http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/configurations.available.with.up.to.256.sockets/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/sgisml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />SGI has introduced the Altix UV, a new series of supercomputers geared for large databases or analysis operations. The computers are based on Intel's Nehalem platform, with support for configurations utilizing quad-, six, or eight-core Xeon CPUs. Devices can be scaled to integrate up to 2,048 cores, with architectural provisioning for up to 262,144 cores.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/configurations.available.with.up.to.256.sockets/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/intel.nehalem.ex.coming.for.hpc.systems/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/intel45nmdie-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel today promised a version of its Xeon processor specifically tailored to high performance computing (HPC). The design will share the same architecture as the eight-core Nehalem-EX but drop to six cores in return for greater overall performance. Clock speeds should be higher and will still take advantage of the extra bandwidth of the new platform, making it a better pick for clusters and mul... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/intel.nehalem.ex.coming.for.hpc.systems/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/26/tilera.tile.gx100.may.beat.intel/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/tileratile-gx100.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Tilera on Monday unveiled a new processor it hopes will unseat Intel from its overall lead in performance. The TILE-Gx100 counts on a massively parallel, 100-core architecture to handle many tasks at once and reportedly overcomes some of the problems of scaling inherent to many-core designs. Instead of using a data bus, the grid is treated as a mesh network with switches on each core to route da... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/26/tilera.tile.gx100.may.beat.intel/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/22/may.slow.adoption.of.important.tech/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/usb3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel has postponed its support of USB 3.0 until 2011, a new report claims. The information is said to come from a senior technology manager at a "top tier PC maker," who says that Intel chipset teams are more focused on supporting the current Nehalem platform, as well as transitioning to 5GHz PCIe 2.0. "They need to prioritize their time and resources on a whole host of things and have to consi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/22/may.slow.adoption.of.important.tech/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/intel.maloney.keynote.leaked/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/intel45nmdie-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A prematurely released copy of Intel's plans for a Wednesday keynote has surfaced a day in advance and has provided details of the company's plans for the near future. The release obtained by ZDNet has Intel executive VP Sean Maloney revealing that the company has started shipping its many-cored Larrabee graphics chip to developers ahead of a full release and demonstrating what it can do in real-... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/intel.maloney.keynote.leaked/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/intel.demos.22nm.at.idf/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/intel22nm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />As part of its Developer Forum keynote, Intel today showed the first working example of chips built on a 22 nanometer (nm) process. The process is even smaller than the 32nm technology just entering production and should run even more efficiently while fitting more into a given space. A single example chip about the size of a fingernail contains about 2.9 billion transistors and about 364 megabi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/intel.demos.22nm.at.idf/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/21/amd.fiorano.platform/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/amdopteronsix-core.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD started the week today with a new whole platform for Opterons targeted at servers and the very high end of the computer market. Previously nicknamed Fiorano, the six-core Opteron with AMD chipset takes the company's existing server and workstation chips but adds a new chipset, the S5650, designed to scale for very heavy workloads. The technology now supports virtualization in hardware down t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/21/amd.fiorano.platform/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/intel.32nm.and.jasper.forest.enroute/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/inteljasperforest.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel on Monday headed up its Developer Forum with word that it has started manufacturing its first processors based on a 32 nanometer (nm) process. The shrink from 45nm, nicknamed Westmere, should improve performance by increasing the density of the processors by about 30 percent while reducing the amount of power used; the gesture lets Intel boost clock speeds without drawing extra battery life... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/intel.32nm.and.jasper.forest.enroute/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/08/intel.lynnfield.official/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/intelcorei5.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel today brought its most recent chip architecture into the mainstream with the official start to Lynnfield, its lower-cost but also more advanced desktop platform. The design is headlined by updated Core i7 and new Core i5 processors that build not only the memory controller but also a 16X PCI Express interface directly into the processor die, leaving just a single chip on the mainboard to co... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/08/intel.lynnfield.official/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/31/intel.core.i5.desk.sept.8/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0908/intel-q3-results.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel's desktop Core i5 and i7 processors and its matching P55 platform are slated to appear in exactly a week, mainboard producers claimed today. A launch is expected on September 8th that should involve three processors already rumored for next month; these would include the 2.93GHz Core i7 870, 2.8GHz Core i7 860 and 2.66GHz Core i5 750. All of these are quad-core, but only the Core i7 models... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/31/intel.core.i5.desk.sept.8/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:45:00 GMT