<![CDATA[News Tom's Hardware UK - Components - CPU]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ en 10 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:28:01 +0200 <![CDATA[News Tom's Hardware UK - Components - CPU]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/logo_rss.png http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ <![CDATA[Phenom 9950 Cracks The 4GHz Barrier On LN2]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/phenom-amd-4ghz,news-29052.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:10:01 CEST At the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, members of AwardFabrik.de managed to break 4GHz using liquid nitrogen cooling and set a new world record SuperPi 1M time for an AMD CPU.]]> <![CDATA[Intel Will Disclose DTS Specs At IDF]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/IDF-DTS-Temperature,news-29012.html Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:10:00 CEST Previously undisclosed information by Intel will be announced at IDF to provide for more accurate internal temperature monitoring of current 45nm CPUs]]> <![CDATA[IDF 2008: Core i7 Nehalem Briefing Report]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-idf-core-i7-nehalem,news-28995.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CEST Intel gave a briefing today on what the public should expect to see in its upcoming Core i7 processors and the X58 chipset coming with it.]]> <![CDATA[IDF 2008: Highlights of Day 1 Keynotes]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/IDF-2008-keynotes-Intel-nehalem,news-28989.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:50:00 CEST With IDF entering into day 2, we look back at the announcements and presentations from yesterday and take a look at the some of the biggest news to come out of IDF Day 1.]]> <![CDATA[IDF: Core i7 Will Feature A Turbo Mode ]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Turbo-Mode-Intel,news-28979.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:20:00 CEST Intel has announced it will feature a Turbo Mode in its upcoming Core i7 processors]]> <![CDATA[IDF: More 'Nehalem' Details, 6-cores]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-idf-memory,news-28977.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:30:00 CEST Intel announced that the first Nehalem processors to be made available will be desktop processors (Core i7) and high-performance server products code-named Nehalem-EP.]]> <![CDATA[AMD First to 22 Nm, Challenges Intel]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-ibm-intel,news-28966.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:30:00 CEST Yorktown Heights (NY) - IBM and its chip development partners made a stunning announcement today, apparently beating Intel in the successful production of the first functional 22 nm SRAM cell.]]> <![CDATA[Can AMD Survive Another Core 2 Duo?]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/AMD-IDF2008,news-28960.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:50:01 CEST Opinion - IDF is just around the corner and Intel will provide a flood of new information about its upcoming Nehalem ( Core i7 ) processor as well as its 32 nm and 22 nm successors, new architectures such as Larrabee...]]> <![CDATA[Intel Will Disclose DTS Specs At IDF]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/IDF-DTS-Temperature,news-28954.html Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:50:00 CEST Previously undisclosed information by Intel will be announced at IDF to provide for more accurate internal temperature monitoring of current 45nm CPUs]]> <![CDATA[Intel Releases New Midrange Chips]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-cpu-prices,news-28925.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:40:00 CEST Intel has released several new midrange processors all based on its 45nm process technology from both the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad lines. Vendors of gaming PCs are expected to manufacture new systems based on these processors shortly. At the head of th]]> <![CDATA[Intel Set To Introduce Mobile Quad-core Processors]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-core-cpu,news-28922.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:30:00 CEST <![CDATA[Intel's 'Nehalem' Now Officially Core i7]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-nehalem-corei7,news-28921.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:00:00 CEST Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today unveiled the brand of its upcoming processor: Nehalem, the successor of the Core 2 Duo CPU series, will be introduced as "Core i7" later this year and the company hopes that the new brand will be easily recognized and remembered by customers when they walk into a store to buy a new PC.]]> <![CDATA[Intel Nehalem's Market Named Leaked to be Core i7]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/core-i7-intel-nehalem,news-28907.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:50:00 CEST If the rumors are to be correct, the Intel Core i7 and Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition processors will officially be announced August 11 with an expected launch date of Q4 2008.]]> <![CDATA[AMD Ditches Close-To-Metal, Focuses On DX11 And OpenCL]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/AMD-stream-processor-GPGPU,news-28884.