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| Intel's Nehalem Benchmarked |
Intel's Nehalem Benchmarked
Ah, Nehalem - possibly the most awkward of all Intel naming conventions yet. Still, maybe we'll get lucky and they'll change the name before actual launch.
Interesting features include a 45nm production process, and QuickPath, Intel's response to AMD's HyperTransport; a shortcut between the CPU and the motherboard chipset leaving the FSB free for other jobs.
As far as benchmarks go, and bear in mind that this is at the engineering sample point, Tom's discovered a PCMark 2005 CPU score of 9583...
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| Just for reference, a similarly configured Core 2 Extreme X6800 at 2.93 GHz delivers a CPU score of 7417 — roughly a 23 percent difference clock for clock, core for core. When compared to a similarly equipped AMD Athlon FX-62 system, the gap widened even more, to a staggering 31 percent difference, with ’Nehalem’ taking a long distance lead. Keep in mind t hat this is actually very impressive, because our Nehalem platform is running on very early hardware, specifically the motherboard. We are expecting even better margins in the coming months as the platform matures. |
23% faster clock for clock, and launching at higher GHz speeds than Core 2. Very tasty!
Full article at Tom's Hardware. |
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| Author Neko |
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| Going, Going, Gone! |
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Going, Going, Gone!
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The polar regions are experiencing the most dramatic increase in average temperatures due to global warming and scientists fear that as more sea ice is lost, the darker, open ocean will absorb more heat and raise local temperatures even further. Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, who was one of the first civilian scientists to sail underneath the Arctic sea ice in a Royal Navy submarine, said that the conditions are ripe for an unprecedented melting of the ice at the North Pole.
"Last year we saw huge areas of the ocean open up, which has never been experienced before. People are expecting this to continue this year and it is likely to extend over the North Pole. It is quite likely that the North Pole will be exposed this summer – it's not happened before," Professor Wadhams said.
There are other indications that the Arctic sea ice is showing signs of breaking up. Scientists at the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre said that the North Water 'polynya' – an expanse of open water surrounded on all sides by ice – that normally forms near Alaska and Banks Island off the Canadian coast, is much larger than normal. Polynyas absorb heat from the sun and eat away at the edge of the sea ice.
Inuit natives living near Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland are also reporting that the sea ice there is starting to break up much earlier than normal and that they have seen wide cracks appearing in the ice where it normally remains stable. Satellite measurements collected over nearly 30 years show a significant decline in the extent of the Arctic sea ice, which has become more rapid in recent years. |
And there goes the Arctic ice sheet...
I like how other bits of the article get excited about the prospect of tapping new oil fields they couldn't get to before -_-
Full article at The Independent. |
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| Author Neko |
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| AMD Retrospectively Upgrade Existing CPUs |
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AMD Retrospectively Upgrade Existing CPUs
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Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core (9000-series) processors. Six "hidden pins" on the processors and chipsets are the secret, which, our sources told us, will enable simple overclocking through the southbridge - and accelerate the current processors on demand.
The name of the game is called "unlocking the multiplier", which will be played with the SB700 and SB750 southbridge chips. If you are running an upcoming 2.8 GHz Black Edition CPU, a motherboard with the old SB600 model (RD690) will keep the processor cores operating at 2.8 GHz. However, if you have a motherboard with the SB700 chipset, you will receive a free upgrade to 3.0 GHz. And if you get a motherboard with a SB750 chip, your processor will run at 3.2 GHz, which matches the clock speed of the Athlon X2 6400+ - the highest clocked processor AMD ever offerred. |
Full article at Tom's Hardware.
So... AMD have decided that their current crop of CPUs can ALL 100% PERFECTLY run at a 200MHz overclock? Well, maybe they're right, but this cat is gonna suggest 3 things:
1) It's not gonna change the overclocking headroom above the old stock speed; and with Phenoms, that's not huge anyway.
2) There's going to be some PCs where this little trick leads to horrible instability.
3) If Intel take up the challenge, they're gonna be issuing 25-50% clock speed increases, because that's what Intel chips can do reliably.
Sorry AMD, just not impressed by a 7% clock speed boost anymore... Back to the drawing board please guys. |
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| Author Neko |
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| Google and IBM are bonding in a serious way |
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Google and IBM are bonding in a serious way
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While Microsoft Corp. chases Yahoo Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.'s CEO and chairman, is seeking a stronger relationship with IBM, something IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano appears very interested in.
Schmidt, who spoke at the IBM's PartnerWorld conference here, later shared the stage at the Nokia Theater with Palmisano to discuss cloud computing, globalization and other issues.
The two CEOs bantered like old golf buddies, praising each other's organizations and rarely giving moderator Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, a chance to ask questions. |
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9081899 |
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| Author chiaz |
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