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/09/10/26/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/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/macpro-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple may have a temporary exclusive on Intel's fastest workstation Xeons early next year, a purported leak argues tonight. An unnamed source says Apple is readying a Mac Pro based on the Xeon version of Intel's Gulftown six-core architecture and that the Mac builder would have a short exclusive for the processors, launching its own workstations in the winter while everyone else would have to wai... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:00:00 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/09/09/14/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/09/08/14/apple.and.mcp89.mcp99/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0903/nvidiageforce9400m.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple will not only move on to a newer NVIDIA platform for its notebooks but may include a second chipset, insiders claimed on Friday. Those purportedly within the notebook business tell DigiTimes that Macs will use MCP89, the successor to the existing GeForce 9400M (MCP79), but also that the company will use MCP99, a largely unknown second part. Other sources posting today suggest that MCP89 wil... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/14/apple.and.mcp89.mcp99/ Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/12/sandy.bridge.in.q4.2010/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0808/intelnehalem.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel has scheduled the release of its 32nm Sandy Bridge processors for the fourth quarter of 2010, according to DigiTimes. The architecture will succeed Nehalem and its condensed 32nm version, Westmere, the latter of which is set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2009. Sandy Bridge supports 4GHz clock speeds, with scalable CPUs using up to eight cores. The architecture also houses CPUs and ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/12/sandy.bridge.in.q4.2010/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/03/intel.westmere.spotted/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/intelwestmere-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel's six-core Xeon processor, known as Westmere, has been seen in a leak of an engineering sample today [caution: may not be safe for work). Still identified as a mainstream Core i7 chip by software, the Xeon W5590 example runs at a relatively low 2.4GHz clock speed but has 12MB of Level 3 cache shared between all cores and 256KB of Level 2 cache for each core. With Hyperthreading, which runs... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/03/intel.westmere.spotted/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/10/intel.westmere.details/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0902/intel45nmdie.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference today provided some of the first concrete details of Westmere, the codename for its 32 nanometer processor family. The design is primarily a smaller, more efficient adaptation of the Nehalem architecture in the Core i7 but, in the dual-core desktop (Clarkdale) and notebook (Arrandale) offerings, will include both a two-channel DDR3 memory... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/10/intel.westmere.details/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/10/intel.7b.plant.investment/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/intel45nmdie-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini on Tuesday announced the chipmaker will make its biggest ever investment for a manufacturing process for its 32 nanometer chips. The plan is to spend $7 billion on retrofitting existing production plants to build the new chips in the US over the next two years. The manufacturing plants due for the upgrade are based in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico and will cr... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/02/10/intel.7b.plant.investment/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/14/intel.2009.1010.leaked.map/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0808/intelnehalem.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel's upcoming processor generations will double the number of cores per chip and add a brand new language for specialized code, according to leaked slides obtained by CanardPlus. Although the semiconductor company's Core i7 will just receive a manufacturing process shrink down from 45 nanometers to 32 during 2009, reducing its power use and allowing more complex parts, a replacement architectu... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/14/intel.2009.1010.leaked.map/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:55:00 GMT