Forget that six-core Gulftown Core i7. There’s a new Intel Xeon chip on the way with a whopping eight cores of processing goodness. Surely you can utilize eight cores in your home system, right?
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According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, Intel plans to beef up its entry-level Celeron notebook processor line with the introduction of its Celeron P4500 processor. Due out in the second quarter of this year, the P4500 will supplant the T3300. Unlike most other Celerons, however, the P4500 is built around Intel’s 32nm Arrandale platform. It will come clocked at 1.86GHz per core, while the graphics will cruise along at 500MHz.
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Intel’s Atom platform isn’t just for fun and play, at least not anymore. The No. 1 chip maker on Thursday launched its first Atom processor-based platform designed specifically for home networks and small office/home office (SOHO) storage devices. “NAS systems have traditionally been found in businesses to manage, store and access data,” said Seth Bobroff, general manager, Intel Data Center Group, Storage.
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MSI this week beefed up its “Classic Series” notebook line with a trio of new 15.6-inch models built around Intel’s Arrandale platform, and one 16-inch model with Nvidia graphics. The CR620-030US and CR620-033US — both 15.6 units — sport a Core i3-330M processor and a 320GB hard drive, while the former also comes with a DVD burner and the latter a Blu-ray reader. The last of the 15.6-inch models — CR620-031US — ups the hardware ante with a Core i5 430M CPU and 500GB hard drive, though no Blu-ray option. All three models boast Intel’s Arrandale HD graphics and 4GB of DDR3-1066 memory. The 16-inch CR600-234US notebook switches gears to a Pentium dual-core T4500, 3GB of DDR2 memory, 320GB hard drive, DVD writer, and Nvidia’s GeForce 8200M G graphics
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Wouldn’t it be great if money didn’t matter? In that altogether salubrious scenario, picking a PC processor would be quick and painless. After all, Intel makes undeniably the best money-no-object chip known to man. Run the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition through any imaginable battery of benchmarks and it will return superior results to every other CPU currently available every time.
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon processor is showing up in all manner of mobile devices all of a sudden. We’ve recently seen the 1GHz chip in the likes of the Google Nexus One, HTC HD2, Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, and the Toshiba TG01. Now Qualcomm looks to be pushing the industry to see the Snapdragon as more than a mobile phone processor with their new “Snaptop” prototype . The Snaptop is a touchscreen tablet with a nifty kickstand to prop it up on a table for use as more of a laptop replacement.
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It hasn’t been that long since Intel released their updated Pine Trail Atom chips, but already there are some indications they may be refreshing the Atom platform. The word is that Intel’s new core is called “Oak Trail”. These new chips would replace the ailing ultra low-power Atom Z series .
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Sure, you could buy that boring old Core i7. You could be like all those other sheep that shop for “released” and “fully tested” parts from Newegg. Or if you’re just the right mix of bold and rich, you can try buying a leaked 12-core AMD CPU from Ebay. The Opteron server chip is code-named Magny-Cours , and a set of four can be had for the low price of $7,700 . The unreleased chip runs at 2.2GHz.
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Intel’s Core i3 family looks a little thin at the moment, but come Q2, the No. 1 chip maker will add a third member , the Core i3 550, news and rumor site Fudzilla reports. As it currently stands, the Core i3 530 cruises along at 2.93GHz, while the 540 breaks the 3GHz barrier with a 3.06GHz clockspeed. The Core i3 550 will kick things up a notch to 3.2GHz, leaving everything else the same.
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According to a report in the EETimes, NEC is gearing up to show off a high performance quad-core processor built around ARM’s Cortex-A9 design. The unveiling is expected to take place during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. If true, NEC would join a fraternity of companies claiming a quad-core chip based on ARM architecture. During CES, for example, Marvell Technology said it had developed the world’s first quad-core ARM chip, but did not provide any details
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