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Rumours about Intel launching Montevina Platform for notebooks

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Intel is going to update its Montevina notebook PC platform in April, 2009 with the introduction of the Montevina Refresh platform, according to a DIGITIMES report, which cites unnamed sources within Intel. The launch of the platform will be accompanied by two new processors, the Core 2 Duo T9900 and P8800.


Intel also plans to unveil its GM47 chipset for high-end notebooks in first quarter of next year. Entry-level and small form factor (SFF) PC will also not be over looked, as Intel will launch the GL43 and GS40 chipsets in July or August.A deluge of new processors for the Centrino 2 platform are soon going to be made available by the world’s leading chip maker. Also, the GM55 chipset for Intel’s upcoming 6th generation Centrino platform, Calpella, will become available in July or August next year.

True Copper shows the great performance

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True Copper is as heavy as 1.890kg and has better performance.

True Copper take the most attention while it was announced. How good it is? We’ve just tested it, compared to U120E.

Test platform:

Intel Core2 Extreme QX9770(OC,3.6GHz,400*9)

ASUS Maximus Extreme

Kingston DDR3 1006 1GB*2

Galaxy GeForce 260-216

Thermalright’s Ultra-120 True Copper hits the shelf now and we took one already. Now we take a test on it.

True Copper, True Black and the Ultra 120E have the same configuration except the material. You can check here for the parameters of True Copper.

The QX9770 OC to 3.6GHz,and the core voltage was 1.35V. We use four SP2004 at the same time,making it in fullloaded. After 10min, let it on idle mode and read the temperature with “Core Temp” .

True Copper shows the great performance that we can see. By the way, the True Copper only have 3000 PCs available, and the price is 100USD.

Intel thinking use of jet engine's cooling technique

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Intel
is looking to cool your laptop with the exact same technology that a jet engine does. The issue of burning legs (that’s right, burning legs) has been an issue on the mind of Intel for some time now, and they’re looking to soothe that with their latest breakthrough.



Intel jet engine's cooling technique
Intel has been focusing on the increasing issue of hot thighs with something called Laminar Flow. Laminar Flow occurs when a fluid or gas/air flows in parallel layers, allowing a non-turbulent way to misdirect hot air away from the surface of a jet engine (or laptop). As demonstrated, this technology allows efficient cooling of temperatures upwards of 1,000 °C.A demo of this technology was given at this week’s Intel developer forum in Taiwan by Mooly Eden, Intel’s head of Mobile Platforms Group. “We are licensing it to our customers so they can keep making thinner and thinner laptops,” said Eden.

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Intel's overclocking software for Core i7

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Intel's overclocking software for intel Core i7

During the Intel Developer Forum Taipei last week, Intel demonstrated its Desktop Control Center overclocking software for the Core i7 platform. It's expected that the software will be suited for beginners, as well as die-hard overclockers.



Intels DCC overclocking software, image source: Fudzilla

The software allows you to adjust settings like the multiplier and voltage of the Core i7 processors in Windows on-the-fly, the memory frequencies, timings and several other voltages, such as the QPI voltage can also be altered in the same way. Apart from adjustments, several settings are displayed in the software.

The software would also allow the enabling/disabling of Turbo Boost (also known as Turbo Mode). This feature makes it possible to switch one ore multiple processor cores off, increasing performance by raising the clockspeeds of the active cores.

Atom 330 VS. Atom 230 VS. Celeron 420, part two

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Test results and conclusion

Atom 330 VS. Atom 230 VS. Celeron 420, part two

Atom 330 VS. Atom 230 VS. Celeron 420, part two







Atom 330 VS. Atom 230 VS. Celeron 420, part two

From the tests we can see Atom 330 really improved largely than Atom 230. Just from the CPU performances, Atom 330 is better than Celeron 420, but its structure is not as good as Celeron 420, it is a pity. Anyway, for the size and the power consumption, Atom 330 really did well.
source:en.hardspell.com

Atom 330 VS. Atom 230 VS. Celeron 420

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Test setup and test results

Atom 330 VS. Atom 230 VS. Celeron 420







Intel Core i7 Processor and Nettop Dualcore Platform

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Intel senior vice president Anand Chandrasekher, speaking Monday at Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, said that Intel will collaborate with Ericsson for High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) data modules for the Moorestown platform. WiMax is also supported, but it faces stiff competition from entrenched wireless technologies and may not be compelling enough to rise above the fray.

