CPUs
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
Far Cry AMD64 Edition - A First Look at 64-bit Gaming
We've been very disappointed by the lack of 64-bit desktop applications for Microsoft's new x64 Edition OS. After years of campaigning for 64-bit games, AMD and Ubisoft unveiled...
59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/10/2005AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
Weeks ahead of schedule, AMD sent us their first Athlon 64 X2 dual core desktop CPUs to put through our benchmarking tests. Although they still won't be out...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/9/2005AMD's dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 - Server/Desktop Performance Preview
It's not always best to be first to release something, and AMD shows Intel exactly why with their comprehensive dual core product line. We benchmark both the new...
144 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 4/21/2005AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing
AMD's first Socket-754 Sempron in almost a year offers a 200MHz increase in clock speed, but half the cache of last year's model. We look at the mixed...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/18/2005Dual Core Intel Platform Shootout - NVIDIA nForce4 vs. Intel 955X
Now that there's at least one reason to look at Intel CPUs, what's the best chipset for dual core processors? We compare NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2005Intel Dual Core Performance Preview Part II: A Deeper Look
This time around we look at the more affordable Pentium D 2.8GHz as well as the impacts of hard drives on multitasking performance, including in games.
106 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/6/2005Intel Dual Core Performance Preview Part I: First Encounter
We bring you the first real world performance benchmarks and impressions of Intel's upcoming desktop dual core processors.
142 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/4/2005Interview with AMD's Fred Weber - The Future of AMD Microprocessors
Fred gives us a candid look at everything from the successor to Athlon 64 to Cell.
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2005Intel's Pentium M Desktop Part II: ASUS' Pentium M to Pentium 4 Socket Adapter
In our first article, the Pentium M wasn't very competitive on the desktop. But what about when paired with a desktop chipset? ASUS shows us how...
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/24/2005Understanding the Cell Microprocessor
Cutting through the hype and understanding the technology, that's what this article is all about. What's the big deal about Cell and does it have a future? We tell...
70 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/17/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Two: "Multi-core and multi-threaded gaming"
As we enter an era of increasingly multithreaded, multi-core CPUs, who will benefit the most from it? What is the use for all this CPU power? Will dual core...
49 by Johan De Gelas on 3/14/2005A Closer Look At PhysX: Our Take On The PPU
Can AGEIA do for physics what the GPU did for graphics? The PhysX PPU is their upcoming product poised to bring physics processing add-in cards to the PC. What's...
70 by Derek Wilson on 3/11/2005AMD Unveils Turion 64 Mobile Technology: A Rebranded Mobile Athlon 64
AMD finally provided more details about their new Turion 64 Mobile Technology - as we originally guessed, it's basically a new name for the 90nm Mobile Athlon 64.
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/10/2005Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
With the introduction of its newest Pentium 4 revision, Intel has doubled the L2 cache size, added EIST and EM64T, and taken away the bite of the Extreme Edition...
71 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 2/21/2005AMD K8 E4 Stepping: SSE3 Performance
The Revision E core AMD launched with the new Opteron 252 includes SSE3 along with the 1GHz coherent HT link, 90nm fabrication, and organic packaging.
48 by Derek Wilson on 2/17/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part One: "Is the single core CPU doomed?"
Why did Prescott really fail? Will Multi-Core CPUs really be an answer to our performance prayers? What will future CPU architectures bring? If you seek the answers, join us...
65 by Johan De Gelas on 2/8/2005Intel's Pentium M on the Desktop - A Viable Alternative?
Although many want to declare it the death of Net Burst, is the Pentium M truly suited for a high performance desktop?
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2005Rambus in Cell Processors and Intel's Dual Core Announcements
Rambus is the interface of choice for 90% of the signaling pins in the Cell architecture, and Intel's dual-core is on schedule for Q2 of this year. Interested yet?
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2005VIA PT Series: VIA PCI Express for Intel
VIA launches three new PCI Express chipsets for Intel - all featuring DDR or DDR2 with either AGP or PCIe on the PT880 PRO. Will these...
25 by Wesley Fink on 1/31/2005Half Life 2 CPU Performance
How do CPUs impact performance in the most CPU and GPU taxing game we've seen to date? We look at CPU performance as well as GPU scaling performance...
68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/26/2005
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