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Intel Ivy Bridge tested: very faster and power efficient

Intel Ivy Bridge tested: very faster and power efficient

| 24 April, 2012 | 1 Comment

Intel is preparing for another major transition, similar to the one it brought to light seven years ago. The move will once again be motivated by mobility, and the transition will be away from the giant CPUs that currently power high-end desktops and notebooks to lower power, more integrated SoCs that find their way into tablets and smartphones.

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Future AMD APU’s to Boost in Performance through Improved GPGPU Design Architecture

Future AMD APU’s to Boost in Performance through Improved GPGPU Design Architecture

| 10 February, 2012 | 0 Comments

National Science Foundation and AMD have funded a research over at North Carolina State University where engineers have successfully obtained an average of 21.4 percent more performance through improving the design of an fused processor.

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New Generation of Industry-ready 3D Computer Chips

New Generation of Industry-ready 3D Computer Chips

| 1 February, 2012 | 0 Comments

EPFL has developed and demonstrated a new 3D integration technology that allows stacking of chips vertically rather than side-by-side. Thanks to this technology, computers will be faster, more efficient and capable of carrying out more tasks simultaneously.

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AMD VP Joe Macri keynote on Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA)

AMD VP Joe Macri keynote on Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA)

| 31 January, 2012 | 0 Comments

AMD engineers were working towards making the processing capability of the company’s accelerated processing units (APUs) as accessible to programmers as the CPU is today using heterogeneous systems architecture (HSA)

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Unified Processing Unit (UPU): A next-generation of CPU architecture?

Unified Processing Unit (UPU): A next-generation of CPU architecture?

| 20 January, 2012 | 0 Comments

ICube is a fabless semiconductor company developing semiconductor System-On-Chip (SOC) solutions based on our Harmony Unified Processor Technology, genuinely integrating two different processor types: a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU), into one unified core.

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Heterogeneous Systems Architecture: AMD Dumps “Fusion” Brand

Heterogeneous Systems Architecture: AMD Dumps “Fusion” Brand

| 20 January, 2012 | 0 Comments

Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that from now on it would call its Fusion system architecture (FSA) as heterogeneous system architecture (HSA).

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How To: Safely Overclock Your GPU, CPU & RAM for Better Speed & Performance

How To: Safely Overclock Your GPU, CPU & RAM for Better Speed & Performance

| 15 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

Overclocking is the process of increasing the clock frequency of your Central Processing Unit (CPU), Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), Memory, PCI, and/or AGP devices. In other words, making your computer run faster without having to spend the money on upgrades

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NVIDIA “Project Denver” to Debut in 2014-2015

NVIDIA “Project Denver” to Debut in 2014-2015

| 12 December, 2011 | 0 Comments

NVIDIA’s project Denver will usher in a new era for computing by extending the performance range of the ARM instruction-set architecture, enabling the ARM architecture to cover a larger portion of the computing space.

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Intel Unveils 22nm 50-Core “Knights Corner” CPU

Intel Unveils 22nm 50-Core “Knights Corner” CPU

| 17 November, 2011 | 0 Comments

Intel demonstrated first silicon of Knights Corner at the SC11 conference yesterday. The co-processor wowed the crowd by delivering more than 1 TeraFLOPS of double precision floating point performance.

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NEC and CAPS Entreprise Announced Worldwide Collaboration on GPU Solutions

NEC and CAPS Entreprise Announced Worldwide Collaboration on GPU Solutions

| 16 November, 2011 | 0 Comments

CAPS entreprise, the many-core programming company, today announced the collaboration with NEC in GPU solution dedicated to worldwide promotion and sales of its DevDeck offer.

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