In addition to WiMax and HSPA, other wireless technologies including WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and mobile TV will be supported on Moorestown, Intel said.

Intel Core i7 Processor

Intel Core i7 Processor

Moorestown is a system-on-a-chip (SOC) comprised of “Lincroft,” which integrates a 45-nanometer processor, graphics, memory controller, and video encode/decode onto a single chip. It also includes an “I/O hub” code-named Langwell that supports connection to wireless, storage, and display components.

Intel was also showing a number of slides that detail its upcoming Nehalem i7 processor and the accompanying X58 chipset. Intel said last week that Nehalem is shipping now and is due to be officially rolled out in November.

The i7 will initially appear as a quad-core processor and feature QuickPath Interconnect–a high-speed chip-to-chip communications technology–and “Turbo Boost,” which had been referred to previously as “Turbo Mode.” This is essentially a switch that turns off unused processor cores and then uses the remaining active cores more efficiently.

Intel Nettop '08

Intel Nettop '08

In Taipei, Intel also delineated the differences between Atom-based “Nettop” desktops and more mainstream desktop PCs. Intel is trying to promote Nettops for Web browsing, word processing, e-mail, and “legacy” games. Anything more taxing than these basic applications is not recommended for Nettops.

The E7400 was on sale...

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The E7400 was on sale in Japan


Intel E7400 is on sale in Japan now. The frequency of E7400 is 2.8GHz, higher than E7300, but it doesn’t support the Trusted Execution Technology. Except for this, the E7400 is as the same as the E7300
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The price is 16000Yen, about 160USD and it will be on sale in other places soon.

Intel E7400

Intel E7400

AMD reports much smaller loss and Intel profits up 12 percent for Q3

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AMD has once again reported a quarterly loss, but a significantly reduced one. Its net loss of $67 million is a big improvement on losses of $396 in Q3 '07 and of $1,189 in Q2 '08. The loss of 11 cents per share compares very favourably to reported analyst expectations of a loss of 40 cents per share.

In what is generally being recognised as a good performance by the processor maker, revenue from this quarter was $1.558 billion, a 15 percent increase on the previous quarter's revenue of $1.349 billion. Gross margin also improved to 51 percent (45 percent if you exclude process technology license revenue), compared to 37 percent in the previous quarter and 41 percent in Q3 '07.

The deal to form The Foundry Company and the two billion dollars or so that AMD will initially gain from it are not included in these results. Referring to the deal Dirk Meyer, AMD's president and CEO, said: "AMD will be assured access to leading-edge manufacturing processes without the obligation to make the capital investment required to maintain a world-class manufacturing operation. We look forward to the successful closing of this joint venture early in 2009."

Robert J. Rivet, AMD's CFO, said: "We are pleased to have reached our goal of operational profitability this quarter while increasing gross margin to 51 percent."$108 million of AMD's losses came from "discontinued operations".

"Improved execution across all of our businesses was punctuated by a refresh of our graphics product line-up, driving 55 percent sequential revenue growth and market share gains. In addition, customer adoption of our quad-core microprocessors was strong, with unit shipments increasing 46 percent sequentially."

Crisis, what crisis?

Intel provided welcome relief from all the talk of financial apocalypse and beat estimates with a 12 percent increase in its third quarter profits, totalling a cool two billion dollars.

$10.2 billion in revenue was only one percent up on the same quarter last year, but that was still enough for it to set a new record for Q3 and yielded a 44 percent rise in operating income to $3.1 billion.

"As we look to Q4, it's hard to know what impact the financial crisis will have on end customer demand," said Intel CEO Paul Otellini. "We are confident that our own product portfolio, strong cash flow, commitment to deploying new technology and market momentum will allow us to outpace peer companies at a time when business levels are difficult to predict."

