News articles by Anthony Shvets

In March, we reported about AMD plans to release A4-4000 processor in May, that is right before the official launch of "Richland" 6000-series APUs. The A4-4000 was supposed to have new core revision, and was expected to be priced at $40. The processor recently appeared in stock in several online US shops.   [Full story]

AMD FX microprocessors, based on "Vishera" core, were available since last October. "Vishera" CPUs use the latest "Piledriver" architecture, and come with 2, 3 or 4 modules, which corresponds to 4, 6 or 8 cores. The chips also have up to 16 MB total cache, and support the latest instructions, including AVX and FMA3. So far AMD had 4 different retail models, and 2 other SKUs were shipped in computers only. Yesterday AMD refreshed FX family with two new products, FX-4350 and FX-6350.   [Full story]

Hewlett Packard this week launched a second-generation product of their Moonshot project, that started a few years ago. New system, called also Moonshot, houses up to 45 microservers, based on Intel "Centerton" low-power processors. The main advantages of new system are lower cost and lower power requirements at much higher processing density. HP claims that, compared to traditional servers, the Moonshot system is 77% less expensive, consumes up to 89% less energy, while taking only 20% of space.   [Full story]

Intel this week released new ultra-low voltage microprocessor, Celeron 1019Y. This is the fifth "Ivy Bridge" model from a line of ULV products with Thermal Design Power 13 Watt or less. The fastest from them is a Core i7-branded CPU, that runs at 1.5 GHz, with the maximum Turbo Boost frequency reaching 2.6 GHz. The slowest part up until this week was Pentium 2129Y, which is clocked at 1.1 GHz. The Celeron CPU has 100 MHz lower operating frequency, and slightly slower HD graphics than the Pentium.   [Full story]

AMD last week launched first Richland APUs, including two dual-core and two quad-core SKUs for mainstream notebooks. This week their specifications were added to a list of processors for notebooks on the AMD website. AMD also added two new SKUs, A8-Series 4557M and A10-Series 4657M. It's important to note that the two chips are not Richland parts, and they are based on Trinity core.   [Full story]

In January we reported on forthcoming Core i3-2375M mobile microprocessor, spotted in specifications of HP Pavilion Sleekbook and Pavilion Ultrabook notebooks. The 2375M is an ULV part, that has a couple of notable differences from other recently launched Core i3s. Firstly, the CPU belongs to small medium business platform, even though it doesn't support certain business-oriented features, such as Small Business Advantage.   [Full story]

Intel on Monday announced new media system-on-a-chips (SoC), based on CE5300 Atom processors. The chips are aimed at Network-attached storage devices, and offer such features as simultaneous transcoding of multiple video streams, and content encryption. A few companies, including Asustor, Synology and Thecus, are planning to launch new NAS products with CE5300 Atom SoCs at CeBIT show.   [Full story]

Earlier this week Intel launched Clover Trail+ platform, comprised of three Atom Z2500 series system-on-a-chips, Intel XMM 7160 LTE modem, and a reference smartphone design. The new platform is still based on 32nm technology, but it offers quite a few benefits over Medfield platform, that was introduced last year. According to Intel, Atom "Clover Trail+" products have up to 2 times better CPU performance and up to 3 times better graphics performance than Medfield counterparts.   [Full story]

Tilera this week announced Tile-Gx low-power processors, that integrate 72 CPU cores, 8 network interfaces, 4 PCI-Express controllers, and encryption engines on a single chip. Implemented as a system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Tile-Gx72 are aimed at networking, "big data" processing, and cloud computing applications. This announcement comes just one year after Tilera launched 16- and 36-core products.   [Full story]

Last October SeaMicro announced SM15000 micro server, along with new compute cards with AMD and Intel microprocessors. At the launch, the server was available with Intel Xeon E3-1260L low-power CPU. SeaMicro planned to add two processor options in November 2012, one with "Ivy Bridge"-based Xeon E3-1265L v2, and another with unnamed "Piledriver" Opteron.   [Full story]

Intel launched desktop and mobile microprocessors last week, adding Ivy Bridge models to Celeron and Pentium families, and refreshing Core lineup. Overall, they introduced 15 mobile and 8 desktop processors for consumer market. Additionally, three embedded Ivy Bridge CPUs were released last week. The new parts are Celeron 927UE, 1020E and 1047UE.   [Full story]

