The New PC From Hell
These days, setting up a new home computer is a job for an expert—if the average person can find one. Guess who?
Posted on July 29th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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These days, setting up a new home computer is a job for an expert—if the average person can find one. Guess who?
Posted on July 29th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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CPU Benchmarks: Not Just For ‘Benchmarketing’ Any More
Posted on July 27th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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A Watch Newsletter
Posted on July 27th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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AMCC and Intrinsity have joined forces to design a new Power Architecture core that reaches 2.0GHz while consuming only 2.5W.
Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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Cavium Networks is entering the mainstream storage-processor market for the first time with two families of highly integrated multicore processors.
Posted on July 15th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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Overly Deep Pipelining—Too Much of a Good Thing
Posted on July 13th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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Although structured ASICs offer system designers many advantages, they have failed to find a comfortable place in the system-designer’s toolkit. Despite the dismal picture painted in part 1, however, structured ASICs have found at least one viable market niche: FPGA replacement in volume applications. Compared with the FPGAs they replace, these structured ASICs run faster, consume less power, and cost less.
Posted on July 8th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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New QorIQ Processors Will Eventually Supersede PowerQUICC Chips
Posted on July 6th, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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Structured ASICs offer system designers many advantages. Measured against standard-cell ASICs, structured ASICs promise lower mask costs and faster turnaround times. They should have found a comfortable place in the system designer’s toolkit. They didn’t.
Posted on July 1st, 2007 by In-Stat Processor Watch
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