Neowin News Feed for: Cores

Intel previews Xeon Nehalem-EX 8-core processor

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:44:28 +0000

Intel has unveiled its new Xeon Nehalem-EX processor which comes with 8-cores, 16 threads and 24MB of cache memory. The performance increase brings forth a new model for servers allowing for cheaper, faster and... Read more...

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:51:13 +0000

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating point operations per second. CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several... Read more...

ATI Readies Top-to-Bottom DirectX 10 Graphics Cores Lineup

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:39:52 +0000

ATI Technologies, a leading supplier of graphics processors and multimedia technologies, may be ready with the top-to-bottom lineup of DirectX 10-supporting graphics processor and a chipset with built-in DirectX 10 graphics core as early as... Read more...

ClearSpeed races ahead on processor cores

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:49:42 +0000

ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and server clusters. It has incorporated 96 separate processing cores on a single chip, the company said at... Read more...

PowerPC 970MP to pack dual cores for future Apple hardware

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:27:54 +0000

IBM is wasting no time to be the first to offer dual-core processors. Already we know that Intel and AMD have plans to come out with their own dual-core processors though theirs production dates... Read more...

Intel Will Not Enable 64-Bits in Existing Prescott Cores

Fri, 21 May 2004 14:21:53 +0000

Intel's senior management made their yearly trek to midtown Manhattan on May 13th to brief a large group of financial and technology analysts on the state of its current business, and convey product strategies for... Read more...

Extreme CPUs: 430 cores on a die

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:13:55 +0000

British start-up picoChip has announced an extreme processor with 430 16bit cores on a die, and is testing the first silicon. It's a pretty radical and interesting approach, which involves a massively parallel array of... Read more...