processors in comment and analysis
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment It is expected that these processors will be priced just under the $1,200 mark making it likely that server nodes will hit the streets at less than $7,000. This is likely to be one of those occasions as last week saw vendor Intel introduce the... [16 Sep 2003]
Inside Intel: A vendor dossier
Comment It has long been at the heart of most mainstream computing, its Pentium processors in recent years found inside laptops, desktops and many servers, but becoming a communications and consumer company is changing the genetic make-up. [30 Sep 2002]
Devil's Advocate: A standardised PC on every desktop?
Comment They were intended as embedded processors for peripherals. Once Intel saw how their products were being used, they started to design processors suited to the purpose. But there was a reason for these deficiencies: the Intel processors used in the... [18 Nov 2003]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment The problem with the greening of IT is that - admittedly this is a generalisation - the underlying goal is to get you to buy more: new servers with more energy-efficient processors, intelligent sensors for data centre coolant systems, server... [13 Aug 2007]
Why Centrino really is big news
Comment AMD announced several processors specifically for laptops this week, Transmeta has mainly designed for this market since its inception and Intel, most loudly, has released Pentium-M processors and its bundle called Centrino this week. [13 Mar 2003]
Why AMD is putting its chips in one basket
Comment AMD already makes processors with built-in memory controllers that connect the processor to memory. The key to the deal, however, is that it will give AMD the internal know-how to devise processors with integrated graphics and communications... [25 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment According to the latest reports, that could involve a restructuring which would see Intel dumping several products and businesses that have failed to live up to expectations and are unrelated to PC and server processors. [07 Jun 2006]
In the spotlight: Sun
Comment While Sun deserves credit for proving powerful Unix servers can compete against Intel systems, it's clear computers using Sun processors eventually will be overwhelmed, said Illuminata analyst Jonathan Eunice. [10 Feb 2003]
European payment issues will top 2008 agenda
Comment The regulators have suggested that in an efficient market there should not be the current 50 or 60 processors but only five to seven, and that any bank can use any processor. As a result, consolidation is already happening with the creation of... [20 Dec 2007]
Devil's Advocate: 64-bit computing - a state-of-the-art red herring?
Comment The inevitable result has been that sales of Intel 64-bit processors have been pretty dull. Faced with stagnant sales, Microsoft soon dropped support for non-Intel processors. Intel has been open about the fact that it will be some years before its... [27 May 2003]
Leader: Banks may regret Oyster e-money fiasco
Leader The Oyster scheme was a chance for the payment processors to sneak a little bit more of the cash market into electronic form. And when Tesco starts cutting the banks out of their own business, the payment processors might wish they'd been just as... [09 May 2006]
Itanium 2 - the year's biggest hardware release all about software?
Comment Itanium 2 runs in direct competition with Sun UltraSparc processors, which are 64-bit and have been for years - which means there is plenty of software out there already taking advantage of them. Vincent Smith, European server advocate at IBM, a... [16 Jul 2002]
OS Wars: Unix vendors prepare to take on Windows XP
Comment The operating system also offers support for systems with up to 32 processors and 256GB of memory. The operating system, which runs on HP's PA-RISC and Intel Itanium processors, will run native Linux applications on 64-bit Itanium servers without... [22 Oct 2001]
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 advantage of 64-bit features, and for... [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 fashion to those of its rival, achieved by reverse... [14 May 2001]
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