Seeing the recent trend in processors (what with dual core and all) Intel thinks (righty so) that the time of measuring a chips speed by its clock speed is over. They now want to measure it by performance per watt: Intel, which next week is expected to announce plans to move to a new processor [...]
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Apple Missing Opportunity With Switching To Intel
July 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Apple, Intel
The Tech Zone has an interesting editorial on how Apple is missing a huge opportunity by limiting OSX to Apple PCs: I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job’s success selling iTunes to the other 95% of [...]
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Intel Offices Raided
July 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Crime, Intel
It seems that EU antitrust officials have raided Intels offices all over Europe today. The most they would say is that it’s because of an “ongoing antitrust investigation”: As part of the dawn raid, European Commission officials and national competition authorities in Milan, Italy; Munich, Germany; Madrid, Spain; and Swindon, England, descended on several Intel [...]
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Why Is Apple Going To Switch To Intel?
July 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, IBM, Intel
There’s a great opinion piece on Ars Technica which reveals why Apple is switching to Intel: I’ve worked with Apple Authored by: overshoot on Sunday, June 12 2005 @ 08:56 PM EDT and I can tell you, there’s a very good chance that they outsmarted themselves into a “no bid” response from IBM. Part of [...]
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Apple to switch from IBM to Intel :-(
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
In some shocking news Apple has decided to stop using IBM powerPC chips, and wants to switch over to Intel in the future: Apple has used IBM’s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel’s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the [...]
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Apple’s G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
Anandtech has written a piece comparing the G5 to x86 architecture (and OSX to Linux) purely on a performance basis. Their results are interesting, but not really suprising: The G5 is a gigantic improvement over the previous CPU in the PowerMac, the G4e. The G5 is one of the most superscalar CPUs ever, and has [...]
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Round round round we go, where all that processor speed is nobody knows
February 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, IBM, Intel
Peter Seebach has written another interesting piece at IBM Developerworks on where all that extra CPU power we have these days is going. Excerpt: Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn’t improved much over the past 15 years. Peter looks at [...]
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