On Monday we published details and prices of mobile Intel microprocessors, that were launched this week. The list of released CPUs included 4 mobile Celerons along with Core i5 and i7 chips. Intel didn't make an official announcement of new products, and we only learned about it from updated official pricelist. During the week detailed specifications of these processors were added to Intel's product database. What's more, six other microprocessors surfaced in the database.   [Full story]

Yesterday we reported on eight budget desktop processors, launched on Sunday. Specifications and prices of these Celeron, Pentium and Core i3 CPUs appeared in Intel's official price list, that was updated last weekend. The price list also revealed several new mobile microprocessors. Perhaps the most interesting from new models are Ivy Bridge-based Celeron 1000M, 1020M, 1007U and 1037U. Also released yesterday are Core i5-3437U, i5-3340M, i5-3380M, i7-3540M and i7-3687U, that are speed bumps of existing Core i5 and i7 models.   [Full story]

Intel Ivy Bridge microarchitecture was available for almost 9 months now, but so far only Core branded families have been transitioned to the new microarchitecture. Up to now, all desktop Celerons were based on older Sandy Bridge architecture, and desktop Pentium lineup had a mix of Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPUs. Today Intel added seven new SKUs to Celeron and Pentium families. Celeron family was updated with G1610, G1610T and G1620, that succeeded G400 and G500 series parts.   [Full story]

In December AMD introduced Opteron 4300 series processors for dual-socket servers and workstations. The processors were based on recently released Piledriver core, and had from 4 to 8 cores, 8 MB L3 cache, and operated at frequencies as high as 3.5 GHz. Three of out five Opterons were mid- and low power models with 35 Watt and 65 Watt TDP. Also in December, AMD quietly added to the series two embedded SKUs with long life support.   [Full story]

Last year we reported that along with the latest Core i3 Ivy Bridge processors, Intel had plans to offer several Sandy Bridge i3 SKUs as part of their small and medium business platform. These CPUs lack support for Intel Small Business Advantage tools, however in all other aspects they are identical to previously released Core i3-2300 series parts. So far Intel launched Core i3-2308M, i3-2328M and i3-2365M business-oriented models. The latest in this series, Core i3-2348M, was introduced this month.   [Full story]

We previously reported that Intel announced ultra low power processors from "Y" series at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The "Y" series CPUs have extremely low Thermal Design Power, which was achieved by reducing their stock frequency and voltage below those of 17 Watt "U" microprocessors. First three SKUs appeared in Intel's product database beginning this week. The product database was updated again in the middle of the week, and it now lists two additional parts.   [Full story]

This week Intel announced "Lexington" platform for emerging markets. The platform comes with a smartphone reference design, based on Atom Z2420 system-on-a-chip (SoC) and Intel XMM 6265 HSPA+ modem. The Atom chip is built on 32nm process, and it has such advanced features as dual camera support, burst mode with ability to capture up to 7 still images per second, and 1080p video encoding and decoding at 30 frames per second.   [Full story]

Earlier this week NVIDIA announced Tegra 4 processor, which they claim to be the fastest mobile processor in the world. Designed for smartphones, tablets, gaming and low-power devices, the Tegra 4 offers up to 45% lower power consumption than its predecessor, Tegra 3. The Tegra 4 packs four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores and 72 GeForce GPU cores on a chip, and supports 4G LTE via optional NVIDIA Icera i500 modem chipset.   [Full story]

Yesterday Intel announced availability of ultra low power mobile products at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Historically, Intel's most power efficient mobile processors had 17 Watt TDP, as compared to 35 Watt or higher for CPUs, used in mainstream laptops. New "Y" series microprocessors have power consumption lowered to 10 Watt - 13 Watt TDP. If necessary, the processors can be configured to use as low as 7 Watt, albeit at a reduced performance level.   [Full story]

Yesterday Intel released Atom S1200 family, and announced S1220, S1240 and S1260 "Centerton" processors for microservers. The official press release vaguely stated that the S1200 lineup also targets storage and networking systems, but failed to provide any details on Atom products for those devices. Earlier tonight Intel posted updated price list, which revealed three additional Atom models: S1269, S1279 and S1289.   [Full story]

Intel today launched Atom S1200 series family, aimed at microservers, networking systems and storage devices. The S1200 series processors are implemented as a System on a Chip (SoC), integrating together two CPU cores, memory controller, and a number of communication interfaces. The new products come with such server-oriented technologies as Intel 64 and Virtualization, as well as ECC memory support.   [Full story]