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:00:00 CEST Reykjavik (Iceland) - Considering the big news coming out of Intel this week (Larrabee) and the expected big News from Nvidia within the next two weeks (x86 CUDA), AMD is under pressure to match its rivals: AMD is making substantial changes to its GPGPU..]]> <![CDATA[Nvidia To Silently Kill Chipset Division?]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Nvidia-Chipset,news-28851.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:20:02 CEST Chicago (IL) - The Internet rumor mill suggests that Nvidia may be cancelling future developments of new nForce media and communication processors, commonly referred to as chipsets.]]> <![CDATA[Intel's 'Nehalem' To Launch Sooner]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-nehalem-cpu-bloomfield,news-28795.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:50:00 CEST Originally scheduled to launch in November or December this year, Intel's Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets, sources at motherboard makers revealed.]]> <![CDATA[Intel Fine Tunes Processor Pricing, Increases Pressure On AMD]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-Q6600-price-cut,news-28770.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 CEST Santa Clara (CA) - Intel's latest round of processor price represents a very subtle adjustment of prices the market widely seems to have accepted.]]> <![CDATA[Intel 'Bloomfield' CPU Pricing Reveals Pleasant Surprise]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-bloomfield-nehalem-cpu,news-28759.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:20:00 CEST <![CDATA[Intel Phases Out Most Clovertown And Woodcrest Processors]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-clovertown-harptown-cpu,news-28747.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:20:00 CEST Santa Clara (CA) - Intel told its partners that has begun phasing out the majority of its 65 nm Xeon DP processor generation to make room for 45 nm CPUs.]]> <![CDATA[Centrino 2 Launch To Boost Shipments Of 802.11 Devices]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Centrino-802-11-Wi-Fi,news-28737.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:10:00 CEST Taiwan network-equipment makers are expected to see their shipments of 802.11n devices increase significantly in the second half of this year following Intel's launch of its Centrino 2 platform early this week, according to the makers.]]> <![CDATA[Intel To Ship 100 Millionth 45 Nm CPU Before Year End]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-45nm-Q12008,news-28733.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:20:00 CEST <![CDATA[Strong Mobile Processor Demand Improves Intel Profit By 25%]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-Q22008,news-28730.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:00 CEST <![CDATA[Intel Announces Centrino 2]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-Centrino-2,news-28711.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:20:00 CEST San Francisco (CA) - Intel today announced its latest Centrino platform - which oddly named Centrino 2, not just because it really is the fifth generation (and should be called Centrino 5), but also because its brains, the Core 2 Duo processor is just a refresh and may not have justified the new name by itself.]]> <![CDATA['Nehalem' 2.93 GHz Benches Revealed]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-nehalem-core,news-28701.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:50:00 CEST Today we reveal some very interesting performance figures on 'Nehalem' -- something Intel (and AMD) doesn't want you to know -- yet.]]> <![CDATA[The Return of Intel's Pentium MMX]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-pentium-larrabee,news-28689.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:40:00 CEST Intel to base its upcoming vector graphics chip 'Larrabee' on the P5 architecture from days gone by.]]> <![CDATA[Exclusive: 'Nehalem' at 2.9GHz and X58]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-x58-nehalem,news-28667.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:20:00 CEST We take a quick preview at Intel's upcoming X58 chipset along with 'Nehalem' running at 2.9GHz.]]> <![CDATA[AMD Shows Ray-tracing Tech on YouTube]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-ray-tracing-otoy-youtube,news-28660.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:00 CEST San Francisco (CA) - AMD has published two YouTube videos that show off its voxel-based rendering technology.]]> <![CDATA[Atom Shortage May Affect Low-cost Notebook Panel Shipments In July]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Atom-Intel-MID,news-28655.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:02 CEST More here at ]]> <![CDATA[AMD Improves CPU Market Share - With Little Impact On Intel]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/AMD-Intel-Q12008,news-28644.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:30:00 CEST El Segundo (CA) - If we believe the public statements of AMD executives, then the company's market strategy has always been based on maintaining and growing market share at virtually any expense.]]> <![CDATA[Gigabyte Goes Exreme Cold Overclocking]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gigabyte-cpu-overclocking,news-28643.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:30:00 CEST Gigabyte launches its first State-side overclocking competition and plans for more in the coming months.]]>