found in mobile devices. The SeaMicro SM10000 is described as the "ultimate rethink of the volume server" using a quarter of the power and space. The SeaMicro SM10000 has a throughput of 1.28 terabits and uses off-the-shelf OSes and software. A Silicon Valley startup...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin For a long, long time, Thermalright’s Ultra 120 Extreme was considered the best of the best when it came to air based CPU coolers. However as time marched on, new contenders with new ideas and cutting edge designs entered the fray and literally changed the way we look at the ubiquitous air cooler. New cooler designs come and go, but very few have the staying pow...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin If you wonder how tiny a PowerPC SoC (System on chip) could be, AppliedMicro has recently announced a new Power Architecture based processor that is claimed to be the world’s smallest form factor in the industry. Named as APM801xx, it consists of multiple SKUs clocking from 400MHz, 600MHz and 800MHz suitable for different applications ranging from WiFi access point,...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin AMD today have launched five new processors, to replace current products, ranging from the budget Athlon II X2 260 to the Athlon II X4 610. New Processor Speed / Mhz Cores TDP Price Processor Replaced Athlon II X4 640 3000 4 95W $122 Athlon II X4 635 Athlon II X4 610e 2400 4 45W $143 Athlon II X4 605e Athlon II X3 445 3100 3 ...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin Atom was designed to be a low-cost, low-power solution, but its value in the desktop space is debatable if you consider performance. We pit the cheapest Core i3 against Intel's Atom on a performance-per-dollar and a per-watt basis to see which is better. This is no apples to apples comparison here. The two products we're pitting against each other belong in differe...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin The newest product to be thrusted into Intel's server arsenal will be called Westmere-EX, and is set to directly compete with AMD's Mangy-Cours server chip which features 12 cores, and AMD's future Bulldozer architecture. In a webcast speech, Stephen Smith, vice president/director of PC client operations and enabling at Intel, announced the upcoming Nehalem-EX refr...

Published on Monday, May 10, 2010 by admin Announcing high end products and 'Halo' type hardware is relatively easy for manufacturers - slap some snazzy artwork next to a few pictures, wring a few industry related endorsements, put the major selling points in big letters, write a website page for it, and maybe run a competition to let a couple of people win one.    For entry level boards, it's a different ma...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Supermicro have launched today their second generation of GPU computing servers, using NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs. This product line is an upgrade from their first generation servers, and features a 1U server with 2x M2050 Tesla cards; a 4U tower that supports four C2050 Tesla GPUs, three other PCI-E cards, and support for eight hot-swappable 3.5" SAS/SATA drive...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Intel’s second-gen Atom platform, Moorestown, positions the chip giant to have a killer smartphone and MID platform in 2010. The old Atom Z5xx drawbacks seem fixed. Why does Moorestown rock, and will it be enough to let Intel advance in this market? Imagine you’re running a 3DMark graphics demo at perfectly fluid frame rates. Then imagine you’re watching 72...

Published on Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin Apple has acquired Intrinsity, a chipmaker that created the key speed technology in the iPad's A4 processor. With Intrinsity's technology, the Apple iPad runs about a third faster than most mobile processors. Buying Intrinsity shaves Apple's cost and lets it shape the A4 chip in the iPad. An analyst said Intrinsity's tech is useful "for a while." With the battl...

Published on Sunday, May 2, 2010 by admin A very smart man once told me that absolute performance doesn’t matter, it’s performance at a given price point that makes a product successful. While AMD hasn’t held the absolute performance crown for several years now, that doesn’t mean the company’s products haven’t been successful. During the days of the original Phenom, AMD started the trend of o...

Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by admin Intel on Thursday officially released its next-generation chips, which should improve the system performance and battery life of laptops. For the past year, the chip maker has talked about the chips as a giant upgrade over existing Core chips that go into laptops and desktops. The chips provide close to double the processing and graphics performance than their comp...