Among the highlights of Intel's quarter were sales of Atom processors and chipsets, which totalled around $200 million, but this led to a lower average selling price. Intel forecast revenue of between $10.1 and $10.9 billion for Q4.
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Intel's Clarksfield to begin production in second half of 2009

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Penryn-based Monteniva just hit the streets a few months ago, but hardware geeks are fickle fellows, so Intel said today that Clarksfield, its Nehalem-based mobile CPU, will go into production in the second half of next year; sadly, there was no word on when the chips will actually be available to consumers in the Calpella platform, which (rumor has it) will have built-in WiMAX. Clarksfield will include an onboard memory controller and a bunch of other new techs like its desktop brethren, so the promise of performance gains comparable to what we've seen in the desktop benchmarks is there -- we'll just have to wait at least a year to enjoy them, so get comfy.

AMD Preps More Dual-Core Microprocessors for Q1 2009 – Rumours.

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AMD Plans to Release Athlon X2 7550, 7750

Advanced Micro Devices reportedly readies two new dual-core microprocessors based on the K10 micro-architecture. The new chips were not in the plan several months ago, but the company apparently decided to introduce the new chips in order to stabilize pricing of its dual-core processors aimed at mainstream market.


According to a news-story at Expreview web-site, AMD intends to release Athlon X2 7550 and 7750 chips sometime in Q1 2009. The chips will operate at 2.50GHz and 2.70GHz, feature 1MB of L2 cache [512KB per core], 2MB L3 cache as well as dual-channel DDR2 memory controller. The new products will have thermal design power of 95W, hence, should be compatible with the vast majority of AM2+ mainboards.

The new dual-core AMD Athlon X2 processors are based on the code-named Kuma core, the same one that is already featured in AMD Athlon X2 6500 processor that operates at 2.30GHz.

It is unclear why AMD decided to introduce a new model number sequence for its new dual-core central processing units despite of the fact that the novelties hardly provide tangible performance benefits compared to predecessors.

AMD did not comment on the news-story.

New Core 2 Duo E7400 released

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Today Intel company will present the dual core 45 nm processor core 2 Duo e7400 (2.8 GHz) with 1066 MHz system bus and 3 mb cache in the second level, and also reduce the prices of some other processors models. R0 stepping is the analog of E0 for 45 nm processors with the reduced to 3 mb volume cache . The processor core 2 Duo e7400 (2.8 GHz) exactly relates to R0 stepping:

New Core 2 Duo E7400 released

The Intel Core 2 Duo E7000 series has brought in great performance at a low price point. They are basically current 45nm Wolfdale core based processors with 3 MB of L2 cache and 1066 MHz FSB. What it also means that it comes with higher FSB multiplier values to achieve the designated clock speeds. For applications that aren't cache intensive, and for users with appropriate tweaking skills, the E7000 series is a boon. Sources claim that on October 19th, Intel will release the Core 2 Duo E7400 processor, a successor to the current E7300. The release also affects prices across its segment.

Core 2 Duo E7400 released

Two core operate at 2.8 GHz, they support 1066 MHz bus . The TDP Level does not exceed 45 W. The E7400 is priced at $133 so it has pushed the 2.66 GHz E7300 down to $113.

Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed, part three - Games performances test results

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Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed Games performances test results





Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed



Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed



Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed Games performances test results

Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed, part two

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Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed: software performances test results

A 2.93 GHz Core i7 940 system has been used to run a 3DMark Vantage benchmark and gave a CPU score of 17,966. The 2.66 GHz Core i7 920 scores 16,294. A 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 scores 4,300.


AnandTech tested the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (4.8 GT/s version) and found the copy bandwidth using triple-channel 1066 MHz DDR3 was 12.0 GB/s. A 3.0 GHz Core 2 Quad system using dual-channel 1066 MHz DDR3 achieved 6.9 GB/s.














Intel Core i7 CPU reviewed: software performances test results