processors

The H Open: The next scheduled Linux kernel release avoids a cache problem found in AMD's latest processors and includes new and extended drivers for Intel CPUs.

These new chips, the researchers say, could make processors that are more powerful and more efficient than today’s computers—and better at the flexible learning and responses that are a struggle for current AI systems but a breeze for the human brain.

Intel has offered additional information about its next Atom processors for tablets, notebooks and smartphones during Computex 2011 in Taiwan.

Atom processors will outpace Moore’s Law by speeding up the progress from the 32 nm technology to 22nm and then to 14 nm in the next three years.

Apple is finally bringing its iMac series of all-in-one desktops up to date with Intel's 2nd generation Core i processors, AMD Radeon HD graphics, and the fast Thunderbolt I/O port that made its debut on the MacBook Pros earlier this year.

The H Open: "The Nouveau driver now supports power management and can address the GeForce 320M, and the code for Intel graphics cores now supports the video units on Sandy Bridge processors"

Offering six new CPUs at a variety of price points, AMD makes a compelling case for choosing Athlon or Phenom over Core i3 or Core i5.

In a never-ending race to react to minute fluctuations in stock prices faster than anyone else in the world, financial firms have gone to extraordinary lengths to build the fastest possible networks, processors and software.

Linux Magazine: "The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 1.1, a backwards compatible update that boosts performance in the parallel programming standard.

OpenCL is a free programming standard designed from the ground up to optimize coding in muliticore processors."

LinuxDevices: "Intel announced six new 32nm processors intended for ultra-thin laptops. Topped by the Core i7-660UM, with a clock speed of 1.33GHz and "TurboBoost" frequency of 2.4GHz"

Today's announcement focused on six processors aimed at the "consumer ultra low voltage" market, which are dual-core manufactured at 32nm, and based on the Nehalem architecture.