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The Lifer: Are Powerful Processors Being Put Out to the Pasture?

Posted 01/19/2012 at 12:49pm | by Rik Myslewski

I had an interesting conversation the other day that might interest you--one that will certainly interest Intel, the maker of the chips that power your iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, and Mac mini. Lucian Shifren of SuVolta told me about a new type of transistor that his company has introduced. While the deep-geek details on the low-power, low-cost chips that can be built from it are fascinating, one non-techy thing he said stuck in my mind: “The market’s now moving to a point where you’re really going to be driven by the $10 chip and not the $200 chip.”

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The Lifer: Overclocking

Posted 10/25/2011 at 7:29am | by Rik Myslewski

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An AMD-led team has set a new Guinness World Record for the “Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor” by cranking up a soon-to-be-released chip to 8.429GHz. Pause for a nanosecond to let that number sink in: that’s eight billion, four hundred twenty-nine million cycles per second.

What is it about guys? Give them something fast and their immediate impulse is to make it faster.

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The Lifer: How Far CPUs Have Come -- And Where They’re Going

Posted 09/27/2011 at 9:35am | by Rik Myslewski

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On November 15, pause to raise a pint to the 40th birthday of the original microprocessor. On that day in 1971, Electronic News carried an ad for the Intel 4004, the precursor of all processors, including the ones running your Mac and your iPhone -- and, for that matter, your car and your coffeemaker.

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And The Wait Goes On: New iPhone In October, Not September

Posted 08/01/2011 at 5:16am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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Ever since Apple declared this year’s WWDC a software-only event, rumors have persisted that the next iPhone would be unveiled in September. That changes today, with a new report claiming those rumors are false -- the real release won’t come until October.

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Report: High-Profile Game Developers Testing “iPhone 4S”

Posted 04/21/2011 at 1:37pm | by J.R. Bookwalter

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Now that we’ve all gotten over the disappointment that there won’t be a new iPhone in June and the long wait until September begins, we’ll have to console ourselves with rumors such as this one, about a potential “iPhone 4S” being tested by handpicked game developers.

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Report Claims 512MB of RAM for iPad 2’s A5 CPU

Posted 03/03/2011 at 6:05am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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There was a great deal of hand-wringing in the tech community after Wednesday’s iPad 2 announcement over just how much memory the refreshed tablet contains in its diminutive frame. While many are speculating, a semiconductor analyst out of Korea claims to know for sure.

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Intel’s Dual-Core Sandy Bridge Coming to Laptops on February 20

Posted 02/08/2011 at 5:37am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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If you’re in the market for a new Mac laptop in the coming months, you might be paying close attention to Intel’s next-generation Sandy Bridge processor, which is widely expected to power the next MacBook Pro line. The good news is that Intel’s dual-core CPU is finally shipping this month -- but when will they land in Mac laptops?

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Intel's "Gulftown" Processors Spark Mac Pro Rumors

Posted 03/10/2010 at 4:54pm | by Cory Bohon

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Intel announced a 32nm Core i7-980X processor codenamed "Gulftown" this week, sparking rumors of the new chip potentially making its way into a new Mac Pro.

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iPad A4 CPU May Be Nothing Special After All?

Posted 03/01/2010 at 5:43am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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A lot of the excitement about the iPad after its unveiling at in late January had to do with its custom, Apple-designed A4 processor -- but a new report says that the chip may in reality be nothing “to write home about.”

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The Custom A4 iPad Chip May Have Cost $1 Billion

Posted 02/22/2010 at 2:34pm | by Brian Proffit

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Citing a report in the New York Times, Apple Insider suggests that Apple's investment in the new A4 chip that powers the iPad was likely to have hit $1 billion--and that's without building a factory to manufacture the chips.

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