Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has join hands with Havok, an Irish company acquired by Intel, to optimize its award winning Havok Physics engine for AMD processors.
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AMD and Havok to optimize game physics
June 12th, 2008 by Kiyani
AMD launches quad-core Opteron SE processor
June 9th, 2008 by Kiyani
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has launched four new quad-core Opteron SE processors for two-, four- and eight-socket commodity x86 systems. The new processors are comparable to larger, more costly symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware.
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Intel fined $25.4 million for anti-trust abuse by South Korea
June 5th, 2008 by Kiyani
The Korea Fair Trade Commission, South Korea’s antitrust regulator has fined Intel US $25.4 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the local chip market.
Bruce Sewell, general counsel Intel, criticized the ruling and told that the company will appeal against this judgement.
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Intel Atom to power Apple Tablet iPhone
May 14th, 2008 by Kiyani
A German website has reported that Apple plans to use Intel Atom processor in iPhone. According to the report Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer has confirmed it.
The Atom will be used in Mini-Tablet iPhone a bigger model with 720×480 display.
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IBM showcases small supercomputer for organizations
May 14th, 2008 by Kiyani
IBM has announced that it will release QS22 BladeCenter server powered by a Cell processor next month. It’s like a small supercomputer and is aimed at enterprise level organizations.
This will be the first initiative by any company to offer small supercomputer to organizations.
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AMD unleashes low power quad-core processors
May 12th, 2008 by Kiyani
Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of low-power quad-core Opteron processors for server systems.
These are B3 versions of its low-power Quad-Core Opteron processors which AMD first showed in September 2007.
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Toshiba laptop to have IBM’s cell processor
May 10th, 2008 by Kiyani
Toshiba has announced that it will release a laptop with a variant of cell processor jointly developed by and alliance of Sony, Toshiba and IBM known as STI. No firm date of laptop launch has been given but it is expected to be released this year.
Sony’s PlayStation also uses cell processor.
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Laptops to overtake desktops in 2009
May 8th, 2008 by Kiyani
For the first time in history the number of microprocessors shipping for notebooks will exceed those shipping for desktops in 2009.
This shows PC microprocessor market is heading for an “inflection point” in 2009.
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New supercomputers to improve climate change predictions
May 6th, 2008 by Kiyani
A supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, has been proposed by three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to improve global climate change predictions.
This is an innovative approach that would overcome limitations posed by today’s conventional supercomputers.
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