processors in comment and analysis
Third time lucky? Intel unveils latest Itanium
Comment Montecito, an Itanium with two different processors in the same piece of silicon, will come out in 2005. Software designed to run on 32-bit chips, such as Intel's Xeon processors, must be rebuilt to take... [30 Jun 2003]
EasyJet online, Transmeta and OpenSource
Comment Now the situation in processors is much more complex. A specialist sector of the server market is very interested in cool-running, low power processors. Its processors operate in similar... [14 May 2001]
Moore's Law no more?
Comment To make faster processors, the transistors which are the basic building blocks of computer chips have to be smaller and smaller. In the high-end server and handheld device markets, there is still a need for faster... [18 Oct 2001]
Devil's Advocate: More to Moore's Law
Comment So it is interesting to hear that Intel's engineers are confident they can continue to build faster and faster processors for the next 20 years. Many of the quite dramatic gains in data communications stem directly from... [20 Jan 2004]
Intel developing chip with two brains
Comment In general, there are two basic approaches to building multi-core processors. Symmetric multiprocessing chips, such as IBM's Power 4 and presumably chips with core hopping, essentially squeeze two equal... [21 Aug 2002]
Lest old acquaintances be forgot: the return of Unisys
Comment This architecture supports dynamic partitioning, which enables the servers to run Unix and Windows in the same cabinet, and allows administrators to reallocate input/output (I/O), memory and processors on the fly. [15 Dec 1999]
The chips are down - so look to the future
Comment The chips market is now about much more than PCs fuelled by Intel and x86 clone processors, just as it was before the last 15 years. Here, Sonya Rabbitte casts her eye over a battered landscape populated by still upbeat... [18 Oct 2001]
Just imagine - mobile Wintel dominance
Comment Intel reckons its processors - StrongARM chips or perhaps eventually others - will be at the centre of any number of future handheld computers. It's understandable that plenty of talk at last week's 3GSM event in Cannes... [28 Feb 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's branding nous, MS security lapses and government open source opportunities
Comment Intel started it all with 'Intel Inside' stickers adorning every PC with Pentium processors. You would have thought everyone knows IBM and what it does. You may be right, but that is not enough for Big Blue. [03 Sep 2001]
The big Oracle swindle?
Comment Customers paid a licence fee depending on the number of processors in a computer. Oracle has always come under fire for its complex pricing structure. Analysts have said it, customers have said it, and last year Oracle... [20 Mar 2002]
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?
Comment In the months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac was making the seismic shift from PowerPC to Intel processors, the murmurs about the possible resurrection of the clones programme have been getting louder - but... [04 Nov 2005]
Linux Special: Why open source is good news for Microsoft
Comment Ever since Ray Noorda decided he would compete with Microsoft on every level from DOS to word processors, Novell has been unable to regain its OS supremacy. Linux is ready for corporate use - that's the resounding... [19 May 1999]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
Comment The company also is building its own community of programmers around Solaris, while promoting the operating system's deployment on the widely used computers with x86 processors, such as Intel's Xeon. When Linus Torvalds... [21 Dec 2004]
Gil Tene
AS Profile With others argue over whether two-core or four-core is better, Azul has developed 24-core processors which feature built-in virtualisation plus lower acquisition and running costs than comparable technology. [25 Sep 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM goes large, Napster puts its case, and why Lane left Oracle
Comment Less frequently used data, in addition to being held further away from the processors, is compressed and cached elsewhere. IBM has made a couple of recent announcements that show it is still at the forefront of IT... [28 Aug 2000]
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