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Xbit labs reported earlier this month about new AMD Fusion logo and sticker designs, coming out in mid-2011. In addition to these design changes, AMD will also introduce new hologram for boxed processors.
[Full story]Intel published today Product Change Notification (PCN), which notified its customer about impending discontinuation of large number of CE 3100 media processors. The PCN document provides October 27, 2011 last order date, and January 27 last shipment date for 17 chips from CE 3100 family.
[Full story]In the past few weeks there were several reports of upcoming Phenom II microprocessors, including quad-core 850 and 980 models, and dual-core 570. Today AMD published desktop processor roadmap for the second quarter of this year, which confirms imminent launch of these CPUs, and also shows a few soon to be released Athlon II SKUs.
[Full story]In January of this year, at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Lenovo announced several G-series notebooks with AMD and Intel processors, including a few notebooks with the latest Sandy Bridge CPUs. One of these laptops, that hasn't been launched yet, is a G770 with 17.3" widescreen display, and up to Radeon HD 6650M graphics, 8 GB of RAM, and 750 GB HDD. There are a few things that make this notebook interesting for us. First, G770 datasheet (PDF file) references not-yet-released Core i3-2330M mobile microprocessor.
[Full story]AMD 270 dual-core microprocessor with part number ADX270OCK23GM was supposed to launch in the 4 quarter 2010 along with two other Athlon II members, triple-core 455 and quad-core 650. One of these Athlons, X3 455, was indeed released in December as a retail processor. Two other parts, X2 270 and X4 650, eventually emerged in HP computers, so it was evident that these CPUs were released only for OEM market.
[Full story]Yesterday, XFastest published a roadmap of Sandy Bridge-E microprocessors, covering the rest of this year and the first half 2012. "Sandy Bridge-E" is a variation of Sandy Bridge core, used in the next generation of Core i7/i7 Extreme processors. According to the roadmap, there will be three new SKUs released in the 4th quarter 2011.
[Full story]Since introduction of the first Sandy Bridge microprocessors from Core i5 and i7 families in January 2011, Intel released Sandy Bridge parts for most of its mobile families, but Pentium. Recently, Hewlett Packard updated specifications of HP 431 and HP 630 business laptops, revealing two forthcoming Pentium processors, B940 and B950.
[Full story]Macles blog yesterday revealed upcoming AMD Fusion microprocessor with model number C-60, that will be launched in the third quarter 2011. The new C-series SKU is based on low-power "Ontario" core, and, consequentially, it boasts very low 9W Thermal Design Power.
[Full story]Intel today introduced Oak Trail platform, aimed at tablets and other fanless mobile devices. The platform consists of Atom Z650 and Z670 "Lincroft" microprocessors, coupled with SM35 Express chipset, and supports several popular mobile operating systems, including Android, MeeGo and Windows.
[Full story]Intel Material Declaration Data Sheets (MDDS) database today revealed not-yet-released Core i7 microprocessor with box part number BX80613I7980, which correspond to processor number i7-980. Core i7 Extreme family already has i7-980X CPU with unlocked clock multiplier, although that SKU has slightly different box part number BX80613I7980X. Not only that, but the BX80613I7980 have different S-Spec and tray part numbers from the i7-980X, which leads us to believe that the new microprocessor will be have different feature set.
[Full story]It's been a few days since the launch of Xeon E3-1200 family for entry-level workstations. At present, the E3 family is comprised of dual- and quad-core Sandy Bridge-based microprocessors, with clock frequencies maxed out at 3.5 GHz. Upcoming Xeon E3-1290 CPU will come with higher 3.6 GHz frequency, and have the same set of features as the current flagship E3-1280 model.
[Full story]With the launch of Sandy Bridge micro-architecture in January of this year, Intel is gradually updating their desktop families beginning from the most expensive ones. The first Sandy Bridge CPUs were introduced for Core i7 and Core i5 families, and more Core i3 SKUs were added in February. Pentium SB parts with processor numbers G620, G620T, G840 and G850 will be available this quarter. According to slides we've seen, Intel is going to launch three Celeron Sandy Bridge models G440, G530 and G540 in the third quarter.
[Full story]Last Sunday Intel added 29 Xeon processor models to official price list. The new additions to Xeon family of server-class CPUs are comprised of four families: E3-1200 for one-way workstations and entry-level servers, E7-2800 for dual-processor servers, E7-4800 for up to 4-processor configurations, and E7-8800 for top-of-the-line servers with up to 8 CPU sockets.
[Full story]Today Intel published Product Discontinuation Notifications (PDN) for Westmere Core i7 and Core i5 microprocessors from Calpella platform. According to these documents, 9 standard-, low- and ultra-low voltage consumer models will be end-of-lifed in the 4th quarter of this year.
[Full story]Today, in a blog post titled "LLano APU is Shipping", AMD disclosed that they began shipments of production quad-core Llano microprocessors to OEM partners. AMD market these processors as "APU", or "Accelerated Processing Units", justifying the name by the fact that the chips include additional circuitry to accelerate certain operations.
[Full story]As we already reported today, Intel updated price-list with new Xeon E3 microprocessors. In addition to that, 18 models from Xeon E7-2800, E7-4800 and E7-8800 families were added to the list. The specifications and April 4th introduction date of E7 CPUs were revealed in January of this year. It seems that the processors will be launched on time, unlike Xeon E3 family, that was delayed by one and half months.
[Full story]Intel Xeon E3-1200 server processors for single-CPU workstations and entry-level servers were added today to official Intel price-list. This update confirms earlier reports of the Xeon E3 family launch, planned for the next week. The first details of the Intel E3-1200 microprocessors emerged last October, and, as we can tell from the brief specs in the price list, they stayed without changes. Xeon E3 launch date, though, was delayed by a few weeks due to a SATA ports defect, discovered in January in Series 6 "Cougar Point" chipsets.
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