processor
RSS processorJaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News AMD's six-core Opteron processor helps the Cray XT5 to the top of the pile AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world, according to a new list published late last week. The list names the... [17 Nov 2009]
Photos: The latest Windows Phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson
Photo The HSDPA device has Qualcomm's 1Ghz Snapdragon mobile processor, and has been skinned with HTC's Sense UI. While Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market may have waned of late, Windows Mobile continues to find its way... [13 Nov 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Samsung X120
Photo What is it: inch ultra-portable laptop with ULV processor Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's... [13 Nov 2009]
Security Separation of Multi-Core Processors
White Paper The semiconductor industry has arguably reached the point where security is not just an application level requirement, but a processor level requirement as well. The first tools to enable this data separation have been... [11 Nov 2009]
What Is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)?
White Paper The processor typically sends out one or more letters, and follows up with phone calls. In the authors interviews with merchants, they usually tell the processor as little as possible. The... [11 Nov 2009]
Tales From the Frontlines: SecureZIP and IBM System z Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility
White Paper In addition, SecureZIP maximizes the investment made by customers in hardware cryptography by utilizing the least expensive processor capabilities within a system, while maintaining the data security and portability that... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo The four-inch HSPA touchscreen device packs a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The Milestone sports Android 2.0 - aka Eclair - and a 550MHz processor plus wi-fi, Bluetooth and GPS. It's two years... [06 Nov 2009]
The top 10 reasons why Nehalem is ideal for the cloud
White Paper Intel officially launched the Intel® Xeon® 5500 processor (formerly codenamed "Nehalem") for servers and workstations. Whether you've bought into the hype of cloud computing or are a jaded IT realist - you can't afford... [02 Nov 2009]
Nehalem-EX, the new standard in scalable performance
White Paper Intel recently provided a server product update for the upcoming Nehalem-EX processor and the expandable platforms based on it. Here's a recap of some of the interesting messages: Nehalem Architecture and Quick Path... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - the latest PCs from Acer to Samsung
Photo It comes with a copy of the Windows 7 Home Premium edition and packs an Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 processor and 4GB of memory. The official release of Windows 7 last week has seen the debut of a slew of hardware sporting... [26 Oct 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment The systems have included a seven-year-old single-core Pentium 4, right up to a dual processor, 8 core behemoth, with the most recent being a 64-bit installation on a high-end Core i7 system that has just become my new... [23 Oct 2009]
Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft Hyper-V
White Paper A series of tests were run comparing a Dell PowerEdge R900 server using new Intel six-core processors against previous generation quad-core processor servers. The results of these tests showed that the Dell PowerEdge... [15 Oct 2009]
Gadget Watch: Toshiba Satellite L550-113
Photo Very fast processor; large, high-resolution screen Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site... [09 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment P = Processor power K = A constant related to the system type ks = A constant related to the system configuration kp = A constant related to the processor km = A constant related to the memory More... [08 Oct 2009]
Intel Performance Testing of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
White Paper The test results in this white paper are intended to demonstrate the performance characteristics of several different Web server processor configurations in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 farm. In some tests, one core... [02 Oct 2009]
